Glee... Exactly what I expected

Personally I have television shows and movies that I absolutely refuse to watch. Usually my reasons for boycotting such outlets stem from seeing snippets, knowing the premise of said entertainment, or on many occasions it’s because the fan base surrounding it is absolutely retarded.
There are some points in time though where I am put into a situation where I watch the piece of material, either because I'm forced too or I decide to give it a shot for the sake of knowing its utter shit.

In today’s particular case I ended up seeing an episode of the highly successful, Emmy award winning program Glee. This was a mistake. This show (at least to someone of my ...unique? taste) was absolute garbage. I know what you’re thinking

“But Camgore, you can’t judge and entire TV show based on one episode!”

And to that I say “eat shit”

For one I am extremely bias, in the sense that I hate almost every musical ever created. Accept for Grease... just because at its core a it is a badass movie (and Olivia Newton John is so damn hot!). Anyways, so from what I gathered Glee is a rip off of Saved By The Bell but with less interesting setting, story line, characters and filled with song and dance routines that are in some way supposed to explain what going on in the “story line”
I stuck story line in quotations because from what I gathered the show spends so much time setting up its ridiculous musical numbers that it completely lacks a good plot or structure. The characters are completely unrealistic (which is how they connect to Saved By The Bell) and the comedy is more eye-gougingly pretentious and riddled with as many over-the-top obvious pop culture references as a Diablo Cody movie. It seems that the only thing that keeps its audience (mainly made up of 12-25 year old girls) is the musical numbers, which usually butcher classic rock songs or rehash terrible songs many music lovers wish would have stayed buried.

The episode I saw focused on the music of Britney Spears and how important her music is to everyone... yea. The plot of the episode was about a bunch of underage girls and a disabled kid (who looks like Warowitz from The Big Bang Theory) getting gassed with Nitrous by John Stamos and them tripping balls and having Britney Spears related fantasies. I've had nitrous, and it definitely didn't send me into musical fantasies... I think maybe Stamos slipped those kids a little GHB. Overall the plot was stupid and only reminded me how annoying the singing groups were in my High School's music department.

This show obviously isn’t for everyone. If you like very little plot and popular music this is probably the show for you. Personally I like getting more than 2 minutes of story out of a 45 minute program.
As one final note: I think they should change the name of their fans from “Gleek’s” to Gleetard’s

When In Rome.

When in a relationship their are many times you sacrifice what you want to selfishly do for the desires of the one you love. Tonight that sacrifice manifested itself as a Tuesday night cheap movie date to my local theater to see one of February's trademark romcom's "When In Rome".
It was one of those situations where me and her had our browsers opened to the Cineplex website saying the titles of movies back and forth yaying or naying movies until one stuck out that we could both tolerate. After deliberating we eventually landed on "When In Rome".

I got exactly what I figured I would get out of this overly fast paced romantic stereotype: an hour and a half that felt like 20 minutes, where at times the plot was so painfully obvious i wanted to burst out in hysterical, near mental patient laughter.
Of course if you've seen the trailers you basically know what you're getting yourself into; especially considering the ominous voice of TV's Gossip Girl/Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Kristen Bell and the Transformers franchises Josh Duhamel explain the plot for you in front of a fucking gray backdrop, which to me bridges soooo many boundaries.

So if you haven't seen the commercials or a trailer for this movie allow me to ruin the plot:
- girl gets pissed, takes coins out of magic fountain, owners of said coins fall in love with said girl
- guys (played by "seasoned" comedians (John Heder, Will Arnett, Dax Shepard and Danny Devito) follow her to New York
- laughs ensue etc.
- resolution
- everyone's happy ta-da

Though from beginning to end this film was completely and utterly predictable, it was not without random laughs which actually kept me paying attention, that and I've loved Dax Shepard and Will Arnett since 2006's often overlooked comedy "Let's Go to Prison".
Though this movie was mindless and included periods in which i would rather have been sleeping or pulling the skin off of my face, these movies really are needed. Without the terrible, we wouldnt really know amazing. For example if I had never seen "Epic Movie" (I nearly vomit just thinking about that load to tripe) would movies like "Children of Men" or "Avatar" been as good as they were? and without bullshit movies like "Wing Commander" and "Lost in Space" would classic sci-fi like Star Wars still be as timeless as they are today?
The answer:
Probably.




oh yea I guess id give "When in Rome" a 2.5/10 or something.

Transformers: Rise of the Fallen

Okay lemme start by saying....seriously, Micheal Bay, you couldn't have come up with something more original than "Rise of the Fallen" ...I think that's what Evanescence is called now that Amy Lee is gone....

So let me start by saying I am one who can not stannnnddd the first Transformers. As visually appealing and ``explosioney`` as it was the dialogue and screenplay were just horrendous. Also! The comedy between the parents was just absolute garbage.

So you can imagine that I was not going into this movie with high expectations, I actually was gonna place a boycott on Transformers but decided to lift it so i could make an educated decision on the matter. Transformers really seems to be one of those movies where you either loved it or hated it. It really just plays on what you want in a movie, if your down for dummed down dialogue and lots of shiny flashy stuff (which theres nothing wrong with of course...) then Transformers was your kind of flick.

So I had imagined from both friends and the films Rotten Tomatoes rating that I was in for absolute garbage. I must say wasting my money on garbage films kind of has to happen every once and a while. To be honest its almost as entertaining seeing a really bad movie because you can laugh your ass off after when you all meet up lay the critique down.

So I walked into the theatre and had to wait in line (the combination of it being ``cheap Tuesday`` and a brand new section of the theatre opening up made the place uber packed) which i really hadn't done in a looong fucking time. So i trampled grandmothers and disabled children to get to a good seat and sat down to prepare for the visceral crapfest i believed was in my near future.

So I have to say it really was not terrible. But that's not to say its good either. Over all they improved on the problems of the first movie but not really to an extent that would raise this movie to the heights of great grandiose action flicks like Dark Night. So here`s the scoop: Zacks goin to college, a shard of that huge cube makes him crazy, he goes to school meets wack bitch, Deceptacons fuck some shit up, Autobots stop them, then more shit happens, break for a shot of Megan Foxs` ass more robot fighting, army guys shooting big robots, Optimus fucks shit up. In a nut shell of course.

The dialogue was alot smoother but would be really over cheesed by Micheal Bays annoying amera movements and rediculous shot layouts (really evident in basically EVERY shot in Armageddon). The comedy had some huge improvements especially with the relationship between Zack (Shia LeBeuf if you didnt already know) and his parents. But once again lacks in other parts as they have once again over the top racially stereotyped ``black`` robots like that car Jazz from the first movie, which was really just annoying. I guess ill keep on the hatein`track and mention that the story was as if they picked cool looking scenes from a hat but didnt spend enough time melting them all together to make a storyline that seemed smooth and continuous. New huge parts of the storyline would come over and over again leave no time for a decent concluding scene. The action and CG though was of course the point of this franchise and i must say it does deliver heavily. The interaction between cg robots and the human actors like flawless and totally real. I also loved the focus on the detail of showing every little piston and wheel goin on the robots bodies.

So overally Transformers one a scale from 0 to Awesome it would get an Alright...which comes right after 3 on the Awesomometre.

Skins

Skins was one of those TV shows that was like no other, one that could transcend boundaries without getting cheesy or stupid. For me I can honestly say it's one of the best programs I have ever watched, and it makes me sad knowing it was only 2 seasons.

Skins was a British TV show that aired on channel E4 in London. It is about a group of friends living in Bristol and all the shit they go through; and their is a lot of shit. I was first turned on to this show after the 1st season was over by my good friend Joel. I was looking for something to ease the boredom brought on by the writers strike and turned to the internet to fill the television gap. After watching the first episode I was automatically hooked. The way everything was presented was so near perfect in my eyes.

The show dealt with real problems, and not in a cheesy watered down way like Degrassi: The Next Generation but more like the 1980's Degrassi: Jr. High/High series'. It covered everything including drugs, alcohol, serious injury, death, stalking and just about everything a high school kid can get into. And all of these problems and good times were wrapped into a group of characters that were all encapsulating real in their own ways.

When I got word that this show was done, well at least the cast from seasons 1&2, was over I was shocked and right pissed. It seems the creators of the show want to do this whole thing where every 2 seasons it's going to be a new group of kids, which I guess is a mixed blessing. On one hand you'll get a new bunch of characters to keep the format fresh, but on another hand its like falling in love with a new group of friends and then they die off every 2 years; jesus the show is emotionally draining enough as it is!

This is a beautiful show, absolutely beautiful. All of the episodes are on the internet at: http://www.greatstufftv.com/skins/ and i highly suggest you see this. If you're like me and had lost faith in alot todays programming, this will be a welcomed surprise.

"Look at this marose mother fucker right here. Looks like somebody shit in his cereal. Holden whats wrong? Bankey on his rag?"

Kevin Smith is hands down one of my favorite directors. Okay so there we're a few rough patches that didn't exactly show of his greatness....mainly Jersey Girl. But thats beside the point.
His intelligent dialog-filled, theatrically unsuccessful movies are a glimmering ray of hope that the next generation of film makers may not be retards who have read too much and watched a few Kubrick joints so they think they are the king shit.

Kevin's movies definitely effected me and the way I view film in a very profound way, and they definitely helped me some serious rough patches in the horrible lameness of adolescence. One of the first movies of his I saw had to have been Chasing Amy. Now if you haven't seen this movie its the basic "guy falls for girl he can't have" storyline, but shes a lesbian. Now the main part of this movie that helped me alot, especially on the relationship side, was Kevin Smith's (Silent Bob) Amy Story. The basic premise of the past being the past made me kick myself in the head for alot of dumb comments I had made to some of the women in my life. That and the portrayal of the friendship between Banky and Holden as a different kind of love story is absolutely awesome. Most of us love our friends but i don't know many who would be willing to be in a threesome with me in order to save that friendship...actually thats sort of comforting hahaha.

But then of course the always amazing Clerks. Clerks is a movie I'm sure will stay at the top of my most beloved movie list, snuggly tucked between Star Wars and Rushmore. The whole movie basically takes place in and in front of a convenience store. I'm sure the premise is something that almost everyone can understand: the ultimate shit day at work. But the delivery of everything (especially considering the actors we're pretty young and unexperienced) is amazing. The way this movie effected me (even before I ever started working). Never think of your job as your "living," keep as something you just do.

Noodge

I am Camgore
I am an insane entertainment fanatic; I am obsessed with movies music and video games. I'm just gonna use this as my.....landfill; I guess thats the right word for it.

I'm gonna post reviews on the for mentioned medias, new and especially old shit as well. And don't get me wrong I'm not just gonna gab on and on what movies I love, I'm gonna review the absolute bullshit I've seen... mostly because I like to bitch about stuff I hate.

ooohh yyessss