sam worthington ... *giggle*

While I am on Blogger, and have no muse whatsoever for class, I thought I would bring to your attention the September (and heavenly anointed) issue of Esquire Magazine. An other all star cover and article by one of my favourite magazines. I even forgot to highlight last month's (Gerard Butler - *drool*) Three words - yeah he is, said in a very 'Can he be any hotter?' Chandler-like tone..

Sam Worthington- known to most of you as Marcus Wright, the character who blew 'superstar' Christian Bale's John Connor out of the water, and anyone's minds who had him pegged for their next movie (thank the Lord omg - he only has one movie that's been publically announced so far) ... You will see him next in Avatar, then Clash of the Titans - he's even getting Captain Nemo in 2,000. And of course, the roles will keep coming. That thing sort of happens when a 'great' like James Cameron pegs you as the best actor of all time or such.

Anyway, I can't be on too much longer - I do have a deadline for homework, after all. But please, please check out the article on this guy - I don't know why, but I just adore him. He's awesome. He makes me want to send him out to dig a hole or do something else that will get him dirty then show him off to all the girls in the town and say, 'Look at this guy - he's hot and he isn't pretty like that thing you call a 'man' you've got on your arm'. I dunno - I have a thing for guys who can be dirty. I guess I like to be more delicate than the guy I'm with? *Shrugs*. Anyway - he's awesome, just check him out <3>

EDIT ::
And yay! A new Sam Worthington website!!! One of the best - he might just beat out Hugh Jackman for my Jon XD

(picture of a dirty sam worthington in titans - woo!!!)

victoria ...

So it is official ... Bryce Dallas Howard, who also plays my Aife, is going to be playing Victoria in Eclipse, the third installment of the Twilight film series. To be perfectly honest, I abhorred Twilight, the first film, and thought they seriously exaggerated the drama from the books. BUT - it is Bryce Dallas Howard, whom I love, so of course I cannot wait! So now I have an excuse (unfortunately) to see not only the second film (come on - it's Jacob's book!) but also the third ... not that the films are going to be making any money off of me. I'll wait till they're available with my Blockbuster-Netflix-wanna-be subscription thingie. But yay! This means more pics of Bryce, and most likely vampire-ish pics as well!!! How awesome is that?

Transformers :: Revenge of the Fallen

WARNING :: SPOILERS!!!

MOVIE :: TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

RATED :: 9.5 - can't get too much better than the first movie, and I'm certainly biased XD

JUST got back from seeing Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I really feel like going to bed now, and my teeth and eyes are hurting like they have been for a week now, but I really feel like if I do not write this now, I will lose it.

OMG let me start by just freaking out and raving! IT WAS SO COOL!!!! Seriously! I love Michael Bay - he is one of my favourite directors - go to see one of his films, and you are in for a wonderfully action packed, hydrogen bomb-esque special effects, as Dane Cook would say, 'Cinematic Adventure'. You guys - I just have to tell you. He is SO GOOD with effects - or his teams at least, but this guy has a special eye for it. He does a wonderful job of putting you in the midst of the action - it's his specialty. Some people do not like it, but whether you do or not, you have to hand it to him - he is an expert at it.

Okay aside from Michael Bay's exploits in special effects genius - I'll start with subjects. I don't know about you, but the picture of Megan Fox leaning over a bike like that is just what I need. No, seriously - sort of not in my whole basic girly 'I'm not near perfect enough' brain, but seriously I would so go lesbian for this girl. DUDE just look at her - *sigh*. Anyway, besides that, I don't know, I love the old cast. Sam's mum is even more manic than usual thanks to her baby leaving the nest for college, and oh does that provide quite a few giggles, to say the least. I love her - really, I do. She's hilarious, I'd love to be Mikaela just to get to watch Judy Witwiki's break downs. Sam's dad, on the other hand, has moved more into the protective husband place with all of Judy's increased shenanigans. He too is having trouble dealing with Sam's new college status, but is conveniently trying to communicate his feelings through explaining how and why Judy is acting the way she is. One common subject throughout the movie though is how neither Mikaela or Sam want to say those certain three words first.

So the Autobots are still on Earth, and there have been a few who have answered Optimus Prime's call - meet the three really cool 'female' motorcycles who are controlled by one conscious named Arcee. Initially, they were supposed to combine into one machine like Devastator does, but apparently that was dropped from the movie. Pretty cool though - she gets her own hollowgram and everything. Also new is Sideswipe, this really sexy Corvette Stingray - apparently a concept? I was incredibly syked to see that they kept Bonecrusher's rollerblading-like moves from the first movie and transfered them to Sidewipe - it's just a really cool and yet sensible effect.

You also get to meet Jolt, who's a Chevy Volt, and has these kind of whip things. Kind of a coincidence between Jolt/Volt, eh? Of course, one can't forget the twins - Mudflap and Skids. These two start out as an ice cream truck that looked like a teenager pimped them out - complete with side lettering that reads something like 'Suck my popsicle' ... yeah ... lmfao. They're really hyper characters, sort of little good-guy minions, but really good guys at the same time. I had a few qualms though - did they have to look so goofy? I don't know, I understand the whole making it known that these robotic aliens are just like humans, only more evolved - they have feelings, they have personalities - but if you can transform into something, like Mikaela graciously pointed out in the first one, why look like that? That's just me though. Otherwise, I really like their characters, and I love how Bumblebee kinda has to knock some sense into them lol.

There's two more - Jetfire and Wheelie. Jetfire is a more ancient Autobot who had been living on earth for centuries and acts like it too. He carries a cane and is old, cranky, and doesn't listen to a damn thing anyone is saying. Has character though, and plays a pretty important part in the film. Key - he's an ex Deceptacon - one of the ones from when some of the race began to realize this whole kill existence and bring the apocalypse Deceptacon bull was more shit than they cared to deal with. So he knows a lot of insider stuff and things that you'd need to know about the Deceptacons, including why the Deceptacons are coming back to Earth. Last but not least is Wheelie. When the appliances in Judy's kitchen are turned into bots, Wheelie is the one that survives. He's a blue radio-controlled toy monster truck, and has a load of attitude to boot. Initially, Wheelie serves the Deceptacons - I do not know if that is just because of the nature of the energy that changed him or if bots get immediate updates when transformed. Either way he gets caught by Mikaela and she trains him into being her 'pet bot' of sorts. You will have the pleasure of seeing Wheelie hump Mikaela's leg repeatedly, lol - if you can call that pleasure? He eventually sides with the Autobots.

Um, I do not want to give you many more spoilers, so that's about what I will be covering as far as anything with spoiler potential ... and also just because I am really tired, so you can look up the Deceptacons if you like lol. I loved everything, but I think the one thing that I had confusions about was just that, well, so many Deceptacons joined in the fight that it was hard to keep them all straight. Especially the 'Pillar Battle' (self titled, I think) where it was so hard to keep straight who was a Deceptacon and who was an Autobot. At one point I was actually like, 'Is that Ironhide or a Deceptacon?' I think it was mainly because some of the Deceptacons were in colour and some were their native grey shade, and same with the Autobots. Also - where was Barricade? I know Starscream got a new paintjob, but Barricade's sort of hard to miss - I didn't see him anywhere, which was sad because he's my favoutire Deceptacon and they mention him in the IMDB cast list ... Also, yeah I just hate Alice. That girl makes me sick. Megan Fox is sexy in a way that make girls and guys alike adore her - Isabel Lucas makes you want to snap her in half. Yuck.

Basically, great effects, great story line, great acting - I just think the comedy was a bit much, and they certainly upped the anty on maturity levels, which I really do not think they needed to do - especially when a lot of kids are probably going to be going to this movie. I mean, there was a father and son sitting in front of us and the kid was about twelve, and the dad had that look about him that said 'I didn't realize the movie would be like this, but I don't really want to pull him out either ...' And, the first movie's comedy was just really natural - in this one they were trying just a little bit.

Kk, so there it is - I am too tired to give anything else. I will probably think of more though, and if I do, I'll update. Definitely go see this movie - just make sure you empty your bladder and don't drink a thing though, because you won't want to get up for fear that you will miss something XD

the international

So I saw The International last night. Clive Owens, right? Usually equals a great movie. Arthur. Great movie. Derailed. Great movie. So I was actually pretty excited to go see it, if not for that it looked like it might be good all by itself.

So the movie opens with two guys, Clement and Schumer, in a nice car. You know the whole 'meet the anonymous insider' kind of thing. They don't really seem to get anything done, or maybe I just missed it. Because, usually, when they show a meeting, they swap packages or info or something. I guess they decided to show us one of the earlier meetings in those kinds of things, I don't know. What happens next is kind of cool, though. Schumer (Burfield) leaves Clement (Bigot) in the car and makes his way toward Salinger (Owens). At this point, I noticed the guy walk behind him, and a little 'thwp' noise, but I think I would have to go back and watch it again to see if that was really the movie or not. Schumer throws up his innerds, clamps onto his arm and falls over. This part comes up later, because apparently Salinger knows the signs of a certain kind of poisoning. Later in the film he freaks out a little because he thinks the same thing happens to him, which might have been cool for plot reasons, but it is really just him being paranoid. Anyway, he and Whitman (Watts) go on the goose chase to try and come up with hard evidence that the IBBC is a big bad bank that wants to control the weapons market and put down a few annoying people on the way. Of course, the characters don't seem to have ever seen movies before, as it's pretty clear that a bank like that has it's dirty little fingers dipped in every organization and government from here to Pluto.

So they track down Calvini (Barbareschi), a politician from Italy who's running for some government position or other, and of course he is more than willing to help them out ... until some idiot goes and assassinates him. You pretty much know this is going to happen, I mean they have all of the security looking around and there are the frenzied shots of the speaker and the crowd going wild and all - it's imminent. So yeah, assassination, and Salinger and Whitman end up chasing down one of the snipers, who of course gets away. There seems to be a little bit of discontinuity there since it seems the driver turns one way and Salinger somehow ends up ahead of him, but again, I'd have to go back and watch it again. Things happen and time passes a little, and they end up in New York, chasing down their assassin, played by O'Bryne, but I can't remember his name in the movie. They come across a few names, but IMDB names him The Consultant, which I think is ridiculous seeing as they actually do name him in the movie ...

Anyway, they track 'The Consultant' down to one spot in NY, and then happen to see him walk by and follow him to the Guggenheim. Now this is about the only part where I forgot I was watching a movie. This was the part that was cool and had your blood pumping and got you to jump in your seat a few times. Oh, and if you aren't that awesome with blood, be careful because there are a few parts that are just like >gah<. Especially the part where Salinger shoves his thumb into some guy's bullet wound. I got just enough of that to make me gag before I shut my eyes. But that's just me.

After this, well ... everything sort of just goes downhill. It's seriously a botchy job. Salinger gets to interview Wexler (Mueller-Stahl) and then goes off to hunt down Skarssen (Thomsen), and yeah it's not even interesting enough to recount in general detail. All in all, they could have done a much better job. The movie kinda crashed, and it was a huge disappointment. I felt like, even though The International was about two hours long, it still had about two or three more hours before it wrapped up into a sufficient story. Oh, and at the end, when it blacks out and you're like ... where's the rest, and then they put up the 'directed by' and all of those titles, they show you news paper articles that are sort of supposed to complete the story. I know they did that in 27 Dresses, and it was really a cute idea. But see, 27 Dresses finished their story. So they were allowed to do that. The International does it more as a 'here, you finish it and we'll save a few bucks'. Kind of sad.

I'm not blaming Owens. Or any of the actors really, though I've never really been a fan of Naomi Watts. The acting was good. It was believable, which is the first step to good acting, I think. The cinematography was good, camera angles, all of that. It's just the plot. The plot could have been good. But in its final form, it just sucked. Sadly. Because I had pretty high hopes. With all that said, this is one of those movies that you don't go see in theatres, you don't buy, and you don't even rent. You wait till a friend rents it and borrow it from them. Rent something else if you want to see something worth spending your money on.