Happy New Year

Hello everyone! We just wanted to say "happy New Year" to all those who read our blog. I hope that all reading this will be spending a wonderful New Year's Eve somewhere or just at home and I look forward to a new year ahead. Visiting NY with my family, I realized that my younger brother Michael is more of a media star than I realized. Check out his production of Cyber Idol at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaLgUirVmpA

Pretty funny - if I do say so myself. Makes me want to hook up my digital camera and try shooting some videos myself.

Nacho Libre movie review

OK folks, I have to confess I wasted a rental on this one. This movie is boring, unfunny and stupid. I was pretty disappointed though, because I really like Napoleon Dynamite and thought that this would be hilarious and funny. Although it may not have been dirty, it crossed the line of stupidity to the point of making me wonder if I should waste an hour and a half to watch the whole thing through. You may like this movie, but I found it a waste of time. I do enjoy Jack Black and like him in the movie School of Rock, however, I believe he had an unfunny and weird story to work with and even his talent as a comedian couldn't lift this movie out of the pit of movie duds. If you are really in a crazy mood or feel so tired that seeing someone fall on their face is hilarious to you, then perhaps you should give it a try. I guess I failed to see the point in trying to enjoy this movie. Hopefully the writer/director of this movie will learn from their mistakes with this one.

Fight Club movie review

OK, it has been a while, some of the time of watching TV has been spent getting caught up in the TV show "Lost", but I finally rented a movie I want to comment on. "Fight Club" with Brad Pitt. I rented this movie knowing it had that very popular line : "The first rule of fight club is... don't talk about fight club." and was hoping for a thought provoking movie about men who learn about themselves while fighting each other. Instead, I saw a sort of confusing, artistic, yet disturbing movie about a man who feels so dead inside, he becomes unruly and crazy and begins to train a group of people to follow the same lifestyle. Watching this movie made you feel like life is a disoriented purpose-less and the only real thing worth doing is causing mayhem and fighting others to find release in life. This was a strange and artistic movie and left me feeling kind of down. I am afraid I can't recommend this movie for viewing. There is so much blood, gore, violence, bad language, and inappropriate scenes, that the cover art is very appropriate because it needs a good bar of soap to clean up the moral message of this film. I'm not saying that all movies have to have a happy ending, but I definitely think there could be a redemptive theme more prevalent in the movie. I mean even shows like "Lost" have a strand of hope that the people will be rescued (redemption). This movie can be summed up with one sentence:

We all struggle with our personal demons and long for true meaning in life - deal with it.

I don't believe that quest for true meaning needs to end the way this movie does.