The World is Yours aka My 23rd B-day! aka Your Mom's Box!

Today is September 24th, 2012. I originally wrote a blog detailing September 21st, which was my 23rd birthday. Something happen and that blog post disappeared. So, I am a little pissed off about that. I wrote a very long post and it was just gone; if I can find it, I'll try to post it. Yesterday the 23rd, I went to the Halloween shop to look for some prop guns for filming "CAMPAIGN" and to my surprise, I found an M16 and a pistol that look very nice.

I sent my co-producer/script editor photoshopped images of these test photos since there's supposed to be an image on the shirt. I stated that the beard and facial hair will be shaved off in time for filming. Also, we discussed whether or not I would have my hair cut short like a military buzz cut or grown out long and gelled back. Ultimately, grown out and gelled back. I especially liked that hairstyle on the character and two of the three film adaptions had the character actually like that.

But, let's go back to September 21st, 2012; my twenty-third birthday. Had me a little 3D double feature of Resident Evil: Retribution and Dredd. I really liked Dredd 3D and I would recommend it over Resident Evil: Retribution 3D. Karl Urban and this whole gritty and violent universe that we have Judge Dredd in makes for a good two hour flick. Lena Headey was awesome and skanky hot as the drug queenpin Ma-Ma. Then again, I have an all around fondness of Lena Headey ever since I saw her as the queen in 300 in 2007.

One thing though, my local movie theater sucks; I was wanting to see The Master; P.T. Anderson's new film; but they didn't get it. Instead we're stuck with the bullshit anti-propaganda Obama film 2016: Obama's America. I don't really care who gets elected president, but seriously, keep bullshit propaganda like this out of the fucking movie theaters. There's better shit that deserves to be played, like The Master. 2016: Obama's America deserves nothing more than to be a Youtube video that gets a few hundred hits and then no one will remember it after a month or two. This piece of shit probably cost less than what Traumatic Possession 3D cost because all of this Obama footage that is used is Public Domain because Dinesh D'souza and John Sullivan are fuckin' hacks that put Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton to shame. All though, with Dunstan and Melton, I am warming up to them after those horrible Feast sequels and Saw IV & Saw V. I felt Feast, Saw VI, Saw 3D, and I felt Piranha 3DD was average for a sequel.

Back to what I was going to talk about; Resident Evil: Retribution 3D. My biggest question is why bother trying to add game characters to the film universe? Oh, yeah, we had S.T.A.R.S. in Resident Evil: Apocalypse and the Nemesis killed them like it was nothing, but, we're going to put Barry Burton in this film for the hell of it. You know, my patience is wearing really thin with these films in terms of how this is not Resident Evil aka Biohazard. Alice, the Red Queen, Luther West, etc, etc; are not video game characters. Jill Valentine and Albert Wesker were there from the beginning of the first Playstation game. Putting that aside and seeing it as it's own independent series, it's enjoyable. They should have called Biohazard; it would have been a more appropriate title for this. My biggest problem with this is how Wesker is portrayed with this; the trailer vs the film is completely different without giving it completely away.

I would give Dredd 3D an 9/10 and Resident Evil: Retribution 3D a 7/10. After seeing the movies; we took a look at the trailer I will be buying. Feels nice to be a homeowner. Cannot wait to move into it. Bought some movies for birthday; two arrived early, Cleanskin and the double feature Blu-ray of The Crow: City of Angels and The Crow: Wicked Prayer. On my birthday, I picked up the Blu-rays of Gran Torino, Hostel, and the double feature of Universal Soldier and Lock Up. While on the 22nd, I went to the local Volunteers of America and found a sealed Blu-ray of The Time Traveler's Wife for $3. And then yesterday, I found a sealed Blu-ray copy of The Pebble and the Penguin at Goodwill for $5. And then off the net, I won a German Blu-ray of Türkisch für Anfänger for $13 off eBay. And then bought a Blu-ray off of a buddy on the Blu-ray.com forum; the Region Free UK release of John Woo's Red Cliff for $8. I do plan on doing reviews for all of these on my Blu-ray Review Blog.

Tomorrow, I am picking up my Blu-ray copy of The Avengers 3D and I am not paying a dime for it. I got a $20 Target gift card from my sister and brother. And due to an error in the ad, the mega 3D combo pack is going to be the price of the Blu-ray and DVD combo pack for $20 at Target. With whatever I have left after using a discount, I'll be putting whatever is left on my gift card towards buying the Blu-ray for the 2004 adaption of The Punisher. It's currently going for $5 on Target.com. I have Punisher: War Zone and I would like whoever owns the rights to the 1989 adaption of The Punisher starring Dolph Lundgren to make it's way on Blu-ray. I would buy that in an instant.

So, for the rest of the day, I am going to get some writing done. Probably get around to putting that short film reel together for Youtube and have all three short films as one video file for viewing. I was contemplating catching Finding Nemo 3D, but I have all ready missed the first showing of the day and I am not going to a later screening with kids being out of school and parents probably taking their mouth breathers to watch this. As my last thing to bring up, I have a song I want to dedicate to someone. You know who you are. Peace out.