October 2016 Movies Week 3

Well I'm posting this a little late, but I'm posting it.  Here is this weeks (don't you mean last weeks) movie list:

1. Resident Evil: Damnation
2. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
3. The War of the Worlds 1953
4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1941
5. The Return of the Vampire 1943
6. Them!
7. Underworld
8. Lego Scooby-Doo!: Haunted Hollywood

Another mix of good and fun movies.  I've actually been enjoying the classic monster movies.  I think I'm going to have to remember to go to TCM and scroll through the list next year and hopefully catch a butch that I have missed.  Love watching these old classics. (I really should look at TCM's schedule more.  There are probably other great classic movies to watch.)

This past Friday was my 10th year anniversary.  Every year past 3 for me is a great one (I have my reasons, and not going into them here).  I'm going to have to try and do something extra next year, but we'll see how our schedules go.  I would like to take a train ride for one of our anniversaries. We went to Hash House A Go Go for brunch.  A very awesome place.  Their tag line is "Twisted Farm Food."  I ended up getting just a regular breakfast: eggs, potatoes, biscuit, bacon, and sausage.  It was good.  Will be going back, and I'll have to get something different.  The place seems a little like a bar and grill, farm food with good rock and roll.  We then went to see Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.  It's been a while since we saw the first one.  This one is good.  I like action films.  Then for dinner we ate at Panchos.  I'm not big on eating Mexican, mainly because I'm not big on spicy foods.  But I did have my first Chimichanga!  Thanks mostly to Deadpool.  It was the wife's pick so I agreed.

Well that's all I can think of for now.

"What evil lurks in the heart of man? Only the Shadow knows!"

October movies week 2 and comic related stuff

Hey, another round of movies.

1. Bride of Frankenstein
2. Day of the Triffids
3. Resident Evil: Afterlife
4. Resident Evil: Retribution
5. Clue
6. Van Helsing: The London Assignment
7. Van Helsing
8. Deathgasm
9. Ghostbusters (1984)
10. Ghostbusters II

Some more great classics. More Resident Evil.  I'll actually go and see the 6th one when it comes out.  And the best movie based on a game: Clue.

I finally picked up the Darkman collection.  Actually I have the first one, but never picked up the other two.  I decided to go looking and found the three pack on Amazon cheaper than buying 2 and 3 individually.  And I also ordered Darkman vs Army of Darkness graphic novel.  Can't wait to read it.

Another thing I like is costume t-shirts.  I have several, and the collection is slowly growing.  I recently got in a classic Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider.  My collection so far includes Star Wars, Marvel, and Ghostbusters.  I actually started with Ghostbusters Venkman, that has glow-in-the-dark slime.  I have a Green Lantern t-shirt, but unfortunately it is more of a logo shirt than a costume one.  Guess I'l have to change that.

Speaking of Ghostbusters, there's a video/song mash-up that you should check out:  Thunder Busters by Wax Audio.  But be warned, if you haven't listened to mash-ups you might start looking for more after this.  There are good ones, and there are some not-so good ones.  This is one of the good ones.  Actually Wax Audio does some very good mash-ups.

And another bit of info on me.  I enjoy metal music.  My favorite band right now is Powerman 5000.  But I also like others: Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica, White/Rob Zombie, etc.  Megadeth just recently released a new ablum: Dystopia.  I enjoy this one.  Metallica is releasing a new album soon: Hardwired...To Self-Destruct.  Sr far they have released 2 songs/videos, Hardwired and Moth into Flame.  Both are great.  I have listened to them several times, and can't wait for the album.  PM5K is also supposed to be working on a new album, and I thought it was supposed to be released this year.

Who you gonna call?

October 2016 more movies

Well instead of daily posting of the movies I have been watching, I figure I would just do a weekly posting (good. otherwise that would be just silly).  Here is the list for this past week:

1. Resident Evil: Degeneration
2. Resident Evil (live action)
3. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
4. Resident Evil: Extinction
5. Frankenstein (1931)
6. The Mummy (1932)
7. The Invisible Man (1933)

On the Resident Evil movies, I do enjoy them all (really?).  However, I prefer the CGI movies over the live action.  Big surprise there, right? (not really.)  The CGI movies seem to be a lot closer to the games, revolving around the main characters from the games (of course they are).  The live action ones are entertaining, but would have been much better if they were closer to the video game stories and characters.  Maybe when a few years have passed after the 6th one, someone else can come in and give us better live action ones (don't bet on it).  The other thing that bugs me about the live action movies, is that they went the zombie apocalypse route.  Something that most all other live action movies have done.  Personally, I think this idea is way over used, and too easy to do.  Plus it's predictable.  Look a new zombie movie.  Let me guess, a group of people trying to survive a zombie apocalypse?  Yep.  "Yay!" He says sarcastically (hmmmmm...now where did that come from I wonder).  At least the CGI movies still have civilization with a zombie virus outbreak, and I think that alone makes them better.

As to the other 3 movies, can you believe that this is the first time that I am actually watching them? (Not really.)  I can't either.  I should have done this years ago (duh).  They are very good, even today.  I am watching the off the DVR, so I may not get to see some of the other classic monster movies this year.  But I do want to work on picking them up on DVD or Blu-ray so that I can watch them any time and without commercials.

On a non-movie related note (again? really? you should broaden your blog post titles if that is what you are going to do), I have been picking up candy for the office.  I don't ask for anything in return, and it is there for all to enjoy.  This year I have been focusing more on vegan acceptable candy as another co-team (not sure if that really is a thing, but I don't care!) has a couple vegans and I want them to feel included.  Turns out Swedish Fish and Laffy Taffy are vegan friendly.  And they have been a big hit.  So this weekend I have picked up both for the office.

Danger Zone!  (what?!?!?)

October 2016 movies continue

Before I get to my movie list for today, I did some weekend errands (then why is this post titled just about movies), including taking the wife's car in for the oil change.

I got home with lunch, and got caught up on the FIA WRX round 10 in Latvia.  What an awesome race!  It is a new track and 1st time for all the drivers.  The 1st two heats were normal racing.  But then they got rain.  And that is when the fun began.  Lots of missed turns, rubbing, bumping, and crashing.  All drivers are OK, which is always the awesome part after seeing them wreck.  There were even 2 Latvia drivers in the race, Baumanis and Nitiss.  I was rooting for them both to take the podium.  But they didn't make it past their semi-final.  And my favorite driver, Ken Block, didn't even make it to a semi-final.  Though his team mate Andreas Bakkerud did make it to the final, but he didn't podium.  The winners in this round were:

1. Sebastian Loeb - French
2. Mattias Ekstrom - Swedish
3. Timmy Hansen - Swedish

Congrats to them!  And great racing to all! (Oh sure. Way to include all the drivers).  Can't wait to watch the next round at Estering track in Germany on Oct 14-16.

On to my Halloween movie marathon progress (well it's about time).  Today I actually watched two (you do like to live adventureously on the weekend, don't you):

1. Bloodrayne
2. DOOM

(Um...what?!?!?!)

Both movies based on video game franchises.  Bloodrayne is alright (keep telling yourself that).  The move is a set during the Dark Ages with vampires.  And even though DOOM lacks what really makes the games awesome, I do still enjoy watching it. (Well at least it wasn't directed by that Uwe Boll guy.  Probably would have had it take place entirely on Earth, and have the monsters be some sort of military or corporate genetic weapon gone wrong.)

(I would have some sort of closing, but I can't think right now. So. . .good fight!  Good night!)

A recent interest

For whomever (or is it whoever; darn grammar) reads this out there in internet land, here is something that I have an interest in.  Well technically it will be a few, but at the top level it is one. (Don't over think it.)

Auto racing.  More specifically:

1. Red Bull Global Rally Cross
2. FIA World Rally Cross
3. Stadium Super Trucks
4. The Off Road Championship (TORC)
5. Lucas Oil Short Course Trucks
6. The Dakar Rally
7. Formula Drift

Did you think I was going to list NASCAR? (I think you did. Is it because I'm an American?)  Ha ha.  Though honestly I did try watching it a few seasons, and even attended an event in town.  I just couldn't really get in to it.  Not enough jumps and banging around I guess. (They do jumps in Formula Drift?) But not Formula Drift.  They frown upon bashing and jumping.

What got me really started in the above is this guy: Ken Block.  A few r/c companies did some models based on his cars.  I decided to find out more and came across his Gymkhana videos.  From there found out he was in the Red Bull GRC.  And this year he moved from there to the FIA WRX.  The others were started by Traxxas having short course trucks, Robby Gordon, and the LaTrax 1/18 Stadium Super Trucks.  And since Robby Gordon participates in the Dakar, I started trying to catch the highlights on those races.  I got into watching the Formula Drift from Vaughn Gittin Jr and Justin Pawlak.  Two other drivers that have also licensed r/c cars.

Most of the time I have to catch replays on their sites or YouTube.  Red Bull GRC used to play on a TV channel I get, but not this season.  So it's been a little difficult for me to watch those races.  With the FIA WRX, and I can catch the delayed broadcast of their live stream.  Which is awesome that they do this, especially since most of their races are in Europe and happen early in the morning (when I like to continue sleeping).

Last year, I was able to catch the Red Bull GRC here in town.  For the most part it was fun, but could have done without the rain.  Even though it is more fun to watch them race in the rain.  But this season they are coming to town.  And neither are the Stadium Super Trucks.  I was hoping they would.  Oh well, guess I'm stuck trying to catch the full races on the internet.

These races I really enjoy watching.  I'm usually rooting for the above mentioned drivers, along with anyone from Sweden.  (Why Sweden?)  Possibly a heritage thing?  Hmmmm...  And I also root for the women drivers.  We need more women auto racing drivers, especially in the Rally Cross and Drift. Ah heck, we need them in all circuits/genres.  Whatever you call the different types of racing.

Anyways, that's all this time.

Drive safe, and drink responsibly! (Wait.  Where did the drinking come from?)

31 days of Halloween 2016

Wow! I haven't posted here for a long time.  Well I hope to change that, but we'll see how things go.

Staring off with my October 31 days of Halloween movies.  Well it is actually a bit longer as I started last weekend.  My movie choices for the most part are not what you would typically consider Halloween type movies.  If it involves creatures, vampires, werewolves, zombies, or contains something that could be considered a Halloween theme, then it is in my list.  Some of it scary, and some of it funny.  Heck, I guess I could watch Uwe Boll films. Ha ha.  They are scary in their own right.

So far here is what I have watched (and yes, I own copies of these):

1. Blade
2. Blade 2
3. Dylan Dog
4. Ghost Rider
5. Jonah Hex
6. Vampirella
7. Alone in the Dark

Happy Halloweening you trick-or-treaters!