And so it begins...

So, for some reason, I've decided to start a blog.
Probably just going to be longer, more rant induced, lovey dovey, complainy, critical and potentially cynical status updates. Although most of it will probably just be reviews of the last movie I watched...

Cool pictures, things I've overheard or been asked, or just general philosophising about life and times.

This first blog comes to you from my living room... as will most of them I presume, and has been fuelled by a day off work sick.
Belly ache is NOT FUN! Especially when you feel alright one minute and not the next.
But I've had The Foot Fist Way and Soylent Green to keep me entertained up until now.

The Foot Fist Way, an awesome comedy starring Danny McBride (Eastbound And Down, Hot Rod, Pineapple Express) who plays Fred Simmons, a Tae Kwon Do instructor, who teaches people of all ages.
He takes his life of Tae Kwon Do very seriously, giving his every bit of effort to the cause, donning his outfit pretty much 24/7 and having pictures around his dojo of his one and only hero Chuck "The Truck" Wallace, who looks like a slightly less dishevelled Kurt Cobain, but still on the drugs.
The movie takes you on a trip through a couple of weeks of his life ... his whore of a wife, his Tae Kwon Do displays, and his final meeting of his hero, Chuck The Truck.
The cast aren't all that famous, but this isn't such a bad thing as we all probably know, so I would like to give this film a big fat two thumbs up :)
Definitely for fans of stoner movies a la Kevin Smith and Seth Rogen

Next would be Soylent Green...
made in 1973, this movie stars Charlton Heston and was the last ever performance by a man called Edward G Robinson... who I had never heard of until this movie, but he seems like a brilliant actor!
Heston plays a cop, Detective Thorn, who lives in an overpopulated New York in 2022. His housemate Sol (Edward G Robinson) is his investigator, the only person who has access to a mass library of books and information that can help solve the crimes that Thorn is investigating.
The leader of the Soylent corporation gets killed, and as Thorn uses the help of Sol to unravel the mystery of who and why he got murdered, they find out the real truth behind the food that everyone can't get enough of... and that food is Soylent Green.
The whole cast are constantly covered in sweat as this is supposed to be a message about global warming and it being pretty damn hot all the time, but whilst watching this film, you can't help but think it must have smelled like Jabba The Hutt's left testicle if he was holidaying on Tattooine.

I would definitely suggest both of those movies and can safely say I don't feel like I've wasted nearly 3 hours of my life between the two of them... as I did when I was forced to watch the Twilight movies. That was almost FOUR hours of my life that I'm not getting back... now meditate on that!

The Foot Fist Way Trailer

Soylent Green Trailer