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Perhaps something to get MADD about
Posted in Reviewson Jan 8, 2009
According to the Coloradoan, drunk driving arrests during the New Years holiday this year were up, again, in Colorado. 569 people were arrested for drunk driving across Colorado, with 44 arrested in Larimer County, where I live.
569 arrests is a new record since state agencies started state-wide crackdown efforts in 1998. For the previous three years, arrests have been climbing from 407, 449, and 473.
I haven’t decided if that means that more people are driving drunk, or that law enforcement agencies are better at catching and arresting drunk drivers. Hopefully the latter.
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Review of Criminal Minds
Posted in Reviewson Nov 6, 2008
Source: Wikipedia
Criminal Minds is another one of those TV crime dramas, not dissimilar to CSI. However, in Criminal Minds, they use behavioral analysis to solve crime mysteries rather than lots of forensics like the do in CSI.
Initially, I was really interested in Criminal Minds. I felt like I was learning about behavioral indicators and analysis. However, I found that as the series, now in season 4, developed, it incorporates less science and more drama. Read the rest of this entry »
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Movie review of Eagle Eye
Posted in Reviewson Oct 16, 2008
If there is a level of “over the top,” then Eagle Eye begs for this level to be well defined.
Eagle Eye is an action file directed by D.J. Caruso. It features a young man and a single mother who are brought together and coerced by an anonymous caller into carrying out a terrorist cell’s plot.
As an action film, Eagle Eye was pretty typical, yet fairly exciting. You get your standard explosions, exchange of gun fire, high speed car chases, and suspense. However, there were a few too many, “yeah, right” moments becaues of too many far fetched ideas in the story fundamentals.
While not a “movie of the year,” Eagle Eye was more enjoyable than watching cable TV re-runs. To my friends, I would probably recommend that they watch it at the cheap theater.
You can purchase a copy of Eagle Eye in the Square Galaxy Store.
Review of Borne Ultimatum
Posted in Reviewson Dec 28, 2007
I recently checked Borne Ultimatum out of the RedBox, and watched this thrilling movie on my temporary home theater system. I’ve seen a number of movies over the Christmas break, and this is one of my favorites.
This movie features ex-CIA agent Jason Borne seeking to find out about the top-secret CIA operations which have turned him into a killing monster.
It is pretty easy to make a recommendation for this movie, as it is very similar to the previous two movies in the trilogy. Those people who liked the other Borne movies will like this movie as well. Those who didn’t enjoy the other movies, probably won’t find much to enjoy in this movie either.
This movie was packed with thrilling fast-paced action, but it didn’t seem as novel as it did in the first movie because it is a lot of more-of-the-same type of exciting action. This movie was great in that it had more plot progression than did the previous movies, and it did a fairly good job at tying up the trilogy story line.
I don’t think they should come out with any more Borne movies, if they did, I think the next movie should be called Borne Again. (laugh, its a joke).
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Review of Wendy’s in Fort Collins
Posted in Reviewson Dec 14, 2007
Wednesday night, I used the drive through at the Wendy’s at 3710 S College Ave. in Fort Collins, Colorado. Their service was too fast, which means they gave me food which was already sitting around, and when I looked at my Junior Bacon Cheeseburger, I found that the meat was exceptionally smaller than I’m use to.
I had also thought that they had forgotten to give me a spoon for my chili, but it turns out that I was dumb and just couldn’t find it.
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Little did he know…
Posted in Reviewson Dec 4, 2006
Stranger than Fiction was a funny, original, and somewhat intelligent film that was mostly refreshing in these days where it seems just about every new film is the same old same old. The movie stars Will Ferrell as the IRS auditing main character, Maggie Gyllenhaal as the cookie baking Ana Pascal, Dustin Hoffman as an English professor, and Emma Thompson as the narrator. The premise of the movie is that that a novel writer is unknowingly narrating Harold Crick’s life, from work, to love, and even to death.
The movie is one of the most intelligent films I’ve seen, with many subtleties to be picked up on by intellectuals and smart people. If you want to see a movie with stupid humor, go see Borat or something, but if you enjoy finding humor in hidden subplots, then you might enjoy this movie.
This film is for the nerdy: math nerds, environmental nerds, space nerds, and literary nerds can all connect with some of the character traits presented. This provides for a lot of the humor as you can laugh at just how nerdy we all are as presented by the characters.
This movie, while rated PG-13, is not as uncomfortable as walking across a liberal college campus. It makes a great date movie, especially if you are going out with a that girl or guy from your English class who knows how to laugh.
You can pick up a copy of Stranger than Fiction in the Square Galaxy Store.
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Review of The Prestige
Posted in Reviewson Oct 28, 2006
I’m not sure what I think about all these “The” movies. I think they should come out with a movie called, “The Blogger” or “The Insomniac.”
The Prestige was one of those movies which tries to keep you in the dark about some fact only to reveal it to you in the end. Of course, I’m not going to tell you what it is, but it is a little better than, “Oh, the aliens don’t like water.” I figured some of their secrets out a little early, which either makes me think that they were too obvious or that I’m still missing something.
Overall, the movie was interesting, but it did some of that time jumping that I thought was overly excessive and confusing. It was so bad that I’m still not exactly sure the order of some of the events.
Two thematic elements of the movie are secrets and obsessions which I’m concluding are both bad.
This movie is not scary, not overly exciting during parts, but makes you think a little bit. Watch it with friends because you will probably want to talk about it when you are done. A movie to see, but I wouldn’t recommend haste to see it. I can’t remember any musical score, which probably means that it wasn’t exceptional. It is PG-13, probably because there is hatred and death in the movie.
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