Don't watch this movie

Don't Watch this Movie

Word.

The Montage

On Thursday's night I went out to City Center -I gigantic mall in the west bay of Doha, no where near the actual city center - to watch 300. Unfortunately, due to the lack of other name worthy movies playing, all shows were already sold out. So movie night had to be delayed to Friday.

So last night, instead of heading to the mall again, I got the DVD of Rocky Balboa. It was quite the usual good guy does well in the end, but I felt that it had some encoded messages with some value to them. I felt it was a conservatives' movie.

I personally don't think that is quote is directed only to Rocky's son. It is directed to all of those "I need to find someone to blame for my misfortunes out there", and if you read carefully, you might see where it is headed.

Let me tell you something you already know, the world isn't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or anybody. It is going to hit us as hard as life, but it isn't about as hard you hit, it is about how much you can get hit and keep moving forward. It is about how much you can take and keep moving forward, thats how winning is done. Now if you know what you are worth, go out and get what you're worth, but you've got to be willing to take the hits. And not pointing fingers and say you aren't what you want to be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that isn't you. You're better than that!

Of course, the movie had its montage. It wasn't as colorful as the one in Rocky III, or as dramatic as the one in Rocky IV. I think it made up for the whole horrible piece crap called Rocky V. If Rambo 4 is as entertaining as this was, I might just forgive 60 year old Sly for trying to import GH.

Let me leave you to the greatest Rocky inspired montage of all time. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zixAjmrmn6g

March Madness!

Oh yeah! March is here, and comes with it this blog. Cheers to that!

In four days I would have completed six long months in Qatar. Not much has changed, I started a new job, started hanging out with some new friends, and lost some muscle weight. I can't complain that much, it could have been worse.

One of the norms in life over here is the huge exposure to movies. As there isn't much to be done over here I am averaging about two movies a week, plus my usual TV shows, The Unit, NCIS, and CSI: NY.

I just finished watching the DVD of the Departed, and it was really good. I didn't expect that a movie with Alec Baldwin would involve any real acting, but was I surprised. Everything about that movie rocked, and I think I am getting the special edition DVD if it comes out. Mark Wahlberg was really entertaining, just watch this clip.



Next week I start training for next year's marathons. My main goal is to qualify for the 2009 Boston Marathon. My plan is to train in two sixteen week cycles, the first cycle is to get comfortable with the idea of running 26 miles. The second cycle is to get my speed and endurance up. Hopefully, if I stay injury free, I will be able to run three marathons in 2008, or qualify for Boston, I'll take what ever comes first.

-CZ

What a pile of crap...

So I finished watching Babel, and was I disappointed... This movie is the biggest pile of cow crap stacked in 2 hours and 14 minutes, the story was lame, the acting was boring, and the style of connecting stories as if this was Syriana just doesn't work.
I am not sure if the whole point of showing the stories is supposed to trigger emotions of compassion to people with disabilities, sheep herders in the middle of the north African desert, or illegal aliens trying to cross the border to continue on with their lives? There are two things I am sure about after watching this movie:

1. There is no limit to human stupidity,
2. Behind every crappy situation, there was a pea-brain involved.

Spoiler Warning: Don't continue to read if you plan to watch this crap.

1. Kids are kids, but kids also know that shooting live ammo into moving vehicles is a stupid idea. One died, natural selection at its finest. You have to feel sorry for the dad though, another example of why people should use birth control...

2. Just because you are deaf, that doesn't mean it is okay to do drugs and get naked in front of cops... I am sure her mom committed suicide because she realized how stupid her daughter was.

3. If you know that you have a trip that involves multiple police check points, don't get drunk. If you are drunk and operating a vehicle, you deserve a cap busted up yours.

4. Since when having an exotic vacation is an excuse to leave your kids at home with a baby sitter? That is not parenting, and what happened to Brad Pitt and his wife is Karma... Just ask Earl.

5. Don't blame God or Language barriers for your misfortunes, shit happened because you're stupid.

We are all Doomed...

Back in 2005, I was excited when I heard that there was a Splinter Cell movie in the making. Not any more...

I've just finished watching the DVD of "Doom", and I was kinda surprised by how lame, and lacking to originality the story was. How many times are we going to expect the Space Marines to come to save the day from Aliens? I felt like I was watching a modern version of the Movie Aliens, with better graphics, cooler guns, and some new scientific imagination, but as I said before, it was lacking originality.

I think the problem with movies that are inspired by video games, is that they are quite stupid. Which makes me wonder, why do we -I personally- enjoy the games so much? Is it because when I am playing the game, I don't expect to think about the story line as much? Or is it because when I am watching a movie, I expect to see something that will make me feel that I made a solid investment with my 10 dollars?

On a side note, the idea of Marines in Space is a cool idea. But with the emergence of ballistic missiles capable of blowing up satellites, I am kinda pessimistic about the deployment of the idea. As I am sure the idea of having Marines flying over you might actually piss off a lot of people in this world, including Army folks!

Curing the Itch!

It has been five days since my last blog and I've had the greatest desire to blog something positive. Unfortunately, with the weak collection of news, blogs, and articles on my RSS feeds, I had to get my fix of blogging by posting this. So bear with me...
Lets go over some of the things that have bugged me over the last couple of days. First, the Washington Riots. Do these people realize that we are not in the sixties anymore? Somebody needs to lock Jane Fonda up, thats all I have to say...
Secondly, the Palestinians are going at again, and again and I am really not sure how they want any one to take them seriously with their stupid shit.
Finally, I am glad the state of Lebanon is back to normal - what exactly is normal?!! - and I am sorry for what has happened in Pakistan, and I am glad another page is being turned over the Abu Graib case...

After getting that off my chest, I feel comfortable enough to talk about some of the less important things in life like upcoming movies. I've some promising trailers of movies that I don't think that they will get enough attention once they come out. Rescue Dawn will probably be another piece of evidence on how Christian Bale is the best actor of our generation -the best Batman EVER-, and Shooter will probably have you hoping that the Predator comes from space rips Danny Glover's face into a Philly Stake. Oh yeah, Eddie Murphy is broke again, so I guess we all need to go check out Norbit...

-CZ