Hadn’t a choice?
When you download music from the net for free, do you have a choice? Yes, you do! The way I see it is that if I can’t get the song from itunes, then I download the song from the net. But, most people just sit in their leather chair, sipping wine and smoking dollar bills who go get bit-torrent programs and getting viruses on their computer. Just my thought on this, IF you can’t get it from great and affordable forms of music download(itunes, bigpond music) then and only then shall I get it for free off the net.
Recently, Miley Cyrus released a new album called Breakout. Miley is the daughter of the magnificantly brilliant Billy-Ray Cyrus. I do listen to some Hannah Montana(Miley’s Alter-ego)songs and I do like them even though, like brittany spears 10 years ago, Hannah/miley is mainy liked by 5-15 year old girls, which is an intresting “stereo-type”. Now, because Australia is away from the greatness, we have movies/tv shows/music released much later than the rest of the world(sometimes anyway). This was the case for the new album - Breakout. I did download it for free, but I do want to get it from itunes when it is released in Australia. Mainly to get it backed upwhen I get it but also mainly to support these cool people. I am not a crazy protester sayng “celebraties are suffering from torrents” and stuff but that is simmilar to how I feel.
P.S. I want to keep posting blog stuff on here like this that I can get off my chest and not on my other blogs(greg and gary comics, pop-culture planet etc). Expect maybe regular updates.
Kung Fu Panda Review!
Kung Fu Panda Review!
Meet poe: A big, fat, smelly panda who loves kung fu and who’s father wants him to make noodles. Master oogway of the kung fu jade palace has a vision of a bad kung fu warrior breaking out of jail so he and shifu decide to find the dragon warrior. The famous five warriors of the jade palace show everyone what they got and it comes to the time for oogway to choose the dragon warrior. Poe shoots himself up in the air with fire works and lands head first infront of the famous five. Oogway ends up pointing at poe and says he is the dragon warrior. So for 3 days shifu tries to train poe to be a kung fu master while shifu and the famous five warriors think he is a joke and shouldn’t be there. Meanwhile, a bad kung fu warrior breaks out of prision in pursuit of his old master and the dragon scroll. Can poe help the vally of peace or is all this not going to work out?
Well, kung fu panda is a movie of great action and adventure but is also good with its emotional and educational feel at small times. It is filled with great kung fu information and also has the great idea that poe cannot learn kung fu without food.
The movie has a lot of famous names withit like Jack Black, Jackie Chan and Lucy Liu to name a few. The character poe, played by Jack Black, had that crazy Jack Black feel to the character which gives a familiar feeling to those who know of Jack Black’s work.Any of the other guest stars you really can’t tell its them till the credits.
The movie was animated and created by dreamworks, the creators of Shrek, and the animation and the look of the panda right away reminded me of Shrek and the styles and emotions of shrek. I also liked at the beginning where poe is having a dream where he is a kung fu master and is beating up bad guys and it has a great anime look to it, like the look of the anime style scene to Horton Hears A Who.
So Kung Fu Panda is a great movie especially to take kids to. It is a great, fun and enjoyable movie! Speaking from experience I left this movie with a great, fun feeling to it. I give Kung Fu Panda 7½ /10.
Get Smart Review!
Get Smart Review!
In the movie ‘Get Smart’, Maxwell Smart of a U.S spy agency called control investigates killings of their agents with agent 99, his partner. Control is supposedly ‘non-existant’ after the defeat of KAOS, but KAOS lives on. Smart and Agent 99 get information tracking down a man named Siegfried, the head of KAOS, who has put bombs throughout America. Can Max and agent 99 stop him before he wins?
The get smart movie is an interesting, and sometimes funny, adaptation of the old series. There were many great references to the old series like the old ‘shoe-phone’ and the quote ‘missed it by that much!’. It also had all those old classic characters like Maxwell Smart, Agent 99 and a cameo by the Hymie character at the end.
There were many recognizable and incredibly wonderful actors taking part in this film. Some names to mention are Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson and Patrick Warburton, to name a few! I have seen, as a kid so I am a little rusty on it, a bit of the old series and Steve did an okay job of taking on this role but it didn’t take. Especially since we are so used to seeing him in big, important and actually smart roles like a newsman and congressman in the ‘Almighty’ movies, we just aren’t used to seeing him trying to do a role like that!
What makes up for the insanely good, and at the same time, bad casting and acting is the brilliant special effects and the fight scenes that make the movie the climactic thing it is. I also feel that the writing is a good point for the movie as I really enjoyed the plot line and quotes from the movie! Especially with the character twist in the end, the characters are so well written that you would have never have guessed it!
Get smart is a good film for family or fans or even anyone that wants to get acquainted with the franchise. But I would less recommend the movie for people who are less farmiliar with the franchise because of all the old references and stuff.
I give Get Smart 6½ / 10