Bacon’s Movie Review

Vantage Point:

Really good movie.   I know alot of people thought that the plot was lacking. I mean it was a pretty straight forward assasination plot, and the movie was only an hour and thirty minutes… but I disagree.

I was destined to like it before I saw it though. I mean I have always been facinated with movies that showed the same thing twice but from different view points.  Also there was some solid acting all around.

I give it 4.5 bacon strips!

Baconbach Top Five Fight Scenes

It has been a while since I have done a top 5 list.  I think the last one was about archaeologist.

Baconbach’s top 5 all-time favorite fight scenes (of course subject to change and debate)  The rules for this list are it has to be man vs man or group fighting. I am not including vehicles or things like that.

Number 1 goes to V for Vendetta. The scene is titled 30Vs turn. This fight scene is the complete package. Great camera work (love that slowmo) and the dialogue is so aweosme. I know it may seem to be wierd to include dialouge in the scoring for fight scenes but the fact that great dialouge during a fight  is rare makes it more special.

2 goes to Jackie Chan. I love all of his fight scenes! There is just a Jackie Chan-ness that comes off in his work. The final battle in Legend of Drunken Master is amazing. I love watching the drunken fighting style so that is a plus but the hot coal and fire really seal the deal. Very enjoyable and is very close to making the top of my list.

3. Rescue Morpheus.  The Matrix has a bunch of really well done fight scenes but the one making the list is not the practice fight but the rescue of Morpheus.  I am not even sure if this one has any dialogue at all but in this situation it makes it better. I also really like how there is no need to show the gore.  I hate it when movies cover up bad fight scenes with lots of fake blood.

Number 4 goes to Kill Bill. The crazy 88 is amazing. I think it is funny that this comes after the “fake blood” comment I made. Although this has alot of blood it is still tastefully done. I love this fight scene because it has great used of the group fight but then slows down for some 1v1 also.

5. And of course no fight scene list could be complete without the The Karate kid. So number 5 is the final fight in that movie. I mean the whole stand on one leg kick changed the world didn’t it?

Unfortunately there are some the were close but did not make it on the list. Here are some close runner ups: Happy Gilmore vs Bob Barker, the big scene in Hard Boiled, Indiana Jones vs. big bald guy and the plane… and many more.

And another HP thing

http://www.wauwatosanow.com/news/50743847.html

Harry Potter vandals target Tosa stop signs

I read this article today and thought that I would share it with you viewer out there. This is real urban prankster type stuff.  Now I do not support or encourage this behavior… but that doesn’t mean I can’t laugh a little at it –does it?

HP 6

I am very excited for two things Harry Potter related (despite the old HP incident which then lead to a feud) :

1. To share this amazing video with my awesome viewer.  Me and my roomie found it two Halloweens ago and almost forgot about it until now. It is hilarious for anyone who enjoys harry potter and rap. I would  put the video on my blog but I want the people who made it to get the credit and the hits…. I think they deserve it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FnpudxZChs

2. I am also really excited for a big idea I had. It is to dress into costume and go to the midnight showining of Harry Potter. Before you judge think of this… We are not dressing up as HP characters. We were instead going to mock dressing up in costumes by dressing up as completely random costumes. In order for it to be a perfect mocking situation we have to take a lesson from improv everywhere. and pretend like we are doing nothing out of the ordinary and not purposely draw attention to ourselves.

Yet again Zombies…

So this is directly in response to someone hating on my blog.  They said it was all about Zombies. For the record this blog is NOT all about Zombies. There are alot of different topics on here … like movies…

That being said… I saw a preview for a movie coming out that I am really excited for. It is called Zombieland. Looks like a real gem!!

Also I do want to point out my ZAP has the most hits and comments of any part of my blog.

The Hammer

So I recently watched the movie “The Hammer”. I really really enjoyed it and am putting it in my top 10 of favorite comedies and ranking it above Rocky in movies about boxing.  It was hilarious mostly due to the fact Adam Carolla is just playing himself.. a like-able smart as s. (although he did some pretty convincing acting… unless he really does know how to box)

I could tell you about it or you could just watch the preview yourself. But I am to lazy to even put a link to the preview so I guess I have to just sum it up.

The movie revolves around Adam who is just turning 40, out of shape and an  un-inspired handyman who decides to get back into the boxing ring. It is hilarious and I highly recommend it.

But my favorite part about it is that he keeps saying things like “this is why they call me the hammer” and it totally reminded me of Captain Hammer (corporate tool bag) .

These are not the Hammer…. The hammer is my…

Subway and Art part II

So this takes a different, but still much appreciated take on subway and art. It is from our friends over at Improv Everywhere. Their latest mission is to have an art show in a NY subway. It wasn’t my favorite but it is worth checking out.

Instead of posting the video here I want to give credit to those who did it. So head over to their web site and check them out! My favorite at the moment is Ted’s birthday.

Pull your pants up

Someone brought this random gem of a you tube clip to my attention after my last post.  Well this song pretty much says it all. 

Subway and Art?

This is part one of my two part Subway comment. 

Big brother worked for subway for a long time and I recall quite well that he was a “Sandwich Artist”. I am pretty sure it used to be right on the name tags under the name. What the frak happened them?

Personally, I think they quit being artists when they changed the way they cut the bread. I think it also goes without saying that I do not have to list ALL the advantages of the old way. (I will gladly list them if you ask) I used to wonder if anyone besides me any more even remember the old way they cut the bread? It was the best! It clearly gave them the edge over all the other sandwich places. 

For the last few years when I ask for them to cut it the old way the workers just look at me like im stupid.  When I try to explain it they just don’t get it and say “I didn’t even know there was an old way”. (that is a real quote from a nameless Subway employee) Really kid? Yes there was an old way– it tasted better, looked better, and pull up your pants!

 

But I digress. I tdidn’t mean for this to turn into a rant like Denis Leary in lock and load. The point of this story wasn’t to complain about the stupid kid, but to give thanks that there is still at least one last Sandwich Artist out there. Not only did he know about the old way, but he did it for me and assured me that he liked it like this too! So here is a tip of my hat to you Sandwich Artist. Keep up the good work!

Dreams

Have you ever wake up from a dream and whatever emotion you were feeling? You know have a dream where your mad and you wake up mad? Well the other day I woke up very very angry and frustrated because of a dream. 

Yeah I know that there is no way that you can tell someone about your dream and not sound completely crazy, but I thought some people might enjoy this.

Me and Big Brother were trapped in this building and we had to find clues and use things in the 4 rooms to get out, but we had a time limit (i am not sure what was going to happen if we didn’t but it was bad!) And my dad looked the answer up on his cell phone, but we didn’t want his help at first. And then when we were running out of time  and I couldn’t get the pressure on the air gun right he decided not to help us. So not only was I trying to get him to help but all these other people (freinds and family) were just ok with letting the time run out and that bad thing happen.  I was pretty ticked when I woke up for like 15 minutes.

BTW I guess I could have explained that I was playing some of these games the other day..