New blog format/subject area

In response to those fans seeking a new format/subject matter I figured I'd try out a more interesting area. Some fans think I'm not qualified to review movies (which I'm not, I obviously have a bad taste in entertainment generally: movies, tv shows, music, etc.) This isn't late breaking news to anyone who reads the blog.

Instead of reviewing movies, I'm going to tell you what I had to eat today. For lunch today I had some eggs and oranges. And a vitamin water zero. I've attached a picture of it for you all to enjoy.

Now before anyone gets bored and quits reading this I should explain the purpose of the blog. I'm showing you my gross looking lunch so you all check my blog everyday.

It's known as the Hawthorne Effect. The theory is if anyone actually cares enough to look at phone pics of my breakfast everyday that they will pressure me to keep taking pictures of scrambled eggs and vitamin waters. Theoretically, if I quit posting pictures of eggs everyday, it will cause uproar throughout the blogosphere and I will be pressured into taking more pictures of the shit I eat for the blog world's enjoyment.

Now I know what you're thinking. "Buffalo, your movie taste is mediocre but this just seems crazy!"

Before you jump ship, I should tell you my approach to blogging is endorsed by Tim Ferriss, a blogger with a degree in East Asian Studies. Although his work has been frowned upon by "experts" (people licensed to practice medicine), I'm pretty sure this should make people want to check out my blog lol.

Actually as I'm writing this I'm getting bored already. Not as bored as I was during Annie Hall, but I think I'll be okay giving D+'s to those turd Academy Award nominees.

JWW, this blog post was for you <3

Happy 1 Year Anniversary!

Whats good blog world, special shout out to the website today for its one year anniversary. Some reflections on its first year..

1) It's came a long way from the first few posts. I still think I'll stick with the numbering system (obvi) but I'm glad it's evolved.

2) Some interesting stats for the fans

a) October 2010 was still the highest month for hits on the blog in 1 month, although I now get more hits per post then ever. September 2011 has its highest month of views per post than any other one.

b) The top 5 most visited pages are 1) Top 10 Movie Scenes #2: 8 Mile Rap Battle , 2) Inception, 3) 8 Mile, 4) The King's Speech, and 5) Piranha 3D (smdh). Also interesting to note that the top post has almost 4 times as many views as any other post on the website.

c) Google recently surpassed twitter as being the number 1 referring site.

3) I like the grading guidelines, although they're not always wildly accurate.

4) I'm a little stumped what to do this October. I have a general idea of watching some more of the old classic movies, following up on the bad sequels to a lot of the old hit movies, watching some of the favorite cult movies, and obvi revisiting some of the money ones closer to Halloween. Outside of October my general goal will be to stay away from straight-to-dvd movies and anything that Alan suggests lol.

It's been a good year blog world, here's to a tight Ocotber!

-buff

Law and Order SVU: Season 13 Opener

1) Pretty solid stuff. I'm still a little dejected that Elliott is gone but I'll try to make due with what they give us.

2) Pretty crazy first episode. I can't believe they really made the Romeo from Letters to Juliet the bad guy.

3) I don't really understand why the SVU cast is always so angry whenever someone else new joins the team. They are always super mad at the new ADA's and they were pretty unreceptive to the new cop from ATL.

4) The scene where Olivia starts crying because Elliott's not coming back is probably the biggest tearjerker moment since The Last One from Friends.

5) Captain Cragen said WHEELS UP lol.

A

Last House on the Left (1972)

1) It's a lot less messed up then the new version. I mean, don't get it twisted, there's some screwed up stuff in it but at least it's not as horrible as the first one.

2) It didn't make a whole lot of sense that the ending only took like 12 minutes. I'm all for short movies but I don't know why they cut the ending so abruptly.

3) Maybe the reason for the short ending is it didn't take any time at all for the parents to TKO the bad guys. I mean how jitsu were those n00bs here? These dudes just get pwned by these 2 middle aged parents who pull these Home Alonesque tricks on them to get them killed.

4) I never really get these old movie posters from the 70s either. "It rests on 13 acres of earth over the very center of hell!" First off, no it doesn't. That place is actually in Western Kansas. Second, why don't they even mention this in the movie? Unless my ADD fooled me they don't even talk about it but just put it on the poster smh.

C+

Limitless

1) I saw this one awhile back, it was kind of mediocre. It seems like the whole movie kind of lacks a real point. It's like, should he take more of the drug, should he not? Won't he just be normal if he doesn't? What if he takes more? Will it really matter, will anyone really care?

2) Seems like a big hyped up drug for some kind of ADD medication on steroids. You take it and just get a whole bunch of stuff done.

3) I don't really get the point of the ending. He just decides to take it to be smarter then everyone else and then run for president? Why didn't the people who originally made the drug just take all of it so they could be president? It doesn't really make that much sense.

4) There wasn't anything horribly wrong with the movie, but there wasn't anything to write home about either.

This movie could've used to take smart smart pills lol,

C-

The Frightening

1) I have to get away from these straight to DVD movies for awhile. I havent seen a straight to dvd movie that was good in awhile and I have no idea why I'm so optimistic I'm going to stumble on one.

2) The theme of this movie just seems like school bullying on steroids. It's like these kids go to school and get killed by this group of people in black clothes.

3) I know the ending changes this, but what was up with the jitsu at the beginning? They keep talking about how the school has the state's best wrestling team but they keep getting pwnd by the men in black. Must not be a Kansas 321a wrestling team lol.

4) The movie was pretty bad all around, but all of the scenes just seemed like they were a hodgepodge of bad scenes from other movies. The one scene where he's dreaming is a really bad mix of that awful movie Eyes Wide Shut and that scene from Scream 2 where they're all in the play.

D-

Urban Legend

1) It's kinda tight that the good looking chick that Nick Beam almost got on in Nothing To Lose (which I actually haven't reviewed) is in it. I just wish she wasn't the killer in it. Kind of like in Friday the 13th it makes you wonder how such a small woman was so muscular the whole time.

2) They shoulda just picked a few of the spookiest legends instead of doing some of the more jitsu ones. I mean the birth control pills or the bubble gum? smdh

3) A lot of horror cameos in this one. I know Robert Englund seems to be doing this on the reg, but they got him and Danielle Harris (who I've totally got a thing for) all in the same movie. I mean at least they put some effort to make this appeal to horror fans.

4) The second assistant director was Jonathan Wright lol.

Despite some effort, this one was pretty terrible,

D

Juno

smh

1) It's almost October which is tight between Alan and the lady friend I've unfortunately seen to many of these movies lately. Hopefully all the spooky movies in October will get me back on track.

2) She's kind of a turd to the Superbad guy the whole time. I dunno why she was so mad at him when he just tried to be nice the whole time lol.

3) I didn't understand all the goofy metaphorical art shots going on. Like at the end of the movie where it's panned out super far for no reason. Or the animated beginning, what was up with that? Or that part where she pulls over to cry and they take an aerial view of the van on the highway? Someone should explain the point of that.

4) There were some pretty funny lines in it. I'm not totally wild about her 16 year old sense of humor, but there was some good stuff.

Just when you thought all remnants of that damn Inception movie had gone away, this had to reappear

D+

Black Christmas (2006)

1) Light years ahead of the original. I reviewed the older movie back in the day. Maybe it's just that some of those older movies are too goofy to be scary, but the older one here is getting blown out of the water.

2) I think my original complaints about the killer being pretty goofy are still valid here, but I think they did a better job of setting up the history of the dude. It's kinda like in the new Halloween with Rob Zombie, where they do the tight flashbacks to his childhood. The only difference here is that all of the Halloween movies rule and this old one didn't.

3) The ending was kinda goofy. I mean the guy got killed by the Christmas tree? smh.

4) The babe from Eurotrip was in it which was tight.

Good stuff,

B

Phone Booth

1) It was pretty tight overall. I saw this in theaters with somebody back in the day but can't remember who, maybe @milhouse. I don't think I've ever watched this movie with someone who actually enjoys it but I thought it was tight. (Random FYI: bricker actually likes this movie and is glued to the tv when its on but he never wants to admit to it).

2) Kiefer Sutherland has the easiest job in the world in this movie just being the narrator. I'll bet he just did this from home and got paid a wreck of money.

3) Seems like Kiefer should get something better to do with his free time during the movie. I mean, the first two people that he talks about killing seemed like bad people (the pedophile and the thief). Even then this whole vigilante justice things just not a good idea. But Collin Farrell? Not that Collin Farrell is a great guy in this movie but the world's got bigger problems to tackle then some dude who pretends to be rich when he's not.

4) Roger Ebert gave it 2 thumbs up, me too.

A

10 Things I Hate About You

Wgbw, since it's almost October (yeahbuddy) I'll be audibleing back to a pretty strict scary movie diet again soon. But until then I'm gonna try and get the last of these RomComs out of my system.

1) An oldie but goodie. It's got a pretty well rounded cast, had a good ending, and I've always had a thing for high school romcom/horror movies.

2) Seems like 1 thing they could've really fixed was how irritable everyone was during this movie. Julia Stiles gets all riled up about a bunch of shenanigans but then kind of gives in pretty fast about the whole 'you were paid to take me out' thing. And Alex Mack gets and that dude from Inception fight about the goofiest stuff, smh.

3) The scene where Julia Stiles reads him that poem is one of the better RomCom scenes of all time. Definitely top notch.

4) I've always had a crush on Julia Stiles too. Her and Amanda Peet. <3