the egos

if i misled anyone into thinking that i actually watched the stupid grammy's, i'm sorry if you took it that way. the only effort i took part in with the grammy's this year was to read an article about how mariah carey got upstaged by u2. couldn't pass that up. and aside from hearing about senator obama getting a grammy for best spoken word album, i couldn't tell you anything else about it. well i did see that the white stripes won again. and i was flipping through channels and caught jamie foxx and his massive head, raking in on the success of ray charles, "singing" with kanye and dancing around like idiots. it's no wonder that american idol slaughtered the grammys in ratings that night.

House of Wax (2005): it’s hard to say what went wrong with this movie because right off the bat i’m not a big fan of horror movies. especially horror movies that try to be hip with cool music and a beautiful cast. this movie is kind of like something kim says: “if i liked egg nog, them i’m sure this would be a great shake.” but she doesn’t like egg nog and i don’t like horror movies. there isn’t a big scare factor in the movie. things jump out, but not enough to completely freak you out. the plot is a little weak and the script is the usual garbage. two things did shine in the movie. the first was paris hilton and her half nakedness. no complaints there. next was the last ten minutes where the whole wax museum melts away. it looked so incredible and pretty much blew me away. props in general to the production design for creating that little backwoods town. very, very impressive. in the end though, you get nothing out of it. paris dies on her knees, which doesn’t surprise me. the plot is extremely unbelievable. but if pure entertainment is your thing, along with a half-faced jack white looking murderer, then i totally recommend seeing it.

best documentary shorts are the ones that the fewest people have any idea about. i haven’t heard of any of the nominations so i’m gonna have to say 'god sleeps in rwanda.' we need to make sure something like that never happens again, so the more attention to it, the better. foreign language film goes to paradise now. i think this is a middle eastern film and i actually heard a lot of good things about it. twelve to go.

Hostage (2005): the story is a good idea, but the final product is full of problems. there are what i believe to be three main villains. two die, but the third gets of scott free. i couldn’t even believe my eyes at the end when this terrible guy just gets to walk away. the acting of so many of these characters are so awful and unbelievable. except for the little kid who even outshone willis. the story is all about this stupid dvd that everyone wants, so you are always wondering what is so special about what’s on the disk. turns out that it’s basically all about money. nothing special at all and an extreme disappointment. there are tons of unanswered questions, like what part did the dad actually play in the whole thing? as for the robbers, breaking in to get the dvd in the first place makes sense. what doesn’t make sense is that the robbers just happen to stumble on the family and follow them home to rob them. so basically, it was by chance and planned? i’m probably not making much sense because no one else has seen this, but basically there are a ton of plot holes. it has a lot of potential going into the first twenty minutes or so, but falls way flat from then on. don’t see.

the olympics are underway. watched the opening ceremonies last night with brian and wasn’t too impressed. the only cool thing was when pavarotti or flamingo or whoever came on and sang. that was pretty damn sweet. huge disappointment that they didn't spotlight la cosa nostra. even though that's more of a sicilian thing, would have been nice to see them bust out shotguns and take aim at those retarded flaming roller bladers. they didn't even mention the roman empire and their takeover of europe. not even a nod to italy's real government next door at the vadican. every country has got some baggage, but italia just gets to be this years lucky winner. just wait until beijing though. it's going to be freaking incredible. i'm not as interested this year cuz it's not the summer games, but i hope to watch as much as i can. it’s hard to believe that it’s already been four years since salt lake city. just seems like a year and a half ago. that means i’ve lived in utah for four years now. that’s as long as i lived in colorado. bode miller seems like a douchebag. sure he’s the badass who doesn’t care what people think and will say whatever he wants. but why is that so cool to people? inflated egos are not attractive for anyone. if he thinks he can become the greatest athlete of all time, he is sadly mistaken. i am so hoping that he tanks and loses it all. so, aside from bode, go USA!

i’m getting so damn close to finishing my pulp fiction special features. it’s taken me about two weeks, and i have to say that it’s been worth it. you learn about a ton of little details and tidbits about the movie and story. you also learn such valuable information like tarintino has a pretty good sized ego (not as big as bode) and he knows everything about every director and obscure movie ever made. sounds like tom. kidding. actually it sounds like me.