This is our first joint review. Razz's part will be in his red, mine in blue. Let's get started shall we?
Heroes came back with Tabula Rasa on Monday, pretty good especially the Sylar/Gabriel scenes. Rather than going through scene by scene I would rather go through it by characters since Heroes is a very character centric show.
Hiro awakens to find Peter has taken him to the hospital. Peter believes Hiro came to him in order to be saved. so peter goes off for help after taking Hiro's ability. This was also the first time in a while we actually saw peter taking someone's ability, which I've kinda missed because it is a cool effect. However Hiro does take it apon himself to help guide Emma and show her that her ability is not a curse but a gift. He also realizes that he forgot one of the most important people in his life, Charlie. After he makes Emma realize her potential for her ability he has one of his "spaz out teleports" and goes out to the Burnt Toast Diner 3 years ago to be with Charlie.
Peter leaves Hiro and meets Noah to try to find someone to help heal Hiro. They find a boy named Jeremy who has a healing touch in Georgia. They go to a house filled with death and realize that Jeremy's ability has changed to control the flow of life. When Noah tries to confront him jeremy shoots but Peter teleports in front of the blast and Noah helps to coach him to control his ability to heal peter. Peter takes his ability and goes back to NY to save Hiro. Noah chooses to stay with the boy and to actually start helping people with abilities like he promised Claire.
Sylar is at the Carnival and having mixes of personalities of himself and Nathan and to prevent this from going down the wrong path Samuel sends him off to the "house of mirrors guy" who unleashes the memories of Sylar's murders. this makes Sylar sick at himself and disgusted.
This was a good episode and showed the personalities of the characters shining through and really gave insight to Sylar,perhaps he is a good person deep down inside. Now he is truly trying not to kill and keep himself pure.
For me, I also enjoyed the episode. The one thing that got me was seeing Mark L. Young as the "Healer". If you don't know, he also played the character Randy in a movie called Sex Drive. If you haven't seen that I recommend you do. Throughtout all his scenes (especially his with Noah) I kept riffing and making jokes like "Do you have a phone number?" and other quotes of his from the movie. But I digress, it was good to see him doing something other than asking if a girl is wearing thong underpants.
One of my favorite scenes on tonight's episode was with Hiro and Emma. Emman just wants the power turned off, but Hiro tells her that there's more to having an ability. He shows her this by stopping time while a group of children are clapping. She is then free to play around with the light coming from their hands. Was it just me or did all that clapping look like the load screen for a computer with Windows Vista on it? Maybe just me. Also, when she plays with the one cloud of...sound...I guess...shouldn't that distort the sound when Hiro starts things back up? I found it funny thinking one kid is clapping but it sounds more like a duck being squashed. Maybe that's just me again.
Overall, I agree with what Razz has put. Unlike me he actually reviewed the episode, but I feel like did something. Overall, good episode and I can't wait to see what's going to happen to Hiro in the past with Charlie (again) and Noah trying to right some wrongs of the past.
Later, and til next time,
Mike & Razz
Monday, October 19, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Some people call me the space cowboy...
Some people call me the gangster of love, well thats what Butters Scotch is known as. South Park returned with another episode last Wednesday, which can be described as creepy. This episode involves Butters starting a Prostitution ring, or kissing company as he calls it, in South Park right under the police' noses.
Butters gets the idea for his kissing company after he pays for a kiss by a girl named Sally. Butters goes out and brings customerst Sally and a few other girls who he gets to go out and kiss boys on the playground, which he takes a 40% cut of might I add. Kyle however tells butters he is nothing but a common pimp, which this promps butters to go out to a pimp convention. Here he learns what being a pimp means and how to take care of his hos, you know what I am saying?
All this hubub about a local pimp working in South Park makes the police take action by sending one of their own in undercover as a prostitute. The under cover cop is the chief(that redheaded guy in the mustache in case you forgot) who is in a very skimpy prostitute's outfit. Ugggghh anybody? For some reason instead of busting the guys soliciting he insists on going through the acts with the tricks. Again uggghh anyone? This makes him get caught up in the world of prostitution, a wonderful place right?
This episode has some very funny momonts, like most South Park episodes. During Class Butters tries to get a few of the girls to join his company, including Wendy and Bebe. And when Mr. Garrison ask him what is wrong, Butters responds with "These girls are just giving kisses away and they don't realize they could be making some real f'n money." Also no matter how cringe worthy they are, the scenes with the prostitute chief are really funny. This episode is definately worth the 30 minutes it takes to watch it. You can see this episode and more at www.southparkstudios.com/
Later,
Razz
Butters gets the idea for his kissing company after he pays for a kiss by a girl named Sally. Butters goes out and brings customerst Sally and a few other girls who he gets to go out and kiss boys on the playground, which he takes a 40% cut of might I add. Kyle however tells butters he is nothing but a common pimp, which this promps butters to go out to a pimp convention. Here he learns what being a pimp means and how to take care of his hos, you know what I am saying?
All this hubub about a local pimp working in South Park makes the police take action by sending one of their own in undercover as a prostitute. The under cover cop is the chief(that redheaded guy in the mustache in case you forgot) who is in a very skimpy prostitute's outfit. Ugggghh anybody? For some reason instead of busting the guys soliciting he insists on going through the acts with the tricks. Again uggghh anyone? This makes him get caught up in the world of prostitution, a wonderful place right?
This episode has some very funny momonts, like most South Park episodes. During Class Butters tries to get a few of the girls to join his company, including Wendy and Bebe. And when Mr. Garrison ask him what is wrong, Butters responds with "These girls are just giving kisses away and they don't realize they could be making some real f'n money." Also no matter how cringe worthy they are, the scenes with the prostitute chief are really funny. This episode is definately worth the 30 minutes it takes to watch it. You can see this episode and more at www.southparkstudios.com/
Later,
Razz
Friday, October 16, 2009
Where The Wild Things Are
Welcome again to another one of Mike's movie reviews! This week, I went and saw Where The Wild Things Are. All I can say before I review it is that you have to keep in mind while watching this that it is a movie about a child's adventure -- not necessarily a children's movie.
The movie is very similar to the book in that it follows the adventures of Max as he sails away from home to the island the wild things live on. There he meets, befriends, and becomes the king of the wild things. From there Max, Carol, and the rest of the wild things have various adventures including building a fort where things you only want to happen in there do, having a dirt clod war, and having a wild rumpus. After all is said and done, Max sails back home and is reunited with his mother.
Now this may seem like something that would be a children's film, but trust me it almost isn't. The beginning is somewhat dark and that dark overtone will sneak in and out through the film. There's one moment where Max in class and his teacher begins talking about the solar system. No harm, right? Wrong. He talks about how one day the sun is going to die, and that when it does, it's going to take the earth out with it. The teacher then reassures them it'll be millions of years before that happens, and that they'll be dead and so will humanity more than likely. I was beginning to wonder he would go over next. Maybe realizing that no matter what you do in life, you just die anyway? Or perhaps that death is innevitable anyway? That part was probably the oddest in the movie, and there are 8ft tall monsters walking around.
This isn't to say the movie is bad. As I said, it doesn't feel to me like a children's movie with some of the tones it takes. The monsters aren't cute and cuddily like a Disney movie, they're realistic. They argue over things, get mad, and generally act realistic. When they get into fights one of the monsters usually goes out into the forest for a walk to cool down. They even begin to cry as Max leaves. That scene in general is a great. The setup for it really pulls at your heart strings, and some people in the theater where also crying as Max set sail for home.
There is one thing I'd like to address here. When Max gets home his mother hugs him and gives him a nice meal before the credits roll. If this were to have happened to me, I would have come home to an ass whoopin' like never before seen in my life. THEN I would have gotten the hug and food. After that, I would have gotten a "Don't you ever run away again." Maybe that's just family, but the general consesus was that Max should have at least gotten spanked.
All in all, the movie met and exceeded my expectations. I'd go see it again and I recommend that you go see it too. One last thing I thought was awesome, scary, and funny was a scene with Carol and Douglas. They get into a fight and Carol RIPS OFF DOUGLAS' ARM. Later you see Douglas, now with a large stick replacing his "favorite arm." I thought that was hilarious just to let you know.
Til Next Time,
Mike
The movie is very similar to the book in that it follows the adventures of Max as he sails away from home to the island the wild things live on. There he meets, befriends, and becomes the king of the wild things. From there Max, Carol, and the rest of the wild things have various adventures including building a fort where things you only want to happen in there do, having a dirt clod war, and having a wild rumpus. After all is said and done, Max sails back home and is reunited with his mother.
Now this may seem like something that would be a children's film, but trust me it almost isn't. The beginning is somewhat dark and that dark overtone will sneak in and out through the film. There's one moment where Max in class and his teacher begins talking about the solar system. No harm, right? Wrong. He talks about how one day the sun is going to die, and that when it does, it's going to take the earth out with it. The teacher then reassures them it'll be millions of years before that happens, and that they'll be dead and so will humanity more than likely. I was beginning to wonder he would go over next. Maybe realizing that no matter what you do in life, you just die anyway? Or perhaps that death is innevitable anyway? That part was probably the oddest in the movie, and there are 8ft tall monsters walking around.
This isn't to say the movie is bad. As I said, it doesn't feel to me like a children's movie with some of the tones it takes. The monsters aren't cute and cuddily like a Disney movie, they're realistic. They argue over things, get mad, and generally act realistic. When they get into fights one of the monsters usually goes out into the forest for a walk to cool down. They even begin to cry as Max leaves. That scene in general is a great. The setup for it really pulls at your heart strings, and some people in the theater where also crying as Max set sail for home.
There is one thing I'd like to address here. When Max gets home his mother hugs him and gives him a nice meal before the credits roll. If this were to have happened to me, I would have come home to an ass whoopin' like never before seen in my life. THEN I would have gotten the hug and food. After that, I would have gotten a "Don't you ever run away again." Maybe that's just family, but the general consesus was that Max should have at least gotten spanked.
All in all, the movie met and exceeded my expectations. I'd go see it again and I recommend that you go see it too. One last thing I thought was awesome, scary, and funny was a scene with Carol and Douglas. They get into a fight and Carol RIPS OFF DOUGLAS' ARM. Later you see Douglas, now with a large stick replacing his "favorite arm." I thought that was hilarious just to let you know.
Til Next Time,
Mike
Monday, October 12, 2009
Hi Everybody,
Just so you know we now have a twitter handle. You can follow our posts at http://twitter.com/mikeandrazz to recieve updates on the blog or podcast. Hope you are enjoying the posts we have been putting out and feel free to e-mail us at mikeandrazz@yahoo.com to give feedback or ideas for our blog.
See ya,
Razz
Just so you know we now have a twitter handle. You can follow our posts at http://twitter.com/mikeandrazz to recieve updates on the blog or podcast. Hope you are enjoying the posts we have been putting out and feel free to e-mail us at mikeandrazz@yahoo.com to give feedback or ideas for our blog.
See ya,
Razz
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Who Ya Gonna Call?
Not the Ghostbusters, thats for sure. Now you may be wondering, why am I making a Ghostbusters reference without any kind of joke? Well, I'm here to give you all my review of the very popular new horror film know as Paranormal Activity. Lets dive on in, shall we?
I'll spare you all the ending, as I don't want to spoil for you. The movie begins with seemingly average couple Katie and Micah enjoying themselves at home. Micah is showing off his new camera, which will be used to film the couple while they sleep. The reason for the night watch? Apparently things have been going on in the house that can't be explained, and since both of them are asleep when they occur Micah and Katie hope that the camera will catch the midnight shenanigans. This is your first glimpse into the horror yet to come throughout the movie. The footage fast forwards until we see a few minutes of footage where the door moves slightly closed, then opens again. Micah soon becomes interested in testing the boundaries with this ghost of sorts. Unfortunately for Micah, Katie (along with a psychic she hired to visit the house) advise him not to contact the now demonic entity. This is due to the fact that if you contact it, that said entity will want to talk.
The next several scenes are more of Micah and Katie sleeping. Theres some more door moving, but now it seems to get worse. After a couple of nights with sounds of people walking through the house, Katie wakes up one night. She then proceeds to stand for hour staring at Micah sleeping. Katie then leaves the room and about two hours later Micah finds her outside staring blankly into the dark. Some more bumps go around the house and Micah soon finds Katie back indoors, having no memory of leaving or standing around.
As if bumps in the night and a sleep walking girlfriend aren't enough to scare you, Micah finally decides (against Katie's wishes) to get a Ouija Board to talk to the entity. Katie gets pissed and they leave, luckily leaving the camera on. The next scene tells you from here on in, you will be shitting bricks. The Ouija board pointer starts randomly hitting letters by itself, with the Ouija board finally setting fire and going out in a matter of minutes. When Katie and Micah return, Katie tells Micah to throw away the Ouija board and stop recording, as it's making the entity more aggressive. Micah pulls the "I'm the man around here, I can handle this!" card, which causes more late night crazy. The best of this is a scene where Micah covers the floor in baby powder, saying "If anything is coming in here, we'll be able to see where it's going." As if the irony of what's about to happen next isn't too great already, while the couple sleeps you see odd foot prints soon covering the floor. As they both feel a mutual mind fuck about the prints, things just get worse. Katie is dragged from the bed to God knows where, due to Micah not grabbing the camera when he goes to get her. This is saying a lot, because he hardly lets the camera go from his hands when he's awake.
The ending was good. Without spoiling much, I will say that it seems the entity has been playing a mental game of chess with the couple. Unfortunately for them, this "demon" of sorts is like Gary Kasparov (the world's greatest chess player as of 2008) and they're the leader of the school's chess club.
To cut a long review short, if you like scary movies, go see this. Every time it cut to them sleeping, I was gripping my seat just waiting for the demon to do something. To be honest, that makes him/her my favorite character. For those unfamiliar to the paranormal, people generally believe that an entity draws from negative energy to makes it's presence known. This entity does a great job. Constantly waking the couple to the point where they are sleep deprived and short tempered gives it the energy to keep going til it takes over of the household. Overall, I recommend it for horror fans and people looking for a good scare. I know I won't be sleeping tonight very well.
Till the Next Time,
Mike
South Park Returns!
Hola all,
South Park returned with its fall premiere last Wednesday, called Dead Celebrities. It was a very topical episode as almost all of them have been over the past few seasons. This episode started with Ike claiming that he was being haunted by celebrities who died over the past summer. It turns out that all of these celebrities are being bound to the Earth because Michael Jackson has not accepted his death. Jaco then possesses Ike and in order to save Ike's soul, the South Park gang must enter him in a beauty pageant so Michael can fulfill his dream of being a beautiful young girl. Luckily Cartman is able to bribe the judge and get Ike to win the show. This allows all the celebrities to pass on to hell where they have to wait because "Hell is a towing gate."
There were several funny parts to the episode that really make it worth the watch including Kyle and Cartman arguing over why a person would keep eating chipotle if it makes you bleed out your butt. there was a very sixth senseish beginning with Ike talking about seeing dead celebrities. I would definitely recommend this episode for any fan of South Park or fans of dead celebrities. You can watch South Park on Comedy Central on Wednesdays at 9(central) or any time at www.southparkstudios.com/
See you later,
Razz
South Park returned with its fall premiere last Wednesday, called Dead Celebrities. It was a very topical episode as almost all of them have been over the past few seasons. This episode started with Ike claiming that he was being haunted by celebrities who died over the past summer. It turns out that all of these celebrities are being bound to the Earth because Michael Jackson has not accepted his death. Jaco then possesses Ike and in order to save Ike's soul, the South Park gang must enter him in a beauty pageant so Michael can fulfill his dream of being a beautiful young girl. Luckily Cartman is able to bribe the judge and get Ike to win the show. This allows all the celebrities to pass on to hell where they have to wait because "Hell is a towing gate."
There were several funny parts to the episode that really make it worth the watch including Kyle and Cartman arguing over why a person would keep eating chipotle if it makes you bleed out your butt. there was a very sixth senseish beginning with Ike talking about seeing dead celebrities. I would definitely recommend this episode for any fan of South Park or fans of dead celebrities. You can watch South Park on Comedy Central on Wednesdays at 9(central) or any time at www.southparkstudios.com/
See you later,
Razz
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Firs -- damnit!
Hello viewing public! This is Mike, part of what is ultimately Mike and Razz. I just wanted to give an overview of such of how the blog work. Razz and myself will post reviews of everything from the latest games to movies, TV, and more. What we hope to ultimately do is have a podcast also set up on here, instead of doing the blog postings. Don't fret though, we'll still be posting, but the podcast is what we're aiming for. If you have any kind of expertise and would like to help us, you can contact us at mikeandrazz@yahoo.com
Til the next time,
Mike
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
FIRST!!!!!!!!
Hey everybody this is a blog for Michael Nadler and Jason Rasberry. We are two guys that just wanna make our opinions known. There will be more post to come including our official podcast. if you have any questions feel free to e-mail us at: mikeandrazz@yahoo.com more to come later.
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