Everybody was kung fu fighting

"Sweep the leg", one of the most famous lines in martial arts movies, do you know what movie that's from? I love the occasional kung fu movie, from Stephen Chow to Bruce Lee, even to Chuck Norris. There is a certain allure of people dueling it out for honor, redemption and the like. Watching a good kung fu movie just brings to light your inability to defend yourself whatsoever.

Sudden Urges

So I've decided to take a short break to talk about something very interesting that happened to me this weekend. I went to go see the football game at u of i this past weekend and all I wanted to do after was to play football. I really wanted to play but unfortunately all of my friends were too hungover to want to play, so my sudden urge to play football went unanswered. This isn't the first time this has happened too, after the world cup all I could think about was soccer. Has this ever happened to anyone else?

Why why why!?

So this topic had to come up sooner or later........the twilight saga. Yes, that holy grail of profit and teenage girl obsession. Now before I continue I must confess that me and my sister have a tradition of watching the Twilight movies on their premiere day, so now before you come insulting my manhood I have to say that i love my sister very much AND she could take me any day. I realize that that doesn't do anything to improve the standing of my masculinity but anyway. Moving on, the Twilight are honestly not that bad, the biggest issue I have with the series is how is a monotone actress like Kristen Stewart getting paid so much?

The godfather

So if you have never seen Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and you go to NIU stop by my room as soon as humanly possible and watch it because it is the prime example of classic Hollywood. The film is the embodiment of a fallen hero and of the American dream. It is the movie that single-handedly launched Al Pacino's acting career, so yea, this movie is a big deal. I was watching it with my sister's boyfriend who is a much bigger cinephile than I am and I realized that when you watch movies with someone that enjoys movies as much as you, someone that can call out scenes that don't feature the original actors for instance, the movie experience is so much more enjoyable. So go watch The Godfather or else....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZtyvlzVm7Y.

a night out

So this Friday I was going to hang out with  the girl that i like, so i thought to myself, "Whats the easiest way to get this girl to hold onto me?" The first thing that came to my mind was to go see a scary movie, so that's exactly what I did. I had seen previews for Daniel Stamm's The Last Exorcism and the movie seemed like a good old-fashioned demon scare like Miller and Friedkin's The Exorcist or Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby. The Last Exorcism  combined the concepts of these movies and the result is a very interesting mock-umentary about exorcisms. So i chose this movie to be the scare-inducing movie we would see. The story itself is very original in the fact that the actual exorcist is a fake, he exorcises people to get them to take charge of their own lives and doesn't believe that he is actually doing anything to benefit the possessed person aside from freeing them from their supposed ailment (for a full synopsis go to http://www.moviefone.com/movie/the-last-exorcism/10034109/synopsis). As I sat there, girl stationed solidly on my arm, I noticed that the movie really does lack any real "scary" moments, only relying on depictions of visceral wounds to turn the stomachs of viewers. The ending also takes a very strange turn, just be warned. So if you are a fan of gory demon movies, this should definitely be on your list.