Worst idea ever: trick or treat at Tuttle Mall.

Is starting P90X for the third time. 90 days again

After a week in LA and a redeye home with no sleep, the week is finally over. Time to sleep and start it back up again

Harry's DVD PICKS & PEEKS: 3rd wk of Oct 2010: SEVEN SAMURAI, APOCALYPSE NOW, ROCKY HORROR, PREDATORS & More!!! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

Pretty good week of DVD releases:

Harry's DVD PICKS & PEEKS: 3rd wk of Oct 2010: SEVEN SAMURAI, APOCALYPSE NOW, ROCKY HORROR, PREDATORS & More!!! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

Good start to my day: wheel comes off luggage at airport. Going to be a long day.

Now waiting on the president's motorcade and cannot get on the highway.

Time to see if Brylan's football team can do better than the buckeyes today.

Another season down the drain.

F

Ohio state inside five yard line. Worst play calling in the country.

I don't like it but best sign on Gameday: "Ohio State plays like Betty White"

10 hours until gametime!

Nothing like a Dutch oven in a moving vehicle to add danger to your life.

Did anyone else think 30 Rock was like a mediocre episode of SNL tonight?

Was watching a commercial with people carrying huge jars or uric acid. Apparently they have gout? Why have I never seen these people walking around before?

Month of Horror 2010: Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

So I am always hesitant about remakes of movies that I think were great in their day.  The original A Nightmare on Elm Street holds a great spot in my childhood.  I think I was pretty unique with most kids that I knew, in the fact that I was able to watch horror movies at a younger age.

The original A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of those movies I look back on and love, but when I watch it I realize it is in bad need of an update.  The only problem with updating something that people hold so dear is that if it is not done right (and some people may think it is, while some group will always think it isn't) people will hate it.

I went into the new version very optimistic because I had heard good things.  This is a tough review because there were definitely things I liked.  The tone seemed more in line with newer horror movies, dark and ominous.  They also did some things that were new to the story that were really good as well.  The back story of Freddy Krueger in the 2010 version is done better than the original.  The movie also does not feel as 80s as the original, which in most cases is a good thing, but I am not so sure on this one.  The new makeup used for Freddy looks good, until he tries to talk.  It is very gruesome looking but it takes away the feeling of humanity that gave the original Freddy a chilling realism.  However, the acting of Freddy is obviously limited by the mask, which is very bad for the movie.  If they used the original makeup for Freddy, I think this movie would have been better than the original.  The good thing about this movie is it made me realize how much I enjoyed the other, and more specifically, what made the original movie great: Robert Englund.  His over-the-top acting is what made Freddy so unforgettable, and what made him so scary.

I think for people who have not seen the original they will find a movie that they like and that is altogether creepy.  However, I do not believe this movie will resonate with kids of this generation like the original did for kids of my generation.  It was definitely worth watching; I can even say that I enjoyed it, but it just does not stand up to the original.

Quiznos. Buy one adult meal get a free kids meal. Hadn't been there in a year and the Angus sandwich is now gone. Replaced with bourbon steak sandwich. Was good

I'd at the Italian festival

BCS standings to be released Sundays on ESPN - ESPN

Looks like the BCS Standings are now going to be released on ESPN Sunday evenings as opposed to NBC during Sunday Night Football.

BCS standings to be released Sundays on ESPN - ESPN

Is excited it's a postseason with Atlanta in it. Let's see how deep they can get.

Month of Horror 2010: Splice

Splice

I don't recall a lot of Science Fiction Horror movies that I generally like.  There are definitely a few.  Alien, Aliens, Pandorum, are among my favorites.  Now Splice takes a completely topical idea and gives a nice what-if scenario that, while highly improbable using the naked-eye test, is completely entertaining to watch unfold.

The story introduces two successful research geneticists just as they are finishing up an experiment that brings a whole new species into the world.  The blobby species looks like a slug, but what it represents is a new door opening, and a glimmer of "what if" in the eyes of their experiments.  "What if" we can cure all the world's diseases by splicing human DNA in with other DNA to farm out healthy parts and cells to be used in sick patients.

Being a movie, of course they follow this "what if" into the next realm of "doing", and create a new species with a combination of human and other animal DNA.  What the movie does well, it does exceedingly well, and that is make the characters feel real.  Including DREN (nerd backwards).  There are a couple of twists (minor, nothing too ridiculous) that help move the storyline along.  All in all this was completely entertaining and a good Science-Fiction Horror movie.  If you like that genre, then I would highly recommend picking it up.

Omen? Or coincidence?

While opening my Blu-Ray version of The Exorcist today, I got a paper cut.  Odd?

2010 Month of Horror: After.Life

After.Life

I saw this in a preview for another movie I was watching from Netflix and after looking it up on IMDB added it to my movie queue.  It finally came and I must say, this was a great movie that I highly recommend.  I am not normally a fan of Chrstina Ricci, however I really like Liam Neeson and most things that Justin Long is in.  I'm not sure what it is, but between this and Drag Me To Hell, Justin Long seems to be enjoying playing an assist role in some current horror films.

The premise is pretty unique.  Christina Ricci plays a girl dealing with death from a relative.  Justin Long is her longtime boyfriend.  Liam Neeson is the embalmer at the funeral home.  After an argument between Anna (Ricci) and Paul (Long), Ricci leaves a restaurant during a storm, has a fatal car accident and ends up on the table of Eliot (Neeson) at the funeral home.  What appears to be another "I see dead people" movie quickly plants the seed of doubt in your movie-watching head and starts making you wonder if Anna really is dead, or if Eliot is just playing a game of "let's bury this girl alive".  Without ruining the movie, all of the main actors' performances are completely spot on, and the director (Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo) does a great job of setting the tone.  The movie moves along at a steady pace and does a great job of keeping the viewer guessing as to the outcome of the movie.