Archive for September 1st, 2007
Movie: Rise (Review)
I’m honestly in question about the integrity of writers after watching Rise (not that I wasn’t in question of most writers before). I can picture writers sitting around and having this conversation:
Writer 1: “Lets write a movie about a girl who becomes a vampire but wants to be good and kill the bad vampires.”
Writer 2: “We just watched a movie that did that about an hour ago.”
Writer 1: “Yeah but it was awesome.”
Writer 2: “Good point, open up a new word document.”
That being said, I really can’t give it any point for coming up with a good plot. As far as the acting goes…well Lucy Liu showed a lot of ass, does that count? It wasn’t bad though, it was just more of a ‘meh, still doesn’t make the movie not suck’ thing. Lucy Liu is attractive, don’t get me wrong but watching her gnaw on a dead homeless man’s arm really isn’t a turn on for me.
I don’t know what else to say about this movie, it’s just blood and ass with a weak plot thrown in. At least they tried though right?
Total: 5.5/10 I’ll have a glass of 1968 Oriental with a side of prostitute, hold the STDs.
SN Update: Empire
The Empire of Shirt Ninjas has been moved over to WordPress, it should be a little bit easier on the eyes now. The funny thing while moving it over I realized how many spelling mistakes were in there, and there was A LOT of them. I’m tempted to set up a database and proper application form for it (compared to me manually putting them all in after the applicant emails me the info) but since it’s been over a year since the last time anybody has shown any interest in it I’ll hold off on that I think
An ideal situation would be to have each ninja have a full profile uncluding the current info provided, a bio (real or fake, whatever), more images, and maybe contact and website info. But as I said, would require more work and I think it would be pointless unless it becomes “cool” to be a ninja again.
Other than that I’m still working on the layout, WordPress layouts are crap compared to Movable Type to say the least. I’d much rather work with CSS than have to code everything in PHP. Yes, PHP might work better in the long run, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s a royal pain in the ass. Anyway, I’m working on it.