where is my mind?

First I want to say that Luke when I was reading your review of 300 the only thing going through my mind was how lame that movie was except for the lead guy being way fucking hot in leather bikini thing and when he was naked and wondering if you were going to mention me somewhere in there. Then when you actually did I laughed pretty hard. You rule.

Glass Shield (Charles Burnett)

J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white-male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, who he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into grave personal danger in the service of justice.

This movie stars some 90's B celebs like Lori Petty and Michael Ironside and also had Ice Cube(as the bad guy of course). This movie was was a decent movie. I cared about the characters and wanted the bad guys to get caught because they were dicks. A bit formulaic in a white people are to blame for everything type of bullshit but not over the type like Spike Lee is. 
But really was nothing special. It got really confusing because they threw a bunch of names in there and expected you to remember a bunch of shit. I only watched it because Lori Petty is fucking awesome. Remember Tank Girl?! Fuckin hell yeah.

5/10

Rob Zombie's Halloween (Rob Zombie)

The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten year old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's true evil. Elsewhere a shy teenager by the name of Laurie Strode is babysitting on the night Michael comes home... is it pure coincidence that she and her friends are being stalked by him?

Ugh..typical Rob Zombie fashion. After seeing this I wanted to run out of my room shooting people while Free Bird played in the background. Although this is his best movie to date. He did his typical dirty trashy people listening to classic rock shit. Sucking the cock of 70's horror movies. But despite all that I actually enjoyed his rendition of Halloween. Daeg Faerch, the actor who portrayed Michael as a child was an exceptionally good actor and I enjoyed watching him. Sheri Moon Zombie once again finds a way to be slutty and naked in this movie but she actually came off as a caring mother so that suprised me since I don't think she can't really act for shit(maybe thats why she only gets hired to play in her husbands films?! hmm..) Malcolm McDowell almost was ok as Loomis. But I hate McDowell so I hated his character. Zombie did a decent job kind of describing how Michael came to be. Trashy shitty up-brining and stripper mom/picked on at school. But more or less just a psycho in a bad enviroment. Then when he grows up Zombie just goes the basic plotline Carpenter did except for the ending which kinda sucked. I respected Zombie for not making the movie suuuper gory and slutty(which he LOOVES to do) and keeping it true to the films original intention. He also did a good job with the mask and wardrobe and Michaels masks he made in the institution(suuper creepy looking masks). Suspense, not gore. Which he did achieve pretty well. Plus he had Dee Wallace Stone and Udo Kier in the film. So props.

6/10

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix(David Yates)

As another year begins for Harry, at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry so does the never-ending articles stating that he and Dumbledore are insane. As the ministry starts to invent new and malicious lies about Harry's account on Voldemort's return, Hogwarts begins to change for the worse as the ministry sends in their cure for all the insanity, Professor Dolores Jane Umbridge. As she begins to inflict her rules and regulations on the students at Hogwarts they begin to find that with her as their teacher, they'll never be ready for the outside world. So Harry along with his friends decides to take things into their own hands and begin to learn magic the real way. As Harry starts having visions of terrible events happening with the Ministries very walls he decides to take action, leading himself and his friends into battle, ultimately teaching them what friendship, loyalty and sacrifice really means.

I really enjoy the Harry Potter movies. I've liked every one. This one was really just a filler but still was very good. I really liked the camera work and how David Yates tried to keep it interesting(considering the book was said to be the worst of the series). It got me really really excited for the next installment. They keep getting darker and darker and this one is no different. Harry becomes pretty fucking badass and pissed off in this one. I guess I could read the books to see what the next one will be about but fuck that.

8/10

--BOOK--

Superstud: Or How I Became a 24 Year Old Virgin by Paul Feig

Feig, creator of the cult classic TV show Freaks and Geeks, offers a second book about the trials and tribulations of his youth. His first, Kick Me (2002), recounted his hilarious and often painful navigation of adolescence, and superstud covers similar territory but focuses specifically on Feig's interactions with the opposite sex. In a light tone that nonetheless manages to convey the gravity of his actions at the time, Feig recounts his early forays into photography, motivated by his discovery of his mother's fashion magazines, which are filled with scantily clad or naked women. He tells of his attempts to woo a girl three years older than him at the roller rink and a date with the class babe at an REO Speedwagon concert that goes terribly awry. At heart, Feig is just a sweet guy in search of a girlfriend, so readers will be gratified when they get to the last chapter and epilogue to learn about Feig's happy ending. Just as he did in Kick Me, Feig perfectly captures the whimsy and tone of adolescent reasoning.

This book was really great first off. It was more interesting then funny although there were some pretty hilarious parts(his parents not letting him use an electric blanket in case he pees the bed and electrocutes himself) among others. I loved just how open he is about everything and how he captured that paranoid youth. (example: scared shitless the clerk at the bookstore would automatically know why he was looking at photography books and call the police) I haven't read his first one yet, Kick Me which I think I'd like even more since it's more based off Freaks and Geeks. This one really makes me excited to read Kick Me. A humourous light-hearted book to read.

9/10

4-150 movies
1-30 books.