I’ve never been a race fan. It’s always been neat to watch the wrecks or to catch the last few laps, but this year… I have caught myself watching entire races! Or at least having it on TV while I do things around the house. I LOVE cranking up the volume on the surround sound and hearing them fly by! Today’s race was AMAZING! They were 4 wide going 195 – 200 mph in the corners!! There was only 3 cautions with 16 laps to go and then BOOM! Big wreck with them 4 wide!!
The strategies were incredible!
The Sprint Cup at Talladega is a “restricterplate race” so to make a difference in speed drivers draft & push each other to the front! #20 Tony Stewart (who wrecked and couldn’t finish) and his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team mate #11 Denny Hamlin were able to go 205 mph by drafting & pushing each other in the middle of the race!
At the end, there was a caution with 7 laps to go so they had a single file restart with 5 laps left. I was rooting for Denny Hamlin (& JGR) because he drove well all day & was a TON of fun to watch. He was restarting somewhere around 11th or so. There were a lot of good drivers out there near the front. Waldrip was in the lead with Johnson, Busch, and Montonya on his tail. A few taps on the bumper and before you knew it #18 Kyle Busch (Joe Gibbs Racing – Toyota) was in the lead with Gordon right on his tail. Many of the races at this track have been won with a last lap pass. And Jeff Gordon said that he wanted to be in second in the last lap. Gordon made a move and Busch cut him off and kept the lead and then BOOM another wreck about 10 places back and this one was bad!! Cars were all over the place, in the wall, on the grass and all over the track!!
The race ended under caution with Busch taking the win and Montonya, Hamlin, Ragan, Vickers, Kvapil, Mears, Newman, Bowyer, Johnson, rounding out the top 10.
When Gordon made his move, he also cut off guys that were coming up from the back to try and pass. Busch thanked him at the finish.
What a neat race. Needless to say, Toyota is shaking up the track with Joe Gibbs Racing who took 1st and 3rd! I LOVE the Toyotas!
Katie and I just finished a movie and I couldn’t WAIT to write a quick review. Why? Because I felt the need to rescue you IMMEDIATELY from a HUGE waste of time.
I’m not a huge movie goer or watcher, but when I do, I have high expectations. I LOVE movies like; Brave Heart, The Last Samurai, Crouching Tiger, Gladiator, The 13th Warrior & The Last Mohicans. I also enjoy the more eccentric movies & movies in other genres, but this movie: In the Name of the King was supposed to be right up my ally based on previous movie experiences. Well, it wasn’t! I LOVE the main actor! I loved him in Italian Job, Snatch, Lock Stock, and more. But this was his worst movie, by far.
Here is a trailer:
Here is the “review”:
In the first few minutes of the movie, I’m DIZZY! There is NO character development. People just appear in these little 10 to 20 second scenes and then END SCENE! Abrupt & Sudden with a BIG music shift. There is NO connection with any of the characters and what is supposed to feel like a heart felt moment is ruined by bad lines or an even worse timed musical score! This repeats through the entire movie! I’m sure if you put the score in your car and drove around, you would be listening to beautiful & moving compositions of classical type music, but the score did NOT fit the scene. This was bad directing and production.
Also, I don’t know where in the world these people are located, but apparently, all worlds have converged to this small area. Viewers will hear THICK northern American accents with the deep south thrown in, as well as a good mix of European accents and Old English/Shakespearian-Theator-English! No one could agree about how to pronounce “Magi” (Mage, Maggis, Magis, Magi, Mages, & more!) It was WEIRD! This is not an every now and then thing… This grades on my ears through the entire movie. The WORDS they used didn’t even fit with the time period! This is hard to explain, but the tree people were talking about wars and enterprising societies, but all you see in the movie is a castle wall, some huts, and a few battles surrounded by mountains, forest, & fields. There are others examples of this time period disconnect, but this is hard to explain & remember. They might as well have called horses “vehicles”.
There were TONS of inconsistencies & mistakes. In a “major motion picture”, people will go through the film and pick out the mistakes, but with this film, there are so many that it isn’t unique to find one! It is like searching for a needle in a needle stack. Who cares?
Once again, I’m not real sensitive to these things. I enjoy MOST movies that I watch, but this film quality was bad.
The villains were “Power Rangers” quality with rubbery weapons. They were cartoony and the armor was clearly not armor. It looked like someone took Christmas sweaters and put mud all of over them and then cut off the arms. Boom… villain Armor. The Crug? were Orc type evil guys? There is no back story so you have no idea where they come from. You just know that everyone is amazed that they can fight and wear armor because they were like dogs. The “evil layor” was a small imitation of Lord of the Rings and you saw slaves working and making weapons, but I still don’t know how the Crug were created? converted? changed? I know the evil magic guy was using his magical wizard powers to control all of them, but all of this doesn’t really fit together.
There was definitely some liberal/feminist/antiwar comments from the forest women who were circus olay hippy chicks on vines. They called men useless and dumb or something like that & they also talked about peace this, anti-war that. They eventually join in the “war” because it is happening in their forest, but then they want to be left alone. Maybe that will lead to a hippy conversion in our own culture! If only they swung on vines & lived in trees!
Everything was so predictable & bad that I just had to share it!
In summary, if I had to stress it all in a few phrases:
Good music, but not made for THIS movie.
Great actors reading BAD lines.
Predictable Plot – entirely!
Horrible Quality
“Neat” magic effects
No Character Development
BAD, BAD, BAD Accent
FAST SCENES to confuse the mind
BAD MOVIE.
Is there anything good about this movie?
There are some TOP tier, high quality actors reading Grade D & F scripts with NO plots or developed characters. This is funny. REALLY Funny! This makes you thankful for quality writers.
The colors are cool, but the filter doesn’t seem to be maintained through the entire movie. They turn it off and on or something?
The isn’t much cussing & no nudity. That is a positive change.
There are a few cool fight moves.
Tons of MONEY went into this movie. Sadly, most was to pay the actors & the set designers. They didn’t use a dime on a script, director, or producer. MONEY can’t buy a movie. It bothers me to NO END how unprofessional the entire thing was. I just expected something more & they didn’t give it! They gave me thousand dollar quality with million dollar actors. Unimpressed.
So that is it. That is my movie review. If you watch this or have seen this, I’d love to hear your thoughts. I don’t do many movie reviews because most of the movies I watch are pretty good and I’m satisfied with nothing much to say. But this one… come on people! This movie made me want to review other movies just so I can write a positive review! LOL. I might just do that….
Ok everyone! Open your eyes! Watch this VIDEO! A friend of ours, Alaina, sent this to me today and after watching it, I just have to share it everywhere! Please take seven minutes and watch!!
Wow! Oprah’s “feelings based” religion. A jealous God didn’t “feel right” to Oprah because she didn’t understand the Scriptures or the theology! What causes this misunderstanding? No presence of the Holy Spirit – the Helper.
The Sprint Cup at Talladega is a “restricterplate race” so to make a difference in speed drivers draft & push each other to the front! #20 Tony Stewart (who wrecked and couldn’t finish) and his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team mate #11 Denny Hamlin were able to go 205 mph by drafting & pushing each other in the middle of the race!
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