World Series Tied One Game Each!
The Phillies started off strong and dominant in game one with Cliff Lee pitching the game of his life. Shutting down the Yankees with no earned runs and walking off the field and out of Yankee Stadium with a 6 to 1 win and taking game one as if it were candy from a baby! Lee’s performance was outstanding and even Tim McCarver seemed surprised at not only how well Lee pitched but how relaxed he was on the field. Lee made plays you’d expect in the World Series! Like a nonchalant catch of a pop up to the mound and then a behind the back group of a hot grounder back through the box. If the Phillies end up winning the series it will be because Lee pitched so well in game one it gave the Phillies confidence going in to game two, and guaranteed them at least a split when they come home this weekend.
Game two with AJ Burnett and the ever talkative Pedro Martinez looked to be a repeat of game one through much of the early innings. Pedro was quite dominant and he held a one run lead going into the bottom of the 4th inning until mark Teixeira homered off a change up on the outside of the plate! And it remained tied until Hideko Matsui homered in the bottom of the 6th of Pedro and that was all that Burnett needed. The Yankees took a two run lead going into the 8th and 9th innings with Mariano Rivera pitching a two inning save. His 8th inning appeared less strong when he allowed two runners to reach with only one out, but a strong throw by Jeter got the double-play and got the Yankees out of the 8th inning!
I think it was more of a relief than joy for me when they won last night and even the series at one win apiece! Going back to Philadelphia is not the hard part in my mind for the Yankees, I think keeping the Phillies offense out of the game-as they were by Burnett in game#2-will be the difficult part for their starters and the bull-pen. I expect to see the Yankees come back to the Bronx Wednesday for game #6 and hopefully win the series at home!
Phillies-Yankees Game #1
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2009_10_28_phimlb_nyamlb_1
Phillies/Yankees Game#2
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2009_10_29_phimlb_nyamlb_1
Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs-animated 2009 Film
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs [2009]
I’ve been a fan of many of the animated films that have been released in the last several years. The Incredibles [2004] and Monsters, Inc [2004] are probably my favorite animated films since the turn of the century though I did enjoy Monsters v. Aliens as well as Wall-e and Igor. However the latest animated film Cloudy with a chance of meatballs ranks up there with the plot lines of A Scanner Darkly and Ratatouille [2007]. The plot is obvious from the title of the film. An odd scientist like inventor creates a machine that can turn water in to food!
The movie sounds interesting at least at first, but then we learn that the inventor-Flint Lockwood-has a father who can’t talk with him and doesn’t understand him as well as that Flint has a crush on a local weather reporter who acts dumb even though she’s super smart! Is this what we want out of our animated films-A pretty girl who acts dumb to be accepted and a crazy inventor who doesn’t get along with his father? To make matters worse in the plot the machine that alters the DNA of the water into food breaks down near the end of the film and is creating sentient food-forms. We see whole cooked chickens walking around as if they are alive! What better Pr for vegetarians!
The film also has a happy ending-which I didn’t expect considering how the plot had gone up to that point, so it was a letdown of sorts to me to have such an ending.
Over all it’s not a bad film, just not an exciting or great film. See it when it comes out on DVD or watch it on cable.
official website-cloudy with a chance of meatballs
http://www.cloudywithachanceofmeatballs.com/
Cloudy on imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844471/
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
I’ve been a fan of many of the animated films that have been released in the last several years. The Incredibles [2004] and Monsters, Inc [2004] are probably my favorite animated films since the turn of the century though I did enjoy Monsters v. Aliens as well as Wall-e and Igor. However the latest animated film Cloudy with a chance of meatballs ranks up there with the plot lines of A Scanner Darkly and Ratatouille [2007]. The plot is obvious from the title of the film. An odd scientist like inventor creates a machine that can turn water in to food!
The movie sounds interesting at least at first, but then we learn that the inventor-Flint Lockwood-has a father who can’t talk with him and doesn’t understand him as well as that Flint has a crush on a local weather reporter who acts dumb even though she’s super smart! Is this what we want out of our animated films-A pretty girl who acts dumb to be accepted and a crazy inventor who doesn’t get along with his father? To make matters worse in the plot the machine that alters the DNA of the water into food breaks down near the end of the film and is creating sentient food-forms. We see whole cooked chickens walking around as if they are alive! What better Pr for vegetarians!
The film also has a happy ending-which I didn’t expect considering how the plot had gone up to that point, so it was a letdown of sorts to me to have such an ending.
Over all it’s not a bad film, just not an exciting or great film. See it when it comes out on DVD or watch it on cable.
official website-cloudy with a chance of meatballs
http://www.cloudywithachanceofmeatballs.com/
Cloudy on imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844471/
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
2009 World Series Game #1
Yankees/Phillies-World Series Game#1!
Well it’s been six long years for Yankees fans to see their beloved Bronx-Bombers back in the Fall Classic! And it’s been all of a year for the Philadelphia crowd to enjoy the same. It’s going to be a train/I-95 series over the next week and I can imagine that there will be plenty of New Yorkers in Philly over the weekend when the Yankees play there on Saturday and Sunday, and perhaps Monday night too!
Tonight at around 8pm I’ll be at home watching game #1 in this series and waiting to see who has more offense and who has better pitching. I think most of us who have followed the American League and seen the playoffs this fall will expect C.C Sabathia to pitch well and to leave it all on the field. Hopefully we’ll have a great series and see why both these teams belong in the fall classic!
2009 Playoff Schedule
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/schedule/ps.jsp?y=09
2009 World Series game #1
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_10_28_phimlb_nyamlb_1
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Well it’s been six long years for Yankees fans to see their beloved Bronx-Bombers back in the Fall Classic! And it’s been all of a year for the Philadelphia crowd to enjoy the same. It’s going to be a train/I-95 series over the next week and I can imagine that there will be plenty of New Yorkers in Philly over the weekend when the Yankees play there on Saturday and Sunday, and perhaps Monday night too!
Tonight at around 8pm I’ll be at home watching game #1 in this series and waiting to see who has more offense and who has better pitching. I think most of us who have followed the American League and seen the playoffs this fall will expect C.C Sabathia to pitch well and to leave it all on the field. Hopefully we’ll have a great series and see why both these teams belong in the fall classic!
2009 Playoff Schedule
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/schedule/ps.jsp?y=09
2009 World Series game #1
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_10_28_phimlb_nyamlb_1
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Surrogates-Willis' Latest Movie [2009]
Surrogates [2009]
A few weeks ago I went and saw the latest Bruce Willis movie entitled Surrogates. Set some time in the future where nearly everyone in the US works, plays and experiences their life through an android body. It’s an interesting plot, and Willis plays an interesting character. He is an FBI agent and his surrogate is 20 years his younger but is based on his physical features. We see a young Willis running around the city after a killer.
The movie presents us with an interesting future. Where no one is homeless, out of work and crime is nearly gone-all because of these surrogates! Everyone has one and everyone can look as handsome or as beautiful as they can afford to look by manufactured means. They look gorgeous and can feel everything that their surrogate does. So they can go out and literally jump out of a plane without a parachute, all because their surrogate will be destroyed but they won’t be!
But we find that there is a problem when a military weapon is stolen that can destroy not only the surrogate but the human connected to it as well. This is where Willis comes in and must find out who it is that is trying to kill the inventor and owner of the company that manufactures the surrogates. Willis finds that he not only must determine who is working against him, but who really is who. As a surrogate can have more than one person who uses it Willis finds that he’s not only in a who-dun-it mystery, but also a who-is-it on that other side of that surrogate!
The ending is not one I had expected and for that I give the writers a thumbs-up in their creativity. The idea of surrogates for everyone is sci-fi to say the least but also a world in which I’d rather not live. Walking around and not having any real interaction with a human being. Where the person I may touch or hug is simply an android and while I might feel the sensation there is still no real physical or human interaction. I’m glad this is sci-fi and not anything that science is actually working to produce.
Surrogates-imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/
Surrogates-Official Website
http://www.chooseyoursurrogate.com/
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
A few weeks ago I went and saw the latest Bruce Willis movie entitled Surrogates. Set some time in the future where nearly everyone in the US works, plays and experiences their life through an android body. It’s an interesting plot, and Willis plays an interesting character. He is an FBI agent and his surrogate is 20 years his younger but is based on his physical features. We see a young Willis running around the city after a killer.
The movie presents us with an interesting future. Where no one is homeless, out of work and crime is nearly gone-all because of these surrogates! Everyone has one and everyone can look as handsome or as beautiful as they can afford to look by manufactured means. They look gorgeous and can feel everything that their surrogate does. So they can go out and literally jump out of a plane without a parachute, all because their surrogate will be destroyed but they won’t be!
But we find that there is a problem when a military weapon is stolen that can destroy not only the surrogate but the human connected to it as well. This is where Willis comes in and must find out who it is that is trying to kill the inventor and owner of the company that manufactures the surrogates. Willis finds that he not only must determine who is working against him, but who really is who. As a surrogate can have more than one person who uses it Willis finds that he’s not only in a who-dun-it mystery, but also a who-is-it on that other side of that surrogate!
The ending is not one I had expected and for that I give the writers a thumbs-up in their creativity. The idea of surrogates for everyone is sci-fi to say the least but also a world in which I’d rather not live. Walking around and not having any real interaction with a human being. Where the person I may touch or hug is simply an android and while I might feel the sensation there is still no real physical or human interaction. I’m glad this is sci-fi and not anything that science is actually working to produce.
Surrogates-imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/
Surrogates-Official Website
http://www.chooseyoursurrogate.com/
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Yankees/Angels Working for Series Bid
Yankees-Angels in the 2009 ALCS!
October 2009 has had some interesting baseball for us to watch and listen too. I saw the Detroit Tigers blow a 7 game lead with a week to go and then loose the division to the Twins in a one game playoff. The Twins then lost the division series to the Yankees in straight games-no real surprise there. Now the Yankees are playing some very good baseball against the Angels and hoping to return to the World Series for the first time in six years.
The last time the Yankees were in the series Joe Torre was their manager. I was sick on dialysis and lived in a basement apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I also watched the Yankees loose in 6 games to the Florida Marlins as Jorge Posada bounced out to 2nd and ended the game. It was a surprise though it shouldn’t have been one for me. I saw them loose in 7 games to Arizona in 2001 and couldn’t believe that Mariano Rivera was capable of losing a game.
Now we have game five to be played tomorrow night in Anaheim, California at 8pm [EST] and there will be millions watching and waiting to see if the Yankees can pull off one more game and go back to the fall classic.
However, I don’t think I’d be living up to my standards if I left this entry without mentioning the very terrible officiating/umping we have seen during these playoffs. Last night’s fiasco was the worst and is being compared to the poor umpping by Leslie Nielsen in the movie Naked Gun! How can someone miss so many obvious calls in such a short amount of time? I realize these guys are human and will make mistakes, but these were obvious ones-not close calls that you needed a digital computer to move frame by frame to view and determine if the call was right. It was so wrong people in the stands could see it!
I hope that the umping gets better and that the Yankees win Thursday night. I’d rather have the Yankees in the series because they earned their way there and won the game than because the umps made a huge mistake and gave the game away.
espn.com-baseball playoffs and the poor calls
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2009/columns/story?columnist=caple_jim&id=4581598
world series 2003
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/ps/y2003/
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
October 2009 has had some interesting baseball for us to watch and listen too. I saw the Detroit Tigers blow a 7 game lead with a week to go and then loose the division to the Twins in a one game playoff. The Twins then lost the division series to the Yankees in straight games-no real surprise there. Now the Yankees are playing some very good baseball against the Angels and hoping to return to the World Series for the first time in six years.
The last time the Yankees were in the series Joe Torre was their manager. I was sick on dialysis and lived in a basement apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I also watched the Yankees loose in 6 games to the Florida Marlins as Jorge Posada bounced out to 2nd and ended the game. It was a surprise though it shouldn’t have been one for me. I saw them loose in 7 games to Arizona in 2001 and couldn’t believe that Mariano Rivera was capable of losing a game.
Now we have game five to be played tomorrow night in Anaheim, California at 8pm [EST] and there will be millions watching and waiting to see if the Yankees can pull off one more game and go back to the fall classic.
However, I don’t think I’d be living up to my standards if I left this entry without mentioning the very terrible officiating/umping we have seen during these playoffs. Last night’s fiasco was the worst and is being compared to the poor umpping by Leslie Nielsen in the movie Naked Gun! How can someone miss so many obvious calls in such a short amount of time? I realize these guys are human and will make mistakes, but these were obvious ones-not close calls that you needed a digital computer to move frame by frame to view and determine if the call was right. It was so wrong people in the stands could see it!
I hope that the umping gets better and that the Yankees win Thursday night. I’d rather have the Yankees in the series because they earned their way there and won the game than because the umps made a huge mistake and gave the game away.
espn.com-baseball playoffs and the poor calls
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2009/columns/story?columnist=caple_jim&id=4581598
world series 2003
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/ps/y2003/
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Is This Movie True or False?
The Informant [2009]
This movie may or may not be based on a true story, but one thing I found true was that I could have waited to view it until it came out on DVD and then rented it! Matt Damon plays an interesting role-a bit of a goof-an exec who is apparently trying to do the right thing in a corporate world that certainly wouldn’t teach its members to in fact do the right thing. Damon gets the FBI involved in what is an alleged price fixing scheme between ADM and several very large corporations from Japan and Europe.
What we see in the film is part mock-u-mentory, part cartoon spy world and partly messed up. Half way through the film I’m waiting for the hammer to drop on the corporate VP’s at ADM in the film and we are told that Damon’s character is now the subject of a federal investigation and has stolen-embezzled-millions of dollars from the company he works for and is trying to take down. The focus shifts from ADM to Damon and it seems to get weirder from there. Damon’s character starts staging fake kidnappings and accusing the FBI of wrong doing as well as a fake letter from his psychiatrist saying he has a DSM diagnosed mental condition that should give him immunity for all this actions.
The film is not badly written and there are many notable characters in it-Scott Bakula plays a very believable role as the lead Special Agent from the FBI who Damon contacts and Melanie Lynskey who plays Damon’s wife in the film is known for her reoccurring quirky and cute role on Two and a Half Men on CBS. Despite these good supporting roles the film’s two hour time left me waiting for the end with relief rather than disappointment. I’d suggest renting this film or watching it on cable in a few years. Don’t waste your time going to the theater and paying fill price to see it!
imdb.com-the informant
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130080/
The Informant Official website
http://theinformantmovie.warnerbros.com/
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
This movie may or may not be based on a true story, but one thing I found true was that I could have waited to view it until it came out on DVD and then rented it! Matt Damon plays an interesting role-a bit of a goof-an exec who is apparently trying to do the right thing in a corporate world that certainly wouldn’t teach its members to in fact do the right thing. Damon gets the FBI involved in what is an alleged price fixing scheme between ADM and several very large corporations from Japan and Europe.
What we see in the film is part mock-u-mentory, part cartoon spy world and partly messed up. Half way through the film I’m waiting for the hammer to drop on the corporate VP’s at ADM in the film and we are told that Damon’s character is now the subject of a federal investigation and has stolen-embezzled-millions of dollars from the company he works for and is trying to take down. The focus shifts from ADM to Damon and it seems to get weirder from there. Damon’s character starts staging fake kidnappings and accusing the FBI of wrong doing as well as a fake letter from his psychiatrist saying he has a DSM diagnosed mental condition that should give him immunity for all this actions.
The film is not badly written and there are many notable characters in it-Scott Bakula plays a very believable role as the lead Special Agent from the FBI who Damon contacts and Melanie Lynskey who plays Damon’s wife in the film is known for her reoccurring quirky and cute role on Two and a Half Men on CBS. Despite these good supporting roles the film’s two hour time left me waiting for the end with relief rather than disappointment. I’d suggest renting this film or watching it on cable in a few years. Don’t waste your time going to the theater and paying fill price to see it!
imdb.com-the informant
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130080/
The Informant Official website
http://theinformantmovie.warnerbros.com/
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Detroit Lions Keep Loosing
Lions Loose Last Three Sundays
The Detroit Lions have lost in their last three games. To most of us who follow the Lions and watch them each week this is not really a shock to our system. To the rest of the country who follows football-and even to Michigan residents-this is what was to be expected. But in the last three weeks they have lost two close games that could have gone in our favor. The games against the Bears in Chicago and against the Steelers at Ford Field could have gone in our favor as the Lions showed offense as well as defense throughout the game. The Lions couldn’t put it all together though and as many of us were trying to keep our life in the land of denial going-at least I was-last week we watched the Lions loose to the Packers at Lambeau by a score of 26-0.
A shut out! We played horridly, and I watched in amazement while the young rookie who hurt his knee just over two weeks ago stood on the sideline laughing and talking with his teammates, while Dante Culpepper pulled a muscle and had to come out of the game. It’s the same story as last year. We have a quarterback we think will start to lead and give us some offense. He gets hurt and then another quarterback gets hurt. We are back to having Drew Stanton come in and finish the game. Hopefully he’ll actually get some time to practice this week and be better prepared to go on the field in 10 days when the Lions play the Rams at home at Ford Field on Sunday November 1st. The Rams are currently winless so perhaps the Lions can beat up on them and squeeze another victory out of this season. They will; be playing games against teams that are under .500 in the next several weeks which could prove to help the Lions record. I hope that it helps us put a few more wins in the column and doesn’t have us sitting here wondering how much longer we have to wait to become a better football team.
Lions 0 Packers 26
http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2009101801/2009/REG6/lions@packers#tab:analyze
Lions Home Page
http://www.nfl.com/teams/detroitlions/profile?team=DET
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The Detroit Lions have lost in their last three games. To most of us who follow the Lions and watch them each week this is not really a shock to our system. To the rest of the country who follows football-and even to Michigan residents-this is what was to be expected. But in the last three weeks they have lost two close games that could have gone in our favor. The games against the Bears in Chicago and against the Steelers at Ford Field could have gone in our favor as the Lions showed offense as well as defense throughout the game. The Lions couldn’t put it all together though and as many of us were trying to keep our life in the land of denial going-at least I was-last week we watched the Lions loose to the Packers at Lambeau by a score of 26-0.
A shut out! We played horridly, and I watched in amazement while the young rookie who hurt his knee just over two weeks ago stood on the sideline laughing and talking with his teammates, while Dante Culpepper pulled a muscle and had to come out of the game. It’s the same story as last year. We have a quarterback we think will start to lead and give us some offense. He gets hurt and then another quarterback gets hurt. We are back to having Drew Stanton come in and finish the game. Hopefully he’ll actually get some time to practice this week and be better prepared to go on the field in 10 days when the Lions play the Rams at home at Ford Field on Sunday November 1st. The Rams are currently winless so perhaps the Lions can beat up on them and squeeze another victory out of this season. They will; be playing games against teams that are under .500 in the next several weeks which could prove to help the Lions record. I hope that it helps us put a few more wins in the column and doesn’t have us sitting here wondering how much longer we have to wait to become a better football team.
Lions 0 Packers 26
http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2009101801/2009/REG6/lions@packers#tab:analyze
Lions Home Page
http://www.nfl.com/teams/detroitlions/profile?team=DET
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Brady Has A Career Game!
Patriots Run Over the Titans on Sunday!
I’m not a fan of the NE Patriots as I’m sure many aren’t. Tom Brady is a former UM star and in the past I’ve supported NE to show my loyalty to a UM alumni. This past weekend Brady did something I’ve never seen, and may not be seen again for many years. He threw for six touchdowns in a game and five in a quarter. Amidst the snow, wind and cold of New England he made the Titans look like pee-wee football players and took his team down the field so many times I stopped counting!
A 59 to 0 score at the end of the game should be enough to convey how poorly the Titans played, or how well the Patriots did-but in this case it was both. The Titans who were 13-3 last year are 0-6 [worse than the Detroit Lions if you can believe it] and the Patriots are 4-2 and are in 1st place in the AFC East division.
This game may have silenced many of Brady’s critics, but all we can do is wait and see if he turns out to be the Brady of old and watch and wait for some more exciting football to come.
NFL.com-Game Recap
http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2009101810/2009/REG6/titans@patriots
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
I’m not a fan of the NE Patriots as I’m sure many aren’t. Tom Brady is a former UM star and in the past I’ve supported NE to show my loyalty to a UM alumni. This past weekend Brady did something I’ve never seen, and may not be seen again for many years. He threw for six touchdowns in a game and five in a quarter. Amidst the snow, wind and cold of New England he made the Titans look like pee-wee football players and took his team down the field so many times I stopped counting!
A 59 to 0 score at the end of the game should be enough to convey how poorly the Titans played, or how well the Patriots did-but in this case it was both. The Titans who were 13-3 last year are 0-6 [worse than the Detroit Lions if you can believe it] and the Patriots are 4-2 and are in 1st place in the AFC East division.
This game may have silenced many of Brady’s critics, but all we can do is wait and see if he turns out to be the Brady of old and watch and wait for some more exciting football to come.
NFL.com-Game Recap
http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2009101810/2009/REG6/titans@patriots
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Zombieland [2009]
I’ve been in an intermittent bad mood the last couple of weeks. Luckily I’ve not been forcing my bad mood on too! But this movie was just what I would have ordered if I was an MD instead of an RN. It had some interesting scenes, some kick-ass whack ‘em in the head with a baseball bat and shoot ‘em up with a fully automatic machine gun scene and that was really what I was looking for in this film. Gave me the chance to vicariously live through the film and the characters-especially Woody Harrelson’s character-to vent some of my past frustrations in life.
Zombie Killer is certainly not an official title for anyone in this film, but it is what each of the characters must do or learn to do in order to survive in the film. If you think this film is about some new Disney land where everyone dresses up like zombies and runs after you…well you’d be wrong-mostly wrong-but unlike Cedar Point’s Hallo-weekends where the employees dress up and try and scare you this film portrays a land that has been overrun by beef eating Americans who have managed to all get the BSE and spread it around to nearly everyone in the Country. BSE is bovine-spongiform encephalopathy for those who have not read about it. It’s prevalent in cows and you may have heard it by its more common name-mad cow disease!
The premise is that mad cow has spread from the cows to humans and the humans become zombies after eating the infected cow meat! All the more reason to be vegetarian now-No? So the infected then start eating other people, anyone and everyone they can find-sort of like the world in “I Am Legend” [2007] but only a bit nastier. Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg team up in a very unlikely partner scenario. The fact that Eisenberg has survived this long is amazing, but he gives a semi-believable story as to how he managed to survive as long as he has, and this involved his “patented” rules-31 at the start of the film and 32 at the end. The rules do seem reasonable but it’s hardly believable that he really survived all by himself for so long. None the less he and Harrelson team up for a journey that involves two young girls and cross-country chase and a semi-wild ending at a Disney-land style amusement park!
This film probably won’t win any Oscars or awards but if you enjoy zombie movies, like movies without too much gore and blood or just want to enjoy the visceral feeling of watching someone beat the crap out of some zombies, then this film is for you!
zombieland-imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156398/
http://www.zombieland.com/
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Zombie Killer is certainly not an official title for anyone in this film, but it is what each of the characters must do or learn to do in order to survive in the film. If you think this film is about some new Disney land where everyone dresses up like zombies and runs after you…well you’d be wrong-mostly wrong-but unlike Cedar Point’s Hallo-weekends where the employees dress up and try and scare you this film portrays a land that has been overrun by beef eating Americans who have managed to all get the BSE and spread it around to nearly everyone in the Country. BSE is bovine-spongiform encephalopathy for those who have not read about it. It’s prevalent in cows and you may have heard it by its more common name-mad cow disease!
The premise is that mad cow has spread from the cows to humans and the humans become zombies after eating the infected cow meat! All the more reason to be vegetarian now-No? So the infected then start eating other people, anyone and everyone they can find-sort of like the world in “I Am Legend” [2007] but only a bit nastier. Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg team up in a very unlikely partner scenario. The fact that Eisenberg has survived this long is amazing, but he gives a semi-believable story as to how he managed to survive as long as he has, and this involved his “patented” rules-31 at the start of the film and 32 at the end. The rules do seem reasonable but it’s hardly believable that he really survived all by himself for so long. None the less he and Harrelson team up for a journey that involves two young girls and cross-country chase and a semi-wild ending at a Disney-land style amusement park!
This film probably won’t win any Oscars or awards but if you enjoy zombie movies, like movies without too much gore and blood or just want to enjoy the visceral feeling of watching someone beat the crap out of some zombies, then this film is for you!
zombieland-imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156398/
http://www.zombieland.com/
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)