Love You, Internet.
January 26, 2012 Leave a comment
MOVIE REVIEW: Warrior.
January 24, 2012 1 Comment
I’ve had this in my Drafts folder for a few weeks now, but I’m just now getting around to finishing it. Get off my back, alright? Sheesh. The life of a blogger is tough. Plus there’s no natural sunlight here in the confines of my mom’s basement.
I was trying to write some lengthy, well thought out review. I quickly gave up. I don’t know how to write a ton about movies without giving away key plot points and revealing spoilers. So instead, I’ll keep my reviews short and to the point. Here goes …
If I were a “movie critic” quote whore, like say, Pete Hammond, I might call this movie “Superb, intense, moving” or “Packs a powerful punch of emotion” or “Spellbinding, grips you and never lets go”. But alas, I am not one of those people whose quotes end up on the preview or cover art. I’m just a simple dude. A simple, handsome dude.
Warrior is a movie which centers around the sport of Mixed Martial Arts, but, much like Moneyball, uses it as a backdrop to tell a different story altogether. Two estranged brothers each enter an MMA tournament whose prize is $5 million dollars. Each needs the money for different reasons, and you want both to win. Nick Nolte, in his first real role in as long as I can remember, is fantastic as the former alcoholic father to both Tommy and Brendan. Tommy, played by Tom Hardy, is a giant ball of rage. He hates his father, he hates his brother, he hates the world. He has a lot of anger, and MMA seems to be the perfect outlet. Brendan, played expertly by Joel Edgerton, is a high school physics teacher. He is a former UFC fighter, but retired due to multiple factors, including fatherhood. Brendan gets suspended from his teaching position by the school’s superintendent for taking part in a small MMA fight. With almost no money coming into the house, Brendan decides to return to the cage and make some money fighting.
Throughout all of this, we learn both Tommy and Brendan have a terrible upbringing, and each have issues with how their father behaved. Warrior felt very much like last year’s The Fighter, and I absolutely loved that movie, too. Dark, gritty, emotional, and fantastically acted. (How’s that for a quote, Pete?)
Rent, Buy, or Avoid:
Buy. 100x buy.
Overall rating:
9 out of 10.
Random Hot Chick of the Week: Christina Hendricks.
January 15, 2012 4 Comments
The best part about this post? This is a Mrs. Kyle request. “You should do that one chick from Firefly with huge boobs. The redheaded crazy one?” I’m so in love. Also, sad to note, but she’s married to the snozberries dude from Super Troopers.
HOW?
For reals. Ugh. Whatevs. She’s still one fine ass FC. The rest of the pictures aren’t really NSFW, but from here on out, you should probably assume that looking at them in the company of other people makes you look like a perv.
Random Hot Chick of the Week: Kylie Minogue.
January 6, 2012 Leave a comment
So for those wondering what the hell I’m doing, I’ll be taking requests for Random Hot Chick of the Week from now on. Someone said something about that one song she did that was famous, and I couldn’t get it out of my god damned head. Then I thought, well hot damn, she’s pretty attractive. Might as well make Kylie Minogue the first Hot Chick o’ the Week.
Not sure if these would qualify as NSFW, but I’d caution you to look discreetly anyways.
This is Why I Love Wrestling.
January 3, 2012 Leave a comment
Everyone knew Chris Jericho would return, but they still went crazy. When he held his arms out like a reverse Jesus on the cross, everyone lost it. But when his music finally hit?
Holy balls. The place went absolutely bananas. And so did I. Kelly got mad because she was trying to sleep, and I was marking out hardcore, clapping and jumping up and down like I was 11-years-old.
As an aside, I love love love when they just hit his music intro. They used to do a stupid countdown, and then have an instrumental interlude before the “Break the walls doooooooooown…” lyrics were screamed over the speakers. Immediately starting with those words this time was brilliant. Jericho’s entrance music has been the same since his arrival in 1999. That’s by design. He has the best god damned entrance music ever.
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