Thursday, June 08, 2006

Saw II

Saw II is a gruesome B movie horror thriller. Even though it's highly improbable and totally contrived, it's pretty clever for a horror film.

If I made a horror movie, I would should actual slashings and other types of brutal contact. I would show knives going through people's bodies and axes smashing through people's heads. Most horror movies cut away from the actual moment of contact. I guess it would be too difficult for most viewers to handle that kind of trauma. Another reason would be that it would make for very expensive special effects to show those slashings without actual actors getting hurt.

The movie wasn't scary or suspenseful at all for the most part. There were some ghastly moments here and there that made the viewer really tense. The ending was good since it tied the entire movie together really well, even though Jigsaw's sinister games required a heck of a lot of preplanning and improbably lucky timing in order to succeed.

Spoiler Alert!

The movie starts off with a guy who was an informer for the cops. He's trapped in the bathrooom from Saw I with a Iron Maiden type contraption around his head. The Jigsaw clown says he's there because he's a lying informer. A key has been surgically inserted behind his eyeball. He's given a scalpel to cut his eyeball out. He only has 60 seconds to cut his eyeball out and get the key to free himself. Otherwise, the contraption would snap shut on him with all those nails. He tries to do it, but freaks out. He starts crying "help me, help me!" The trap shuts on him and he goes down.

In the next scene, we see a father and son getting into an argument. The father is a cop. He is called into investigate the murder of his informant. A clue leads him to find the criminal mastermind behind all these murders. Jigsaw turns out to be an old hagardly man who is in the later stages of cancer.

Jigsaw says that the dad has to follow his rules in order to see his son alive again. The videos show that his son and seven other people are trapped inside the hellhouse of horrors. We also find out that the cop is the one who framed the seven people before.

The eight people trapped inside are told that they are breathing in a deadly poison and that they must get the antitode to survive. They have to play by his rules if they want to live. Otherwise, the traps in the house will kill them off.

The first guy gets shot in the face by a gun trap. The warning said don't use the key to open that door. He didn't listen.

The second chump gets trapped in a furnace and is burned alive.

The black guy gets killed by the vato drug dealer who is going psychotic because of the poisoning. The drug dealer smashes his head with a bat spiked with nails. He wants to get the numbers written on the backs of each person's head. These numbers reveal the code to the safe with the antidotes.

A hysterical girl dies from a seizure after breathing in too much of the deadly gas.

The second girl dies from putting both her hands inside a trap to get the antidote out. She can't take her hands out because of the sharp razors set up like a Chinese fingertrap.

The drug dealer throws Amanda from the first Saw movie into a pit full of syringe needles. He makes her crawl through to find the key to let them escape. She writhes in agony as hundreds of needles pierce through her body. Ouch! I don't like needles.

The drug dealer turns so incredibly psycho that he cuts off the skin behind his own head to see what his number is. As he tries to go for the teenage boy, the boy who had been playing possum jumps up and slashes the drug dealer with the saw from the first movie.

The cop dad finally finds the house after beating the shit out of the old man. I would have started beating him up a lot sooner than that though if someone trapped my kid like that.

The dad goes in the house, but is put in a trap by Amanda. Through some twisted turn of events, she says: "What is the cure for Cancer, Eric? The cure for death itself. The answer is immortality. By creating a legacy, by living a life worth remembering, you become immortal. So now we find the tables are turned. It is I who will carry on John's work after he dies, and you are my first test subject. Now you are locked away, helpless and alone. Game over. [Closes door.]"

Cop dad: You fucking bitch! Help me! Nooo!!!!!!!

I like appropriately creepy endings.

When Jigsaw and the cop dad were talking during their psychological standoffs, Jigsaw was asking him about the meaning of life.


Jigsaw: Can you imagine what it feels like to have someone sit you down and tell you that you're dying? The gravity of that, hmm? Then the clock's ticking for you. In a split second your awe is cracked open. You look at things differently - smell things differently. You savor everything be it a glass of water or a walk in the park.

Cop dad: The clock is ticking, John (Jigsaw).

Jigsaw: But most people have the luxury of not knowing when that clock's going to go off. And the irony of it is that that keeps them from really living their life. It keeps them drinking that glass of water but never really tasting it.

I guess the meaning behind all of his diabolic murders was: life is precious, so enjoy it.

For me, I try to spread the message in a different way, but I'm not a psychotic maniac.

The Highs: Clever plot and ending. A good psychological thriller. Macabre traps and killings.

The Lows: Not suspensful. Not scary at all for a horror movie.

The Verdict: With all the cryptic clues in the movie, it's like a cross between the Da Vinci Code, The Game, and Psycho.

My rating: C, 78.

Wednesday, June 07, 2006


In a previous life, this duck was Britney Spears. Posted by Picasa

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

The jesus Pan

I've always thought it strange when people go crazy over jesus and virgin mary images showing up on tortillas, breads, and walls. They actually believe they're signs from god since their "remarkable" images appear on a piece of food. They pay tons of money for things like this on ebay. Some people hold prayer vigils around water-stained walls and travel thousands of miles to worship them.

I thought to myself, "I can make a fortune by creating jesus and virgin mary images on foods and selling them on ebay if I just had a cookie-cutter type tool and a casting mold."

Now, some guy has taken my idea and actually created the Jesus Pan.

www.jesuspan.com

It looks like they still need to create the virgin mary pan. Anyone who makes that will make a killing.

6/6/06 Baby

Here's another dumb potential mother-to-be of the Anti-Christ:


CAVERSHAM, England, May 30 (UPI) -- A woman in England due to give birth on June 6 is fighting with her hospital to induce her sooner to avoid delivering on the demonic date of 6/6/6.

Melissa Parker, 30, said as a fan of "The Omen," a movie about a demonic child, she's genuinely concerned about the numerology involved, The Sun reported Tuesday.

"I'm terrified the birth will go wrong or the child will have evil in him or her," Parker said. "Even worse my beautiful baby could be the devil himself -- the anti-Christ."

The figure 666 is mentioned in the Bible and various cultures believe it represents the date the anti-Christ will appear on Earth, but that doesn't hold any water at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

A hospital spokesman said Parker's request for an induction was refused because due dates are not 100 percent certain.

"There is little we can do to change them without a Caesarean or inducing the child, which we try to avoid," the spokesman said. "We must let nature take its course. The baby will be born when ready, no matter what day it is."

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

Superstitious religious people are so stupid. This article is from BBC News:


Prayer vigil targets Devil's Day

Dutch evangelical Christians are to hold a round-the-clock prayer vigil to ward off the forces of evil on Tuesday - the so-called Devil's Day.

They believe that the sixth day of the sixth month of 2006 has great significance for evil-doers and Satanists who revere the number 666.

In a bid to counteract the forces of evil, more than 2,000 Dutch Christians will hold "a violent day of worship".

They will be joined by Christians in 23 other countries, organisers say.

The reference to 666 is taken from the Biblical book of Revelation, which talks about the events leading to the end of the world.

Revelation 13:18 states: "If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666."

Omen launch

Behind the initiative is a Dutch evangelical organisation called Ambassadors Ministries.

Mathijs Piet, one of the organisers, told the BBC news website that the prayer marathon was to officially start at 1800 on Monday with a prayer rally in Jerusalem.

"666 is the number of the Devil and we know that on this date, Satanists will try and do many things, so we Christians try and do the opposite," Mr Piet said.

"We know the Devil hates it when we worship God."

Organisers expect at least 2,000 Dutch evangelicals to take part in the mass prayer vigil across the Netherlands.

They are not the only ones to note the significance of the date.

Film company 20th Century Fox has chosen the same date to launch its remake of the 1976 horror classic The Omen, in which a man comes to realise his son is the Antichrist.

The fear of the number 666 is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.

Idiot Drivers

I hate idiot drivers who blow their car horns at me when I'm biking on the road. Bicyclists have equal rights to the road. They're not supposed to ride on the sidewalks as some people may think. Cars are supposed to slow down and go around bikes or wait until it's safe to pass. They're not supposed to honk at them or run them off the road. Everyday, there are cars that pass me by coming within only inches away from me as they try to pass me by as fast as they can.

This morning, some idiot kept honking at me for no apparent reason other than the fact that he wanted me off the road. What did he want me to do? Stop or get on the sidewalk? Damn him!

Another time, some crazy @$$hole kept trying to run me over. I tried to make him stop to tell him off, but he accelerated even faster trying to really run me over. If I didn't get out of the way in time, he might have hit me and driven off. I wanted to call the cops on that guy, but unfortunately, my myopia prevented me from reading his license plate.

People, please be considerate to cyclists. It's tough enough biking alongside cars. We bicyclists are making this world a better place. We're helping to ease congestion for one thing. We're riding as fast as we can. We don't need rude drivers making our rides more life-threatening than they already are. Did most of these drivers fall asleep during driver's education when they talked about bicycles and about who has the right of way?

California Vehicle Code 21200(a) states: "Every person riding a bicycle upon a highway has all the rights and is subject to all the provisions applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this division. . ."

Drivers are also only supposed to use their horns to avoid emergencies only, not to harass other drivers or cyclists. You're not supposed to use your horn to tell someone to go or speed up.

27001. (a) The driver of a motor vehicle when reasonably necessary to insure safe operation shall give audible warning with his horn.

Section 21750 of the CVC states that drivers are to pass to the left of a cyclist, leaving a SAFE distance, when passing. [All-Caps Added.]

Cyclists can use the full lane of the road to avoid hazardous conditions such as when the roads are too narrow to share with other vehicles.

Drivers should be considerate and not act like jerkoffs, especially to bicyclists. Learn to share the road.

Monday, June 05, 2006

Women and Shopping

Women always say they want to go to the mall just to look around. They say they don't want to buy anything, but they always end up buying something. Do all women have this shopping disease?

Crazy Co-Worker

Annoying voice: David Kim, David Kim, David Kim, David Kim, David Kim, David Kim

Me: That's my name. Don't wear it out.

After a year of hearing my name called out in the most annoying way ever, I finally cracked. Well, I told him to stop doing that several times over the year. I guess I smile when I tell him, so he continued doing it. Last Friday, I told him I was serious and was really frustrated beyond belief. I was not smiling. I was damn irritated. I know your name is supposed to be music to your ears, but not if it's repeatedly said in a weird way like that. I think he generally likes me, but he has developed a weird habit of showing his friendship. Later on, he started pointing fingers at me. I tried to ignore him, but his fingerpointing has gotten closer and closer to my face. He keeps saying my name in an irksome manner, especially when no one else is around. He usually says it quietly so that no one else really hears except me. I know other people have heard him say it too, and they think he's just plain weird.

Finally I told him last Friday afternoon in my exasperated voice: I'm serious!

Co-Worker in an angry voice: Good for you!

Last time I told him and ignored him several months ago, he got mad saying that I was rude. I could feel the negative vibrations emanating from him. Since I didn't want to have any tension with any of my co-workers, I was nicer to him the next day. Then, he started doing it again.

Finally this morning, I moved to another desk on the other side of the office. I should have done it a long time ago. It's much more quieter and peaceful here. My stress levels have gone down tremendously.

Thursday, June 01, 2006


I wonder what all the hub-bub is about down there? Posted by Picasa

Having a good time at the Firefighter's fair Posted by Picasa

What the firetruck is going on? Posted by Picasa

Firefighters saving a stuffed dog from being eaten alive by fair-goers Posted by Picasa

Hawgs Posted by Picasa

There was excitement in the air Posted by Picasa

Firefighter demonstrations Posted by Picasa

Watering the sidewalk Posted by Picasa

Nice live entertainment Posted by Picasa

There were lots of booths that served many different types of good food. Posted by Picasa

Today was Firefighter's Fundraiser Day in Downtown L.A.  Posted by Picasa

City of Hope building: specializing in providing hope to the hopeless Posted by Picasa