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Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Turnbull Canyon
Here's a very short mountain biking video of me going down Turnbull Canyon in Whittier. Videos always make the hills look less steep than in real life.
Mountain biking is totally fun. You get great exercise climbing uphill. You can explore the beautiful trails. Then, going downhill is a blast like a rollercoaster ride.
Get a mountain bike and let's ride sometime. I'm currently accepting memberships to my mountain bike gang.
Here's a very short mountain biking video of me going down Turnbull Canyon in Whittier. Videos always make the hills look less steep than in real life.
Mountain biking is totally fun. You get great exercise climbing uphill. You can explore the beautiful trails. Then, going downhill is a blast like a rollercoaster ride.
Get a mountain bike and let's ride sometime. I'm currently accepting memberships to my mountain bike gang.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
This past Saturday, I went to Turnbull Canyon in Whittier. This course has fireroads and singletrack. The fireroads provide great scenic views like this one. There's a cool looking Asian building in the background. The singletrack has some nice tough switchbacks and great woodsy descents. Our last singletrack back to our car was like a forest-themed rollercoaster ride. Sweet!
13 Going on 30
Jennifer Garner stars as a 13 year old girl who turns into a 30 year old woman.
This movie is highly derivative of Tom Hanks' Big. It has its charm because of Jennifer's cute personality, but this movie is strictly for chicks. This should be obvious before you even go see the movie.
I watched it with my wife, Sarah, because she likes girly movies. By the way, my movie reviews will probably be a lot shorter from now on because of work responsibilities.
Anyway, this 13 year old girl who wants to be cool wishes to become "thirty, flirty, and thriving". Some wishing dust makes her dream come true.
She is a young teen growing up in the 80's and loves 80's music. After her wish, she instantly goes into the future when she's 30, which is in 2004. She's a successful magazine editor, but everyone hates her because of her ruthless business tactics. She has a hocky star boyfriend, but realizes she loves her childhood friend. She wishes to go back and changes her life. She marries her childhood sweetheart.
This is too feminine for guys to watch.
The Highs: Jennifer Garner is fun to watch in this role. 80's music.
The Lows: Unoriginal. Too girly and childish.
The Verdict: Girl's version of Big.
My rating: C, 75.
This movie is highly derivative of Tom Hanks' Big. It has its charm because of Jennifer's cute personality, but this movie is strictly for chicks. This should be obvious before you even go see the movie.
I watched it with my wife, Sarah, because she likes girly movies. By the way, my movie reviews will probably be a lot shorter from now on because of work responsibilities.
Anyway, this 13 year old girl who wants to be cool wishes to become "thirty, flirty, and thriving". Some wishing dust makes her dream come true.
She is a young teen growing up in the 80's and loves 80's music. After her wish, she instantly goes into the future when she's 30, which is in 2004. She's a successful magazine editor, but everyone hates her because of her ruthless business tactics. She has a hocky star boyfriend, but realizes she loves her childhood friend. She wishes to go back and changes her life. She marries her childhood sweetheart.
This is too feminine for guys to watch.
The Highs: Jennifer Garner is fun to watch in this role. 80's music.
The Lows: Unoriginal. Too girly and childish.
The Verdict: Girl's version of Big.
My rating: C, 75.
Doom
This movie may spell the "doom" for all movies based on videogames.
This movie stars the Rock who leads a group of marines to investigate a series of deaths of scientists on Mars.
In the future, they discover a portal that leads to Mars. I thought that was a cheap way to get out of making spacecraft scenes. Come on! All sci-fi fans love spaceships when you're showing a movie that's set on Mars.
This movie is strictly for the videogame crowd. It's based upon the extremely popular Doom first-person shooter videogames. The older videogamers, like me, may not like it though, because it's highly derivative. I didn't think anything in it was very original.
It's kinda like the movie, Alien.
The funniest line was when The Rock screams out, "I'm not supposed to die!"
The scientists on Mars were conducting experiments on people to add c24, chromosome 24 their DNA. This would make people superhuman. However, people who have bad tendencies would turn into horrible monsters. That's pretty laughable.
The ending turns into a first person videogame. The camera angles are in first person. It's violent like the game, Doom 3. However, I thought scenes like this are best left in videogames. It might have been a ploy to introduce people to first person shooter games, but the overall quality of the movie may turn more people off to games than introduce people to them.
The Highs: Decent action. Good monster effects.
The Lows: Unoriginal plot. Not too exciting for an action movie.
The Verdict: Doom is dumb.
My rating: D for Dumb, 62.
This movie stars the Rock who leads a group of marines to investigate a series of deaths of scientists on Mars.
In the future, they discover a portal that leads to Mars. I thought that was a cheap way to get out of making spacecraft scenes. Come on! All sci-fi fans love spaceships when you're showing a movie that's set on Mars.
This movie is strictly for the videogame crowd. It's based upon the extremely popular Doom first-person shooter videogames. The older videogamers, like me, may not like it though, because it's highly derivative. I didn't think anything in it was very original.
It's kinda like the movie, Alien.
The funniest line was when The Rock screams out, "I'm not supposed to die!"
The scientists on Mars were conducting experiments on people to add c24, chromosome 24 their DNA. This would make people superhuman. However, people who have bad tendencies would turn into horrible monsters. That's pretty laughable.
The ending turns into a first person videogame. The camera angles are in first person. It's violent like the game, Doom 3. However, I thought scenes like this are best left in videogames. It might have been a ploy to introduce people to first person shooter games, but the overall quality of the movie may turn more people off to games than introduce people to them.
The Highs: Decent action. Good monster effects.
The Lows: Unoriginal plot. Not too exciting for an action movie.
The Verdict: Doom is dumb.
My rating: D for Dumb, 62.
Friday, June 09, 2006
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