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Have you ever seen a bad movie? Of course you have. Have you ever watched the same bad movie 8 different times? I sure hope not, or maybe you’re just a masochist. Vantage Point feels exactly like watching the same bad movie, 8 different times, in a row with the rewind button held down. Some brilliant not-so brilliant screen writer thought it would be a good way to tell a story by showing the same 25 minutes from the viewpoint of different characters, each throwing new information to the viewer to slowly reveal the plot. In and of itself this isn’t a terrible approach, and done well enough could have been a neat gimmick.

The problem was that, the movie (which in reality was only 25 minutes) was pure garbage. You can only have so much character development when you only show a span of 25 minutes in time. This movie had potential, it could have been edgy and different, but it flopped around in mediocrity and finished with the happy ending with all the bad guys dying, all the good guys living and the little girl finding her mommy. This movie even had Forest Whitaker fresh off his Oscar Win, one of my favorite Lost stars and a semi decent plot of using a double as the President. Unfortunately none of this comes together at any point of the movie it fails at every level.

Save yourself the $10, or the rental fee. Actually after watching this you’ll want your time back too, unfortunately you’ll want it back times 8. Stay away from this stinker, you could do a lot better.

I give this movie 3 secret service agents gone bad out of 10.

There has been a lot of bad Comic Book movies, and some say that would be the understatement of the year when you look at this, this and this. And those are just three I came up with off the top of my head. I’m not a big comic book nerd, but I know my way around a few of the universes and have spent some time on the wikis reading up on various plot lines and the like. But what I really like is a really well done comic book movie. Unfortunately that doesn’t happy very often, and when there is a good one, eventually the sequels run it into the ground. (See Spiderman, X-men, and Batman as an example.) Well in just a few short months we’re going to be graced with could perhaps be the two of the best comic book movies ever, Ironman and The Dark Knight. So tonight in honour of those movies having the possibility of being really good and taking my $10, I choose to put up Youtube Clips of their trailers.

On a side note, the Youtube clip from last week got pulled due to copyright (which happens).

I’ve been following the US election fairly closely. I’m not quite sure why, I think it might be my fascination with the culture of fear that persist down there, or it might have to do with it providing a good source of entertainment now that the NFL season is over. One of the things that I’ve found to be quite funny is that some of the politicians are making an issue out Barrack Obama’s middle name. Which is Hussein if you didn’t know yet. I mean the claim some people are making is just ridiculous. Yeah it sucks for the guy to have a middle name that matches a guy who is probably in the top 10 of most well known world dictators, but to even insinuate that he has Muslim or extremists ties because he has a different name is preposterous. Anyway, the Youtube clip of the week goes to Stephen Colbert, who sums the whole situation up quite nicely.

I haven’t posted one of these in a while. I’ve been slacking big time. I should really be in bed, I’m getting up in like 6 hours. Anyway, I had a friend from work introduce me to a brand new band this week, they’re called Powerglove. They are a metal band that does video game music… what could be better? Well there is something that could be better. The brand new game called Audiosurf, it’s a game that takes your entire music library and turns it into a racing/music beat game.

So enjoy the mashup of two great new things I’ve discovered over the last few weeks. Both are worth the price of admission as Audiosurf only costs $10 and you can pick up Powerglove off iTunes for $9.99. Money well spent to further people making quality products.