Do you feel funky, punk?!
This is what you get when you cross The Punisher! You get punished right through physical objects.
Film Review: Armored (2009)
Armored starts off as a somewhat promising deviation from the standard heist movie and then quickly degenerates into formulaic action fare. The plot revolves around a team of armored truck guards led by Matt Dillion. They decide that, on a day when they're transporting an unusually large amount of money, they're going to stage a hijacking and take the money for themselves. Things don't go according to plan, because if they did, it would make for a really boring movie. Unfortunately, it's still a predictable, boring movie.
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Film Review: Planet 51 (2009)
Some of the promotional material would have you believe that Planet 51 is about a human astronaut that lands on an alien world and is hunted out of fear and ignorance. In reality, Planet 51 is about Lem, a teenage alien (we're never given a name for the species) whose life gets turned upside down when a visitor from another planet lands in his backyard.
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South Korean Driver Gets License On 960th Attempt
Cha Sa-soon, a 69-year-old woman in Seoul, South Korea, passed the written portion of the South Korean driver's license test on her 960th try. The behind-the-wheel portion only took her 10 tries, and while that's still pretty terrible, it makes her look like Jeff Gordon in comparison to 960 tries. She's been taking the test almost daily since April of 2005 and she finally passed last year. This makes me wonder if she should even be driving. Nevermind the fact that she's already pushing 70, but it took her five years of trying almost everyday to pass the exam. Even though she did pass eventually, does that still count as qualified?
My friend Michael Kwan wrote a blog post today that seems incredibly appropriate entitled Fine Line Between Persistence and Obstinance.
This is a story near and dear to my heart. I'm 25-years-old and I don't have my license. Now, if it takes me 959 times to pass the written portion, I won't feel that terrible.
Film Review: Pirate Radio (2009)
Pirate Radio is about several things, but swashbuckling is unfortunately not one of them. It's about Radio Rock, a rock n' roll radio station illegally broadcasting to the United Kingdom out of the North Sea in the 1960s. It's about the men (and woman, but a lesbian, so it's ok) running the ship and the rebellious, unorthodox lives that they lead. It's about young Carl (Tom Sturridge), who's sent to live on the ship with his godfather Quentin (Bill Nighy), the ship's Captain, to get his life on the right track. Oops. Finally, it's about select members of the British government who have made it their mission in life to destroy pirate radio. They don't want to simply fine or punish, they want to wipe it from the face of the Earth.
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