Listen up Hollywood, and you too Sylvester Stallone, “Your sequels blow!” Rocky, you should be dead by now, give it up. Rambo, vietnam is over, come back home!

As we watched the previews for Alien vs Predator 2, today, I couldn’t help but notice all the trailers were for sequels. Let’s see we saw previews for Step Up 2 which looked like another gay dancing movie and Rambo which is horribly predictable. You ought to pay me to see those sequels and you should have paid me to see Alien vs Predator 2.

When Alien vs Predator 1 was released I thought that some of the sets looked fake, especially the one with the frozen town. Granted, it had a decent story and was able to keep my attention. Something I can’t say the same for Alien vs Predator 2.

The whole movie was dreadfully slow. It was painful, like pulling teeth. Whoever approved the script for it should be fired. There were a lot of “filler” scenes were you would just see fighting between an alien and a predator. How boring. Wake me when it’s over. At least in the previous film, there was an interaction and understanding between the humans and the predators. Not so in part AVP2. There was just so much killing and dieing that you didn’t care who lived and who died anymore. To hell with ‘em all. They even had the audacity to kill of the hot chick at the end played who was played by Kristen Hager. What kind of world are we living in where the only hot chick in a movie dies. Pathetic.

Perhaps they tried to had. No, they did try too hard. It was over KILL. They must have sat down at a table and said, “What haven’t we killed before? Let’s see.. Oh! How about children and pregnant women. Sounds great! Lets do it.” And so they did. Hold on, I am going to give away the ending (don’t worry it is not worth seeing anyways) but at the end they even killed the whole town! Where haven’t we seen a town blown up due to containmentation before? Boring. It would have been better if the military came in and killed them all with hand weapons and then used the alien technology to build a ship and fly to deliver the nuke to the alien home world. Now I’m thinking that I should be writing the scripts. People that know me, know I’d be good at inventing crazy-ass plots like that. What has Hollywood come to!

It was the same old story. I wanted the aliens or the predators to do something new that they’ve never done before. Don’t they ever invest in technology. They are able to travel through space, but yet they can’t come up with like better weapons. The only weapons the predator has is 1). Kung Fu 2). A knife 3). A shoulder mounted ray gun 4). a comakozie bomb on their wrist. Aliens what can they do besides pour acid on you and pop out your belly. Give me something exciting, not the same ol’ dog and pony show. My brother complained because they only sent one predator after all the aliens. And it is true.. one predator? Lame sauce supreme!

The only saving grace is that they set themselves up well for Alien vs Predator 3. I am just not convinced that these same directors can pull it off.

It has been a while since I posted anything about television, but I liked this movie enough to post about it. Atonement is about a love story that never happened that should have happened but didn’t happen. A little girl had to ruin it. The story takes place before, during, and after World War II.

Over the break I saw several movies including War, Charlie Wilson’s War, Rush Hour 3, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Rise of the Footsolider (sux), and lastly Atonement. I would have to say that National Treasure and Atonement were byfar the best. If you’re looking for a film to rent, I would highly recommend this one.

Probably the best movie I’ve seen in the longest time. Amazing Grace is about the abolition of the slave trade in Great Britain and William Wilberforce’s crusade to end it.

The title of the movie gives away the fact that it is about diamonds and blood, which both give away the fact that it is about africa. Blood Diamond is about an african that finds the biggest bling-bling ever in the mud and hides it. A british smuggler comes along and offers to help the african reunite him with his family, if he will give up the location of the bling-bling. Along the way they almost get bling-bang’ed by some other africanos and the army. Oh yeah.. and there is a hot journalist that comes and makes lovy-dubby to the british. Worth the watch.

Eragon is about a dragon rider and the battle that pursues after his indoctrination. When the dragon and his rider come together they make magic, but.. if the rider dies.. so does his dragon. A farm boy becomes a dragon riding man in this epic fantasy film. He loses all the ones he loves, but he learns to love agian. Awhh..

Babel, is a tragedy about the suffering we inflict upon each other. Truly, people are people regardless of the language that separate us.

The story goes.. A rifle is sold to a Moroccan family. The children, playing around with it, shoot at a bus filled with American tourists… I don’t want to give to much away, but it is an excellent film.

Man Of The Year is probably the worst movie of the decade. In its effort to try and mix comedy and politics, it completely fails. The movie is about a comedian, Tom Dobbs played by Robin Williams, who becomes the President of the United States simply by voting error. Tom Dobbs runs a campagin on the fact that he does not like “party politics”. OK, whatever. Many of Robin William’s jokes are just horrible, they are so not funny. When people laugh at them in the movie it seems so forced. One thing is for sure, politics are not funny. Not even Robin Williams can make politics funny. Politics are boring and the movie tries and pushes its own political adgenda.

About the actors themselves.. Christopher Walken should have passed on this script, but maybe he is short on cash. The quality of Robin William’s movies the past couple of years have been sorry.