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He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it. —Revelation 2:17 read more
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For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. —Romans 5:17 read more
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... and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. —Colossians 3:10 read more
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Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. —John 3:5-8, KJV read more
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When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?" "Yes, Lord," he said, "you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my lambs." Again Jesus said, "Simon son of John, do you truly love me?" He answered, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Take care of my sheep." The third time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" He said, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my sheep." —John 21:15-18 read more
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Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep. —Psalm 36:5-6 read more
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Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. —Psalm 43:5 read more
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Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face. Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance, for no godless man would dare come before him! —Job 13:15-16 read more
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Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me. —Psalm 17:8-9 read more
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After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, "I tell you the truth, one of you is going to betray me." His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, "Ask him which one he means." Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, "Lord, who is it?" —John 13:21-25 read more
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Le Montrose Suite Hotel, West Hollywood
Steps to Sunset Strip
The boutique Le Montrose Suite Hotel is located in a quiet neighborhood steps from the renowned Sunset Strip area of West Hollywood. You'll find yourself within 3 miles of posh Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive, and star-studded haunts like TCL Chinese Theatre.
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Neon lights beckon you to the iconic Whiskey a Go-Go rock club and the famous Viper Room, less than a half-mile drive away. Dine with the stars at Saddle Ranch Chop House and ride the mechanical bull before catching a show at House of Blues, about 1 mile from the hotel.
Rooftop pool and stars
Guests love the rooftop sundeck at Le Montrose. You can relax in a whirlpool spa or swim in the heated saltwater pool. Wine and dine at elegant Privato restaurant and lounge, a guest favorite for delicious meals and cocktails served from morning 'til night.
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The smart suites feature a cozy fireplace, as well as must-have perks like free WiFi, 2 flat-screen TVs, and iPod® docking stations. The fully stocked minibars are just the thing when you want a snack as you snuggle in the comfy beds with pillowtop mattresses.
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- Superior Suite, 1 King Bed with Sofabed
- Deluxe Suite, 1 Bedroom
- Deluxe Suite
- Superior Suite, City View
- Basic Suite, 1 Queen Bed
- Superior Non-Smoking
- Deluxe Suite, 1 King Bed with Sofabed
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 132 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 5 floors
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Children (18 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Babysitting/childcare
- Pets allowed *
Extra people
- Rollaway beds available, charges may apply*
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Valet parking *
- Accessible parking
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In the hotel
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- 24-hour room service
- Outdoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Conference space
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 1976
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Disabled parking
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
In the room
- Climate control
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Iron/ironing board
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Sofa bed
- Sofa bed size twin
- Premium bedding
- Pillowtop mattress
- In-room massage available
- Fireplace
- Separate sitting area
- Balcony
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 42-inch flat-screen TV
- Pay movies
- Premium TV channels
- IPod docking station
- DVD player
- Video-game console
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Free local calls
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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DiningPrivato Restaurant - This restaurant serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
On Site
- Fitness facilities
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Le Montrose Suite Hotel, West Hollywood's small print
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Reservations are required for massage services and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Valet parking costs USD 40 per night with in/out privileges
Rollaway beds are available for USD 10 per day
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of USD 100 per accommodation, per stay
WiFi is available in guestrooms for USD 10.95 for 24 hours (rates may vary)
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Infinity Internet Inc. is planning to build a new data center that could quadruple the company's capacity to host servers.
But in a story that's playing across the global data center industry, the Vancouver, Wash.-based company had to put a temporary halt to its plans as once-rampant demand for server colocation services trickled to a halt last year.
"Eighteen months ago, we were seeing a very aggressive growth rate," said Doug Palin, Infinity's CEO. "Then literally on Oct. 15, it's like someone turned the switch off."
Typically housed in nondescript office buildings, data centers are highly secured and cooled offices that host a menagerie of servers locked in cages and closets.
The company's $7.4 million in 2008 revenue was largely flat from previous years. But its data center revenue has doubled in the past two years and now accounts for nearly half of the company's revenue. Infinity employs 30 full-time workers.
Demand was so strong, that Infinity expected to grow out of its 10,700-square-foot data center in downtown Portland.
The company bought the 40,000-square-foot warehouse near Portland International Airport with a plan to build it out in four phases — an estimated $7 million investment. It hoped to have moved into the first 14,000-square-foot phase this month.
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Now Palin said he hopes to have construction drawings completed within the next month with the hope of completing the first phase in the first quarter of next year.
Infinity's story is increasingly common.
Colocation facilities, as they're called, are in the business of selling space. When demand is high and space runs out, the logical solution is to buy more space.
A December 2008 survey conducted by technology research firm Gartner Inc. showed that 24 percent of data center companies had already exceeded their capacity, while another 17 percent said they would run out of space within the next year.
Now, many companies "don't have the money to do this," said Jill Eckhaus, CEO of AFCOM, a data center trade group based in Orange, Calif. "Many of them had to cut their projects completely or they have to be a lot more conservative."
The market has also required data centers nationwide to consider alternatives to new build-outs.
That's what happened at Beaverton-based EasyStreet Online Services Inc.
EasyStreet spent months working on a $7 million "green" data center. The 10,000-square-foot building would more than double EasyStreet's capacity, while cutting its power use by 25 percent.
But CEO Rich Bader said the company has shifted strategies and will instead use what it's learned about energy efficiency to upgrade its current 7,000-square-foot data center. The move will drop its investment to about $3 million.
"We're finding there is still good growth in the colocation business," Bader said. "It just isn't as robust as it was when we laid out our plan for the new green facility."
By holding off on initial growth plans, both Infinity and EasyStreet are employing lessons learned from earlier this decade, when a host of data centers popped on the market at the height of the dotcom boom.
"Those organizations that built out too much capacity when the dotcom bubble burst are toast, and we're not," Bader said.
Like Bader, Palin said Infinity is still showing signs of growth. It just made the decision to hold pat on its expansion plans until the demand matched the expected capacity.
"We want to get the revenue in place," he said.
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I posted a few pics on my blog, link below. Anyone know what it is? I told my neighbor that you guys know everything and that I'd ask you. LOL
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Thanks! Someone on my blog said aphids, too. I'll let my neighbor know.
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What means more to Kobe Bryant: an NBA Championship or a gold medal at the Olympics? We're prone to think the former, as just one more would have him up there with MJ, but as you well know 2012 is not the year for that. He's still got a shot at taking home a medal though, a conquest which should see him suited up in this ever so patriotic colorway of the Nike Zoom Kobe VII. And while the Olympics are still over a month away Nike Basketball is dropping the pairs well in advance, with the release date happening tomorrow, June 16. Click through for the latest angles of the Nike Zoom Kobe VII 'USA' and pick up a pair now from yellownsxt on eBay.
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The Jets badly missed having a third line (AKA Michael Frolik), but even shortening the bench to roughly two lines made very little difference.
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A return to Atlanta's old stomping grounds seems like the perfect setting for a film about coming of age in a world of high expectations and delayed maturity. The Jets turn 30 today (sort of), and despite recent additions to the 'W' column, questions persist about whether the Jets are really turning a corner. I picture Maggie Gyllenhaal telling The Jet (the adapted Thrasher from the awful Guardian Project, obviously) that he needs to grow up at the very moment he is most confused about how. Cue the montage.
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Christopher Sirmons Haviland is a graduate of the University of North Texas RTVF program (BA in Radio, Television & Film, 1988). In March, 1990, he co-founded SHO Entertainment, an independent motion picture company, with Paul Sirmons. The original office was located at Universal Studios Florida, where Mr. Haviland watched a theme park literally grow around him. In 1994 the office moved to more private studios in the small town of Lake Helen, about an hour North of Orlando. In 1995 the company produced a pilot called "Women on Death Row" for a series called Death Row: True Stories, on which Mr. Haviland worked as a script consultant. The pilot aired only in foreign countries, and the series was not picked up.
In 1997, Mr. Haviland co-produced a feature film called The First of May, starring Julie Harris, Dan Byrd, Charles Nelson Reilly, Mickey Rooney, and the late Joe DiMaggio in a cameo role. This rated-G film, produced and directed by Mr. Haviland's cousin and business partner Paul Sirmons, was distributed at foreign theaters, HBO worldwide between 2000-2003, and is currently on DVD and continues to air on various cable stations. Mr. Haviland also worked as a Location Manager on the project. The First of May was listed in The Movie Mom's Guide to Family Movies and also mentioned in the biography DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight. It received the Best of Fest Prize at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, the Premier Film Award at the Heartland Film Festival (in Indianapolis), the Audience Choice Award for Dramatic Feature at Film Fest New Haven (in Connecticut), the Children's Jury Prize for Best Feature at the Alekino Children's Film Festival (in Poland), the Grand Prize Winner for Adelphi / Bravo Excellence in Independent Filmmaking at the Hollywood In The Rockies Film Festival (in Cripple Creek, Colorado), the Best Film Award in Feature Drama and Best Child Actor Performance (Dan Byrd) at the Burbank International Children's Film Festival (in Burbank, CA), the Award of Excellence by the Film Advisory Board, and the coveted Dove Award from the Dove Foundation. A clip of the film was shown at the Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony for Mickey Rooney at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and it has been written up on Entertainment Tonight, MSNBC.com, and ABCnews.com (which featured a film clip). It received 5-stars from the News-Journal in Daytona Beach, Florida, and out-grossed all the other movies playing in a Daytona Beach 12 screen theater with only 2 shows four-walled a day. In June 2002, Florida governor Jeb Bush wrote: "The First of May underscores the extraordinary level of filmmaking talent and expertise found in Florida. I congratulate Paul and his team for a job well done and encourage Floridians to tune in to HBO next week to see this wonderful family film."
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As a screenwriter, Mr. Haviland has been a QuarterFinalist in the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting (sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), a 2-time SemiFinalist in the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project, a SemiFinalist in the Maui Writers Conference National Screenwriting Competition, a QuarterFinalist in the New Century Writer Awards, a Finalist in the People's Picture Show, a Finalist in the AAA Screenplay Contest (sponsored by Creative Screenwriting Magazine), a QuarterFinalist in the 2002 Screenwriting Expo (sponsored by Screenwriting Magazine), and a Quarterfinalist in the Zoetrope Screenplay Competition.
Mr. Haviland's fantasy short story "Change" was published in the book Pronto! Writings From Rome (Triple Tree: Sept 2002), along with New York Times bestselling authors Terry Brooks, John Saul and Dorothy Allison. His short story "The Reality Division" was published in Bad Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad (Marietta Publishing: May 2008 and Mundania Press: October 2009), which won the 2009 Eppie award.
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The World's End (2013)
Barely tolerable
Normally I really enjoy movies written by Simon Pegg. I especially liked Shaun of the Dead and Paul. This movie really stumbled.
Remember that scene in Shaun of the Dead in which they decide the best thing to do is head toward a pub and defend themselves from the zombie horde from there? This movie makes that idea its central theme, changing the zombies into some sort of alien robots, and multiplying the pubs. That's it.
Paul had me laughing out loud every minute or two, and I never get tired of watching it. The World's End gave me just a couple of chuckles throughout the film. And I almost nodded off several times.
The setup before the robots appeared was too long and tedious, and after the robots appeared I couldn't quite understand why our characters kept running from pub to pub. And worse, I didn't much care.
It just wasn't silly enough, witty enough, or clever enough to hold my attention.
The Lone Ranger (2013)
$215 million just doesn't buy what it used to...
While there has been a lot of hype around The Lone Ranger being a major box office bomb, let's set the facts straight. As of the date of this review, it's made over $87 million. What we saw on screen couldn't have been worth more than $50 million at best, and I'm being polite. Deserts, cowboys on horseback, some trains... We've seen it all before. And it made $87 million. Not bad considering the plotting wasn't great and Tonto being over-baked to a crisp.
So why all the hype about it being a bomb? Because the studio proudly reported that they spent $215 million to make this movie.
WHAT??? Did they cut a massive special effects extravaganza out of the movie somewhere? How did they manage to spend $215 million on this? Where's the production value? They put a lot of work into the train SFX, especially train crash SFX, but I'm still not seeing $215 million worth. I'm not even seeing $100 million worth. I'm not even seeing $50 million worth.
But let's get back to the story.
There are two problems with the plotting and characterization of this movie. 1) Tonto is mentally unstable, rather than a loyal and brave guide for The Lone Ranger as he was intended to be. 2) The Lone Ranger didn't seem to have any outstanding skills, and wasn't even very sure of himself or what he should do. I expected them to dial up The Lone Ranger into an Indiana Jones type of character. I wanted to see him as a sharp-shooter who gets knocked down over and over but keeps coming back until he achieves his goal. 3) Silver, the horse, was turned into a sort of semi-mystical spirit creature, apparently capable of doing a few things horses normally can't do. I didn't much like introducing magic into world of The Lone Ranger. Why not throw some aliens in while we're at it? The movie wasn't completely without merit, but all in all, ho hum.
And $215 million dollars??
The Conjuring (2013)
Much better horror than the usual fare
There has been a lot of horror in the past 5 years. A lot of it seems to be in love with the "found footage" format which frankly is getting very tiring. I'm happy to see that not everyone thinks horror has to have a shaky first-person camera.
James Wan is a terrific horror director with very good instincts. He is old-school. I never caught Saw in a theater, because I'm not usually attracted to horrors that aren't fantasy (slasher-based horrors), with the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre being a rare exception. But when I did catch up to Saw I was struck by its wonderful suspense and plot twisting. I am surprised, however, that Wan's directing career took a long hiatus. It seems to be firing up better now.
Like the rest of Wan's work, The Conjuring has strong character and plot building, and careful camera work. I've seen so many horror movies that nothing really scares me anymore, and yet Wan's Insidious chilled me in a few scenes, so I was really looking forward to The Conjuring. While I didn't feel it was quite as scary for me as Insidious, it has its moments. Sure got some screams out of the audience! And that's what's fun about seeing horrors at the theater anyway.
The Conjuring is alleged to be based on a true story, and I really liked the attention Wan gave not just to the victims but to the investigators, weaving the personal lives of two families around the events in a classic haunted house.
I will always be looking out for another James Wan movie to see!
The Wolverine (2013)
Worth seeing for a deep dive into Wolverine
I appreciated this movie on a number of levels. For one, it tried to be different from its predecessors by not getting carried away by spectacle. I like epic super-hero movies but they don't all have to be that way. Sometimes they just need a little quiet time, to reflect on who they are and where they are going. For another, it maintained continuity with both X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men III: The Last Stand, so that we don't feel like the filmmakers are re-inventing the character and thumbing what other directors have done with him.
This movie was introspective. Wolverine knows basically where he came from now. He joined Professor X but obviously didn't stick around the school. He suffers from chronic nightmares. And he suffers from a sense of purposelessness, which is what leads a lot of people to MDD (major depressive disorder) and suicide. But Wolverine doesn't age (at least not like most people), and heals so quickly that he's very hard to kill. What to do? The movie helps to reset him, to remind them that his fate is tied to a purpose. He just needs to stop moping around about his condition and own it.
Some of the action sequences are tremendous, especially the train. You don't have to knock down skyscrapers to have a breathtaking fight scene.
Hugh Jackman takes his role very seriously. He always trains for the part, and his physique is really killer now. Unlike other actors like Christian Bale, who give up interest in playing the same super-hero, Jackman has no problem returning to the role over and over and building something new out of it. He'll be back again for X-Men: Days of Future Past. He is the only actor to appear in all of the X-Men movies playing Wolverine, with only a few seconds in X-Men First Class (which itself was a great film, but with continuity problems otherwise), and it helps to tie the franchise together. (Days of Future Past is rumored to try to fix some of the continuity errors, but we'll see.) I am to the point that I want to see a Hugh Jackman movie, no matter what it is. He's arrived as a great action star.
Dreadfully unoriginal with MIB series as precedent
The movie might have been a little above average had the Men in Black and Ghostbusters movies never been made, but it wasn't quite as funny as either of those science fiction comedies.
This was no fault of the actors. Jeff Bridges always surprises me with his acting range.
But it's as though the the script was written by fanboys of MIB and Ghostbusters who wanted to do the same thing with their own characters.
The following points can describe both MIB and RIPD:
* A hidden company with a cool acronym recruits people to hunt down weird creatures. * An old, seasoned creature-hunter pairs up with an upstart rookie and sparks fly as they track clues toward a serious event about to take place. * Creatures are hiding amongst us an agency that hides "in plain sight" is tasked with controlling them.
Now let's look at similarities with Ghostbusters:
* A heroic group is tasked with capturing dead creatures. * Dead creatures are trying to take over our dimension, and it may spell doom for mankind. * Special technology is used to eliminate dead creatures.
All three are comedies, deal with some ridiculous but popular fantasy elements (ghosts, aliens), and have an entourage protagonist (a team rather than a single person).
RIPD tried to be funny within its niche, and managed to accomplish a chuckle here and there, but the rip-off of its predecessors was painful.
One might argue that rip-offs are normal in Hollywood fare. After all, how many modern zombie movies are basically inspired by Night of the Living Dead (which itself was probably inspired by Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, a book written 14 years earlier and struck the same basic theme and plot points)? But MIB cornered a particular style that RIPD so obviously copied, right down to the acronym itself, that it's hard to look past it.
All that aside, the movie was barely entertaining, and really not worth modern ticket prices. It'll be largely forgotten in a few years, and you'll be lucky to find the Blu-ray discs in the $1 bargain barrel at Best Buy.
Pacific Rim (2013)
Sappiness dragged down an otherwise cool concept
Ever since the original Gojira in 1954, a serious movie about a giant monster tearing down our civilized world, I've been hungry for an epic movie with the same treatment.
The wait goes on. And the reason is because the subject matter is rarely taken seriously. In fact movies of this ilk are intentionally goofy or tongue-in-cheek, and Pacific Rim is well within that range. It's as if the storytellers feel that there is no way to treat the subject matter in a serious way. After all, it's ridiculous to have giant monsters rise out of the sea and knock down buildings, right? So why not make movies about it that are just as ridiculous?
Really bad thinking.
All of the Godzilla movies made by Toho since the 1954 movie were dumbed down, made for kids. The Roland Emmerich Godzilla in 1998 was full of ham. Cloverfield was serious, but the found-footage hyper-POV format killed the epic, global flavor that I wanted.
I had high hopes for Pacific Rim, but I was very disappointed. The scientists really killed it. They were so ridiculous I was embarrassed every time they had a scene.
Also, Pacific Rim is as much about giant fighting robots as about the giant monsters. The movie began by summarizing an entire history wherein these creatures attacked us, with a few glimpses of them, and jumped forward to begin our story when we already were at war with them using giant robots. It rubs me the wrong way to tell stories in this manner, but I keep an open mind on a case-by-case basis. District 9 used that format, wherein it started long after the aliens have already arrived, rather than chronicling the arrival itself. But I was fine with it. But in Pacific Rim I felt like I was watching a sequel to a movie that was never made.
The battles between robot and monster were very hard to see. There was always darkness, pouring rain, splashing ocean water... I felt like I rarely got a good view of the monsters.
But all of that I would have forgiven if they had expunged it of sappy scientists acting like cocaine addicts and spouting things that made no sense.
I look forward to Gareth Edwards' Godzilla treatment next year to see if he finally breaks the trend.
World War Z (2013)
It was worth seeing, but was it worth making?
When I first saw the trailers for World War Z, I thought, "Seriously? More zombies?" Just when I thought the genre had been done to death. I figured the TV series The Walking Dead pretty much capped it. Can't get much better than that for a zombies-are-taking-over-the-world scenario, not because there is anything about the zombies that hasn't been done before, but because The Walking Dead is a very well scripted survival series with an excellent cast playing well developed characters.
I honestly had not read the novel on which this movie was based, itself a sequel. And I was quite surprised that there was a bidding war over the rights to it. Could it be really that different from everything else? Well, it's not remarkably different. There is nothing particularly unique about these zombies, or in the story. They have their own particular spin, and set of rules. They bite, and that spreads some kind of disease. Seen that before. They're quick. Seen that before too, but I think this is the most tireless I've ever seen them portrayed.
But they aren't technically zombies... That is, you don't have to die first, and they don't seem to be "eating" people, just biting them. It's more like a super-virus with zombie-like characteristics, infecting people extremely fast (within seconds), while they are still alive. Once zombified, the victim exerts energy that would make the world's greatest athletes jealous. They are fast, tireless, feel no pain or emotion, somewhat strong, and really hard to "kill." There is also a way to walk among the zombies without being attacked, which is slightly unique. In some zombie movies you just have to act like a zombie, or disguise yourself with zombie stench, but World War Z introduced its own take.
At any rate, it's a fast-moving plot with several visually spectacular sequences. Brad Pitt carries the film.
As a writer myself, I think the screenplay missed the opportunity to vastly increase tension. They should have kept his family on the bring of danger. Instead, his family was given relative safety. I wouldn't have done that. There is nothing more stressful to a father and husband than to put his children and wife in danger and keep him from helping them. This would have been much more suspenseful and emotionally engaging.
As it it was, it was a fun movie to watch, and while it didn't "redefine" the subgenre, it moved the needle a little bit by creating EXTREME zombie energy. (These guys are DESPERATE to bite people! They remind me of army ants blended with killer bees.) So it was worth seeing, but I have to wonder why it was worth making? Did the genre really need this? Was it worth the risk for Plan B (Pitt's company) to win the bidding war? Not so sure.
For Pitt's sake I hope it does well enough for him but I would sure like to sunset the zombie subgenre because I'm getting fairly tired of it.
The Purge (2013)
Questionable psychology, contrived plot, repetitive thrills
I almost never give any movies less than 5 stars unless the filmmakers clearly dismiss the art and science of movie storytelling (such as what you might find from the likes of Charles Band, Ed Wood, or Troma). Movies in which the filmmakers are trying but fail will get something from 4-6 stars from me.
Reviewers who give even movies like this "1 star" are abusing the rating system. To think that there could be no movies worse than this is ridiculous. Just watch the SyFy channel's original monster movies, like Mansquito. I dare you. The Purge does not rate at THAT level.
The Purge has a provocative idea: what if one day a year there was almost no law enforcement, so people were allowed to steal, commit violence, murder, rape, etc, without any police or legal interference? The movie takes that a step further and suggests that our culture evolves to promote this behavior as somehow patriotic, as it supposedly helped to rid our nation of violence for the rest of the year.
There are some precedents in history for barbaric annual festivals of this kind, but not to the effect that they created peace for the rest of the year.
The problem with the movie is that it misunderstands human psychology. The idea is that we all have a violent nature, and that violence in any culture can be attributed to our need to vent that nature, as if it were pressure building up in us like a tea kettle. This is not the case.
While every human has the capacity for violence, this is quite different from having a drive to be violent, even if the situation presents itself. There are some interesting studies on mob behavior, which has a bizarre counter-active effect on typical individual personality and behavior. And I think there is a genetic disposition toward competition, which is what drives people to love sports. And there are some who have a desire to hunt, which is mainly an echo from the millions of years of human survival strategy, especially before we learned how to farm. But it is not correct to presuppose that most humans would choose to go out and commit extreme recreational violence and harm against others, even murder, just to support a national holiday or purge themselves of some instinctive pressure to be violent.
Cultures that exhibit wanton violence are the result of being taught that violence is expected or required of them from a very early age. Vikings and Spartans are well known examples of such societies. A misguided and hateful culture can steer collective human behavior for some time before it is "normalized." Surely the Nazis have shown how dangerous this can be.
But without cultural pressure, humans have a high capacity for feeling shame. I think more than any other organism, possibly in Earth's history, humans indulge in a sort of psychological self-flagellation, a self-loathing that extends not just to one's self but one's gender, one's country, even one's race. I am hearing people complaining that humans are evil rubbish, comparing us to viruses (which is ironic considering how successful viruses are, and how most viruses are harmless and some have even contributed to the evolutionary advancement of life), and that we deserve to be "wiped out" before we "destroy the planet." People with these feelings might envision a movie like this as being completely accurate. In fact, they prove the movie is not - because self shame would neutralize self-indulgent violence toward others. Most humans who are not sociopathic also have a tendency toward high empathy, not only to other humans but to other creatures. This also tilts the balance toward non-violence.
The movie, as shown in the trailers, attempted to demonstrate a family that did not choose to participate in this festival. They hunkered down to ride out the storm. But the point of the movie seems to be that a majority of people seem to choose violence because they feel it helps them and helps society for the rest of the year. Not just violence but weird, psychotic behavior.
(If you wait to the credits you'll hear the suggestion that Dallas, Texas has the highest number of participants. A thinly veiled political stab?) I am growing ever-so-tired of Hollywood's cock-eyed perception that the "upper class" is made up of unsympathetic, selfish, elitist bigots. It's almost as tiresome as the idea that the military is nothing but a legal mob of evil warmongers, and that our democratic republic is a group of rights-violating conspirators intending to take advantage of the "underprivileged." These clichés are overused and their logic is unimpressive. At least The Purge chose main characters who were among that so-called "upper-class" who do not behave that way. Had they been some poor family fighting to survive attacks by the rich, I would have dropped the movie to four stars... Maybe three.
Shoving all that aside and looking at it as a popcorn movie, there are other problems. The plot was too contrived, and full of thriller clichés.
Example: do you remember a moment from any movie in which an important character is about to be killed by a bad guy, but suddenly the bad guy is killed in the last second, saving our hero's life? I'll bet you've seen that dozens of times over the last 20 years, right? Well in The Purge you'll see it not once, not twice, but at least three times! Even a new untested screenwriter shouldn't be making mistakes like that.
I could go on. The point is: this movie is made up of gratuitous well-worn thrills based on a spurious psychology.
I would pass on this one.
The Internship (2013)
Cute, fun, a little tedious
With Bathroom Humor Comedies (Adam Sandler movies, The Hangover, etc) and RomComs being the usual comedic fair at the box office these days, it's refreshing to find a comedy that stands outside of that tiresome trend.
The Internship was a cute movie that certainly has its chuckles. Google is actually a very odd work environment, and the movie makes good points about the depressed state of our modern employment climate for young and old alike. I think the movie tried a little TOO hard to polarize a traditional salesman with the high tech digital age, and some of the Vince Vaughn joke sequences seemed to get a bit tedious. But he played it so seriously that the overall effect was still amusing.
The Vaughn / Wilson pair were VERY sufficiently embarrassing with their overzealous attempts at being team players in projects they didn't understand, and as I have worked deep in the internet business since 1996 I cringed harder than the Google interns who tried to cope with them. I was already a Director level manager in the internet when Google was just being founded, so I've watched the company grow from the ground up, and eventually sponge up the mega-companies that produced my primary worktools (such as Doubleclick). Having been interviewed for management level jobs at Google I can vouch that they can crawl up your ying-yang about your academic record, even if it's from the 80's and you have over a decade of real quality experience to replace it. I've been interviewed by Facebook, Yahoo and Amazon too, and only Facebook can take after Google in this way. It creates the perception of being the Mensa Society of the digital world - pretentious, exclusive, and only for IQ's higher than 170.
That is not really the case, strictly speaking, but there is a culture there of self-importance that the movie bounced our heroes off of, and it worked for some laughs.
All in all it was an enjoyable matinée break, but I probably won't be getting it on Blu-ray.
Mermaids: The Body Found (2011)
questionable Mockumentary ethics
This mockumentary was successful enough to inspire a recently released sequel: "Mermaids: The New Evidence," a talkshow followup featuring various pseudo "viral videos" and "leaked videos" of incidents that help to support the myth.
This is a fictional documentary special about the story of a scientist and his team stumbling upon "evidence" supporting the "Aquatic Ape" theory, which purports that a branch of ancient human returned to the ocean, and that we are a near-branch of those creatures that still carry apparent aquatic features.
The idea is provocative because it is not at all outside the realm of scientific feasibility for ancient humans to have returned to the oceans, just as the ancestors of whales and dolphins did. But just because it's a feasible notion, that doesn't mean we need to consider that it may have happened. The problem is that aquatic mammals are air-breathers, and therefore need to surface with at least enough frequency that, with the ever-growing human population, it's extremely unlikely for them to escape direct evidence that they are alive. There is nothing in the fossil record supporting such creatures either. And finally, there is no reason any government around the world would want to suppress evidence of such creatures, any more than a new species of land primate or a new species of dolphin.
I must digress for a moment, so that this kind of program is placed in context.
Animal Planet, like any non-premium television channel, is in the business of advertising. That is how they make most of their revenues, and all content in between the commercials is a sales gimmick to attract an audience to watch the advertising. Even a news broadcast is a gimmick, though it runs by a certain code that at least pretends to be objective, and is further governed by laws such as "freedom of the press." Therefore, any television content can be manipulated to maximize interest in it, either by creative editing, creative writing, or creative visuals, or any combination thereof. It is folly to see television as a reflection of reality. It is not at all the same as personal experience. But television producers and the technology at their disposal are getting more and more clever at blurring the line between entertainment and reality. The precocious radio / television / film actor / producer, Orson Welles, created a live radio play in 1938 inspired by H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds that came across as a news broadcast, and accidentally tricked lots of people into a panic thinking Martians were really invading. This demonstrated the power of mass media vs the gullibility of humans to confuse what they see and hear on media with reality.
Mermaids: The Body Found, and Mermaids: The New Evidence, explore the same territory by mixing various known scientific paradigms with fake interviews, fake footage, labeled live action reenactments, and CGI dramatizations. The network's interest is simply in ratings. But what of the producers? I believe one motivation of the producers is simply to find a creative way to protest military testing in the ocean that can harm marine life, in particularly sonar testing which many believe is proved to link to the mass beaching of marine mammals. The producers needed to find a way to draw mass interest in their protest. So they devised a gimmick to propose that there could be very important undiscovered life in the ocean that is being damaged by this testing.
However I feel they crossed the line, and may have shot themselves in the foot. For one thing, by creating a fake documentary and passing it off as a real one, it creates distrust that anything in the show has any basis in fact at all. Call it the "cry wolf" syndrome.
Secondly, and more importantly, in their fake documentary they create an atmosphere of animosity toward our government - claiming that our government and military agencies stole evidence, harassed witnesses, and interfered with their programming. It is one thing to scream "fire" when this kind of thing happens for real, and to protest testing that may be very damaging to the environment. But to make up government "cover-ups" and pretend it's real, and distribute that on a channel that passes itself off as an educational outlet for all ages, is in my opinion unethical, irritating, and dangerous.
If my pre-teen kids watch this show along side genuine nature programming, they can walk away feeling angry toward our government for something it isn't doing - covering up evidence of something important. Or they could walk away not believing the entire thing - dismissing something the military may be doing that it should not be.
While one can argue that a mockumentary like this challenges our youngsters to think critically, teaching them to discern what is real and what is not, I tend to think it actually does quite the opposite.


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Via John Evans, Tricia Dwyer-Kuntz, starden


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Gardeners should be aware of the vast array of tools that are available to make the arduous aspects of horticulture easier. This spring, like any spring, there are numerous tasks that will need to be accomplished. Some jobs are repetitive and dull. Other tasks will challenge our strength and ability. Finally, there are chores that require a specialized tool if the job is to be done right.
TIP OF THE WEEKSo, you�ve decided to make some updates to your home? Whether you plan on building a home from the ground up, purchasing new construction or adding value to your current residence, there are many opportunities for upgrades.
For a few years in the recent past, hot tubs fell out of favor (although they did star in quite a few jokes). Then came the rise in popularity of outdoor rooms � deck- or patio-type creations that provided a comfortable environment for relaxation,...
As I walked through the garden yesterday, I could actually feel that spring was here.
Reader question: A close family member wants our help referring them to a real estate agent. Their house has been for sale on-and-off for several years. They blame themselves for poor agent choices, but we are suspicious they may be the cause rather...
If you�re looking forward to an early summer tomato or a bumper crop of sugar snap peas, you�ll need to attract pollinators to your garden. Bees are one of your best bets.
When you�re looking to buy a home, your head may be full of visions of handsome hardwood floors, soaring ceilings and alluring landscape. Yet however tempting it may be to make a purchase based on outward appearance, stop yourself. It is essential...
Walking in the woods and finding wildflowers in bloom is a highlight of early spring. I am fortunate to live in the foothills where I can find many lovely wildflowers blooming this time of year. Some of the more common ones that bloom in the early...
An ever brighter, stronger, higher sun does not set until 6:50 p.m. today. The day length advances two, three, and even four minutes a day with the vernal equinox only five days away!
TIP OF THE WEEKThe carriage house garage door is to your house what the little black dress and strand of pearls are to your wardrobe; classic style elements that never go out of fashion.
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