After almost a year and over 1000 hours Filmcrave.com is finally up and running. We are currently beta testing the website but users are welcome to come and sign up, rate movies and write reviews.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Friday, July 13, 2007
Stupid Fox News Again!
I think this is great, a Pew Research of news watchers have determined that Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and "The Cobert Report" are among the most informed group about news and politics.
The best part is, avid watchers of Fox News are the dumbest pertaining to this knowledge. Check out the study here:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/16/daily-show-fox-knowledge/
I just think it is great that Fox news continues to skew their news and only show what they deem as important so that when the real issues about the war and economy come up they don't have a clue. Here's an idea: "Look at news for both sides of the story and learn to think for yourself!"
The best part is, avid watchers of Fox News are the dumbest pertaining to this knowledge. Check out the study here:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/16/daily-show-fox-knowledge/
I just think it is great that Fox news continues to skew their news and only show what they deem as important so that when the real issues about the war and economy come up they don't have a clue. Here's an idea: "Look at news for both sides of the story and learn to think for yourself!"
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Transformers (3/4 stars)
Let me explain why I gave this only 3 stars. The movie was a lot of fun to watch, the special effects were amazing, it was funny but even with all that I felt annoyed at times during the movie. Some scenes were just too drawn out and halted the movie and even though most of them were funny I wanted it to get back to the story. With that said, I think those scenes ruin this movie's re-watchability.
It is so long and some scenes are just not important enough to warrant rewatching, so get your dvd players ready to fast forward past those parts even though the rest of it was great. Shia LaBeouf was also somewhat annoying but Megan Fox was so hot it didn't matter.
Check out Filmcrave.com it is a great new movie site, they will be ready for new members on August 1st!
It is so long and some scenes are just not important enough to warrant rewatching, so get your dvd players ready to fast forward past those parts even though the rest of it was great. Shia LaBeouf was also somewhat annoying but Megan Fox was so hot it didn't matter.
Check out Filmcrave.com it is a great new movie site, they will be ready for new members on August 1st!
Satan's Little Helper (2/4 stars)
This movie had the most annoying character ever but I still couldn’t turn away which is the making of a great drinking movie. There were some really funny scenes, mainly the ones where they mowed down a pregnant woman, a baby and a blind man with a shopping cart. Pair that with bad acting and an utterly predictable plot and you will find yourself at the pinnacle of a decent ‘B’ movie.
One thing is for sure, you will not find too many like it, so take a look but be prepared to be annoyed by the little chubby kid with glasses who is also know as Satan’s Little Helper.
FilmCrave.com coming August 1st!
Friday, May 18, 2007
Spiderman 3 (2/4 stars)
Too cliché and laughably bad plot. This movie must have been written by a ten-year-old! Within the first 15 minutes (keep in mind this movie was long) you knew everything that was going to unfold. Not only did this predictability hurt the movie but because it dragged on and on so slowly it made it almost unwatchable at times.
To make matters worse there was every cliché movie scene imaginable: from the comical spider man getting fed cookies from the girl next door to the overly insightful advice his aunt gives him. There were too many forced comical scenes which took the movie down a huge notch and made it hard to take any of it seriously. This was especially true when they took 30 seconds during a key battle to cut to Peter’s boss bargaining with a little girl for a camera. It was even worse that their was a whole sequence involving song and dance.
Still, the movie had great action and special effects, which helped, overcome some of its shortcomings. I wasn’t enough to make it good, but it was watchable. The acting was so-so, not nearly the best I have seen from Tobey Maguire.
The question I asked myself at the end of this movie was, “Is this really Spiderman 3?” It just seems like they could have made a good movie but chose to sell out to appeal more to kids and everyone else that wants a laugh.
Check out other's reviews.
To make matters worse there was every cliché movie scene imaginable: from the comical spider man getting fed cookies from the girl next door to the overly insightful advice his aunt gives him. There were too many forced comical scenes which took the movie down a huge notch and made it hard to take any of it seriously. This was especially true when they took 30 seconds during a key battle to cut to Peter’s boss bargaining with a little girl for a camera. It was even worse that their was a whole sequence involving song and dance.
Still, the movie had great action and special effects, which helped, overcome some of its shortcomings. I wasn’t enough to make it good, but it was watchable. The acting was so-so, not nearly the best I have seen from Tobey Maguire.
The question I asked myself at the end of this movie was, “Is this really Spiderman 3?” It just seems like they could have made a good movie but chose to sell out to appeal more to kids and everyone else that wants a laugh.
Check out other's reviews.
Punishing Iraq
Throughout the was in Iraq one must have to wonder whether what we are doing is helping or punishing the Iraqi people. Recently a BBC article approached the topic of the mandatory curfews that were in place and how it makes thing even more difficult for the residents of certain city's to live their day to day lives.
In one city, Samarra, the 300k residents have had a curfew for only two weeks because of a bomb that killed 12 police officers. In this two week time frame hospitals are already reporting 3 infant deaths and 2 elderly deaths because they do not have the fuel to keep the incubators and other medical devices going. This is completely absurd! Terrorists kill 12 people so we step in and cause 5 more deaths because we are afraid they may kill more people. Things like this are happening everyday and who is it that is being punished, the Iraqi people not the terrorists.
You can't lock down a country for years and expect things to get better. The human spirit can and will be broken and the same people that you set out to help will snap and join the other side. Stop the war before more of them despise us.
In one city, Samarra, the 300k residents have had a curfew for only two weeks because of a bomb that killed 12 police officers. In this two week time frame hospitals are already reporting 3 infant deaths and 2 elderly deaths because they do not have the fuel to keep the incubators and other medical devices going. This is completely absurd! Terrorists kill 12 people so we step in and cause 5 more deaths because we are afraid they may kill more people. Things like this are happening everyday and who is it that is being punished, the Iraqi people not the terrorists.
You can't lock down a country for years and expect things to get better. The human spirit can and will be broken and the same people that you set out to help will snap and join the other side. Stop the war before more of them despise us.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Search engines are frauds
Search engines are supposed to give their users the best matching results, right? Wrong! Most search engines nowadays give results only to the highest bidder. This makes starting a new website and getting traffic very difficult. This was never more apparent to me than right now.
I manage a site that was in the top 10 of yahoo for 5 of its keywords which we thought was great. We recently decided to stop advertising with Yahoo marketing and just let the search results take care of it. The week after this happened we were no longer in the top 10, top 100 or even top 1000 for those search words. We have now vanished from Yahoo’s radar as if we never existed. All this for not paying money to advertise with them.
Other search engines, such as Ask.com and Fetch.com use the advertised links from other search engines as part of their actual results. So you may end up clicking on an advertised link instead of real results without even knowing it. Google does a pretty good job keeping things fairly even except for the fact they put too much emphasis on website’s ages. So you may never get into the top 10 with a new site even if your content matches the search the best because of websites that have been around for 5 or even 10 years. This proposes a problem for users and web designers alike.
It is clear that a new system of search engines is needed.
I manage a site that was in the top 10 of yahoo for 5 of its keywords which we thought was great. We recently decided to stop advertising with Yahoo marketing and just let the search results take care of it. The week after this happened we were no longer in the top 10, top 100 or even top 1000 for those search words. We have now vanished from Yahoo’s radar as if we never existed. All this for not paying money to advertise with them.
Other search engines, such as Ask.com and Fetch.com use the advertised links from other search engines as part of their actual results. So you may end up clicking on an advertised link instead of real results without even knowing it. Google does a pretty good job keeping things fairly even except for the fact they put too much emphasis on website’s ages. So you may never get into the top 10 with a new site even if your content matches the search the best because of websites that have been around for 5 or even 10 years. This proposes a problem for users and web designers alike.
It is clear that a new system of search engines is needed.
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