"WALL-E": The Day Pixar Failed

I've been meaning to make this post for a couple of days now, since "WALL-E" opened on June 27. Me and my family went to see it, all anticipating another great work from Pixar, in light of past successes such as "Toy Story" and "The Incredibles". We were sorely disappointed...
The main problem with the movie, was that it had NO real refined story whatsoever. It was like the director (Andrew Stanton who is responsible for another Pixar great, "Finding Nemo")had tons of different ideas of directions that the story could go, and then tried to do them all. He could have focused on the love story between WALL-E and EVE and done a sort of Adam and Eve story (in fact he did, naming the girl robot "EVE"), but that would have been a little weak. Mr. Stanton could have focused on a Noah's Ark theme as well. In the movie, all the people on Earth were gone and on this space cruise, as Earth had become too covered in trash and was uninhabitable. WALL-E then brought a plant from Earth to the ship, showing that the Earth was once again habitable. Once again, however, the guy did not do this either. On the cruise ship, everybody was an immobile blob riding around on a hover-bed/chair thing with everything automated and done for them. The good director could have taken this and built the movie around it but DIDN'T! There were just so many things, obvious and subtle, that the director could have built the movie on, but he instead couldn't pick any one thing, he had to do it all, and the rusult was a huge exploded mess that made for a terrible film. There was nothing else about the movie that I disliked, it simply lacked direction. I did not hate the film, it just was a massive disappointment, and it's a sad, black mark on Pixar's otherwise perfect record.
Don't bother watching it, it's not worth your time, and only made me sad.

Visitor! / Kung Fu Panda

Well, it's only about 8 days or so til by best friend Emily comes from Florida to visit! W00T! It's been about 7 months since we saw each other last, and we are both excited! My Aunt Awesome is planning to have us up to her office to pull an all nighter on the 4th of July, so that'll be pretty sweet, and then on the 8th she's going to kidnap us and we're going to do who-knows-what fun stuff. So yeah, it's gonna be pretty sweet.
I saw "Kung Fu Panda" the yesterday, and I was somewhat disappointed. Don't get me wrong, I love Jack Black's energy, and there was plenty of that in the movie, but it just fell a little short of my expectations. It wasn't even and hour and a half. It was pretty funny, though, and I did like it. Go ahead and get it for the kiddies for a laugh, they'll love it. :-)

School's Out! / "Juno" Review

School is indeed out! I felt so great about the last day, that I wore a tie. I also toted my guitar around school, so that was fun. My fingers are now cut like an emo kid though. But, finally, after about 10 months of hard work, it's over. Now for a nice full summer:-)
In the 8 or so hours I had home alone (the rest of the family was in Seattle, taking my brother to the airport), a friend told me of a website on which I could watch movies in their entirety. She's been recommending "Juno", and I've been wanting to see it, so I went to said website, and watched it.
I had been told that "Juno" was a pro-abortion movie, and because of that I wasn't allowed to see it (don't worry, that's all cleared up). But that was by people who hadn't seen it. My friends who had told me about the movie had seen it, so I was more inclined to listen to them. It turned out to not be any kind of pro-abortion deal after all. If anything, it was the opposite, making the abortion clinic look pretty scary. I'm not going to spoil it for those of you who haven't seen it, but it was an overall great movie. There was quite a bit of language scattered here and there, so that was unnecessary, the teenage characters (mainly Juno's best friend) cracked a good number of dirty jokes, and, obviously, there was some teen sex involved. But, it was funny, and it did not have an evil agenda behind it. I loved it, I thought it was sonderful. Peace!

TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY OF 10TH GRADE!

Ho, yus! Ho, yus! Ho, yus! Ho, yus! Like the title dun did said, the last day of school is TOMORROW. This brings me no shortage of utter JOY...
This has been the longest school year I have ever had. It started while I was living in Florida, where they start the year sooner than they do in Washington, and where they also finish later: thus, I have done about two extra weeks of school! This is so, so wrong. Now, the year is ending, I only have 3 hours of school (if you can call sitting in each class room for less than 30 minutes school) left to go before a glorious summer.
I hope to get a job so that I can earn money to buy a Macbook and be free of the bonds of this piece-of-pig-droppings computer that I am yet confined to, my best friend is coming to visit from Florida, I get to hang out with my aunt Awesome (though most folks call her "Cara") a bit, and...um...hopefully get my Crown Vic tuned? That's always a plus. Nothing like a finely tuned piano. I'll get some pics of her and the rest of my "posse" on here sometime soon.
...and then in the fall I'll start college...but we'll think about that later on.
HAPPY SUMMER EVERYBODY!

Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

WARNING: This movie review may contains spoilers. This is probably because the movie wasn't worth seeing, so go ahead and read it.
The movie, overall, was absolute tripe. The beginning was week, and that probably explains why the guy two chairs down from me fell asleep. I did sort of like the artistic entrance of Indiana at the start, because it really conveyed that whole, "Yeah, 20 years have gone by and he's a geezer now, but Indiana Jones is still kicking butt" sort of deal. But then, the Russian KGB was introduced. This was not cool. As far as I'm concerned, Indiana Jones fights Nazis and only Nazis. And then it got worse with cheesy lines. It finally started picking up a little bit, and then the middle of the movie was really not half bad, but it kind of had hints that it was going to decline when this KGB woman reveals that the crystal skull (oh yeah, the good Dr. Jones found that inside the first hour or so of the movie) is the skull of a space alien. A SPACE ALIEN. I cannot emphasize how much Indiana Jones is not supposed to have ANYthing whatsoever to do with space aliens. Anyway, there were a couple of pretty good chase scenes, and then it comes time for Indiana Jones to return this skull to where it needs to be or something. So he places the skull on top of this alien skeleton (because there's a whole room full of them under this lost Aztec city *rollmyeyes*) and then it comes to life, along with the rest of the aliens. The KGB guys get sucked away into an INTERDIMENSIONAL VORTEX and then these aliens take off in a FLYING SAUCER. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! THIS IS NOT INDIANA JONES! THIS IS GEORGE LUCAS MOURNING THE DEATH OF STAR WARS!
So, I did over simplify some elements of the movie, just in case you still want to see it, but that's the movie overall. It was lousy, that's really all there is to it. If you want to complete the set so you can have all 4 movies, that's your deal, but it was not worth 2 hours of my life. I give it 1.5/4 stars. The good parts aren't enough to compensate for a REALLY bad ending. More reviews as I see more movies!

HELLO, blog world!

Well, I know there's folks that want to hear stories, and others that just want to stay in touch, so I finally got my lazy finger tips away from the iTunes surfing long enough to start a blog. I'll post again when I got somethin' to post!