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The Good Shepherd

Meh. The Good Shepherd was too long and slow and there wasn't really anything great about it. A thriller/drama without many thrills or much drama. If you've got 3 hours to kill and it's on TV it's worth a watch, but I'm not sure I can recommend paying money to see it.

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Blood Diamond

Much better movie than I thought it was going to be, despite all the praise it received. Djimon Hounsou was fantastic and Leonardo DiCaprio was good (but better in The Departed than this.)

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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Had Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in my collection for a long time and finally got a chance to sit and watch it. Great movie, really funny and a great story that wasn't predictable. Narration from Robert Downey, Jr. was really entertaining, just a great performance.

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World Trade Center

Not nearly as good as United 93 but probably a more watchable movie. United 93 was just tough to sit through. Not the best movie ever made or anything, but a great tribute to the police and firemen who lost their lives on 9/11.

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Super Bowl XLI

Not a big fan of either the Indianapolis Colts of Chicago Bears but since former Longhorns Cedric Benson and Nathan Vasher are on the Bears I'll be rooting for them tonight to bring a world championship back home to Austin.

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Children of Men

Good movie with an anticlimactic ending. Probably a little overrated too which meant I went into the film with too high expectations and ended up disappointed. Supposedly a great technical film and some amazing camera work and direction, but that doesn't mean too much to me when I was bored for long stretches during the movie. I've got to stop reading reviews or talking to co-workers about movies before I see them.

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The Pursuit of Happyness

Good movie and even better performance by Will Smith and and his son Jaden Smith. Not quite as heart wrenching as I thought it would be (maybe I knew too much about the back story) but definitely a great story about a father doing whatever it takes to take care of his son.

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Sugar Bowl - Notre Dame vs LSU

Notre Dame is hanging in longer than I thought they would but it seems like LSU is starting to pull away again. I'm not sure about these BCS games being on Fox, Terry Bradshaw is doing an okay job in the booth but it's still kind of awkward. Did the games start so late last year? It was 10pm before the second half even started. Way too late for kids to stay up and watch and learn to love college football.

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Little Miss Sunshine

Funny movie. Several laugh out loud moments and a story about a very dysfunctional family that you actually grow to care about.

Worst part of the whole thing was the actual pageant at the end. Just kind of creepy and unsettling, not very funny.

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Love Actually

One of our favorite movies to watch together and Christina's favorite Christmas movie. Great romantic comedy.

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Clerks 2

Obviously not as good as the first one but not as good as I was hoping either. Clerks 2 definitely has it's funny moments but I was hoping they'd be a little more frequent. Definitely a must-see for fans of Clerks or Kevin Smith's other work, but it just doesn't connect like the original did.

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United 93

If you're up for it United 93 is a movie all Americans should watch. Remarkably nonpolitical the movie attempts to the tell the story of September 11th events from all sides including the terrorists.

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Bottle Rocket

I've been meaning to watch Wes Anderson and Owen and Luke Wilson's first feature film for a while and finally got it from Blockbuster Online last weekend. Funny and has an actually decent plot, personally I enjoyed it a lot more than the much more random The Royal Tenenbaums. Fans of Anderson or the Wilson brothers who haven't seen it definitely should.

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Munich

Good movie but I'd almost rather watch a well produced documentary on the actual abduction of the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games. The first scenes in Munich were the most interesting of the movie, but since they weren't the real focus of the film it moved on pretty quickly.

Eric Bana and his crew are a little bumbling at the beginning of thier mission and for me was too light-hearted for the movie.

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Mission: Impossible III

Not fantastic but certainly entertaining and action packed. Tons better than M:I2. Philip Seymour Hoffman makes a great villain but isn't on screen enough. Tom Cruise did not try to convert anyone to Scientology during the movie.

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Shopgirl

Yawn.

I honestly think Steve Martin made this pointless, boring movie so he could make out with a woman 35 years his younger. Mirabelle (Claire Danes) sleeps with people early and often and for no reason for the first 90 minutes of the movie, then the last ten is actually halfway decent. People need to stop giving Jason Schwartzman roles, he creeps me out.

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The Da Vinci Code

Maybe it's just because it got so many bad reviews, but I thought it was great. Entertaining but far less exciting/enthraling than the book but that's always the case. I really have no idea what most reviewers were expecting, but I thought it did a fair job recreating Dan Brown's religous mystery. There were definitely a couple of bad moments, but certainly no out of place laughter and people in the theater actually applauded when it was over.

Most of the reviews at Rotten Tomatoes are pretty indicative of the problem with movie critics. You've got one complaining the albino monk (Silas) "isn't any fun" and another that it's too long. Useless and hypercritical as usual.

Really worth seeing whether you read the book or not. Just enjoy the damn thing.

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The Family Stone

Really awful movie. It had a few funny moments, but mainly it was an unclever and predictable movie. Sarah Jessica Parker is so average. Does anyone other than women find her particularly attractive?

I hate movies where it takes people 40 seconds to fall in love, the entire second half of the movie is based on completely stupid events that wouldn't happen in a million years. Not worth renting or owning, maybe in four years when it comes to TBS.

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Must Love Dogs

So freaking average. John Cusack is the king of romantic comedies, but I think now that he's forty I'm not really sure he can pull off the same roles anymore. Maybe it's just a bad choice in roles. Boring movie based on a love that had no reason to exist. Skip it.

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Capote

I just wasn't too interested in the movie. It was good but not overly entertaining. I wouldn't call it boring, but it just didn't do anything to draw me in. Worth seeing, especially if you're interested in Truman Capote's life or in writing, but probably overpraised by critics.

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Thank You for Smoking

Fantastic. Absolutely hilarious and a really smart comedy. Not perfect, some scenes were a lot less funny or long than I'd thought they could've been, but probably the most fun I've had watching a movie in a long time.

Katie Holmes is such a mediocre actress.

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Four Brothers

Really good mindless action. The Funky Bunch, Tyrese, Andre 3000, and Garrett Hedlund actually come off as brothers who care about each other and might truly be pissed about what happened to their mother. Some good twists and maybe not the best plot but one you want to follow to the end.

Terrence Howard is good again in a very small role.

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The Matador

Funny movie. Came highly recommended and definitely was good for a few laughs. Pierce Brosnan is perfect in the part of a washed up assassin and just is a guy who can't cut it anymore. Funny and a little wacko he and Greg Kinnear make a great team as a hitman and a business man.

Probably worthy of a rental when it comes out at the end of April.

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Walk the Line

Great movie and definitely deserving of all the praise it's received. I really didn't know a ton of the story, certainly not the June Carter end of things. Joaquin Phoenix was great and Reese Witherspoon was wonderful and adorable.

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Elizabethtown

Not perfect but much better than most of the reviews claim. Kirsten Dunst is cute in it (it's kind of hit and miss with her lately) and Orlando Bloom played his first role that he wasn't a complete woman. Good random conversations between the two of them but the ending was really crap.

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Say Anything

Christina and I had our Valentine's dinner last night, so tonight was romantic movie night. I think I'm getting to the point where I own and love every John Cusack movie ever made, though about half of them fall into this romantic comedy/date movie mold they're all great.

I think my thought process when flying comes from watching this movie when I was (much) younger, as soon as the Fasten Seatbelts light/sound goes off you're safe. I wonder if there's any truth to that at all.

Ding.

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Hustle and Flow

Really, really good. Terrence Howard was absolutely fantastic and even Anthony Anderson does a good job in a supporting role. I kind of wish the movie had been another 20 minutes long and they'd gone into things at the end a little better. Great music and a great movie.

(Recommended to me by Cinecast.)

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NFL Conference Championship games

This pair of games is usually better than the Super Bowl football-wise, but both games today have been pretty boring. Pittsburgh handled Denver easily and made Jake Plummer look like Arizona Cardinal Jake Plummer. Now in the NFC title game Seattle is blowing out Carolina early in the 3rd quarter.

Yawn...

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24: Day 5

I'm giving 24 another try this season and so far it's been a good decision. First four hours have been great, though in the last episode they started with the interoffice penis measuring they do every season. Really pisses me off that they somehow think office politics in the middle of a national crisis is just as important/interesting as the action and finding out who the bad guy is.

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King Kong

Some parts were severely lacking and there were some major plot points that were just glossed over but a pretty good movie overall. Much better than I thought it would be when I saw the first trailers back in the day. Naomi Watts was great and Jack Black was too, but I have a hard time forgetting that he's Jack Black regardless of his performance.

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Rose Bowl: Texas vs. USC

Live updates throughout the game.

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Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Plot holes the size of the Grand Canyon. Most of the storyline seems to have been written by an eleven year old. Too bad because it wasn't a terrible idea for a movie, had good action, and even was pretty funny.

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Pride and Prejudice

Holy crap is Elizabeth Bennett's family annoying in the first 45 minutes or so of this movie. I was wanting out of there bad. Especially Mrs. Bennett, man did she need a kick to the face.

Got much better after the family was moved out of the main focus, though they don't spend nearly enough time developing the relationship between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. Just all of a sudden, they were in love for no apparent reason.

Christina loved it.

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Big 12 Championship

The Texas Longhorns just won the Big 12 championship. They’re going to Pasadena to play in the Rose Bowl for a national title. I just can’t seem to wrap my brain around that. They had a chance to do something special this season and with today’s resounding victory they’ve done that. After a dissapointing performance in last week’s win, they played essentially perfect football today on both sides of the ball. The line opened more holes in the running game and gave Vince Young plenty of time to throw the football. I can’t remember a single dropped pass and there were several great catches. Jamaal Charles looked great. After giving up some yards on the first two drives the defense came up with huge plays to end both of them. They then settled in nicely and dominated the Buffalo offense.

Great performances all around and one of the most important wins for the program in recent memory. Bring on Southern Cal!

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Dave Chappelle - For What It's Worth

Dave is much better on the Chapelle Show than he is in this stand up routine, at least this one. He's telling stories but they're so absurd that it's not too funny. It gets much better about halfway through, when he's just laughing and telling jokes about current affairs and stuff.

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Kansas vs. Texas

Horns can’t really do anymore than they have the last two weeks. Two dominating performances over two much improved Big 12 opponents, both Baylor and Kansas have very solid defenses and the Texas offense went through them like they weren’t even there. Completely dominant and very balanced. We ran and passed at will. The defense has done their job as well. Today the Kansas offense was completely shut down during the first half, not only kept off the scoreboard but had only a single first down in the half. Texas is playing like the best all around team in the country right now.

By the way, Alabama just lost in overtime to LSU and Texas and USC are now the only two undefeated teams. No controversy this year. Finally, if the Longhorns win their next two games they’ll be in Pasadena in January.

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Texas at Oklahoma State

Holy crap. Let's not play the Cowboys again for a while. If we drop too much in the polls, I'm going to shoot someone.

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Astros in the World Series

Game 1 of the World Series is tonight. Houston really needs to win one of two in Chicago against the White Sox if they want to win this series. Should be pretty good match up, lots of good pitching and whoever wins will do so because of timely hitting.

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Texas Tech at Texas

I have a feeling USC will get a lot more credit for beating #9 Notre Dame by 4 than we will for beating #10 (and #7 in the BCS) Texas Tech by 35. A completely dominating performance by both sides of the ball today and once again I don’t think we played near our best football game. Vince Young finished the game only 12 of 22, but had 239 yards and two touchdowns and made the plays he needed to win the game. Jamaal Charles looked to be about 75% and was clearly limited both by his ankle and the coaches, so Selvin Young stepped up and had a great game. He had 76 yards on the ground and added two good TD runs and just as importantly didn’t put the ball on the ground once. The defense played solid all game long, holding Texas Tech well below their season averages despite the fact that our quick strike offense gave them the ball often. Sure tackling and excellent play by the secondary made it a long game for Mike Leach’s boys.

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Batman Begins

Really great and entertaining movie, certainly the best Batman movie ever made. Good storyline and great action throughout. One thing that bothered me is why were Batman's gadgets more advanced in the past?

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A History of Violence

Good movie but after the reviews I heard I was a little disappointed. It was well done and unpredictable, but a little unfulfilling. The first half of the movie was great and you're really trying to figure out what's going on and who he really is, but the second half I kept waiting for some really great, unexptected twist and it never came.

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Colorado at Texas

Vince Young played about as good a game as a quarterback can today. The Rose Bowl is his signature game but he did all of that on his own and most of it with his legs, today he showed everyone that he’s a complete football player. He ran and threw the ball effortlessly today and played a near flawless game. His final stats: 25 of 29 for 338 yards and 2 touchdowns and add 59 yards and 3 more TD’s on the ground. Just as importantly, his receivers showed up today as well. David Thomas had 5 catches and converted several important third downs and Limas Sweed had 7 catches, 88 yards, and 2 touchdowns. I don’t remember a single dropped ball and there were probably 5 fantastic catches. If we had a healthy Jamaal Charles or if we had kept putting the ball in the air in the second half we could have won by 40. A very complete football game by the Horns.

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NLDS - Braves vs. Astros

Series is tied 1 - 1 after two games in Atlanta. Both games were well played and tight for about 7 innings till they got blown open late against the bullpens.

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Fever Pitch

I really can't stand Drew Barrymore, she annoys me and I think she's cute about an eighth of the time.

Movie was pretty good but of course as lame as you would think it would be.

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Texas at Missouri

Sloppy and ugly for the first quarter or so. Texas was plagued by penalties and other mistakes throughout the game, especially early on. Once the offense got rolling and the defense settled down it was clear they were the better team. Vince Young played well and made the huge plays when he had to. His scramble on 3rd and 30 was a game changing play. Aside from the ball that was poorly thrown and tipped at the line of scrimmage that resulted in an interception, he made every throw he had to make. He threw for 2 TD’s and had another one (or two) that the refs claimed were incomplete that sure looked like touchdowns to me.

Jamaal Charles is officially the real deal and it’s exciting to finally see Ramonce Taylor getting his hands on the ball again.

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Aggies suck

The Aggies are only up by 6 and the half is almost over. Bobcats are driving too and will take the lead if they score. Aggies have gotten several turnovers and big plays but have only put 20 on the scoreboard. Plus they can't stop the mighty Texas State offense either. I predict Texas A&M wins 45 to 31.

I know like at least 5 people on the Texas State roster and a member of the coaching staff. A guy I played with is dominating the formidable Aggy defensive line.

By the way, the Aggy radio announcers (who are doing the TV for this game) are terrible and have no idea what's going on half the time.

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Invasion pilot

Show looks good after one episode. Looks like another show I'll have to watch every week so I don't miss anything. It's like Lost but with aliens. Read the link if you want a decent show synopsis.

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Lost season premiere

Great premiere. Revealed a lot of the stuff left hanging from last season but not everything. We see inside the hatch is quite elaborate, and pretty high tech for about 20 years previous (when the people were supposedly stranded.) Jack somehow knew the guy running things down there.

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Crash

Enjoyed it for the most part, but it was a little over the top. Plus every 5 seconds people would say completely racist things right to other peoples' faces. In today's society, racism is still prevalent but it's much more under the surface. Seemed far fetched. Plus the coincidences that repeatedly tied the many characters together were unbelievable.

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Not any NFL games

Philadelphia and San Francisco? Houston and Pittsburgh? Green Bay and Cleveland? Those were my choices of NFL games to watch this afternoon. Complete crap. The first two were complete blowouts between teams I couldn't care less about, and the third one was a close but boring game between teams I couldn't care less about.

I need NFL Sunday Ticket.

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Rice at Texas

Texas didn't play great but they still blew out the Rice Owls 51 to 10. We'll need to play better in two weeks when we face Mizzou.

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Donnie Darko

Really good movie that a ton of people had been recommending to me. Glad I finally got around to it because I really enjoyed it. Dark but enjoyable humor, wonderful storyline, and not at all predictable.

One of the few movies I watched and then burned to DVD, it's definitely worth watching again.

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The Constant Gardener

I absolutely hated the first hour or so. It was incredibly boring and I wanted to punch Rachel Weisz's character in the face, I couldn't wait for her to die.

Preachy.

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Texas at Ohio State

Texas comes back late to beat the Buckeyes 25 to 22 in an instant classic. Go Horns!

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NFL season opener in HD

Finally some real life football in HD. I thought I was going to be able to watch some college games last weekend but there weren't any games on (though supposeduly the Miami at FSU was). At least I'll be able to watch two or three NFL games a week with beautiful clarity.

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The O.C. season premiere in HD

My biggest problems with soap operas (which is what The O.C. really is) is that so many of the characters are pure evil, for no apparent reason. Jeri Ryan was barely in this episode, but it was clear that she'll cause some sort of trouble just for fun soon. It really annoys me.

Overall a good start to the new season and the first season I'll be watching in high-definition.

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Sahara

Not all that good but a mindlessly entertaining movie. The plot is pretty much ridiculous overall and so are most of the plot twists, but there's a ton of good action sequences. Penelope Cruz is really miscast, as she is in any movie in which she's asked to speak English, as a doctor with the World Health Organization (WHO).

It's not good, but I enjoyed it.

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Texas vs. ULaLa

Saturday night the Longhorns faced the University of Lousiana-Lafayette in the first game of the 2005 college football season. They played well and won easily, 60 - 3. I live blogged the game over on Bevo Sports.

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Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

Best cameo EVER by Neil Patrick Harris/Doogie Howser. Pretty damn funny.

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White Chicks

Wow, freaking terrible! Even worse than I could've imagined, and I imagined it was pretty bad. The whole movie is based on the premise that these girls' friends couldn't tell the difference between them and the Wayans brothers dressed as them. I'm embarrassed.

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Sin City

Decent, but I wasn't really to into it. A little too dark and too all over the place.

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Coach Carter

Much better than I was expecting. A little bit typical, but entertaining and never too lame. No ridiculous sports moments either.

The end is a little lame, for some reason the people who made the movie think that high school sports are as dumb as the NCAA. There's some sort of selection process to get into the state tournament.

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Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

Really good movie and Bobby Jones' life story was a pretty interesting one.

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The 40-Year-Old Virgin

The 40-Year-Old Virgin was a good movie that for much of it's two hours wasn't particularly funny. It was a good romantic comedy, that after the first sixty minutes was more romantic than comedy.

They did devote a lot of time mocking those dumbass eBay stores that are popping up everywhere, you can never go wrong with that.

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The Longest Yard

The original version, not the crappy remake with Adam Sandler. Really good, had never seen it before.

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Not as good as Starved , but still better than half the crap on TV right now.

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Starved

Great comedy with some actual substance on FX Thursdays at 9 Central. And swearing too! Definitely going onto my TiVo Season Pass list so I don't miss any upcoming episodes. I'll be sure to post more after I see a few more episodes so I can tell you whether or not you should be watching it too.

Apparently critics found it offensive, I found it hilarious.

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Wedding Crashers

Almost great, but ultimately falls short.

The original trailer didn't really interest me, but after hearing rave reviews we went in with high expectations. Somewhere in the middle was probably about right. Really funny movie without any outrageously funny parts. Definitely go see it if you liked Old School or other Vince Vaughn/Will Ferrell movies.

On a sidenote, the freaking archenemy's name is Sack. I thought it was Zach for a while, then realized it was freaking SACK.

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Home Run Derby

Not nearly as exciting as last year's (namely because it is sans Berkman), but so far Bobby Abreu has put on quite a show.

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Boogeyman

I'm not exactly sure why but I'm pretty sure the Boogeyman was wearing an argyle sweater vest. I'm not sure if it was just because I was watching it while working on something else, but it wasn't scary at all. It was half-decent though I guess, pretty uneventful though.

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War of the Worlds

Fantastic effects and action are bogged down by plot holes and bad ideas. Worth seeing, but be sure to turn your brain off first.

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Bill Cosby, Himself

Funny stuff. Classic Cosby on family and other PG stuff.

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De-Lovely

Really boring for the first 45 minutes or so but it got better. Never really heard of Cole Porter before the movie, just heard that it was pretty good. I think it would've been better if they hadn't mixed in those Cole Porter watching himself scenes.

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Elf

Man I loved this movie when we first saw it in theaters. It may be July but it was still hilarious and I enjoyed the heck out of it. Jon Favreu is supposed to have a sequel in the works, but it may be without Will Ferrel.

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In Good Company

Great movie that comes really close to being a fantastic one. Maybe I'm just a sap but I was hoping for a little different ending.

Great performances by everyone in the cast. Dennis Quaid is great, Scarlett Johansson is beautiful and wonderful, and Topher Grace is funny and vulnerable. Topher Grace, despite going by the name of Topher, is actually a surprisingly good actor and has transition out of his The 70's Show role pretty easily.

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NBA Draft

Man, the NBA Draft flies by compared to the NFL Draft.

Kind of mixed emotions over what's going to happen to CJ Miles. He's a UT commit who claims he will attend Texas if he's undrafted or drafted in the second round. I honestly think coming to school for a year or two would be best for him, but he's made his decision and I hope things work out for the kid.

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Chronicles of Riddick

Good action movie that really improved a lot on the last one. Chronicles of Riddick is much easier to watch than Pitch Black was, mainly because much less of the movie is in the dark. Takes a bit off the general feel of the movie, but something that had to be done to make it a mainstream success.

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Ray

We finally sat down and watched Ray after starting back in early March. Great movie that deserved all the accolades it received.

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Elektra

Started off terrible but actually got a little better as it went along. May have actually been better than Daredevil but maybe I just had higher expectations for that one.

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Cinderella Man

Absolutely fantastic. Best movie we've seen in a long time. Wonderful, brutal fight scenes to go with a heartwrenching true story.

I need to find the book by Jeremy Schaap because I've been wanting to check it out too.

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National Treasure

I probably enjoyed National Treasure more than most people did. It's kind of like a poorly written, action-packed version of a Dan Brown novel focused only on US history. Enjoyable but average.

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NBA Finals in HD

Mmmmmmmm... high-definition.

Thanks to ABC broadcasting the NBA Finals in HD and widescreen I got to see two crystal clear ferns on the pre-game show.

And Alanis Morissette's ugly ass hair highlights.

And DJ Jazzy Jeff. My life is complete.

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Joey in high def

No seriously, I just watched two episodes of freaking Joey because it was in high definition. God that show is terrible.

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Team America

Not nearly as offensive as I thought it would be, dissappointing. A lot of funny moments and lines, but in general it wasn't particularly amusing. Probably the worst of the movies from Trey Parker and Matt Stone. I even liked BASEketball much better.

Kim Jong Il was hilarious and I loved all the moron actor/activists. As usual the songs were absolutely fantastic.

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Pitch Black

I watched part of this years ago but decided to finally sit through the whole thing because I'm interesed in The Chronicles of Riddick. Pitch Black is a decent action movie with really annoying visual affects throughout. I know it was supposed to add to the atmosphere of darkness and simulate the way Riddick sees things, but it was annoying and made the movie difficult to watch.

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White Noise

Well that stunk. I didn't exactly have high expectations for White Noise but it still managed to fall short of them.

Lame premise that it tries to pass off as fact, but then throws as much BS in as possible to make anyone who actually thought the EVP, or Electronic Voice Phenomenon, was real to realize this movie was full of it. It went from people trying to communicate with lost loved ones to ghosts killing people.

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Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith

Very dark movie that was probably the best of the three Star Wars prequels, but I think it was the most disappointing for me. I came in with higher expectations than I did for Episodes 1 or 2.

Anakin went from confused but still wanting to do the right thing to the Dark Side in about 30 seconds, it was kind of weird. Lots of build-up to that moment and then it just happened in an instant.

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The Aviator

Howard Hughes' life story didn't need much embellishment to make it into an entertaining film. My favorite parts were the Senate hearings when Hughes flat out embarrasses Senator Brewster and a fantastic plane crash scene where he's almost killed.

Gwen Stefani sure got a lot of pub for being in this movie, she's on screen for about 30 seconds and says essentially nothing.

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Hotel Rwanda

Really good movie of a horrible real-life story, the U.N. and the western world sure comes out looking like crap in this movie. Wonderfully acted and written, not a single moment in it that was unbelievable or that pissed me off. A very good movie that everyone will find entertaining and heart-wrenching.

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The Da Vinci Code trailer

No actual movie scenes since they haven't actually started filming the movie yet, but nice to see it's finally moving along. It's already got a release date too, instead of something like Spring 2006 it actually says May 19, 2006.

I'm not sure what I think about Tom Hanks playing Robert Langdon, he's too famous and doesn't fit the picture I have of him in my head at all.

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Lost season finale

I knew we weren't going to find out everything in the season finale but I think they left way too many things hanging. They should've wrapped a few more issues but there's probably more questions now than there were when the night started.

TVSquad has a nice discussion about the last episode up.

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American Idol finale

I thought Bo deserved to win and have been rooting for him the last six weeks or so, but on first impressions I actually said Carrie would win back when the final round just started. I thought she actually got worse the more country she tried to be. It sounded like she was trying to have too much twang in her voice. She's good but could still use a lot of coaching.

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24 season finale

I didn't watched all of this season of 24 (Christina did), but I still enjoyed the finale. I think I could handle it a lot better if it was called 6 or something. It's just too long and drawn out and they beat some stuff to death by doing that many episodes. Every year I watch the first part and then get worn out on it and miss the rest.

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King Arthur

Surprisingly decent, I thought it was gonna blow big time but it was actually entertaining. Nice realitistic take on the King Arthur legend that wasn't too predictable. Not quite an epic blockbuster but a watchable flick if you can get over Keira Knightley's outfit in the final battle. (As an aside, damn she's still so young, just turned 20 in March.)

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The Astros suck

I'm really glad I decided not to get tickets to any of the Astros versus Rangers games in Arlington this weekend. God the Astros are downright terrible.

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The O.C. season finale

Great episode with a ton of cliffhangers to get people to come back next season. Maybe Marissa will go to jail and leave the show, or at least stop being a drunk, annoying rich girl.

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The Mavs roll over (again)

The Mavericks haven't exactly been impressive these playoffs when other teams make a run. They sure have a knack of turning a two point lead into a twelve point deficit.

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Saw

Really good movie that could've been a lot better. The Amazon customer reviews claim there's a ton of blood and gore, but there's not at all. There's one pretty graphic scene and then a lot of implied gore the rest of the time.

Good thriller with lots of plot twists that doesn't have half the story or acting that Se7en did.

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The Next Generation Xbox Revealed

The first unveiling of the Microsoft Xbox 360 will be on MTV. Engadget has more details.

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First quarter of Mavs vs Suns game

Who in the hell at TNT decided these games should start at freaking 10 p.m. every night? That's just ridiculous.

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American Dad

Sucked.

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The Family Guy

Last week's was unbelievably funny. It's so nice having new Family Guy's to watch again, though there's still a lot of the older ones I haven't seen yet. I got into it after it was already off of Fox.

This and The Simsons on Sunday nights will hopefully help me survive all this reality crap on TV right now.

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About 53 stand-up comedians

Christina and I went to Comic Strip Live while we were in NYC and had a blast. Some of the comics were hilarious, some were good, and a couple were average at best, but all in all it was a great evening of entertainment. The only person I recognized was Judah Friedlander from Best Week Ever on VH1. He was decent. There were almost too many comedians, we were burned out and ready to go by the end.

Worst part? The audience was pretty small, around twenty people or so, so a couple of the crappier comics thought they'd try to blame their unfunniness on the audience. Over and over again. Say something funny and we'll laugh. And stop asking us where we're from, the eight comics that came on before you already did that bit.

The tickets were only $20, but there was a two drink minimum that ended up costing us sixty bucks or so. The show started at 8:30 and we finally left at midnight and they were still going, so you get a good amount of fun for your dollar.

If anybody is headed that way or lives in NYC and is interested in going, comment and I'll mail you a ticket that'll admit two now through the end of the summer or so.

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Rangers vs. Yankees at Yankee Stadium

Not an overly exciting game, but it was definitely cool visiting Yankee Stadium for the first time.

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Twelve Angry Men on Broadway

Amazing.

I still have no urge to see any Broadway musicals, but I can definitely understand why Broadway plays are so reknowned. It was entertaining throughout and very well-acted. I'd never seen the movie, so the story was completely new to me. I'll try to rent it soon.

A couple of relatively well-known actors were in the play. John Pankow from Mad About You and James Rebhorn from Meet the Parents among other things were both really good, but the entire cast was at least their equal. Pankow definitely seemed to linger a little longer than everyone else during the curtain call.

In the most obvious statement ever, everyone needs to see a show on Broadway at least once in their lives.

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The Alamo

Much better movie than the reviews are giving it credit for, but still pretty average. I'm guessing the biggest problem is that without all the overblown legends, the story is a little boring. Amazon's review calls the battle of the Alamo a bloody 13-day siege, when really it was 12 days of standing around hoping more people would show up followed by a couple of hours of fighting.

Movie was decent enough that anyone interested in the Alamo should see it. If you're not a fan of any of the actors or the story, then it's probably a movie you can skip.

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Ocean's Twelve

Ocean's Twelve was a movie I wanted to see in theaters but never got around to. It's actually a pretty good sequel, not as good as the first but watchable. It doesn't stand on it's own that well, if you haven't seen Ocean's Eleven you definitely should before watching this one.

My biggest pet peave? The whole outcome relies on the fact that they just didn't bother showing the viewer half the story.

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Revelations

Revelations is six episode mini-series on NBC about The End of Days (no, not Arnold's movie, it's about the biblical apocalypse.)

I really enjoyed the first episode, but I must admit the fact that Fred Durst is a guest star is a little worrisome.

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Braves at Marlins

The season is officially under way. Go Braves.

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MLB Opening Day

I watched/listened to the first half of the Red Sox vs. Yankees. It sure is nice to have baseball back on. It's something I can sit down and not worry about rearranging my schedule to catch the entire thing.

I hope TBS is showing more Braves games this year, Major League Baseball has forced them to show more and more games on that damn Turner South network that no one gets.

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The Terminal

Surprisingly good. Tom Hanks really is good, I think I forget that sometimes. But after this and Saving Private Ryan, I'm reminded how good he really is. This may also be the only time I thought Catherine Zeta Jones was really hot.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

I love having free movie rentals at work, it allows me to rent stuff I normally wouldn't have seen.

I've now seen all three Harry Potter movies and they're all pretty darn good. I can definitely see how come the young kids go nuts about the books and the movies. The older people who are huge fans of it still worry me a little though.

Azkaban was good, but the middle movie was the best in my opinion.

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South Park - BFF

Hilarious new South Park.

They cover Terry Schiavo and the PSP. Essentially the story says God created the PSP to find someone to command heaven's armies.

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The Grudge

Eh, I didn't really care for it. It wasn't particularly scary and the reason the spirits were killing everyone was kind of hollow.

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Saving Private Ryan

Got it from Peerflix.

I forgot how good this movie really was. The whole thing is great.

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Finding Neverland

I think I'd rather have actually watched Peter Pan.

It wasn't a bad movie by any means, kind of boring in parts though. I wanted to learn more about J.M. Barrie and less about the woman and her kids. I guess it just seemed that for a movie that focused on such a particular period and event, it was very unfocused. They should have either told more of the story of Barrie's life or done a better job telling about his relationship with the young boys.

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The Office

A new sitcom starring Steve Carell of Anchorman and The Daily Show fame. The plot:

A single-camera mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, and tedium. Based on the hit BBC series.

The commercials have looked really funny and the reviews have been positive so far. There just aren't many good sitcoms on right now, so you gotta take what you can get.

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Cellular

Unbelievably crappy movie. Kim Basinger was awful. Multiple members of the cast were in Not Another Teen Movie, never a good sign.

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Texas kill my bracket

Now don't get me wrong, I knew Texas wasn't a great team this year. Problem was I thought (and still think) Illinois and Boston College are both overrated, so I managed to accidentally put Texas all the way into the Elite 8. Whoops.

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NCAA Tourney RealTime scoreboard

The true RealTime scoreboard is only available to Insider members, but ESPN also has an excellent auto-updating page for the rest of you.

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Spider-Man 2 (Superbit Collection)

I never watch any of the extras on 95% of the DVD's I own, so why not scrap them for higher quality audio and video? Superbit utilizes a special high bit rate digital encoding process which optimizes video quality while offering a choice of both DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.

Looked great, I'd definitely recommend Superbit to anyone that an HD TV and could care less about all the making-of features.

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Shaun of the Dead

Christina hated it and thought it was annoyingly bad. I thought it was decent but incredibly overrated. I just didn't get why people thought it was so great. It's so weird that American and British humor are two such different things.

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Mr. 3000

Mr. 3000 is decent. It's no Major League or Field of Dreams, but at least it's not Rookie of the Year.

The baseball is watchable, there's no completely impossible plays or ridiculous looking action. The plot is amusing but predictable. Bernie Mac and baseball fans will enjoy it, but I don't really see it appealing to too many others.

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The Daily Show on bloggers (19.5 MB!)

Man I love The Daily Show.

Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert (aka Ted Hitler) discuss the growing presence and legitimacy of bloggers.

(via Signal vs. Noise)

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The Oscars

They sure are shafting the crappy awards this year. Not complaining of course, but it does kind of suck that some winners don't even get to accept on stage.

I bet Sideways gets shut out.

Tim Robbins looks like he didn't bathe today.

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Man on Fire

Not really much different from a lot of the stuff Denzel's been doing lately, but still very, very good. My biggest complaint is that the previews gave away the major plot turn.

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Jerry Seinfeld Live on Broadway

I don't know where but I've heard a lot of this material before, eventhough the DVD was released last September and I haven't seen it before. Oh yeah, maybe it's on the Comedian. Maybe I should stop thinking out loud. I can never decide between aloud, out loud, and outloud. I'm pretty sure they're all technically accepted.

I'm losing it.

Anyways, it's funny. Watch it.

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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Really cool movie. The effects were excellent and very stylish. I can't believe the entire thing was shot in front of a blue screen.

The movie's story was decent, but the look of the movie is what makes it worth seeing.

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I, Robot

Much better than I thought it was going to be, the previews made it look like another lame Will Smith movie. Like Wild Wild West (I can't believe Jassin and I paid money to see that in the theater) but set in the future. Turns out it was actually a really entertaining movie. Good action, unpredictable, interesting futuristic technology. Biggest thing I didn't like about it was the fact that no one ever believed him. 20,000 robots could be trying to kill him, and everybody would just say, But the rules say robots can't hurt humans.

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The Notebook

Christina has been begging me to see this with her forever, but I avoided like the plague when it was in theaters. But it came out on DVD just in time for Valentine's Day (great marketing job by New Line) and so I bought it for her. We watched it together and it was actually really good. The movie focused a little too much on them as an older couple than I would've liked and it ended a little poorly, but it was still good.

Rachel McAdams is pretty hot, where has she been? I didn't even realize she was the chick in Mean Girls, she looked much better here.

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The Manchurian Candidate

Great movie. Denzel Washington is one of my favorite actors and does well as usual here. Meryl Streep creeps me out.

I wish they had played up the RFID tags more, I bet most people don't even realize it's real technology.

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Anchorman

Some people don't like it as much as I do, but I really think it's hilarious. Yeah there's definitely better stupid comedies and better Will Ferrell movies, but that doesn't make Anchorman bad. Worth seeing if you liked stuff like Old School and Dodgeball.

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The Village

Lame.

M. Night Shyamalan's movies are having unexpected twists. This one had a dumb one, and I guessed it pretty early. Just listen carefully to the elders' choice of words.

I see porcupines.

Even the extras for this movie sucked, especially Bryce's Diary. It's supposedly by Bryce Howard (daughter of Ron), but it sounds like it's from a twelve year old girl.

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Super Bowl XXXIX

Terrel Owens deserves a lot of praise and a lot of apologies. Donovan McNabb played the whole game nervous and the Eagles still had a shot to win. Commercials sucked.

Is next year's game going to be Super Bowl XL? XL as in ten before fifty? That's pretty cool.

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Rose Bowl on DVD

So I finally got TiVoToGo last week and the first thing I did was transfer all four hours of the Rose Bowl. The dang thing is 11GB so transferring over 802.11b took like 6+ hours. Downloaded the Sonic MyDVD Tivo Trial Edition, took out the commercials, and burnt the sucker.

I'm going to watch it over and over again just to piss off Christina.

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American Idol

I'm not sure I'll be watching it anymore after discovering it's a farce, but it is still pretty entertaining. I think mainly I'm tired of watching the early rounds and all the crappy people. You can only be god-awful in so many ways before it gets boring.

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Meet the Fockers

Nowhere near as funny as the first one, but still good.

For some reason I can't stand when people in movies/on TV get embarrassed. It's painful for me to watch, I have to look away. Unfortunately, like 80% of Meet the Fockers was Greg being embarrassed for no reason by his parents.

Wait for it to come out on video.

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

I swear I finished the first one, but maybe not. I could've sworn Professor Snape turned out to be the bad guy, but he was still around.

Anyways, good movie. I still don't understand the fanaticism for it by people over the age of twelve, but it's good quality entertainment. Harry is already starting to get a little too old for the role, if they plan on doing a fifth movie I wonder if it'll spin off from the original character. I've got no urge to see a middle-aged wizard.

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Wimbledon

Wimbledon was actually a movie I wanted to see in theaters, but I decided it was probably going to be a piece of crap. I love Kirsten Dunst, and although he hasn't been in much I think Paul Bettany is pretty damn funny, but it's about tennis so it's all kind of a wash.

Turns out the movie was pretty good, and an actually acceptable sports movie. Outcome is very predictable, but it's still entertaining. And of course, how can you go wrong with Kirsten Dunst in a tennis skirt for 90% of the movie.

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The Patriot

I bought it and A Knight's Tale for thirteen bucks total, TOTAL!

It's no Braveheart, but The Patriot is pretty damn close. Throw Gladiator and you got yourself a hell of a testosterone-filled movie marathon.

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Super Size Me

First and foremost his girlfriend needs to go. The guy is obviously a pretty liberal dude, but you could tell even he was tired of listening to her vegan propaganda. I have my opinions, you have your's. If I want to know what you think, I'll ask. If you've already told me once and I said no, then definitely shut the heck up.

The movie was good. Informative, funny, entertaining. Morgan Spurlock (the dude I was referring to above) did a good job of just making a documentary without trying to shove his opinion down our throats.

It would be interesting to see what doing the same things would do to a person with a more normal (in other words, bad) diet. He seemed to not really ever eat McDonald's before he started filming the movie. I mean he puked on Day 2 already.

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The Forgotten

One of the lamest plot twists I've seen. Ever. Could've been a decent movie if 75% of the movie wasn't based on that lame plot twist.

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UT versus OSU basketball

The officiating in college basketball is so bad that it makes the game painful to watch. I only caught the second half of Texas' game with Oklahoma State but it was a good one. Huge audience on national TV and the Horns stepped up and knocked off the number five ranked Cowboys.

Hopefully it wasn't PJ Tucker's last game as a Longhorn, but it sure looks that way.

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24: Day 4

I missed tonight's episode (I was working and watching the game), but I plan on watching this season all the way through. I watched the first half of Day 3 and then missed a couple episodes and couldn't get back to it. That won't happen this year thanks to TiVo, if I miss an episode or just aren't in the mood for it I can watch it anytime.

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The Wild Cherry Pepsi NFL Wildcard Between Games Report

You've got to be kidding me ABC. Did the ten minutes between games really need a separate sponsor? Couldn't you have just charged someone to sponsor the entire studio show?

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Rolling Kansas

Pretty funny movie I just caught on Comedy Central. There's a magical forest of weed in Kansas and some college kids go on a journey to find it. Of course hilarity ensues.

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Serendipity

Wonderful romantic comedy. Kate Beckinsale is hot and surprisingly not a vampire in this movie. John Cusack is awesome just like he is in every movie, although he does kind of play the same role in every movie too.

Sweet and original movie.

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Collateral

Good movie. Well-written thriller with good acting jobs by both Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.

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The Bourne Supremacy

Pretty good movie, about as good as the first. Good action and plotline, although this one was more predictable. There was next to zero character development, so if you didn't see the first movie you would think this one sucked. They should have made a little more effort to further expand on who Bourne was.

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Fellowship of the Rings

That was the first time I've watched the movie in ages, plus that was the regular version on a laptop. I finally got to sit down and watch the full extended edition this weekend and it was great. The picture on my TV and the surround sound were awesome. Great freaking movie.

Now I've started watching the first disc of extras, only seven more hours of movie and like fourteen hours of extras to go and I'll be completely done!

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Dodgeball

Pretty hilarious movie. Christina and I watched it on Saturday night instead of that bore that was the Fiesta Bowl.

It was lame and over the top in all the right ways, and Vince Vaughn was fantastic as usual. It may have the world's best ending featuring an awesome Christine Taylor moment. She should be in a movie without her husband once in a while.

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The Rose Bowl

The Granddaddy of Them All will be a huge game for the Texas program. I'm sure I'll be excited/nervous/naseaous the entire game.

Update: Amazing game. Horns win! Some links.

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Cal getting spanked by Tech

Well maybe the whiney Cal fans will shut the hell up now. Texas Tech handed Cal their asses 45 to 31. Oh by the way, Texas beat Tech by 30.

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The Santa Clause 2

Not nearly as good as the first (which is from way back in 1994, damn I'm old!) but still a funny holiday movie. Tim Allen is good again, but the supporting cast isn't nearly as adorable. His son is like 30 now! Definitely worth watching during Christmas time.

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Garden State

One of my favorite movies of the past year. Absolutely wonderful. Engaging, unique, and genuine.

Must see.

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Envy

Pretty crappy movie (bad pun intended.)

Neither Ben Stiller or Jack Black really shine, the lame story overshadows them both. One main part of the story is, Where does the poo go? When they finally tell you near the end they spend about four seconds on it and mumble it and skip about 90% of the details.

Lame.

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Texas at Wake Forest

A tough loss for the Texas basketball team but most likely one that'll make them a much better team in the long run. They played a very good Wake Forest team on the road and almost came away with a victory. It would have been a huge win on national TV, but they're still young and should pull out more of these close ones as these season goes on.

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The O.C.

Christina and I are watching The O.C. again. Season two so far is just more of the same, though that's not necessarily a bad thing.

They've essentially doubled the cast, since instead of Ryan, Seth, Marissa, and Summer are all dating other random people instead of each other. It also seems to be focusing more on Peter Gallagher and his eyebrows. Although as we found out at the end of last week's episode, that may be just to provide some background on what is going to screw up Ryan's love life this time.

I enjoy most of the plotlines in the show, except the ones that involve someone feeliing sorry for themselves because they're so damn rich. Marissa's I'm an alcholic because my life is so hard phases piss the hell out of me.

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Van Helsing

Not even Kate Beckinsale's best vampire movie, that's never a good sign. She was hot though, but her accent made me want to punch her. And I'm just not a Hugh Jackman fan. He's a good actor, but not a leading man in an action movie.

Decent action movie with good looking women, but with lots of lame parts and some horrible accents.

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Texas vs. TAMU

I think I sat with my head in my hands the entire halftime. After the catastrophic play that turned a sure seven for the Horns into seven points for the damned Aggies, I had no urge to look at that moronic crap the A&M calls a freaking band.

But the Texas team wasn't as down as I was and came back and whooped their ass in the second half. It was a good game to watch and it was good to see Cedric Benson and Derrick Johnson's last home games as Longhorns.

You can also check out the photos I took of the game in my photoblog. I took a couple of good action shots and some cool ones of DJ in the number 60 jersey.

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Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

The first time I saw the previews of this movie I really wanted to see it. But the more previews I saw the dumber it looked.

It's actually probably somewhere in the middle. A good, but not great movie.

It's pretty confusing in the beginning to figure out exactly what's going on, but if you sit and pay attention to the entire movie the story really makes some weird sense. Real different concept and flow, I'm still not exactly sure the real sequence of events. It's kind of a strange cross between The Truman Show and Memento.

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The Incredibles

Hilariously entertaining. Everyone should see it, definitely not just a kids movie.

I'm already anxiously the DVD release and the announcement of a sequel.

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Alfie

Great movie despite the fact that it's bombing at the box office. Jude Law overkill? Really enjoyable, especially for Christina who would leave me in a second for Jude Law. Pretty good storyline mixed in with some comedic moments and a great soundtrack. Excellent acting and I enjoyed the way Alfie narrated the story by speaking directly to the audience. Definitely a cool technique.

Just an entertaining movie with tons of attractive people. Damn Marisa Tomei was freaking smoking, she's getting better with age. And Sienna Miller should be in more things than this movie, a crappy cancelled TV series, and Jude Law's pants.

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Star Wars Episode III trailer

Actually looks pretty good. Hopefully it's better than the last two. (via Jeremy Flint)

Update: I don't know where this is linked to or how long it'll be up, so someone please let me know if the link goes down.

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Under the Tuscan Sun

Don't laugh, it was actually pretty good. Yes it was girly, but it wasn't the same crappy story line you get from most chick flicks. Unfortunately, it didn't rely on the whole "women are idiots who need men or else they fall apart and they make really bad decisions and always fall for the wrong guy and think the world is over" stereotype. That always irks me.

Best thing going for it? Diane Lane. She may be almost forty, but she's freaking hot!

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The Perfect Score

If you like Scarlett Johansson or atypical high school movies you should check it out. The storyline has a major flaw and the dialog isn't too great (except from Leonardo Nam), but it's mildly entertaining.

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Not the World Series

Talk about a let down. After watching almost every inning of the two great League Championship Series, I haven't seen more than three total innings of the WS. There was so much national interest in the Sox and Yankees series and I had so much interest in the Astros versus Cardinals series that I guess I just don't give a damn which team wins now.

I can't decide what's going to happen if Boston wins the whole thing, is it going to make the media talk more or less about them?

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The Day After Tomorrow

A surprisingly entertaining movie. The first previews I saw for it had me really wanting to see it, but as I saw more and more previews the less I wanted to see.

Turns out it was actually pretty decent. There's a couple moronic things in it and I can tell why it got poor reviews. The worst part of it is that there are several storylines that they just completely forget about in the end. They spend time building relationships between characters, and then when the real action starts they seem to have forgotten what the hell they were doing.

If you like seeing crap blow up and other stereotypical action motifs, then The Day After Tomorrow is worth checking out.

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Miracle

Eh, the movie was pretty good but I really would have preferred just to see a well researched and produced documentary on the team than an actual movie about it. I guess the fact that I do already know the story so well from multiple documentaries meant the movie showed me nothing really new.

Another well done sports movie though, I'm no hockey expert (thank God) but it seemed to be pretty accurate with all the on-ice action. There weren't really any times when I was disgusted by a lack of realism or anything.

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The Yankees choke

I refuse to give the Red Sox much credit, the Yankees blew this series. I couldn't be much happier, unless it had ended with an easy ground ball going off overrated Derek Jeter's overrated glove and through his overrated legs to allow the winning run to score.

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Lost

Great drama, easily this season's best new show. It's actually original too. When I first saw the previews and then the pilot, I thought it was going to be a mini-series. There was a ton of action and drama and story development starting from the very first episode. It seems every character on the show has some sort of hidden story, and we're slowly finding them out.

It's even available in HD, not like I can take advantage of that or anything. (Grande sucks!)

Evangeline Lilly is freaking hot by the way. Mmmmmm... Canadian chicks.

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Chance Mock racked

Now this is freaking hilarious. I guess ABC didn't even notice or they would've cut away. Damn funny.

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A-Rod cheating

Wow! If the umps don't get this right and the Red sox go on to lose, the city of Boston may go berserk. Alex Rodriguez intentionally reached out and knocked the ball loose. Wow.

They got the call right. Whew! They called A-Rod out and put Jeter back at first, that's the correct call. Easy one.

Now the Yankees fans are showing their true colors. Throwing stuff on the field. Sports-radio here in Dallas is going to have a field day with this tomorrow.

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Texas vs Mizzou

We may be in real trouble at quarterback. Vince Young and Chance Mock combined for 58 yards passing and two interceptions. Young was actually our leading receiver and Ramonce Taylor (a true freshman running back) was the leading passer.

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Friday Night Lights

Pretty good movie, much better than most sports movie and certainly better than any that are about high school sports. Anybody that ever played high school football (especially in Texas) should definitely see it. Entertaining and well done, but still disappointing.

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NLCS

Damn the Astros bullpen stinks, sure wish Phil Garner realized that. He keeps pulling his starting pitcher everytime he gets in the least bit of trouble, only to trot out Chad Qualls and Dan Micelli to relieve him. I've seen Micelli pitch like a dozen times this year, and everytime he's come in and given up bombs.

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Astros vs. Braves - Game 2

Freaking TiVo screwed up my recording. Damn you TiVo!! How dare you betray me? I thought you and I had something special together.

I got home from work and had to watch the game live (*shudders*), it was already the fifth inning.

Braves are down 2 - 1 in the 7th. Furcal just screwed up and got thrown out at home. Damnit!

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The Prince and Me

Ehhhhhh... At least it didn't kill me.

Christina wanted to watch Mean Girls but the office doesn't have it in their collection yet. This one was sitting on the front desk and it looked girly, so I thought it would be a perfectly craptacular replacement.

The movie was okay, lame and emasculating, but not horrible. I don't like Julia Stiles, I don't find her attractive at all. And the dude was a bit of a weiner. Story had it's moments and although the ending was predictable, not all of the story twists were.

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Astros vs. Braves - Game 1

I really don't know who I'm rooting for in this one. I've loved the Braves since I was a little kid, but Lance Berkman plays for Astros. The Braves would definitely be considered a dynasty if they win another World Series, but Houston has never won a postseason series in franchise series. Tough call.

I'd rather have them both win a series before having to play each other, but at least this way one of them has to win. As long as Lance plays well I'll probably be able to be happy for either team.

Oh, and I TiVo'd it so don't tell me who won damnit!

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Runaway Jury

Pretty good movie. Man, I really like John Cusack and almost every movie he's been in. His old stuff (like Say Anything) and his new stuff (Serendipity) are both great, with the crap in between not so much.

Good movie for those who like court room dramas or Cusack or Gene Hackman. Interesting story that hasn't been covered a thousand times, and an actually unexpected plot twist near the end.

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Presidential debates

Jesus. I can't watch this, it's awful.

Are these the two best men we can find to lead our country? I am going to take my cue from Brewster's Millions and vote for “None of the Above.”

Want real political discussion? Go here or here.

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Office Space

Best. Movie. Ever.

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The Whole Ten Yards

Another average movie. There's no recent DVD's out right now that I actually want to see.

The movie wasn't bad, but Matthew Perry was way too “Chandler” for my tastes. He really isn't a bad actor, but he needs to avoid any more roles like this or he's never going to get past his Friends days. The first one was definitely a better movie, but if you like it then this one is probably worth seeing too.

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Jersey Girl

Another decent movie. If you like Kevin Smith's work you should see it, but don't expect a classic Kevin Smith film.

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The Ladykillers

Good movie but not great. Tom Hanks is good, but the rest of the cast isn't. See it if you like Tom Hanks or the Coen brothers.

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Scrubs

Best show on TV. Period.

Funny as hell, Zach Braff (as JD) is a hilarious and so is Donald Faison (as Turk). Plus Sarah Chalke (Elliot) is hot and they added freaking Heather Graham to the cast this season.

Awesome show.

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Nip/Tuck

My coworker has been raving about this show all summer long but I never had any interest. I hate the idea of plastic surgery and I hate shows about self-absorbed morons, so it sure didn't sound like something I'd want to see.

I watched it the other night, it was great. Entertaining as hell. I'll definitely watch the final two episodes of this season and try to download Season 1 off BitTorrent.

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NFL Football

I actually stayed up and watched the entire game last night on Monday Night Football. This year I'm more interested than usual in the NFL, probably because I'm involved in a fantasy league here at work. I've played fantasy football before, but never with nine other people I knew.

Of course I'm still watching plenty of college football, but only one Longhorn game has been on TV so far.

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Sports Night

One of the best shows on television, well at least it would be if it was actually still on TV! Cancelled after only two seasons, Sports Night was funny and intelligent. You need to see it if you haven't, especially if you're a sports fan. You can get the whole series on DVD for only around fifty bucks.

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Troy

Overall, a decent but disappointing movie. Some absolutely horrible moments mixed in with some excellent ones. A definite let down for history buffs, but probably a must-see for Brad Pitt fans.

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