Archive for November, 2006

We stayed up at church after the service because I was trying to make arrangements with vehicles, people and other stuff. I went over and finally got to meet Phil, an arcade contact, and talk to him a little bit. He was going to get me a monitor and we are still kind of working that out. For awhile we hung out at Johnson’s and watched the Colts game and chatted. We borrowed the van on the way home in case the plans I was trying to make worked out.

When I got home I called my sister back and we talked until it was time to go to our finance class. We stayed for the whole session, and I was debating about driving to Marion with the van to get an arcade cabinet or two. But I decided on a gut feeling that I shouldn’t and instead came back home and relaxed, caught up with friends and family about the weekend and got to bed at a reasonable hour.

Who’s in it

Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, William Fitchner

Should you see this movie?

Milla is pretty to look at in her cool, tight fitting, colorful outfits, and this movie had some cool techie visualizations of what this future world may look like, but overall, it was a POS movie. The acting was horrendous, the action so outrageously unbelieveable, and the plot so simple but yet got so mixed up that you can’t believe you are only 50 minutes in when it seems like hours. Milla is one of a small race of dying people and an extremeist trying to protect her breed, similar to a vampire. She ends up protecting a young boy with her life, who is the cure. But why she feels so strongly, who knows, and how many more roles can this creepy little kid with the blank stare portray. They are all the same, and I am tired of the both of them.

Who’s in it

Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Cedris Entertainer, Denis Leary, Jack Black

Should you see this movie?

Yes. This movie is funny, and it is cute, and for the time the animation was a decent, but the idea was and is still really fresh. This movie is about a sloth, Mammoth, and Sabertooth Tiger who take an unusual journey to return a lost baby child. The voices are good, and like I said, having an animated feature take place in the Ice Age has all sorts of possibilities, but this movie isn’t that funny for me. Except…for the opening part with Scrat, the saber tooth squirrel. I laugh my tush off in the 5 minutes intro with him and his nut. The part in the movie with the Dodo’s is particulary funny and helps visualize what everyone assume that bird would have been like. So, in short, everyone should see this, it isn’t as funny as a Shrek but has it’s moments, and it also sets you up for the second one which is better.

Good day, good weekend.

Sarah wanted donuts in the morning, so that is what we did. On the way back from Long’s I finally got to stop in the flea market just up the road here two blocks or so for the first time since we have lived here. It feels like we are never around, but the stupid thing is open until 6 pm on Saturdays, and there is a good amount of stuff in there.

Back at home, we relaxed for most of the day. I played R-Type a couple of different times for a couple of hours, Sarah read her books and watched tv and got a feeling of relaxation as well. I had a short stint of client work to do and I did some surfing and reading about arcade games as usual. Then we watched Ice Age together later on after dinner, and I finally fixed our ceiling tile with the register in it. Other than that, I got a ton of movies added over the last couple of days and am almost done.

I knew tomorrow would be busy, so I spent a lot of today on the phone making arrangements. We both kind of passed out on the couch together and got a good night’s sleep.

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Who’s in it

Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Will Patton, Rebecca Romijn, Ben Foster

Should you see this movie?

This movie is good, but mostly for me because it is a lot like the comic book. Unless you like intense violence, I would skip this movie, there are some disturbing things that happen, like a scalded face, piercings ripped out, etc. But I like to watch movies that bring my comics to life and I thought Jane is a great cast for Frank Castle. Castle’s whole family is slaughtered by an evil man, and you feel his loss. The whole movie centers around revenge, but has some humor to it, and it is amazing how great of shape Castle is in, makes you feel really slobby. So, yeah, want to see people die and feel like a slob, see this movie. If you like comics though, this is a great rendition and you should check it out.

In late November, Justin turned me on to two auctions one seller was having, very close to Grand Rapids MI, for a Mr. Do and Mr. Do Castle. They were both going for pretty cheap, so I bid on both. But I didn’t want them that bad, they didn’t look that great or so I thought, and I was at the movie when the auctions were ending.

I ended up winning the Mr. Do machine, but not the Castle. That was a mistake. The Castle was in great condition with a great cab. The Mr. Do had issues. The cabinet was terrible looking, and the board would intermittantly stop working and would need an adjustment here and there to keep working.

Justin made arrangements and went and got the game later the following week. He worked on it when he could to test the voltages and try to fix some things. At one point I sent him a new Jamma connector for him to put in, and that seemed to help things. The fuse holder was partially broken, and in general, the game had seen a lot of use so it needed some TLC.

After work I went to Indy Imaging to check out some samples for the material I may have some full arcade sized stickers printed on. It feels pretty good, and the price is ok not great, so I am going to try to make a decision about that after the weekend.

When I got home Sarah and I ate together and watched a little bit of a movie before she left and went to scrap booking. I stayed home and played my R-Type for an hour and got some of my movies put on the blog. When she got back later we watched the end of the Punisher movie and we drank a bottle of Honey Dew wine (very good) and passed out. It was a great relaxing not crazy run run around night.

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Who’s in it

Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, Steve McDonough

Should you see this movie?

Hell yeah! I loved this movie for the staples, innovative ideas for what the future may be like, technology, action, a troubled Tom Cruise character that does a lot of shouting and running, and a twist. I remember being pleasantly surprised when I first saw this movie in the theaters back in the day, and it is a really entertaining movie for me now. Cruise is believable as a troubled man, but not as a former dad. He pulls off the emotional scenes well, and Farrell is ok in a role just when he was starting to get huge. My favorite parts are definitely with the spiders, and the reverb guns. You have to check it out, total guy movie, but it has the cute girl from Cold Case before you knew her.