Yeah. Apparently that is real. Read up here.
Ideas for the name of my first child.
April 19, 2008 at 6:47 am (Humorous Links)
Tags: Batman, Passport, Singapore, Superman
Cue up the R.E.M.
April 19, 2008 at 6:15 am (Humorous Links, Interesting Links)
Tags: Apocalypse, Conspiracy Theory, R.E.M., Twitter
…because its the end of the world as we know it. At least, thats what The Apocalypse Times wants to prove. Take a gander at it, read up on all of the strange occurrences of the day and catch up on your conspiracy theories. Its like Weekly World News, but based more on real life than shotty photoshops. Just don’t expect anything fancy, like an RSS feed. Their mentality seems to be, “The world is gonna end soon anyway, why waste the time.”
Thanks to @bloggerblog on Twitter for the heads up. Also, sorry about the cheesy intro. Its 2am and I am tired.
Goodfellas (1990)
April 19, 2008 at 6:03 am (Movies, Opinion)
Tags: De Niro, Gangster, Goodfellas, Scorsese
Goodfellas also came in the mail today. I don’t really need to give it a review, so I won’t, but i will tell you what I thought of the movie in general.
This is the second time I have seen it, and for some reason I can’t remember the first, so this was like the first time all over again. This was a very good movie, but not a gangster movie in the realm of Godfather. It had all of the usual gangster stuff, but near the half way mark it took a turn from the “Everything is great,” to “What the hell am I doing?” mentality that ultimately brought down organized crime in the late 70s and early 80s. I didn’t expect it to go there, but it did, and it was a better movie because of it. It went from a throw away plot about “The life,” to a real world, “this is what happens when you start messing with drugs.”
My only disappointment with it was the ending. Not that it ended badly, but like with other Scorsese movies, he pays attention to every detail, and then just kind of throws the ending at you. While everything gets resolved, it feels a little lacking. 2+ hours of emotional investment and all you get is 5 minutes of closure. Please, refrain from associating that to my love life.
Well, this turned out to be more of a review than I thought. Oh well.
5/5 stars, regardless of the ending.
