I’m Harry the sixth I am! Harry the sixth I am, I am!

Yes, I liked the movie.  Our Lawful Good main character and his fellow Lawful Good comrads once again take on the forces of Chaotic Evil and manage to come out ahead.  None of us doubted that they would but you never know – “Cheaper By the Dozen” the movie doesn’t go quite like I remember it in the book.

In the run up to the release for this movie, I kept hearing Daniel Radcliff talking in interviews about how much better everyone’s acting had become.  Boy was he right!  But not only that – the scoring is better, the script is better and the special effects are better.  The score was helped by the fact that there were some tender moments in the movie that deserved subtler music which helped change the pace from previous movies that just required epic loud music or abject tragedy music.

So am I recommending this movie?  Of course – it’s good!

Although, I think I would have even if it stank.

After many years of sidetracks and backtracks, the producers of LIFE ROOM (us) have finally finished the project. It is available on DVD to the masses. Click here to buy your copy.

An infection is quickly spreading around the world. It causes the recently deceased to rise and attack the living. Even though the infection seemed to be initially limited to Miami, it is quickly spreading to cities worldwide.

Five strangers in Phoenix find themselves trapped at a church with the infected outside. They’ve all lost friends and family to the infected, but now they have to survive the night in the LIFE ROOM.

This was a fun project at many points, but equally frustrating and difficult in many others. I am so very appreciative to all of my friends and the people that I met during this project for all of the time and effort that they put in to make this movie a reality. So many people came down to help out, just to be in a zombie movie.

Parts of the project didn’t end up as planned, but we were a small and flexible team that adapted to the many hurdles thrown our way. As a whole, I am pleased with the finished project. There are parts that I think are disturbing or horrifying. There are other parts that I think speak to larger themes in society. But most of all it’s a fun zombie flick done on the cheap.

Thanks for reading and hope you enjoy the film.

With the summer releases kind of winding down, I still find there’s one that I’m looking forward to. As an adult, I can’t admit to certain movies (harry potter) being on my list. But as a child of the ’80s I’m allowed to say that GI Joe better be good.

It was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid but the only character my flawed memory can remember is Lady Jane. I guess I just thought it was cool that a girl could be in the army. (Insert women’s lib diatribe here)

I took the kids to see Ice Age 3. It’s the first time I’ve taken 3 of them at once but all went well and they really seemed to enjoy themselves.

Is there anybody else out there that wishes Manny weren’t such a wuss? Where did the tortured but righteous mammoth from the original Ice Age go? Why does he freak out about the birth? He’s been through this before presumably (referencing the very touching scene from the original in which a baby and momma mammoth are killed by humans in the first one and Manny is clearly effected).

Diego is also a lot more angsty than I prefer for his character.

Over all I would still see this one again before I saw any horror flick so it wasn’t a waste of money.

Everybody, say it with me:

I vow (I vow)
From this day forward (From this day forward)
That I will never (That I will never)
Ever (Ever)
EVER (EVER)
See another Michael Bay movie, no matter how much I think that I might like it, or how cool it might look in the trailer, or how much someone else says, “Aww, come on”, or I might think that THIS time he’ll make a good movie that makes sense and isn’t all just one big action scene explosion of not making any bit of damned sense. (…bit of damned sense.)

If you had the misfortune to actually watch the Transformers sequel before someone warned you off of it, I sympathize and empathize. Did any single scene or word of dialogue or plot point make any single bit of sense? How did the government convince the world that the giant fighting robots from the first movie didn’t happen? Why couldn’t the Cube fragment revive Optimus? Why do the soldiers constantly fire small arms at the Decepticons when they never, ever cause any damage? Why wasn’t the rail gun used against the robots more than once when one shot kills the biggest robot of them all? Come on. I can accept the premise of giant alien robots fighting on Earth, but I can’t accept so many parts of this movie.

I rate this movie as Chaotic Evil. It is both random and bad.

Boo you, Michael Bay.

Boo you, sir.