Fashionably Late Reviews, Reviews, Writing

Fashionably Late Movie Reviews: Hot Tub Time Machine

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Introduction
Hot Tub Time Machine was a movie I wanted to review years ago, but never got a chance to because it didn’t seem to warrant a review. It wasn’t that type of movie and I don’t want to review something that was supposed to be fun with my uncouth, low brow, analysis. 10 years later and I said, fuck it, I’m going to re-watch it and give it my thoughts.

Synopsis
Lifelong buddies who are all stuck in a runt decide to spend some time at their own 20 something stomping grounds, due to the near fatal suicide attempt of one of them. When they get there, they quickly find out that they’re not the only ones who aged into a runt, but the lodge has as well. Drinking ensues and all of them end up back in the 80s due to a, you guessed it, hot tub time machine.

Characters
Nothing to write home about, they’re typical stock characters for this flick and barley distinguishable from one another. The actors are the only thing that makes the characters memorable.

Acting
Very good, nothing to complain about here.

Subtext
It is called Hot Tub Time Machine, where you expecting Shakespeare?

Conclusion
This is not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, it has weak character development, and it breaks its own rules all the time. What is the point in establishing rules if you break them? It can’t even get the ages right of the characters. I was born in 86, this came out in February of 2010. I was 23 going on 24 and the age of the kid in the movie is 20. That would mean the movie would have to be based in 2006, not 2010 like the dial on the machine says. The movie ends with a upbeat, Back to the Future style ending that none of the characters deserve and once again breaks the rules of doing everything the exact same way they did when they originally, at one point including a bet about a John Elway pass that was stopped due to changing the past, but whatever. In spite of its flaws, the soundtrack is decent, the jokes are funny, it is well acted and ultimately it is a good ride. This was not going to win any awards, but ultimately, it was nothing but a good time and that is all that matters.

3.5 out of 5

humor, Podcast, Wrestling

WWE Fan-Made Commentary

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Here is something I tried back in 2014 and only did one of, but never posted it. I decieded to give it another go. Here is Jeff Hardy Vs Undertaker 2002, in Manchester, NH.

Set the above video to 12 seconds in and then hit play below for sync.

beer, Reviews, Writing

Lagunitas 12th of Never Ale Review

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Essays, Non-fiction, Writing

Shallow Thinking

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Shallow thinking versus deep thinking, what does it ultimately entail? Well, I did a Google search and decided that the best possible answer I could find was that shallow thinking is reflective of merely that which you can visually see or glib understanding of a topic, while a more complex angle or more original view point is deeper thinking. The world we live in thrives on shallow thinking, Youtube does not exist without it and its “hottakes”, which people love, because depth in this world is genuinely hated. Consider professional wrestling, Heel (Bad guy) who are intellectually inclined are almost always intelligent based, occasionally this pattern changes, but a babyface (good guy) is almost never intelligent. This isn’t the only place in our culture that ostracizes the intelligent. Take Superman or comics in general for instance, Kal-el is dumb as rocks and really has nothing going for him, Batman and Louis Lane essentially have to do his thinking for him and Lex Luthor, a scientist, classical music lover, thinker, strategist and all around badass is his arch enemy. Why must complexity be so demonized? Well, shallow thinkers have a hard time understanding the deeper aspects of the world and this causes them distress in some cases, like a reverse form of empathy, except it hinders the person in question as opposed to helping them make a decision that is worthwhile. For instance, my love of Professional Wrestling is often a button for scorn and ridicule, because “How could someone as smart as you like such filth?” which was a popular phrase said to me as a child or how now a days, the concept of me thinking deep in general earns me the ire of individuals with such phrases as “Why do you deserve to be so smart?” which clearly is steeped in envy of the fact I have higher general intelligence than that particular individual. Now you’re probably wondering why I am bringing this up as all and to be fair, I wasn’t quite sure myself, until I started writing, but I felt a need to let out some frustrations of life living in a town of shallow thinkers as my primary motivation, even though I know I am not alone with those of you plagued by the SJW and Alt-right and there shallow thinking that is still causing issues in our society at present. I currently don’t have a solution for the world’s ills but I do know that deeper, more complex thinking is a must and we need to change society to herald the intelligence and stop rejecting them.

P.S. If you’re wondering why this piece is dense, it’s because such a thicket of dense writing is normally considered complex, and I want you to feel how these people do when they’re engaging those of use with the ability to see pass the superficial, while, in and of itself, being shallow thinking on such.

Writing

USCCA

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Edit: I do not support them any longer. I haven’t been a member for several years now, but still was fine with my original review. Now I can no longer do that. See why here:

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Im back and on a brand new and fully functioning laptop. Writing by tablet was interesting but not a route I ever want to have to go, unless pushed, in the future. Writing on a laptop is so much more fluid and functioning. I downloaded my word processer and am ready to pump out a new article for Bestinyourgirl.com, this one is on a product I use, USCCA.

In April of 2018, I picked up my first actual gun. I grew up being able to use BB guns and had a plethora of toy guns, but a side arm wasn’t affordable until I was 30 years old. I got the Smith and Wesson SD9VE for $270 dollars with FFL transfer fees. I may not own a lot, but I know for sure that I was going to need insurance. Now, I’m a stickler who is normally anti-insurance, because it is a borderline pyramid scheme. I looked around at all levels of insurance to find what I deemed the best and that was USCCA.

It has fantastic costumer service, it’s members are top notch, the magazine is amazing, it isn’t really insurance, so much as it’s a country club for those of us who invoke our second amendment rights, it just also happens to protect us, should we ever have to exercise that right on a bad guy. I wish all insurance companies were like this, as I would proudly pony up the money. The best part of it all, is being a crazy constitutionalist isn’t considered a pre-consisting condition and if even if it was, they won’t reject me for that. All they ask is that when I need to invoke my 2A right, I am 100% legal, you can’t ask for more than that.

*Full Discloser though, I was given the shirt but not for this review. I won it on Twitter and I have been a member for almost a year at that point. It really is that great!

Horror, Movies, Reviews

Halloween: A movie review of Blumhouse’s H40

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Introduction

I don’t want to start off with the typical cliché of the fact that the Halloween movies are 40 years old at this point and go through all the old bullshit about how so many movies have been made, including the remake and all that other fun stuff. I’m going straight to the point and talk about the fact that this is the movie people have a wanting for a long time.

Synopsis / Plot

Michael Myers breaks out of sanitarium, terrorizing Haddonfield, 40 years to the day of the original babysitter murders.

Characters

The characters are only kind developed but once we get into the bottom below where I praise the acting you can find yourself being like well, the acting makes up for only so-so character development.

Acting

I think it’s spot-on even from the most bit characters, which is a new trend in Hollywood that has been happening the last couple years, which I find to be an extremely interesting and very much a pleasurable thing. Backround characters are treated as something of note. The annoying aspect of background characters being bad actors always make for a weak movie and this is definitely moving in the right direction from all those old sequels.

Kills

I highly enjoyed all of the kills. Now, none of them are particularly interesting, you’ve seen things like this before but I enjoyed that because lately, especially with the Saw movies, Hollywood has been getting very over-the-top with their kills in horror movies and it’s ultimately destroying the entire horror industry. None of it is scary, and it’s absurd as I pointed out. This movie got it right! it had some up front and personal kills mixed with the Quentin Tarantino aspect of shying away from showing everything but letting you build it up in your mind. This is the right way to do a movie! Afterthought on this: a lot of people complained about the infant crying after his mom was killed was a missed opportunity. I disagree, it was more brutal than a kill would of been. A newborn left to fend for itself is 10x more evil than stabbing it.

Subtext

None of note but we don’t need that in this movie.

Conclusion

Most of her critics were completely wrong about this movie. I find the gripes to be unfounded. A lot of people came away from this with a version of the Mandela effect because they aren’t remembering it correctly. They still entitled to their opinion but they really should have bothered to have paid more attention in my mind. The acting was superb, the Kills were nothing new but still decent, the characters were okay but the acting more than made up for it, the tension was there, which lately is a new trend, is actually great. My only real gripe is super nitpicky, with one exception, most of the actors in this movie are hot but just kind of mediocre looking. Not a single one is overly photogenic, which is weird for Hollywood, but I don’t see anything wrong with hiring Hot or ugly people, even in horror movies, provided they can act. it works because all these people can act even if they’re not all Brad Pitt and I’m okay with this trend overall. Ultimately Halloween hits on all the right notes and is really done a great fan service 40 years later. In my mind Laurie Strode was done well, so much better than H2O or Halloween resurrection. This is the movie that I’ve been waiting to see since I was a kid.

Over all this movie gets 4 out of 5 stars and I hope it gets a sequel ASAP.