PREDATORS... I saw the movie last Saturday, and thought it was a pretty satisfying film. I haven’t seen any of the other sequels (particularly the Alien vs. Predator installments), but I thought this one was as intense as the 1987 original. Speaking of the original, I initially thought that the girl in the newest film was suppose to be the same chick that Arnold Schwarzenegger saved in Guatemala in Predator, which wouldn’t have made sense...considering the girl in the first movie was named Anna and Alice Braga’s character in the newest flick is named Isabelle. Obviously, this is another girl who came from the village that was attacked by the Predator in the original movie. Obviously.



Speaking of Schwarzenegger, is it just me but Adrien Brody did a better job ass-whupping a Predator in this flick than Ah-nold did in the first one? Ah-nold relied mainly on booby traps to try to defeat his alien stalker, while Brody pretty much went all Last of the Mohicans on his hunter in this one. Oh well. Brody was cool in this movie nevertheless. Special FX-wise, the Predators looked totally awesome both masked and unmasked. 23 years have passed by since the first film came out in theaters, and this "ugly motherf**ker" still looks as menacing as ever. Nice.



I’ve been too lazy to post separate reviews for these films, but I also saw M. Knight Shyamalan's The Last Airbender and Adam Sandler's Grown Ups last week. The acting by all the kids in The Last Airbender was EXTREMELY HORRIBLE, and yet I wouldn’t mind watching the sequel (if there is one) since the first movie actually ended on an interesting note. Yes, I’d only watch the sequel FOR FREE...just like I did with this one. Jaden Smith deserves an Oscar for his performance in The Karate Kid compared to the Jake Lloyd-from-The Phantom Menace-type acting by the kids in Shyamalan’s newest film. Good grief.



The saving grace for Grown Ups was the two hot girls who played Rob Schneider’s daughters in the movie: Madison Riley and Jamie Chung. I haven’t seen the live-action Dragonball flick that came out last year (which is a good thing... This movie obviously looked like it didn’t do justice to the awesome Japanese anime series that aired on the Cartoon Network 10 years ago), but I’m pretty sure Ms. Chung didn’t look as hot in Dragonball as she did in the Adam Sandler movie. Cot damn!

WELCOME BACK to the Lakers, Fish! As if there was any doubt you'd leave...

FACEBOOK the Movie? Good God... I saw the um, teaser trailer for David Fincher's The Social Network, which is about the creation of Facebook, in front of Knight and Day when I watched it last week. Don't know whether MySpace should be happy or jealous that its rival is getting its own s***ty movie. Probably happy ('cause it looks like The Social Network won't be portraying Facebook in a not-so-positive way).

At least MySpace had a somewhat prominent role in Judd Apatow's 2009 flick, Funny People.

MIAMI'S "SUPER TEAM" is now complete... Whatever. Anyways, check out this awesome article on LeBron James.

LAST NIGHT, I had another amusing dream where I re-took the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test...for those of you who don’t live here in the U.S.). However, I took this test at my old elementary school (SATs are typically done in high school)...while the people sitting next to me were former grade school, high school and college classmates, and current co-workers. The teacher who handed out and conducted the test happened to be one of the supervisors at my current job. A couple of the questions on the SAT were about when I needed to clock in and out of work. Funny.

It's too bad the dream ended right after I completed the test and turned it in... I wonder what my score was?

WELCOME BACK to the Lakers, Phil! LeBron who?


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LAST NIGHT, I had a crazy dream where a couple of friends and I were at a mall that was being overrun by zombies. Naturally, the majority of people inside the mall were devoured by the living dead, while other folks were either defending against the attackers (with ninja swords and firearms) or hiding inside various rooms or within air conditioning vents and a kitchen counter (think about that scene in the first Jurassic Park film where that teenage girl is hiding inside a cabinet while velociraptors lurk around her inside a kitchen).



The dream ended on a wacky note, with a helicopter coming to the rescue and airlifting us from the mall just as the zombies were about to overtake us. In case you’re wondering why this is considered wacky, it’s because the rescue team was led by none other than...Jennifer Aniston. Not Woody Harrelson a la last year's movie Zombieland, but Aniston. From what I remember, she wasn’t wearing an outfit like any of these ones below:



A bummer, I know.

"TWILIGHT is like soccer. People run around for 2 hours, nobody scores, and its billions of fans argue that you just don't understand."

JAMES BOND WOULD BE AMUSED... Earlier this week, 11 people were arrested here in the U.S. for allegedly being part of a Russian spy ring in this country. Click here for more details. Among the 11 folks apprehended was a young lady named Anna Chapman.

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Good grief. I thought hot Russian spies with red hair were something you mostly saw in the movies (RE: Scarlett Johannson as Natasha Romanoff in Iron Man 2). I guess not. So how many spy-related quips can you make about this situation? That Ms. Chapman looks as hot in her Facebook pics as Angelina Jolie does as a supposed Russian agent in the upcoming film Salt? Or that one can bring up the old Bond flick Octupussy for no other reason than to use this title for innuendo (From Russia with Love doesn't sound dirty enough)? Hmm. Anyways, that’s all I have to say about this topic. No wait— one more thing: If all these photos were okay to be posted on the websites of such professional news outlets as the New York Post, they’re okay to be posted here.

TOY STORY 3... I watched Pixar’s latest movie last week, and despite the fact I only saw parts of the first two Toy Story films, the new installment was really good. Two of my co-workers mentioned that I should’ve seen the first two Toy Story flicks in their entirety, so that the moment where Andy drives off to college at the end of Toy Story 3 would’ve been more emotional. I disagree with that. The ending was already very emotional without me having to see the two previous films. Pixar does a wonderful job of conveying friendship, loyalty, a sense of loss and even betrayal in Part 3...which was more than you can say for Shrek Forever After (which was a decent film, but still... Give this franchise a rest, Dreamworks).



In terms of Pixar making sequels to its other hit films, a follow-on to The Incredibles would be pretty cool. And so would a sequel to Finding Nemo or Monsters, Inc. as well. No wait... Pixar is already making a sequel to Monsters, Inc. It's scheduled for release in theaters in 2012. Awesome.