Yes, we have no bananas. Ancient proverb for "I've got to get a life."

Eclipse. Well, I saw part one and two of the series, which were pretty bad horror, cheesy emotive attempt to translate teenage angst into vampire/werewolf genre. Trailers with the vampires walking out of the water marching to war sealed the deal. I shelled out another $11.00 bucks and saw Twilgiht: Part 3. Bloodless horror movie. Two hours of angst and love-whining and close-up's. Five minutes of vampire versus vampire/werewolf movie. What exactly were they fighting about again? And it looks like Part Four is not too far behind as a lot of threads were left hanging. Emotive and loose ends. Sound familiar?

Knight and Day. Second movie of my five hour day at the movies hoy. Tom Cruise's attempt to recapture the box office is his worse showing since his last movie. Hell, Arnold Schwarznegger and Jamie Lee Curtis did the same roles in "True Lies" (more or less). Decent actioner. Hard to briefly describe. Let's just say, if you liked "True Lies", rent Knight and Day. Lots of killings. Lots of laughs about body count. Matt Damon would have brought more boxoffice receipts to the role. Maybe M. Night Schamalamadingdong and Tom should get together on their next movie: Last Airbender all grown up. Both their careers are going in the same direction. Couldn't hurt.

AC

In July, so many movies are coming to Japan. *yay!*

Today I saw Repo Men. Japanese title is Repossession Men. Well, it seems to be. Well, I'm not talkin' about the movie in 1984 with Emilio Estevez. Oh sure, you know that. 1984's Repo Men were repossession of car. But this 2010's Repo Men, they are repossession of mechanical organs.

Those mechanical organs are created by a company; "The Union". They sell good high tech mechanical organs to customers. Their prices are expensive. So if you don't pay your bill, They send repo men. You know what they do? They repossess mechanical organs! Even if you cry, or run, they do.

Remmy and Jake, they are repo men. They did many repo. But one day, Remmy get accident while he's working. He get injured. Soon he woke up in the hospital. Then he noticed scar on his chest... Now, you know what'll happen.

This scary sci-fi thriller, Repo Men have many many violent gory scenes. Many bloody scenes. I'm not sure I can recommend this to all of you. Some people will hate this movie. On the other hand, some people will love it like me. While I was seeing this, my face was like this; :eek: :eek6: hocked:

I can't believe I didn't know this. If you have ever watched spongebob (I have kids so it is inevitable) you know his friend Patrick Star. When I recently found out that Bill Fagerbakke from the tv series Coach and the tv version of Stephen Kings' The Stand does his voice...... M.O.O.N. That spells Patrick!! Wow! I had no idea. Making that connection between voice and face was one of those personal epiphany moments that makes everyone else just roll their eyes at me.

I've found the perfect artist for any and all of Paul's RJ and AC novels.

Dark Fantasy Artist Johnney Perkins has completed fourteen excellent black and white illustrations which will be in the soon to be published shared-world anthology SHA'DAA: LAST CALL (sister novel to SHA'DAA: TALES OF THE APOCALYPSE).

Check out these babies here:

http://web.me.com/shadaa1/ShaDaa/Last_Call_Illustrations.html

Fans of the Toy Story series will enjoy this new installment, although it seems to be a rewrite of Part Two. But who cares?! It's funny. The new characters are clever and poignant. Ken from Ken and Barbie almost steals the movie as a Metrosexual. The ending wraps up all the loose ends re Andy growing and off to college, feeling like he's abandoning all his old friends (toys). I sat next to a crying child too young to appreciate the movie and didn't give a crap. That's how involved I was in the movie. Can't wait for the dvd.

AC

Don't waste your money on this piece of crap. Bad dialog, so bad, it's funny. Cross between L.A. speak and a bad attempt to sound other-worldly. "The spirits are part of the world." "The battle is won in the heart." M. Night Shamalamadingdong has sunk to a new low. And avoid the 3-D version if you must go see it. Can't believe two more parts to this story are on the board. Should have made The Sixth Sense Part Two. Too bad. He's got my $11 bucks. Don't let him get yours.

AC

I was very happy when i read Mr. Wilson's response to the other thread about "Black Wind" and some of his other older books being posted on Smashwords and Amazon on July 1st.
I see that most of them are up on Amazon, but not yet on Smashwords.
Any idea of why and when they will be posted there? I would prefer to purchase them there as I can then read them on the iPad in iBooks which I prefer to the Kindle app.
Thanks, Steve

DC's answer to Marvel's Ghost Rider, Jonah Hex is a western supernatural hero who's half Clint Eastwood (man with no name bounty hunter) and half James West, government agent under U. S. Grant. Can animate the dead, who make for good witnesses and has one foot in the grave himself, so can handle a bullet or two. Very little bounty hunting. Very loud soundtrack that swells to let you know that what's on the screen's exciting, in case you can't tell for yourself. Megan Fox is Hex's love interest--she seems to go for those disfigured tragic types who run out of snappy comebacks just half past the movie. Megan Fox fans may enjoy all the bare thigh and torturous corset cleavage, but it's all PG, so don't get your hopes (or anything else) up. John Malkovich is the typically evil villain set on world destruction rather than domination. You see, Hex killed his family and so he killed Hex's family in return, so everyone is out for revenge and the innocents get killed off like so many flies. Liked the supernatural angle. The James West angle needed more work, but overall I'd recommend this in a double-bill (I saw it with the final installment of Shrek). Or wait for the dvd. Either way, it's a good popcorn killer flick.

AC

P.S. Did I mention HOW LOUD IT WAS?!

Please Cthullu, can somebody please explain wtf I am looking at here and why this is the cover of a RJ book?????

...later this week. (The Gauntlet edition, that is.)