Caffeine

Summer has come back in a big way, temperatures soaring into the 30's (90's for you folks still on fahrenheit), not a cloud in the sky and not a tiny little breeze blowing either. To put it real simple, it's too stinking hot to go outside and do anything.

So, Wuzzy and I loaded up a couple of movies and sat on our butts drinking lots of cold water and eating peanuts all afternoon. I'm turning that ratty into a couch potatoe!

The Promotion
Was the first movie we stared at and I have to say not even a fresh handfull of peanuts was enough to keep Wuzzy interested in the film.

Not to say its a bad movie, it is more like the type where you keep expecting something to happen and it never does.

Seann William Scott usually has energy and a charisma that is very evident on the screen. There seems to be an attempt to pull a Jim Carrey or Will Ferrell with a performance that would be partly funny, partly tragic. Unfortunately, he fails on both fronts. John C Reilly, who is a tremendous character actor and a comedy guy is disappointing at best.

Simple story, two guys, one job and both want it. Save this one for a weekend when there is nothing else left on the shelf.

Big Stan marks Rob Schneider's directorial debut.

Rob Schneider plays a corrupt time share salesman who's made millions,gets caught and sent to prison. His main fear is that he is going to be violently raped over and over during his stay and so enlists a martial arts master (David Carradine) to teach him how to defend himself before he's incarcerated.

It's not the best comedy flick out there, but I've definitely seen worse. All in all I found this movie pretty damn amusing, with some definite laugh out loud moments to be had. I would say if you want a feel good comedy with no great expectations this one will do it.

Insanitarium
What's a hot afternoon without at least one psycho movie?

I felt like I saw this movie before and then it hit me ...One flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. You have the nuts in the psych ward, the head nurse, the young nurse, group therapy sessions and of course even a lobotomy. Okay, so that was most of it but then where did I see this type of zombie thingy ...28 Days Later was where.

Typical movie of this genre, evil Doctor, experiments out of control, good guy and of course someone to rescue in this case his sister.

Not a bad movie, not a great movie, Wuzzy went to sleep during it. The characters just aren't interesting enough to care about and so this movie falls flat on its face.

Rent this only if you are a fan of hospital gore flicks, other than that ...don't waste your time.

Do you remember those motivational posters that were plastered in just about every office that you ever walked into? The things with the mundane everyday sentances telling you that "You Can Do It" or the really tacky ones that read "Many Hands Make Light Work"? Now you remember them don't you.

Glued onto press board panels and hung over desks as if they were the solution to everything.

Here's a few posters that I would have liked to have seen.







I'm not sure if you'd call this motivation, but what the hell.