Geek vs Life

Coming off the success of 2005’s hit, 40 Year Old Virgin, Judd Apatow had nowhere to go but down. At least thats what everyone expected from him when Knocked Up was first announced..

Apatow is well known for directing TV shows who have had the plug pulled on them before they ever reached their stride. Shows like Undeclared, Freaks vs Geeks and The Ben Stiller Show, all which never got a chance to see a second season. The critics loved the shows, but the audience never came and the networks lost their patience. Finally with the help of a few friends like Seth Rogen, his time has come.

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Grand Poobah (Joe) says:

Welcome, folks. Here we are again, at our favorite horrible karaoke bar, to give you our look at Final Fantasy 4 2.

Jon says:

Actually Joe, That would be Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. They decided to drop the two, too many numbers in a row. Anyway comic books’ royal family consisting of Reed Richards (Ion Gruffudd), Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), Johnny Storm (Chris Evans) and Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis), reunite once again to save Earth from impending doom as a hungry Galactus comes to fill his belly. Apparently Earth tastes like chicken.

Grand Poobah (Joe) says:

/grind teeth to dust

Grand Poobah (Joe) says:

Galactus my tuckus. Galactus was portrayed as a cloud. Not even the semi-cool Cloud from Final Fantasy, but just a big honking cloud with fingers.

Jon says:

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Grand Poobah (Joe) says:

In a summer of sequels, and oddly enough, a summer of tertiary episodes of trilogies, it was good to see one that really captured our attention.

Psyfall says:

Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At Worlds End was a good movie. No scratch that. It was a great movie. It tied up so many hanging plot threads in an unhurried manner. It just all made sense by the end.

Grand Poobah (Joe) says:

Although, it was the WORST movie to watch when you have to go to the bathroom.

Psyfall says:

It is a pirate movie after all, what did you expect dry land? Although we did first find Jack Sparrow walking through a salt desert of all places.

Grand Poobah (Joe) says:

With a plethora of Jacks as his crew. A la “Being Jon Malchovich.”

The drum and bass was pounding my eardrums. With every second that the tempo was accelerating, my pulse was keeping pace. I stopped being afraid of horror movies years ago, they’re just movies, and this isn’t real. It’s astounding how the effective soundtrack of 28 Weeks Later can make the move watching experience that much more enticing.

When making a sequel to a popular movie you have to keep two things in mind: Don’t forget your past and bring in something new. Welcome to London England, 28 weeks after the initial infection outbreak. The infected have died out because of starvation and NATO forces led by the American soldiers are cleaning up and bringing the city back to livable standards sector by sector. When the containment is lost, the Americans must eradicate the population to guarantee the containment of the quarantine. That’s when all the shit hits the fan: Kill anything that moves, use napalm and use chemical warfare. As Robert Carlyle, one of the main protagonists of the move explains after the opening gore-fest: “Oh Shit, oh shit, oh shit.”

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Psyfall (Jon) says:

Joe and I don’t like doing things the easy way. Last week we got the chance to see Spiderman 3 at the Cinerama with our fellow peers from the media. We wanted to write a review that would be both unique in it’s content but also in it’s format. Geeks that we are we decided to write it over instant messenger. In a Country/Western bar in Queen Anne on karaoke night.

Grand Poobah (Joe) says:

This was the worst idea ever.

Psyfall (Jon) says:

<Orders a Mac and Jack, and a Stella for Joe>Better?

Grand Poobah (Joe) says:

As long as it drowns out the noise. They call that singing?

Psyfall (Jon) says:

With the amount of crap we had to sit through while watching Spiderman 3, could there be a more fitting place though?

There is something about seeing Grindhouse in a movie theater at 11 p.m. on a Saturday night that gets me even more hyped. Gone are the noisy kids and background commentary. People respectfully turn off their cell phones. The mood is something special, a late show at the Cinerama, arguably Seattle’s best movie theater in. The scene was set, the lights were dimmed, and the audience was off for a ride through the minds of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.

Tarantino and Rodriguez have been buddies since they met at the Toronto Film Festival in 1992. Both were new undiscovered talent there to showcase their indie darling films: Reservoir Dogs and El Mariachi respectively.

This movie bases its star power on its directors. Rose McGowan and Freddy Rodriguez are “B” listers at best, one being the third sister on Charmed and the other, a funeral home guy from Six Feet Under. The directors are the real stars of the show. No one saw E.T. for Henry Thomas (Elliot), they saw it for Spielberg.