Wall e

So the story takes place about 700 years from now on planet Earth which has been completely abandoned. Apparently large corporations have made it so we became a world of buying things without having anywhere to put it afterwards. The world basically became a trash dump. Wall e was created as basically a smart trash compactor. Hundreds of him were created at the beginning but only one remains. The Wall e.
People left earth on a gigantic spaceship to roam the universe until the Wall e’s got it all cleaned up. 700 years later the world is still a mess and the one Wall e has managed to create gigantic building size towers out of garbage. With a cockroach that follows him around all day and stealing spare parts from the other model Wall e’s, he survives and gets curious about little objects he finds.
Soon he gets a visit from Eve, a girl robot (I guess) who was sent to check for plant life on the planet. She finds Wall e and he falls in love. She finds plants and her prime directive takes over and she takes back off to the ship and Wall e follows.
I wont give away the rest of the story, but it is pretty cute and the little robot manages to entertain for the full movie, along with help from some of his friends he meets along the way. All in all it’s a cute movie that keeps your attention and makes you want a robot to find love. Some of the parts though tend to get into the “I’m trying to influence people’s opinions about the world and the way they should be living.
The short movie before the movie is pretty good too. I give the movie a 4 out of 5 on the awesomeness scale

Battlestar Galactica

Mid Season Finale

The best show on TV by far. They just keep getting better and better, and you know what the best part is. They know when to end a good thing so that it doesn’t start to suck. This is the final year for BSG and we are halfway through it. They just concluded the mid season finale and what a fracking awesome one it was. Let’s recap a little shall we. The goal of this part of the season is all about finding earth and revealing the final five cylons. Four of the five are known, but there is still one out there that has everyone guessing.
The cylons themselves are starting to divide and to choose sides. Half of the 9 known have decided to ally themselves with the humans and search for earth peacefully. They do this by giving the humans the Resurrection Hub, and the ability to destroy it. With this gone, the cylons can no longer redownload; essentially, they are mortal and have something to lose now. So, with this in mind, the cylons that are hiding among the fleet (Colonel Tigh, Lieutenant Anders, Chief Tyrol, and Presidential aid Tory) decide to come forward and reveal themselves.
They are given amnesty by the interim President Lee Adama, as a show of peace, and they discover that the ship that Starbuck flew in on is the key, the map to finding earth. In it is the heading and coordinates to the exact location. In probably the coolest line ever by Admiral Adama, he says to Lee and Laura, “You two gonna keep flapping your lips, or are we gonna go find Earth”. Lee recommends a recon be sent and the Admiral replies, “Frack it, this is the end of the line”.
He gives Laura the honor of taking command of the jump and the ships appear over a blue planet with exact matching constellations. The fleet erupts in cheers and hugs and just general awesomeness. Groups of raptors take the main contingent of humans, and the cylons down to the planet. When the camera pans around, there are the remains of human civilization. Bridges destroyed, halves of buildings, it looks as if the thirteenth tribe has long been gone from this planet.
The next twelve episodes are going to focus on colonizing Earth and revealing the 12th and final cylon. It should be amazing and I am frackin excited to see how they end it

The Incredible Hulk

HULK SMASH!!!! Very well done and awesome. The movie doesn’t bore you with the whole, “how did he get like this” crap. They use the opening credits to shortly explain and show what happened to Bruce Banner to make him this green giant. After that, it takes you directly to Edward Norton living in hiding and on the run in Brazil. Edward Norton pulls off an amazing portrayal of Bruce Banner and his inner struggle with the green monster. He has successfully thwarted The US Army and William Hurt’s character for 5 months. This is until a drop of his blood accidently gets spilled and winds up in a bottle of Brazilian soda.
With a cameo from Mister Stan Lee himself drinking it, and receiving slight gamma poisoning, this leads the General to track down where Banner is hiding. In an extremely well done and exciting chase scene, Banner and a few military special ops commandos, tear across rooftops while Banner periodically stops to try and calm his heart rate. They corner him in the bottling plant and he loses control. They tease you with this encounter, showing shadows and glimpses of the Hulking Monster that we want to see kick some tail.
The encounter ends and Banner wakes up in the middle of the jungle wearing only a pair of torn jeans. He makes his way back to America to seek out Betty, his love that he had to leave to protect. One of the soldiers is intrigued by the Hulk and wants another shot at him. He becomes a super soldier, infused with a small does of the same stuff as Banner. This turns into my favorite scene from the movie, The Hulk versus the military, soldiers, tanks, choppers, and Bolsky, the super soldier. Crazy awesome with the effects and the fighting.
Everything leads to a climactic battle with Bolsky craving the serum to much which turns him into the much too talkative Abomination. The battle between these two goliaths is epic and extremely well done. The graphics and the some of the sequences are pure eye candy. They make you want to root for the green guy. Very well done and a must see for fans and non fans alike.
At the end of the movie there is also a special appearance of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. (Iron Man) which hints to a future movie that could perhaps be ….. Justice League, Freakin’ Awesome.Overall 4 out of 5 on the awesomeness scale

Dinner with the siblings

Brady is working for the bills yo. He aint cheap either, those are $20's. His parents seem to think he is awesome and special and i guess worht those bills. I aint seen nothing special. He just drools a lot. Just playing, cool kid.

Apparently he is using the 20's to buy some dinner. Kid can put it away.

He doesn't even know me. he is going to get stolen by a stranger. Way to go Jonny, teach him to love everyone. You know what this kids safe word is gonna be when he goes to school. "Hey kid, want some candy", Way to be super dad brother.

They look cute now, but Brady can run and Emily will just cute you to death.

So i got to be the lucky one to sit next to Emily and she liked me food more than i did apparently.

GQ Jonny

See Jason is an awesome brother. We will see how awesome he is after this hike. He could be responsible for killing dad. Jason could be the dad killer. We will see how that goes.

Disneyland

Tori and Jaclyn decided that they would argue on the way up to Disneyland. It was pretty funny cause they just decided to yell louder and louder at each other. Neither made sense, so it made the time fly.

Still arguing. Yeah it went on for a bit.

On Big Thunder Mountain. It didn't derail and we didn't die (which i think is a good thing)

The Magic Kingdom, still the happiest place on earth.

The graduate, Im not sure if Mickey ever graduated anything, but Jaclyn did.

Both 2008 graduates, High School and College.

Tori and Jaclyn on the Matterhorn, There was some screaming involed and I think a Yeti

Matterhorn Mountain

Lex and Me

What a shocker, Tori found time at Disneyland, the happiest frickin' place on earth, to read a book. It was in line for Splash Mountain, she didn't want to go. She said we would get soaked. Well we did get soaked, but that is beside the point.

Flume: an amusement park ride in which passengers are carried in a boatlike or loglike conveyance through a narrow, water-filled chute or over a water slide.

That is just an awesome word.



Space Mountain, she didn't wine about this ride



So here is the situation, The evil emporer Zurg and his group of evil machines have stolen all of the galaxies batteries. This is a bad situation. We must help the little green aliens get the batteries back and stick to his evil emporerness. I owned at this game. Sweet ride

Goofy, just wanted a break and I think he was a little ticked that he wasn't allowed to ride the rockets.

Hanging with the Bloomfields

Yeah Tori will probably be pissed I put this on but i couldn't help it. She was snoring too. Whatever she got the couch, I had the floor i will post all the embarrassing pictures i want to.
Lara, I was able to snap the picture before she was. She's like the little sister i never had. (sorry Tori) Just kidding but she is pretty cool. Ok so funny story, She asked if I wanted to play Guitar Hero. I was like ok lets play. She said are you sure? I said yeah. She jumped off the couch and said. "I am gonna pwn you." (no i didn't spell that wrong) Yeah and she actually did. Kid kicked my butt
This was like the 5th shot, we had to get it just right apparently
Yeah this kid didn't even remember that he ratted me out for jumping off the roof into the pool. Revenge buddy, I know where you sleep.
Blake and his girlfriend, They apparently had a great prom together. She is really nice and she wasn't scared away by Jason, Jon, and I so she is a keeper.

Jon pretty much got slammed on Mario Kart. He tried though. A for effort

The Incredible Hulk

Theatrical Release Date: 06/13/08

This one looks pretty good. I mean you can’t do much worse than the last disaster that they called The Hulk. I won’t get into that because it will just cause tears. They look like they will make it well and portray this superhero with awesomeness. I’m not really all that convinced about Edward Norton yet. He just doesn’t scream “superhero”. Of course Robert Downey Jr. didn’t either but he ended up being frickin’ awesome in Iron Man.
They finally have a bad guy suitable enough for the Hulk. Abomination looks like he will give them a run for their money and provide plenty of action and entertainment. I will be at the midnight for this one I think. This movie and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening come out the same day so that will be a tough one.

The Strangers

Yeah so um… got my heart going, and made me a little scared of the dark. It was done really well. If you are interested in a movie that will give you the creeps but not gross you out, this is the movie for you. It does have the typical, “you idiot don’t go in that room” moments, but surprisingly not to many. Its premise is a couple go out to his family home almost in the middle of nowhere. They are not in a happy mood seen as she just said no to his marriage proposal. Anyway, they are having an awkward night when someone beats on the door and asks if “Tamara” is home. You can’t see her face but her voice is enough to freak you out. Then throughout the rest of the movie, these three strangers, start to taunt and terrorize the couple by beating on the doors and windows, smashing up their car and only means of escape, and destroying any means of communication.
This goes on for pretty much the whole movie until the end when they finally decide to attack. I won’t ruin it, but it is pretty good and messes with your head.
For all those LDS members out their, (you know who you are) they represent us in the movie too. Pretty poorly though. Two young boys maybe 14 or 15 are walking up the road with white shirts, black slacks, backpacks, and bikes. They are the ones who stumble on the scene of the previous night. They are holding Christian Living pamphlets which initially led me to believe, “hey, maybe they aren’t Mormon.” Nope wrong in the credits, it has them listed as Mormon boy #1 and Mormon boy #2. Oh well doesn’t make them look like idiots.Anyway, the movie is good if you are in for a scare, but I would recommend sleeping with the blinds closed and don’t buy a house out in the middle of nowhere. 3.5 of 5 on the awesomeness scale.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Ok, this movie didn’t blow me away, but I really didn’t expect it to. I am not a huge fan of George Lucas but I am of Steven Spielberg. I feel like Lucas relies too much on what his ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) has done in the past to make his movies. To me it doesn’t seem like they have expanded much of their technology or CGI work since their Star Wars days. They still rely hugely on models, which are obvious in the movie. They hide their special effects with bright light in your eyes or other things to distract you. Whereas somehow when Spielberg did Transformers there was nothing hidden, the special effects were in your face and flawless.
The actors did pretty well. They didn’t hide Harrison Ford’s age and they didn’t need to. He pulled it off and sold it. Even his reaction with the woman from the first movie, they were able to bring her back successfully and make that relationship work. Shia Lebeouf, I don’t really know what to say about him. I really like him in all his other movies; he is funny and talented but for some reason this part didn’t go so well. 50’s greaser is not in his range I guess.
So the Indiana Jones movies have always had events in them that are far fetched and hold a yeah right feel to them. But they were always able to make you believe it could happen. In Temple of Doom, they made me believe a man could rip out another man’s heart just by saying “Kalima”; I even tried it a few times on Jon. This one though, the climactic end scene does make you believe, but it’s the little stuff like climbing into a lead lined fridge to survive a nuclear blast and then being thrown about 8 miles in that same fridge and just rolling out of it, that makes you think, What the snap were these guys smoking when they thought that up.
As for the overall storyline, in my opinion, blah and way too far fetched. The other movies pushed the limits and made it believable, this one doesn’t even know where the limits are and then takes you to la la land. It is adventurous; it has its humorous moments, and it does keep you interested, but not enough for me to say this was a great movie. I am kind of disappointed in the fact that I have to spend another 8 bucks to take my nephew to it, waste of time though. I will give it a 3 out of 5 on the Awesomeness scale because of Ford and that they tried.

Prince Caspian

This movie kept you entertained. It wasn’t edge of your seat, what’s gonna happen next, type of action but I think it was better than the first. To me in the first one the action/ fighting sequences were more defensive and didn’t really entertain. In this one you see Peter and Edmund more and more running up to a person kicking them in the chest and then punching them in the head. It was crazy cool like that.
Susan even stood out more with her Bow and Arrow skills, actually using them is a good thing. Lucy was more on the cute and funny side of the movie being the only one that could see Aslan for a while and setting off to find him. The special effects are phenomenal and the only flaw I would say would be with the centaurs. When they walk or run, it doesn’t seem to flow or look right like it did in the first.
The actor who plays Prince Caspian does really well and he provides humor and a sense of daring. Peter seems to be in conflict with this during the whole of the movie. The two best characters by far would have to be Reepicheep and the Dwarf. Their subtle humor carries you through the dramatic parts where there isn’t much of anything flashy. All in all a great movie and perfect for the family. 4 out of 5 on the awesomeness scale