so you remember a week or so ago when i mentioned that someone had suggested building a statue of Robocop in Detroit and the mayor said no?

well thanks to the Internet, that 'no' has been reversed!. the media frenzy over the suggestion caused someone to make a Facebook page dedicated to the proposition which then caused someone to make a ( Read more... )

Detroit Michigan is a city that desperately needs revitalizing. Mayor Dave Bing has started a program to get police officers to live in the city rather than in the suburbs, selling tax-foreclosed houses to officers for $1,000 and then giving them $150,000 in federal grants to rehab them. all well and good, but the mayor felt that more was needed to ( Read more... )

Over the weekend Carlye and i decided to have a couple of lazy days and so found ourselves on the couch staring at the TV. Carlye said, "i kind of want to watch a movie. pick something out."

i selected the 1990 blockbuster, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. and you know what, dear readers? it was really good ( Read more... )

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i found out that this existed five minutes ago. i am still grinning

i got a call from my friend Peter asking if i wanted to come to a viewing party. i asked what we would be watching and he said Raiders of the Lost Ark. but not the original classic starring Harrison Ford, you understand. we would be watching the remake of said classic ( Read more... )

Apparently this theory has been going around for a while, but i just heard about it ( Read more... )

Carlye and i went to see a movie recently and saw a trailer for a film adaptation of the popular eighties television series 'The A-Team'. Carlye and i both thought this was a terrible idea and said as much when we were discussing it with my brother. Ross was a fan of the original series and has a couple of seasons on DVD so he naturally asked who ( Read more... )

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this is a trailer for a new film coming out called "Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus".

apparently the title says it all. giant CG octupus smacking jets out of the air and catching torpedoes and a giant CG shark biting bridges in half and snacking on passenger jets. and Debbie Gibson for some reason ( Read more... )

almost every week i hang out with ferroussoul and we indulge in the dual guilty pleasure of bad movies and takeout food. last night we were watching P2, a 2007 horror film that shows the softer side of obsessed security guards kidnapping women to act out their fantasies of a normal life ( Read more... )

People like all different kinds of movies for various different reasons. Even when they know a movie is absolutely idiotic, a fan of the films can say "I know this and this are silly, but i really like the movie because..."

case in point, I like the movie The Warriors. The Warriors is a stupid movie with bad acting, plot holes you can drive a ( Read more... )