choke on that causality

I got to see a sneak preview of this movie yesterday. It is about two siblings, Noah and Emma, who find a mysterious box of toys. Among the toys is a stuffed white rabbit named Mimzy. Emma develops a bond with Mimzy and he starts “to tell her things”. The other toys seem to give the children some amazing abilities, including telekinesis, teleportation, the ability to speak to spiders, and genius in general. Well, it turns out that Mimzy has been sent from the future to find these children and needs them to save the world.

I really liked this movie. Yes, it was very family friendly. But it was sci-fi and just different in general than other movies. I’m sick of cookie cutter. This is definitely a movie everyone should see. 4.5 out of 5 stars.

I have been reading some rumors lately about a new Star Trek Movie to be released in in late 2008. From what I’ve read it will be take place after “Enterprise” but before “Star Trek”. It may actually have characters from the original Start Trek that are young, which I’m not really thrilled about, because I’ve never been a fan of the original Star Trek series or movies. I’m a huge of fan of the TNG, Voyager, and Enterprise. Honestly I was hoping for a Next Next Generation movie. Anyone else? Also, the movie will be directed by J.J. Abrams, creator of the tv show Lost, which I also do not watch. Ah well. At least the franchise is still alive. For the time being, I can still obsess over Voyager re-runs on Spike TV.

Why is it that I can amuse myself and feel that I can somewhat amuse others by talking about virtually nothing, but I’m usually annoyed to hear the idle chat of people around me. Like, today for instance I swear I heard some of the most pointless conversations. One about laundry, and another about cholesterol. Double standards…ha.

I read an article recently about how college kids and “Generation Me” are a bunch of self-centered brats. They seem to blame it on parents constantly telling their children how “special” they are. I, for one, am sickened by the amount of little girls whose parents let them dress up in princess costumes and wear tiaras and make-up and shit.

I, for one…what the hell does that mean. For one what, one person? I, as an individual, think something…I guess it’s one of those phrases whose literal meaning is lost…at least to me.

Last night I had the strangest dream. I dreamt that Britney Spears and Kevin Federline camped out in my parents garage, and we couldn’t get them to leave. And I took pictures of us together to prove to people that I met Britney. But no one believed me.

Hmm…the word “dreamt” really threw off my spell checker. I looked it up. It is a word. Imagine having used the word “dreamed”. Ha.

Isn’t it funny when you hear people whispering at work? It just makes me want to listen in even more than usual. Silly coworkers.

I feel guilty for not being able to finish watching An Inconvenient Truth - I’m sure it was good, I just have a somewhat limited attention span. But anyhow, I’m doing my part…check this out. Top 50 Things To Do To Stop Global Warming. A lot of these things you don’t think about. I never used to recycle, but it’s actually pretty easy. Especially if you have your own Mike to do most of the work while I sit back and blog about it. (Let’s see if he reads these)

This is a movie about 4 male witches that are descended from the bloodlines of the original families of the Ipswich colony. The fifth family was supposedly killed off during the Salem Witch trials. But a bastard son of the fifth family has transferred into the private boarding school in Ipswich and he wants to steal the powers of the eldest witch who is about to “ascend” on his eighteenth birthday, but only if he can coerce him to do it willingly.

This movie has some great special effects, lots of telekinetic blobby energy flying around. Levitating, Black eyes, spiders, fire, glamours, and lots of other fun stuff going on. I thought that this movie could have been better, had they not had to explain so much mythology. Like a sequel could focus more on a good story rather than trying to explain everything. And even with all the explaining, it didn’t come until later in the movie, so you feel a little lost at first.

But all that aside, this is a new twist on the whole witch thing. After all the female witch stuff, it was good to see this. Plus all the guys weren’t that bad to look at. Do any real 17 year olds look this good? I dunno.

4 out of 5 stars.

Just a really gory movie where everyone dies. I don’t know why I rent these movies. 2 out of 5 stars.

I enjoyed the first Grudge movie. I’m on the fence about the sequel, though. There were 3 different stories going on in the movie, and they periodically switched between them.

1. Karen’s sister travels to Japan to get her. She is in the hospital after supposedly killing her boyfriend and trying to burn down the Grudge house. She meets a reporter who pulled Karen out of the fire, who has been cursed by the Grudge.
2. There is a new girl at a nearby school to the Grudge house, and in an effort to make friends, she travels to the house with 2 other girls, only to get locked in a closet, and have the bejesus scared out of her. They get out, but they are now cursed by the Grudge.
3. There is a family living an apartment building somewhere in America I assumed. The neighbors bring home a mysterious girl-we don’t see her face-and strange things begin to happen. It all kinda centers around a little boy whose room is adjacent to the scary girl’s, and he hears spooky noises and what not. Soon everyone is cursed.

I admit that I was fascinated as to how the movie was dissected, and I was expecting some elaborate twisting explanation as to how the stories would tie together. Imagine my disappointment when that never happened. One story had nothing to do with the other two. And the other two tied together…but it was just stupid.

I’m going to give this movie a 3 out of 5 stars. It wasn’t great, but there were a few good scares and creepy moments. The style of the movie could have made it great…if they had thought it through a bit more.