Stephen Colbert vs. Barak Obama

"Stephen puts Obama on notice"

From IMDB news today:
"At the end of the show, Stewart segued to Stephen Colbert, who seemed to be caught feeding his script into a shredder, destroying any evidence that he might be breaking strike rules against writing his monologue. Later, Colbert remarked that Barack Obama had said he would not appear on his program during the strike but that he has said that he wanted to talk to the leaders of Iran, North Korea and Syria. "He'll talk to them," Colbert scolded, "but he won't talk to me?"

Must See Movies of 2008

"Doogie Howser Was Never This Magnificent"

/Film has just released their list of 55 Must See Movies of 2008 and I'm pumped to see a whole lot of them. I'm gonna take a quick stab at categorizing some of them into what I think are really "must see" and what's actually just overrated and I'll look forward to seeing how on/off target I am later on.

Must See:
The Other Boelyn Girl, Wanted, Harold & Kumar 2, Speed Racer, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Get Smart, Wall-E, Hancock, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, The Dark Knight, Where the Wild Things Are, The Time Traveler's Wife, James Bond 22, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Bruno, Shantaram

Overrated:
Cloverfield, Be Kind Rewind, Jumper, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Horton Hears A Who!, 21, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Valkyrie, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Angles & Demons, Star Trek

I, Roomba

Roomba Violates All Three Laws Of Roombotics

CHARLOTTE, NC—While the Roomba is only programmed to vacuum, its owner, 35-year-old claims adjuster Ken Graney now fears it may have taught itself to tidy up.

Pleo The Destroyer

Jenn: ... do you know what the pleo is?
Me: nope
Jenn: I don't know if I want to have one, or destroy all the ones that exist
Jenn: well, go to amazon and search "pleo" and then watch the video
Me: the dinosaur?
Jenn: yeah
Me: I'm so fascinated
Jenn: it's totally the end of us
Jenn: I want one
Jenn: but if I get it, one day it's descendants will destroy me
Jenn: in the inevitable war against mainkind
Jenn: what side will YOU be on
Me: I'm on team pelo
Me: All hail the omnipotent pleo
Jenn: nooo!
Jenn: PLEO YOU BASTARD!
Jenn: GIVE MY SISTER BACK TO HUMANITY
Me: but master pleo is so kind
Jenn: AHHGGG!
Jenn: I'm serious. First Roomba... now Pleo
Jenn: Please dear god...
Jenn: don't let them mate

Top 5 Most Undeserving Movies of 2007

"Not hot"

Here's a list of 5 awful movies from 2007 that made way too much money at the US box office. I'll keep saying it: if you keep watching them they'll keep making them. United front people!

Spider-Man 3 ($336 mil)- Sam Raimi turned Spiderman into a singing, dancing, crying emo whiner in this disjointed threequel.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer ($131 mil) - Another unnecessary sequel; they also somehow managed to turn the usually epic Silver Surfer into a bland popcorn flick character.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry ($119 mil) - A homophobic, condescending pile of inconsequential slapstick and yet another reminder that Adam Sandler should have stopped making movies after Billy Madison.

National Treasure: Book of Secrets ($100 mil so far) - Nicholas Cage phones it in again in this wannabe Indiana Jones, quasi-patriotic family film that's inevitably going to turn into a full fledged franchise.

Saw IV ($63 mil)- Movie producers, please make a new year's resolution to stop making torture porn. Pretty please?

Holidy Movie Breakdown 2007

A dog is post-apocalypse man's best friend

Excited about:
I Am Legend - Will Smith wins again and there ain't nothing wrong with that
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - the cameos alone make this Judd Apatow film worth it
Atonement - Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in a sweeping war drama
Juno - A witty teen pregnancy comedy from the people behind Thank You for Smoking

I'll need convincing to see:
Charlie Wilson's War - Something about the Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts pairing is just too much. Smug A-listers making another Oscar movie
National Treasure: Book of Secrets - If you keep watching them they'll keep making them
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - ANOTHER Johnny Depp/Helena Bonham-Carter/Tim Burton eccentric/gothic movie??
The Bucket List - Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman being old
The Kite Runner - Just read the book

Guiltily paying money to see:
Alvin and the Chipmunks - My nostalgia is getting the best of me on this one - praying that it's at least better than Garfield: A Tale of Two Kittens

Won't Bother with:
P.S. I Love You, Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, The Perfect Holiday

Chow Yun-Fat is still a credible actor (?)

"Someone needs a new agent"

From RottenTomatoes today:

"Chow Yun-Fat has joined the cast of James Wong's live-action Dragonball adaptation. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chow will play Master Roshi, mentor to Goku (played by Justin Chatwin), "a warrior alien who protects the Earth from an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the universe and controlling mystical objects known as Dragon Balls."