Commercial rant #2 - McDonald’s/gofbot.com

Watch me be much too lazy to copy the formatting from the first one of these I did! Hopefully I’ll get close enough. I had such lofty plans to make them all look the same… oh well.
I have a vile and thorough hatred for all of McDonald’s advertising, particularly since they adopted the obnoxious “I’m […]

Commercial Rant #1 - Pizza Hut pizza pouch things

I’m going to start whining in this space about commercials that bother me, if that’s ok with everyone. I’ll try to stay away from particularly irritating local commercials unless I can obtain video of them.
Today’s ad: Pizza Hut Hot-and-Ready Pizza Pocket Things (I frankly can’t be bothered to look up their actual name)
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Genre: Sci Fi
Year: 2007

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel
Writer: Gary Goldman (screenplay) and Jonathan Hensleigh (screenplay)

Rated: PG 13
Director: Lee Tamahori

From imbd.com : Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the […]

GrindHouse - A Review

GrindHouse

Genre: Horror
Year: 2007
Rated: R

Starring: Rose McGowan, Bruce Willis, Quentin Tarantino, Kurt Russell

Writer: Robert Rodriguez (fake trailer segment “Machete”); Robert Rodriguez (segment “Planet Terror”); Rob Zombie (fake trailer segment “Werewolf Women of the S.S.”); Edgar Wright (fake trailer segment “Don’t”); Jeff Rendell (fake trailer segment “Thanksgiving”) & Eli Roth (fake trailer segment “Thanksgiving”)Quentin Tarantino (segment “Death […]

Smokin’ Aces—Should be re-titled “All Smoke and No Aces”

SMOKIN’ ACES

Genre: Drama
Year: 2007

Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Peter Berg, Brian Bloom, Sharon Bruneau
Writer: Joe Carnahan

Rated: R— Violence, Language, Drugs and Nudity
Director: Joe Carnahan

A classic mobster-hit man movie, Smokin’ Aces is about a mob boss who takes out a contract on a Vegas magician turned mobster, because the Vegas magician decided to testify against the mob. […]

Rocky Balboa

Bottom Line: Well, whadda ya know? It looks like you can teach an old underdog new tricks.

First 007 gets back to basics, now, 30 years after the Italian Stallion came out swinging, Sylvester Stallone has returned to Rocky’s humble roots with an unplugged edition that emerges as one of this season’s more pleasant surprises.Dispensing with […]

Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny

Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny

Genre: Comedy
Year: 2006

Starring: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Tim Robbins, Ben Stiller, Dave Grohl
Writer: Jack Black & Kyle Gass

Rated: R
Director: Liam Lynch

This is a story of two best friends and their journey through time and the lands, and shrooms, to find their destiny. This is a heart-warming tale […]

Let’s Go To Prison: Perfect Sarcasm

Let’s Go To Prison

Genre: Comedy
Year: 2006

Starring: Dax Shepard; Will Arnett
Writer: Ben Garant; Thomas Lennon; Michael Patrick Jann

Rated: R
Director: Bob Odenkirk

John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) has spent most of his juvenile and adult life in the US penal system. He blames this on the judge who repeatedly sends him to jail, Judge Beiderman. […]

BORAT: Ramblings of the Dumbest Movie of 2006.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Genre: Comedy
Year: 2006

Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen; Ken Davitian
Writer: Sacha Baron Cohen; Anthony Hines; Peter Baynham; Dan Mazer

Rated: R
Director: Larry Charles

Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) and Azamat (Ken Davitian) leave Kazakhstan to make a documentary of the Greatest Country In the World! The Kazakhstani duo chose […]