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I'm a musician, singer/songwriter, blogger, writer, poet, bodybuilder, movie lover, music lover, video gamer, history/political buff, conservative/republican, etc. I like to do a lot of things.
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Film Review: Tropic Thunder

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Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey

Directed by: Ben Stiller

 

So I went to the mall today and finally got around to seeing the movie “Tropic Thunder” directed by Ben Stiller who also stars the leading role himself. The movie is basically about three men Tugg Speedman (Stiller), Kirk Lazarus (Downey Jr.) and Jeff Portnoy (Black) are making a high budget war movie, things in the film they were making were going so good until freak accidents happen during the making of the film. The three film makers are attacked and Speedman have been kidnapped by their enemies called The Flaming Dragon gang which is a gang that makes heroine drugs.

Jack Black’s character Jeff Portnoy is a heroine addict and all he thinks about is doing heroine, he was half scared and half excited going to the Dragons village where they make heroine ’cause he couldn’t wait to get his hands on some. Their film making ways get turned into real life and the actors are forced to portray their characters in real life instead of film in order to get out of the jungle to survive from the evil Dragon gang.

My thoughts on the film? It is one of the most funniest comedies in a long time, it was outrageous. I think it’s Ben Stiller’s best flick by far. He did a great job with this one. Most of Ben Stiller’s directed movies haven’t been all that great but “Tropic Thunder” is actually a really good one. Very good imagination and very good storytelling, pretty original I must say.

I know I said I hate Tom Cruise, but his character was actually really good in this. Tom Cruise plays a character name Lee Grossman which he is bald and fat, wears glasses, and has a beard and mustache in this one. Tom Cruise uses a lot of profanity and nasty talk in this character. Most people calls Tom Cruise’s role in this film a cameo, but it’s actually more than a cameo. Cruise is pretty much throughout the entire film, he’s pretty much a co-star, not a cameo.

Of course, Stiller is always having surprise cameos in his flicks, this one had Tobey Maguire, Jon Voight, Lance Bass, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Tyra Banks and more.

This film is extremely entertaining. Great job Ben!!!

Score for “Tropic Thunder” = **** (4 stars as in excellent)

Kev

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Report: Aerosmith to hit the studio for new album at the end of this month and go on world tour in support of it!

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Steven Tyler just announced that Aerosmith will head back into the studio for a new studio album. This album will be all new original material. It won’t be a blues cover album like “Honkin’ On Bobo” was, their last studio album released back in 2004.

The band had already booked a full world tour, said the tour will start either March or April after the new album is completed.

More on it here:

http://www.aeroforceone.com/index.cfm/pk/view/cd/NAA/cdid/1040206/pid/302766

Rock n’ roll is making a comeback to the mainstream! Hopefully the new Aerosmith album will be a strictly rock record, I want to hear Joe Perry’s great guitar playing. Hopefully the new album will stay away from classical orchestration and keyboard synthesizers. I want to hear rock n’ roll! Not that mellow pop shit from Aerosmith.

Kev

Politics/war, TV

Report: Barack Obama to battle it out with Bill O’ on the “O’ Reilly Factor” tonight…

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Barack Obama will appear on the “O’ Reilly Factor” to be interviewed by Bill O’ Reilly tonight at 8 p.m. on FOX. I’m sure Barack will have a lot to say about Palin’s speech from last night so this ought to be interesting. Will Barack and Mr. Bill get into a heated argument tonight? They probably will. I’ll be watching. I’ll post youtube videos of this interview later in the week for those who don’t get to see it.

Kev

Politics/war, TV

Report: Barack Obama to battle it out with Bill O’ on the “O’ Reilly Factor” tonight…

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Barack Obama will appear on the “O’ Reilly Factor” to be interviewed by Bill O’ Reilly tonight at 8 p.m. on FOX. I’m sure Barack will have a lot to say about Palin’s speech from last night so this ought to be interesting. Will Barack and Mr. Bill get into a heated argument tonight? They probably will. I’ll be watching. I’ll post youtube videos of this interview later in the week for those who don’t get to see it.

Kev

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Report: Jimmy Page defends Olympics performance with Leona Lewis…

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Jimmy Page is dissapointed with the negative criticism he received from critics and music fans of his performance with Leona Lewis at the Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony. Jimmy Page defended it saying that it was an honour for him and Leona to be there performing together, and he says they did a good job performing the Led Zeppelin song “Whole Lotta Love”. Jimmy is proud of the performance and says people need to be less cynical.

More on it here:

http://www.pr-inside.com/page-defends-olympics-performance-r787804.htm

I’ll have to agree with Page on this one. I heard audio tracks of the performance in youtube and it wasn’t all that bad.

The only reason I can think of why people didn’t like that performance is because people didn’t like the idea of a pop mainstream star performing with a legendary rock god. Everyone was probably expecting Robert Plant to sing with Jimmy Page at the Olympics. While I’m sure the Beijing Olympics asked for a Plant & Page duo for return, I’m positive that Robert Plant himself turned it down. That is probably the reason Page got Leona Lewis instead.

Keep in mind that Jimmy Page collaborated with almost every famous musician you can think of from Puff Daddy to the Black Crowes.

I mean, christ, he’s fuckin’ Jimmy Page, he can perform with who ever he wants. He doesn’t care if he plays guitar for Michael Jackson or even Ricky Martin or Usher. This man will play guitar for anybody. He just wants to play guitar no matter who he is playing with. It’s not always going to be with Led Zeppelin or Robert Plant, get over it people.

Kev

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Report: Guillermo Del Toro is a busy man through 2017 and beyond…

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“Hellboy” director Guillermo Del Toro will not only soon be working on the two “Hobbit” prequels, he has plenty of more films to direct ahead of him that will keep him busy through 2017 and beyond. Del Torro has three remakes planned with movies like “Frankenstein”, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, and “Slaughterhouse-Five”. He also has a film titled “Drood” which will be adapted from a novel by Dan Simmons. He also has plenty of other films in the planning stages as the article explains. Also don’t be surprised if he already has a “Hellboy 3” in the planning stages right now as well.

Most big name directors are slow at choosing their next movie when completed the one they just did but not in Del Torro’s case. The man is always working.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117991560.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Steven Spielberg and Guillermo Del Toro are the only two directors I can think of that are hard working than anyone else. That’s all those two guys do is make movies. Del Toro is a talented director though. I like the first “Hellboy” film and I want to see the 2nd one too.

Kev

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Report: Aaron Eckhart hints Angelina Jolie maybe the next Catwoman for Batman 3…

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In this interview at Superhero Hype website, Aaron Eckhart who played Harvey Dent/Two Face in “The Dark Knight” confirmed he won’t be returning to the character in Chris Nolan’s Batman 3. However, Aaron did hint that Angelina Jolie maybe the next Catwoman.

More on it here:

http://www.superherohype.com/news/featuresnews.php?id=7641

While it does kind of suck that Two Face won’t be returning, I hope it is true that Angelina Jolie would be the next Catwoman.

If Chris Nolan is going to have Catwoman for the next Batman movie, they need a really good actress who can pull that role off, really good acting for Catwoman. Well, Angelina Jolie has acting talent, she’ll pull that Catwoman role off perfectly and she’ll definitely play it way better than Halle Berry.

I hope Mr. Nolan gets Angie for Catwoman. Angie’s a great choice.

Kev

Politics/war

Report: Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani deliver amazing speeches at last night’s RNC!!! Woah!!!

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I watched last night’s RNC and I was just blown away. Now that was an amazing acceptance speech Sarah Palin did. She did an excellent job for her first big political speech. She looks very confident, she never seemed nervous, she delivered a powerful and intense speech. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver was weak, Sarah’s was strong.

Sarah proved her point that she does have more political experience than Barack Obama does. Barack is just a senator, that’s all he has done in politics. Sarah however was a small town mayor and Alaska governor, that’s a lot of work than Barack has ever done. So Barack Obama better shut his mouth when he says that Sarah has no experience. Maybe Barack better do his research on her first before slandering her.

She slammed Barack Obama a little bit, saying how Barack wants to raise taxes and McCain plans to lower them. She mostly introduced her entire family at the convention, she slammed the press and media about her daughter Bristol’s pregnancy, she explains that McCain always concentrated on being “Country First” and said that McCain would rather lose to an election, rather than losing a war.

I fucking loved it when Giuliani says that Barack “led nothing, nada, nothing”!!! I completely agree with him too. Barack Obama is a phony. A loser. Obama doesn’t have what it takes to lead this country. The only reason people like Obama so much is because America wants a first black president who is young, and Americans enjoys listening to his speeches instead of how he is concentrating on planning to run the country. Obama is horrible. People just side with Obama because they’re democrats.

John McCain isn’t the George W. Bush of the Elections. Barack Obama is. Those who just want the war in Iraq to end and US soldiers to be sent home, are insane. You’ll regret it later, if the war ends, troops get sent home, and terrorists attack us more. If Barack Obama is elected, if he sends the troops home right away and end the war like that. It’ll make Americans look bad. Do you really want that? We must finish what we started in the war. We can’t just end the war like this and send the troops home. You Obama lovers have to think about that.

John McCain and Sarah Palin are incredible and they will run our country the right way. Barack Obama is never gonna be president. I just know it. John McCain will be our next leader. I’ve been rooting for McCain from day 1. You may want to rethink your choice on Obama and think how you are making a huge mistake rooting for Obama. McCain is the man. McCain/Palin is who I’m voting for!

Kev

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Report: Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” leaks in French record store, but the band says they’re happy about it…

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Blabbermouth is exclusively reporting that several copies of the new Metallica CD has already been sold to a French record store. Blabbermouth also shows pictures of the CD cover of the new album before it’s out.

Check ’em out here:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=103902

However, Lars says he and the band have no problem with the album getting stolen and leaked. They seem to be happy that the new album is already quickly spreading around and they seem good about the promotion. Pretty funny considering that this is coming from a band who started a Napster battle years ago.

More on it here:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=103943

I’m sure the album will get leaked online very soon. According to Metallica’s website, they seemed to have a change of heart with leaked music on the internet, that’s why Metallica put up posts saying “Leak Central”.

Good for Metallica for not being angry about it! Yeah!

Kev

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Report: U2 going back to old school sound for new album…

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Bono announced on the official U2 website, U2.com, that the band U2 plans to go back to their old school rock n’ roll sound they had back in the early 80’s and 90’s. The band wants to take a step away from their electronica and pop/rock stuff they’ve done the last 4 albums and is planning to go back to their old roots. Bono compares the sound to the new album to “The Joshua Tree” up to “Achtung Baby”.

Read more on it here:

http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=2249

This is sweet news!!!! Metallica going back to old school and now U2 is!!!!

Looking forward to the new album now.

U2 is an important band to me, I’ve admired them for years ever since I was a child.

Kev