We never saw the Tornado kick...

Last night we went to see "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li".  For me it had a hype rating of 'watch if it's on TV and there's nothing on DVR' but Derk wanted to see it and I was sitting around doing nothing.  Like I said before, I will watch just about anything.

Everybody remembers Chun Li as the little Chinese girl in the Street Fighter games who does all the spinning kicks and made that crazy sound when she was knocked out.  You know, the one where the game designers confused the sound of agony with some incredible super orgasm....But for some reason, Capcom decided to make a B movie (Derk said it was a D) surrounding Chun Li's quest to find her dad.  I guess they thought if they put in a hot girl with some underdone fight scenes and a couple of the characters from the video games they 

could get an audience.

Well, I think they got the first part right cuz Kristin Kreuk (you might remember her if you watch Smallville, but I remembered her distinctly as the girl that "SCOTTY DOESN'T KNOW, SCOTTY DOESN'T KNOW" about in Eurotrip)

 was kicking ass.  But they bombed horribly on the second part.  I only remember Balrog, Bison and Vega in the movie.  Bison was nowhere as authentic as Raul Julia in the original movie, Michael Clark Duncan didn't have the nappy head, cutoff hoody or the boxing gloves, and unless there is a cage, I'm not feeling anything to do with Vega.  I knew this but Derk apparently thought it was going to be more so he was a little disappointed. 

The movie was horribly, agonizing to watch (besides Miss Kreuk) but about 3/4 of the way through the movie reel also decided how horrible it was and decided to melt.  And yes, it does make that sound LOL.  We got free complimentary free tickets and the movie also refunded us with about 30 minutes of our time, so I can't be mad.  

Hey, maybe if the movie had went on the rest of the gang would have showed up and we would have had some "Tiger Uppercuts" and "Hirukens" but I'm guessing the end would have sucked too.  So I'm going to match the movie with the hype.  Wait till it comes on TV, and after you have already watched everything else on your DVR.

Movie rating: 'Fail'

Johnny Depp vs. Christian Bale

Looks like a fun movie.  Johnny Depp is one of the best actors out there and he's going to be the coolest John Dillinger that ever lived.  Expect Christian Bale to yell obscenities or look darkly frustrated at least four times in the movie.  For the ladies, Channing Tatum will be playing Pretty Boy Floyd.  Directed by Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral, Miami Vice) who can do a pretty good crime drama.

Release date: July 1st, 2009

Competing movies: Ice Age 3

Hype Rating: Saturday maybe, I still don't see anything that tells me it will be great. 

More new trailers: Star Trek

Alright, now this one is definitely a midnight in IMAX.  I'm ready to buy the tickets now if anyone is down.  I have always been more of a Star Wars fan than Star Trek but that's because Star Trek was just more nerdy with the beaming and everybody saying captain, LOL.  It didn't have the rebellion of the cool bastards named Han Solo and Lando Calrissian.  Okay, they are both nerdy but you get my point.

With Zachary Quinto (Heroes' character Sylar) playing Spock and the Chris Pine playing James T. Kirk it might finally have the youth it needs to draw in a large audience and well from the trailer I'm imagining the old Star Trek except cooler.  So I'm going to give it a hype rating of midnight.

Who's down?

Terminator Salvation hype rating just went to 'Must See'

Just witnessed the new 'Terminator Salvation' trailer and yes I said witnessed.  From the first one all I knew was it was going to be future, world run by robots, and fighting (sound like a movie you know..cough, Matrix, cough).  But in this trailer let's imagine the Matrix with less philosophy (by the way, I'm not bashing that, I actually only watch the Matrix for that) and just more Christian Bale and friends fighting robot killing machines.  Christian Bale is good in all dark hero and villain roles and this is going to be another one.  Think the new Batman movies, American Psycho, The Prestige and the prick rich boy in Shaft.  He's another one of those actors like Jason Patric in Entourage who gets all wrapped up in his roles to the point your afraid he might confuse you for a robot and blow your head off at a set lunch break.  

After all, I hope we all remember the hilarious TMZ clip with Christian Bale going off on his director of photography.  Well if you don't...http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_audio/020209_christianbale.mp3...and if you don't remember he apparently got his way, the guy was fired and Peter Griffin was hired and he went off on him too...

(funniest thing "well it nourishing me so...") but I was originally in line with Peter Griffin with not understanding why we need another terminator, so it had a hype rating of 'maybe but not critical'.  But seeing the new trailer with the action scenes with the motorcycles and the bridge scene and actually knowing Christian Bale thinks he's John Connor and he's fighting to save the world from the rest of the actors on set, I think we have to bump this up to 'Must See'.  Midnight anyone?

Next good Disney movie?

Just saw the new trailer for "UP!".  From the previous trailer, looks like a movie about a crotchety, old man who hates everybody around him so he decides to let out a bunch of balloons and fly away...but oops that annoying boy scout you wouldn't let in is still on your doorstep.

The new trailer shows a little more of the adventure with some weird multicolored bird and a talking dog so apparently this flying house will go places that modern aircrafts can't reach.  Also, the villain seems to be another old guy with more mean talking dogs (I wonder, what Mike Vick's dogs would say if they could talk?  I just picture them all sounding like DMX on 'Get At Me Dog'.) 

So from what I have seen we have old man flying with annoying kid to unknown land with talking dogs sometime mean dogs.  I give it a hype rating of 'meh'.  I like for trailers to either give me a good idea of what I'm in for or have me totally guessing ala Wall-E.

Who watches the Watchman?

OK, for my first post, I guess I will go out of character and tell you, I WENT to see a movie.  Last night we went to see the Watchmen in IMAX (yes glorious IMAX) in Alexandria, VA.  I have to say I don't know if you're gonna like the movie much if you haven't read the graphic novel.  It's alot to keep up with so it's easier to digest in the pages of a book but the movie is also pretty faithful to the book.

The movie is very gratuitous on the blood, sex, and violence so in between your monologues if you're looking for just some pure carnal fun, this is your movie.  And again, we saw it in IMAX so all that good stuff is just magnified.

The movie has a 'hype' rating of Must See but its an actual see only if your into all the visceral stuff.  If not, wait for DVD.

Just so you can't say you weren't invited

OK, just so it's clear, I love movies.  I have since I was little.  Just like Chip off the cable guy I was raised by the little and the big tube.  You name it, I have probably seen it.  My perfect date is dinner and a movie and I'm known to frequent a movie theater by myself.

But I'm making this blog for everybody who says I don't invite them when I go to the movies.  Seeing that I go all the time, I think you should be coming to me saying hey when you gonna see this movie that you obviously know I'm going to see.

So here my blog for my love of movies and a place for you to know what and when I wanna see it.  Again, I see anything and if you ask me to go, I probably will.  I will watch action movies, documentaries, chick flicks, horror movies, it doesn't matter.  So here we go.