T minus 16 hrs and counting

I am so nervious, in 16 hours im headed to san diego. i have never been this far away from home without a parent before. Further more i have never had to put my well being and trust in the hands of my brother.

Im excited yet nervious at the same time. other then shower and shave im all packed and ready to go. i just hope that there no mname calling or arging back and forth. i also hope he dosent do something stupid to get me hurt, or he leaves me behind somewhere

i know the friends who house were staying at will watch out for me. . i just hope everything turns out ok and not a dissaster. my nerves are already going to be shot.

ill blog when i get home on sunday july 17th

fantastic 4 not so fantastic

I have been eagerly anticipating this movie now for over a year, so it’s of no surprise that I went to see the vary first showing at midnight. I even paid for my brother and his girlfriend to go because I’m such a nice guy.

Synopsis:

Reed Richards in an attempt to leave his mark on the world, and get out of debt, enlists the help of three long time acquaintances, and one high school rival turned multimillion dollar tycoon on his new project. The study, and intelligence gathering of a spacial storm. This storm he believes could help the human race enrich their daily lives. However he is off on his calculations,, and the storm alters the D.N.A of the five companions.

Now Reeds, (Ioan Gruffudd) Sue Storm, (Jessica Alba) her brother Johnny Storm, (Chris Evens) and Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis) must adjust to life with these new abilities, as well as life in the public eye. As the Fantastic 4, they soak to put an end to multimillion dollar tycoon Victor Von Doom. (Julian McMahon) Whose experience with the spacial storm has put him on the ultimate power trip literally.


I must say I’m a little disappointed with this movie. The reason being is that I don’t think the script was so great, I mean this is the summer blockbuster season, and this movie just doesn’t fit the bill. Yes in the beginning it has a lot of action, but it tapers off quite a bit till the end. The rest off the movie just feels like a bunch of people with anger management issues. It almost plays out like one of Dr. Phil’s family in crisis shows. It needs a lot more action, and a lot more of the emoational depth we have come to expect from feather film adaptations of Marvel comic books.

What drama there is comes from Michael Chiklis portrayal of Ben Grimm. Chiklis does a great job bringing Ben Grimm’s complexities to life. You can feel and believe the hardships his corrector encounters while trying to adjust to his new life. I felt deeply saddened by what he had to now experience at the hands of some non understanding people. Weather that’s because of his great acting, or the fact that I could totally relate with what his corrector had to go through is for someone other then I to decide. But I can tell you that if you thought Chiklis could only play the tough guy he does on F/X’s The Shield, you’re wrong. His portrayal of the gentle yet tough Grimm is outstanding.

Don’t get me wrong I think the directors cast all the right people for the write roles. Ioan Gruffudd played a very good leader and scientist, Alba was the glue that holds the family together, and between the two correctors you can tell they have an almost jaded past. Evans pulls off the flamboyant pretty boy, who thinks he’s god’s gift to everything that you’d expect from Johnny Storm quite well. And McMahon is perfect as the arrogant egotistical Doom. He’s got the look and the voice a villain should have. Let’s face it, this isn’t the first time Julian McMahon has played a bad guy, and boy does he excel at it.

It’s my opinion that the special effects were probably the focal point in this movie. They were done vary well, there amazing in fact. Of course they would have to be when you take unrealistic powers that would only work in comics and turn them around so they look like they work in live action film. They do indeed work except when the human torch starts to fly. Yes I know he does fly in the cartoons and comics, and that works in that medium. In live action however it makes you wish they would explain how he could fly (which they don’t) otherwise it feels and looks and feels far fetched and cheesy (which it did).
In short I did like the movie, although I was expecting more from an eagerly anticipated summer film. I liked the acting. I just wasn’t to crazy about the script. It’s missing the drama, emotion and action that films like Spiderman, X-Men, and the new Batman Begins has. My advice is this. If you have nothing to do, and want to get out of the house then go see this movie. But don’t blow off some major fun filled plans because you want to go see this movie.. Kind of a toss up I know, but then again so was this film

forth of july

One word sums up my forth of july CRAZY

My family decided to have a BBQ with my aunt uncle and cousins. and that went fine, we swam and played alot in the pool everything. it was vary pleasent i must say :) i even had a mitie which got me a little messed up and i was wopndering why. till someone told me there was rum in there. if i would have known i wouldent have had it rum and i dont get along so well LOL

But we dident get fireworks cause u can see the firewoorks that the city puts on from my back yard. this is where the crazyness come in. the fireworks that the city puts on was actually put on by the city's minor leadge base ball team this year, because the city is broke.. And these fireworks sucked big time.

But everyone an there cousin in my naighborhood had nothjing but illeage fireworks of all kind. i know there illeagle but damn were they beautiful. sounded almost like a 17th centery battle field, which for some reason i thought was neat. the fireworks were non stop from 8 pm till 2 am.

at 1130 pm i went out by the pool to see if i could see any , cause i still heard them and they were still close by. all of a sidden i see two shoot up in the air, and i watch them dissapear in the sky. i was awaiting a tiny pop. but to my serprise, two perfessional tstyle fireworks wemnt off right above my head at that point all i could think to say was "holy shit" and i went back in the house

This was our first 4th of jully in this house. at the other house the guy across the street had illeagles every year, and we thought that was a big deal. but here everyone but us it seemed had them. im certainly looking forword to more forth of julys here :D