Archive for March, 2010

Hot Tub Time Machine Delivers On the Absurdity and Laughs

There are a few, but not many reviews that have panned Hot Tub Time Machine. Unless you are really dense, you should be pretty much expecting a screwball comedy here. If the title alone doesn’t give it away…well you might need to learn words better.

You should be expecting a few guys to find out that they found a hot tub that can take them back in time. Absurdly obvious from the title. With hot tubs, and guys you know they will be looking to get drunk, hook up with women, and do insane activities. It’s jsut how things are. They aren’t going back in time to find a Mesothelioma treatment that’s for sure. They are going back to 1986 to party their asses off.

Here are just a few snippets from the critics:

“Hot Tub Time Machine,” which wants nothing more than to be a screwball farce, succeeds beyond any expectations suggested by the title and extends John Cusack’s remarkable run: Since 1983, in 55 films, he’s hardly ever made a bad one. Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun Times

Lifting the time-travel logic from Back to the Future, the seminal decade-busting film, the guys decide they must re-enact everything exactly as it was 24 years earlier %u2014 or risk altering the future in damaging ways. With Glover on hand and Chevy Chase as a time-portal repairman in a modified Christopher Lloyd role, all that’s missing is the DeLorean.Claudia Puig of USA TODAY

With sharp riffs on the intersection of ’80s pop culture (ALF, Kid ‘N Play, Ronald Reagan!) and 21st-century culture (Twitter, Viagra, Second Life!), this Time Machine is a fun dip into a pool of memories that are best forgotten again once the booze wears off. Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly

“Hot Tub Time Machine” – a silly title for a movie that often lives up to it – is a blowzy, rowdy sci-fi sex comedy about three discontented buddies, sick of their current lives, who try to relive their 1980s youth on a ski lodge vacation. Michael Wilmington of the Daily Herald

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LOL…Kim Kardashian Owns This Guy On Twitter

While I rarely ever read anything with Twitter in the title I just found this to be kind of funny. Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush supposedly broke up this week, and the tabloids are already putting her in a relationship with another athlete.

According to the tabloids, an English soccer player named Wayne Bridge met Kardashian during some time off in Miami. The tabloids then went on to say that they were dating possibly. I guess they are ready for a Outer Banks vacation rentals?

Anyways, what is funny about the whole thing is what she said on Twitter:

“Who the hell is Wayne Bridge?” the reality star tweeted Friday after British tabloids linked the pair. “LOL … Someone please fill me in because I have no clue!”

haha…OWNED

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3-D: Who Cares except Studios That Want To Jack Up Prices?

If you think back over all the years, and all the gimmick 3-D events you have ever seen, can you honestly say that you felt that much more entertained because of it even once? I know I can’t. Would I pay more for it? No, I would probably be less likely to even watch it if it were in 3-D. I’d rather look for an insurance quote.

There are those that are coming where you don’t need the 3-D glasses anymore. So? 3-D is a giant gimmick. It doesn’t really add much to anything.

The more this has been in the news that studios are adding 3-d, or converting many 2-D films I have heard more and more people say that 3-D actually makes them nauseous. Literally. I had never thought about this before, but it makes sense. You all know a guy that can’t watch Cloverfield for a shaky camera. Probably the same guy has a problem with 3-D. The media isn’t going to talk about it a lot because this is the new “Big thing”, but I bet there are a lot of people out there that can’t handle it.

I have seen a 3-D television from Samsung being advertised almost every commercial break I see the past week. The family is sitting there with glasses on. Really? Who thinks this has any chance of staying power?

People will say “OMG you are afraid of change!!1!!SHIFT1″. People will be wrong. I spend almost every dime I have on technological toys. iPhones, Blu-Ray players, Playstation 3s and XBox 360s. It has nothing to do with this. 3-D is becoming an epidemic, and it doesn’t enhance anything as far as I’m concerned. They tried this in the 80s and 90s. It hasn’t even advanced that far since then from a viewer’s point of view. There are just more people willing to jump on the bandwagon that make media now.

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Sarah Palin’s Alaska Reality Show Pitch Done Deal

About a month ago we were told that Sarah Palin’s people were pitching an reality show about Alaska. It appears that it is now a full go, as The Discovery Channel has agreed to produce and air, Sarah Palin’s Alaska at a whopping $1 million per episode.

Well…there you go. Unlimited supply of jokes for all the late night talk shows. Unlimited ammo for liberal media types. Unlimited rally cries for the anti-Obama revolution. If you haven’t noticed, Sarah Palin likes money, top fat burners, and fancy clothes.

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Sandra Bullock Is Having a Nice Week…

Sandra’s husband Jesse James is obviously a guy. HE is also quite the cheater it appears. More and more women have come forward to reveal that they have been involved with the guy I never heard of until he started cheating on Sandra Bullock.

He likes them tattooed, badass, and whatever else. Basically he likes to get laid, like most guys do. Of course he’s a tool, and Sandra Bullock is amazing and must have met him on hemorrhoidstreatment.org.

Today quite a few more reports came out. The funniest though is obviously the report that James posted ads on the internet looking for big breasted, biker chicks, with tattoos.

Yeah…this guy is a pretty cool guy I guess. He won’t be anybody in a couple months when nobody gives a crap about him.

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Lost the Richard Alpert Episode

I can’t even tell you how jacked up I was for the Richard episode to finally come last night on Lost. While he isn’t necessarily my favorite character, he does seem to have the most mystery surrounding him of the non-Jacob and Smokey/MiB characters. The man that never ages, been there for probably hundreds of years, etc.

Instead of spending time in recent Richard memory, the episode was almost entirely flashbacks. Richard was found way back when riding horses was still the way to travel in Spain. His wife sick and needing medicine forced him to ride to find a doctor. After being told he was too poor to afford it he accidentally killed the doc in a scuffle. He ended up in prison, and then eventually on the infamous Black Rock slave ship.

We got all kinds of insight into Richard’s motivations over the decades he ahs been on the island. Almost entirely that he wanted to be re-untied with his dead wife. He met Smokey, who tried to manipulate him with his religion that he was dead and in Hell. That Jacob was the Devil, and that Richard needed to kill him.

JAcob showed him that he wasn’t dead, and gave him that anti-aging “gift he seems to have and the lack of chin acne he has. Richard became Jacob’s servant at this point, and remained so until recent episodes where he assumed his life was meaningless after Jacob died.

The episode threw out a red herring early to make us all think they were dead, and in Hell, only to kill that notion right away 15 minutes later. The episode had just amazing MiB and Jacob scenes, and Jacob kicked the crap out of Richard too. This episode was a Top 5 all time easily.

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Reggie Bush Dumps Kim Kardashian

Well whoopeedoo. Big news here. Reggie was annoyed apparently that Kim is too busy so they broke it off again.

So…yeah whatever. They broke up and they will get back together again when Reggie decides he is sick of getting caught banging other women is my guess.

Kim, 29, and Reggie, 25, also briefly split last summer. On one episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, she was so depressed about their relationship ending that she refused to wear makeup for days on end (mom Kris finally did a beauty intervention). Probably tapped into the best weight loss pills too.

There are also rumors that the party princess wants a ring and the NFL star isn’t ready. Reports put him partying recently with female fans at a Manhattan nightclub.

Just last month, Kardashian gushed about how strong their relationship had become since their reunion.

“We’ve been spending more time together. It takes a lot to be in a long distance relationship especially when the both of us have so much going on,” the middle sis told Pop Tarts. “It is an adjustment to say OK, we have to make this priority and we’ve done that.”

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/24/1545478/reggie-bush-dumps-kim-kardashian.html#ixzz0j8h7Z9r3

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Alice in Wonderland Tops Box Office For Third Straight Week

When you think that movies can’t stay on top for more than a week anymore it seems like those such as Avatar and Alice in Wonderland like to buck the trend. While Avatar was easy to figure, I didn’t think that Alice would stay a loft the charts for more than a week, or two.

These charts shift faster than a list of car insurance companies offering a new deal. Alice in Wonderland that topped the charts, showing continued strength on its third weekend, particularly overseas. Director Tim Burton’s 3-D blockbuster hit dropped 45 percent domestically to $34.5 million and 41 percent internationally to $47 million, bringing its worldwide ticket sales total to a massive $565.8 million.

The strong overall weekend boosted total box office receipts this year 10 percent higher than at the same point last year, according to Hollywood.com.

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Paula Abdul and New Star Search?

If you are in your 20s-30s you have probably heard of Star Search with Ed McMahon. It is basically one show that showcases a bunch of people with talent every week and then the audience/judges give them a rating out of 4 stars. The winner int eh category comes back the next week to taken a new challenger. They have all kinds of categories like female singers, dance groups, and comedians. Basically all the crap reality entertainments shows rolled into one without all the stupid stories.

With my new cell phone signal booster today I read that Paula Abdul is in talks to bring it back. Abdul, 47, is finalizing a deal to help ABC launch a new version of Star Search, the classic TV talent contest from the ’80s, according to Entertainment Weekly. The network isn’t commenting, but Abdul would reportedly juggle a combination of hosting and judging duties for the show, which could debut this summer.

The original Star Search, hosted by Ed McMahon, ran in syndication from 1983 until 1995 and featured comedy, modeling and dancing as well as singing. It featured performances by many future stars, including Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears in the early ’90s. A revival on CBS in 2003, hosted by Arsenio Hall, fizzled after just two seasons, though a young David Archuleta was the junior vocal champion in 2003.

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The Burglar Bunch?

It appears there is a trio of burglars that targeted a bunch of celebrities. If you have never heard of this, which I hadn’t until I looked at the front page of TMZ.co for the first time in about 3 months, take a look at it from the beginning on the TMZ Burglar Bunch category. Pretty interesting string of posts. At least 5 pages of them at that. You’ll notice the first one they aren’t known yet, but are eventually tied to Lohan’s burglary case.

Today they posted a list of a lot more celebs that the Burglar Bunch was targeting. I guess they pretty much have obtained celebrity status for robbing celebs. They must have been busy with long distance moving to get so many in.

According to a search warrant affidavit, alleged Burglar Bunch member Nick Prugo says his crew “door-knocked and conducted surveillance on the following celebrity residences:”

- Zac Efron
- Vanessa Hudgens
- Miley Cyrus
- Hilary Duff
- Spencer Pratt
- Channing Tatum
- Brittny Gastineau
- Ashley Tisdale
- Jacqueline Bisset
- Adam Goldstein aka DJ AM

The Burglar Bunch allegedly hit the homes of Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Audrina Patridge, Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson, Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/#ixzz0i1elpaTB

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