TheBilcourt: July 2007

The best thing I have seen today...

Monday, July 30, 2007

I bet that other team felt like idiots.

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

I have never been a big fan of Google Video, but here's something everyone should watch. This is the entire movie of This Film Is Not Yet Rated. It is a great documentary about the MPAA. If you like movies, you need to see this. The MPAA has to be one of the most shady organizations around today. Do yourself a favor and either watch it here, watch it on the Google Video site, or download it from Google and watch it at your leisure. It will open your eyes as to how they rate movies with no real standards.

If you want to hide your Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book...

Monday, July 16, 2007

For those people who don't want anyone to know your reading the final Harry Potter book, these are for you. These are hilarious!

Harry Potter and the Filler of the Summer

Sunday, July 08, 2007

I going to try and make this short and sweet.

I've said it before, this summer has been the summer of sequel duds. I have yet to see a sequel other than Live Free or Die Hard that I want to see again. Every sequel has been ok, but nothing special what so ever. That includes Harry Potter and the Order or the Phoenix. I've read all of the Potter books except the last half of Half Blood Prince. I remember thinking when I read Order of the Phoenix that I didn't like it that much compared to the other books. It was boring to me. The movie related to me in the exact same way. I left the movie feeling like I had watched a mid season episode of a tv show. I didn't learn anything new. I felt like I was just watching filler material. Of course, that's kind of what the Order of the Phoenix is anyways including the book form.

I left the movie with the normal feeling I have been having lately. The movie as a whole was ok. The characters and actors(useless cameo actors not included. The ones in this film serve no purpose hardly) were also ok, but I have no urge to want to watch it again anytime soon. Once was more than enough.

A couple of things that bothered me:

1.The 3D aspect of it was cool looking, but I don't like the idea of having to wait until the end to see it. By the time the 3D rolls around, you almost have forgotten that it's going to be 3D. I liked what they did for Superman Returns, where it was select scenes. It kept you on your toes about watching for the 3D. Granted, the 3D scenes in Superman were badly chosen scenes, but Order of the Phoenix had quite a few cool scenes that could have been cool in 3D.

2. I agree with my friend Napoleon that the movies are starting to feel like that they are made for people who have read the books and not for people who haven't. There were multiple times in the movie that things were not explained very well at all. The only reason I understood it was because I remembered it from the book. A perfect example would be the first Occlumency scene with Snape. They don't explain what they are doing in the first scene hardly at all. I knew what it was, but to someone who hasn't read the book, it might not make sense for a little bit.

I need some time to process this movie a little more. I might think of more things to say about it, but this is completely about my first impressions after seeing the movie.

Alvin and the Ghetto-munks

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Ughhhh....

Backstory time!

When I was little, I loved Alvin and the Chipmunks. It had to be one of my favorite cartoons on tv.(You remember back when Saturday morning cartoons we're awesome, unlike today's cartoons made for kids with ADD.) I had the McDonald's glasses, the stuffed animals, the Alvin and the Chipmunks cassette tapes, etc. When The Chipmunk Adventure came out in 1987, I was six and I thought it was one of the greatest things I had ever seen.

Back to the present.

The other day at work we received some posters. I looked at the tube and it said Alvin and the Chipmunks. I had heard they we're making a movie version, but I figured it would look like the cartoon. Boy was I wrong! I opened the tube to find this...

I honestly about fell on the floor in disbelief. I know its petty. It's a movie about a cartoon with singing chipmunks. But it is something that I hold special from growing up. I don't understand why Hollywood has to screw stuff up just to make a movie version of it. I will give Alvin the benefit of the doubt. His look is o...k.... but Simon and Theodore? What's up with that? I am going to hope that the poster is maybe just some kind of joke or something. I know the makers of the film are just going to say that their updating it and all. I hate that excuse! Everytime Hollywood makes a movie based on a tv show or movie they have to say their updating it for current audiences. To me, that is such a cop out line.

I can't wait to see what they do with The Smurfs. I bet they make them into blue native type people living in the Amazon or something. It's all just ridiculous.

This made me happy to read. Obviously, a lot of people think the movie looks dumb.

The best thing I have seen today...

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

If you want to hide your Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book...

Harry Potter and the Filler of the Summer

Alvin and the Ghetto-munks

What's Sneaky Billy up to right now???

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