Futurama review

So your life is sh*t, you're a pizza delivery boy and you just caught your girlfriend cheating on you. Now if your life is similar to this, you might be Phillip. J. Fry. While delivering a pizza on December 31 2000, new year's eve to a cryogenics lab, he ends up falling into a chamber, freezing himself for 1000 years. Eventually waking up in the year 3000. Waking up, he finds that he has one sole living relative, Professor Hubert Farnsworth; a senile, completely insane, mad scientist, who has a collection of active doomsday machines. He also happens to own a small interplanetary delivery company called Planet Express.
 
Among the Professor's crew is Fry's best friend Bender. A homicidal, profane, alcoholic, egotistical, anarchistic, narcissistic robot who really doesn't give one sh*t.  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Leela, a one eyed "Alien" with purple hair and a fiery temper, is the Captain of the Planet Express ship.  She represents the buzzkill in this show. Leela also has a pet named Nibbler. A hyper intelligent rat creature, who eats everything, can poop out dark matter and is a General in the military of his home planet, Nibblonian.       
                                                          

Among the lesser liked characters of the crew, we have Dr. Zoidberg. His race, known as Decapodians, are a lobster like creature from the Planet Decapod 10. The Decapodians once invaded Earth and enslaved Humanity. There are many famous Decapodians like Harold Zoid a famous actor and nephew, Dr. Zoidberg, who ate the Earth Flag and then saved the Earth. Zoidberg is a skilled alien doctor, who's experience runs out when it come to operating on humans. Being quite a pathetic character, you cant help but feel bad for him at times.

                                                              

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The Quinton Tarantino Theory -part 2

PULP FICTIONS CONNECTION TO KILL BILL

    Now we must go back for a sec. Vincent Vega is tasked with taking out Marsellus Wallace's wife for a night on the town. The two go to dinner, where Mia Wallace talks about her 5 seconds of fame in a pilot episode of a show called Fox Force Five, which... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZgxGIpe3xI Mind = blown.

                                    THE BRIDES CONNECTION WITH DJANGO

In Kill Bill 2 we follow the bride, aka Beatrix Kiddo on her quest for revenge. In one scene, she gets overpowered by her former team member Budd, who proceeds to bury her alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnXi3SVJXbM As she is emerging from the grave, you can briefly see the name on the tombstone behind her, which reads Paula Schultz. The wife to the former dentist turned bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz in Django unchained. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ciuluGMXQo

                                               THAT IS A TASTY BURGER

Ok so I know that this theory is all over the place, but just hang in there for a sec as we jump back to Pulp Fiction. Now, we all remember the scene where Jules helps himself to Brett’s burger. If not, here is a quick refresher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBP0Mbc7VFw The fictional chain of Big Kahuna Burger is mentioned in Pulp fiction, From Dusk til Dawn, Death Proof, Reservoir Dogs and Four Rooms. Proving that all these movies exist in the same universe.

    From Dusk til Dawn also ties in with the Tarantino-produced movie, Curdled when the Gecko brothers show up on this TV show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pATv11hWgFY  

Also, Eral and Ed Mcgraw play two Texas rangers that appear in From Dusk til Dawn, Kill Bill and Grindhouse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8K5d3pEUl8 ,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qyZQTjS6Ks  

One of the only Tarantino films that doesn't fit into the theory is Jackie Brown, which is an adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel. Hopefully soon we will find out how The Hateful Eight fits into the picture.

The Tarantino Theory

Out of all the theories and connections out there, the Tarantino theory has to be my favorite. The theory goes to prove that all Tarantino films share the same universe and are happening on the same time line.

                RESERVOIR DOGS CONNECTION TO NATURAL BORN KILLERS

    Tarantino first broke into the scene with 1992’s Reservoir Dogs, a film about a jewelry heist gone way wrong. The team of colorful criminals hired to pull of this job all go by code names, with audiences never really knowing most of their true identities. But we do learn the name of one of them: everyone’s favorite ear-slicing, milkshake sipping psychopath Mr. Blonde aka Vic Vega https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqRHjYl955s brother to Pulp Fiction‘s Vincent Vega. When we first meet Vic, he has just gotten out of prison and has been assigned a parole officer Seymour Scagnetti, who Vic has no love for. Well as it so happens, Scagnetti has a brother too. Dect. Jack Scagnetti. Who is the Detective in charge of tracking down a pair of star-crossed cereal killers in the movie Natural Born Killers

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                TRUE ROMANCE’S CONNECTION TO INGLORIOUS BASTARDS  

    In Reservoir Dogs we also find out that Mr. White had been mentoring a call girl named Alabama, who had gotten very close to a man named Clarence.                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5-CyWvTY-A Before they can have their happy ending, they need to kill Alabama’s pimp. Doing this leads them to grabbing a huge bag of cocaine, which they sell to a famous movie director Lee Donowitz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5jup1zI7Cg Now if that lat name hasn't already rung a bell, let me refresh your memory. Before Lee Donowitz was producing movie, his dad Sgt. Donny Donowitz, a WWII badass who was smashing heads with a baseball bat in Inglorious Bastards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3uqv0eP7Tg  

                                                   TO BE CONTINUED……..

Review for Dexter

     Mild mannered Dexter is a blood spatter expert for the Miami Police dept. with a secret. Under the nice exterior is a cold blooded killer who can't be stopped. Ever since Dexter was a child he had a need to kill. As a child, he mostly killed dogs, cats and other small animals. This continued until his foster father, Harry Morgan (Played by James Remar) who was also a police officer, started to find the bodies. Knowing that he will never be able to change Dexter, he decides to teach him a code of ethics to channel his need to kill. The first rule of this code is to never get caught and do whatever necessary to stay a free man. The second rule is never kill an innocent. Only people who deserve to die, people who have escaped justice and are walking free among the public. The code is never fully revealed, but it is referenced throughout the show.
                     
As the seasons progress, the line between his personal life, and his life as a killer slowly start to cross. Forcing Dexter to find his way out of every problem to avoid getting caught. Giving you a thrill ride of heart stopping scenes, twists, turns and pulse pounding action.
 

 With plenty of gore and action, this show is definitely not for the faint of heart. Yet with it's amazing story line, great performances, and bits of comedy, Dexter is definitely not a show that you want to miss. The show brings many of its characters into detail, not just following Dexter. This works great, and allows you to get more in depth and closer to other characters. All in all I completely recommend this show to any TV buff who hasnt seen it already.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

     This show has only needs two words to make it show awesome, Andy Samberg. Andy Samberg plays Jake Peralta, a carefree detective with best arrest record in Brooklyn. His behavior is mostly punishment free, but that all changes when Capt. Ray Holt becomes the head commander of the 99th and reminds Jake to respect the badge. Throughout the show we see them track down and capture thugs, murderers, bank robbers, sex offenders, the hole nine yards. Being an action comedy we are treated with both, but this show is definitely more on the more goofy side with plenty of gut busting scenes. which makes this show kinda hard to take seriously, but who could when it has Andy Samberg as the main role. Other characters in the 99  include Detective Amy Santiago, Sgt. Terry Jeffords, a devoted family man, Detective Charles Boyle, a hard worker who idolizes Jake, and Rosa Diaz, a sexy-yet-intimidating detective. Civilian office manager Gina Linetti is tasked with cleaning up everyone's mess, while somehow getting involved in everyone's business, and she is one of the characters that you will either love or hate. 

       l love this show because it takes the serious crime drama feel and turns it into awesome ride of action and comedy that blends into one great TV show. I personally have no idea if you're even a fan of the crime action comedy genera. If you're not, you will still enjoy this show because it doesn't just rely on the cop aspect. Although you seem to see many of the action comedy buddy cop, crime shows and movies, this is one that is well deserved to be remembered as one of the best. 

Rick and Morty

     Directed by Dan Harmon, Rick and Morty is what you would expect an R rated 'Back to the Future' on steroids to be like. With a lot more of violence, huge amounts of profanity, alternate dimensions, other worlds, lots of crazy drugs, lots of alcohol, and alien porn. The show is about the misadventures of alcoholic scientist Rick and his easily influenced grandson Morty, who split their time between domestic family life and interdimensional travel. As the show progresses you see the bond between them grow, and then they're the times that it completely falls down the drain. Whatever it maybe you will love it. You get to see the insanity of Rick thought the show, as well as Morty's stupidity. Weather its when Rick and Morty destroy and mutate all of Earth, forcing them to find a new reality, when Morty impregnates a f***-bot who gives birth to a demon child, or even when Rick create an entire universe, just to power his car battery and then that universe creates another universe to power their own universe, which in turn creates their OWN universe to power their universe and so on. Trust me, you will enjoy every second of it. The show doesn't just focus on Rick and Morty, but their family as well. As you see Morty's parents failing marriage and when they go to the best marriage counselors in the universe and proceed to destroy the place. Also when their dog develops a red hot hatred for human and creates a race of hyper intelligent and all powerful dog people.

     I love this show, it is great to watch pretty much whenever. Because there is barely any story line you can watch episode after episode without getting bored. If you are into crazy drunk adventures through space and time you will love this show, as well as the weird and crazy concepts that will make you think about the actual concept of life...like the Matrix, only way weirder. My closing statement for this blog is just WATCH THIS SHOW IN THE NAME OF GOD!

Review for Weeds

     Weeds follows a suburban mom (Nancy Botwin) turned pot dealer in order to maintain her privileged lifestyle after her husband dies from a sudden heart attack. The first three seasons primary take place in Agrestic, CA. During season 4 and 5 they reside in the fictional town Ren Mar, San Diego. In the sixth season they relocate to Seattle Washington and Dearborn Michigan. In between season 6 and 7, Nancy serves a prison sentence while her sons and brother-in-law live in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the beginning of season 7, Nancy is out into a halfway house where she reunites her family and starts her drug operation again. They live in Manhattan for they duration of the season, but move to Connecticut near the finally and the whole of season 8. I will add that the reason they move so much throughout the show is because they are either running from cops, drug lords, crazy people out for revenge, or just looking for the next best place to sell drugs.

     Jenji Kohan brings a great look at the typical dark drug based TV show. Bringing comedy into the mix works for the better allowing you to watch episode after episode without losing interest, because to much drama or boring story. Although with the comedy we see plenty of violence and drama giving it a seriousness that is impossible to ignore. As the story progresses you get more in-depth with each character drawing you into the story, with great performances from Mary-Louise Parker (Nancy Botwin) Alexander Gould (Shane Botwin) Hunter Parrish (Silas Botwin) Justin Kirk (Andy Botwin) and many more from either supporting or side characters. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of characters that are complete a-holes, such as Celia Hodes played by Elisabeth Perkins, who i guaranty you will hate by the end of the first season. A quick warning, if you plan on watching this show, be prepared to binge watch. Because after one episode you will be hooked.

The Pixar theory

The credit of this theory goes to John Negroni, who has written the full theory.
What if I told you that all the Pixar movies are connected,  and that all the characters are in the same universe. This theory proves they do. Our story starts in old Scotland, with the movie Brave.

Brave is one of the only Pixar movies that explains the fact that animals are as intelligent as humans. In the movie, Merida (the main protagonist) discovers a magic power a witch has developed that turns humans into animals, in this case a bear. If the witch had the power to turn Merida's mother into a bear, it reasons, she would have previously experimented on other humans. During the centuries that followed Brave, the animals and objects that the witch experimented on had created a power struggle between animals, objects and humans. The struggle between humans and animals are represented in the movies Ratatouille,  Up and Finding Nemo, in that order. It starts with Ratatouille, which shows Remie (main protagonist) the rat, and his love for cooking, an activity exclusive to humans. It turns out that he is better then every human. This discovery does not remain a secret by the end of the movie, as rumors begin  to spread to others, particularly people exploring the globe, like Charles Muntz (main villain)

Hearing about a newfound intelligence in animals, he uses this to his advantage, by creating a collar that allows the animals to speak. At the end of the movie Charles Muntz dies and the dogs are free to roam the world, allowing the technology to spread.  At this point, we have seen the mistreatment of animals and them becoming smarter and smarter.  By this point, they have not done anything rebellious towards humans until Finding Nemo. This story follows a father's journey to save his son Nemo from the hands of the humans.

     We have mostly been focusing on the evolution of animals, but now we go to humans, which have evolved into supers as shown in the movie, The Incredibles. With every super hero, there is a super villain. The super villain's name is Syndrome.  He creates a machine called the Omnidroids, which are hyper intelligent superhero killing machines that can learn and adapt. By the end of the movie, we see the Omnidroids turn on Syndrome, defeating him in a matter of seconds. At the end of the movie the Omnidroids and Sybdrome are long gone, but the artificial intelligence (AI) still exists. Although it was originally developed to destroy humans, it didn't necessarily mean that all would behave this way, losing its drive to kill.
   
     Toy Story takes place about 40 to 45 years after The Incredibles.  Zero-point technology (theorized by syndrome in The Incredibles) is electromagnetic energy that exist in a vacuum. This energy which exist in wavelengths, explains why the toys can move. We first see the toys becoming fed up with their treatment by the humans in Toy Story, then we see them rebel against Sid 9main villain). In the second movie, Jesse (fem-fatal) resents her previous owner for abandoning her, then we see Lotso's (main villain) hatred of the humans for his abandonment in Toy Story 3. We never get to see a "planet of the apes" style uprising where the toys take over the humans, because toys actually need human attention to come to life. For that reason the AIs would also need human life to work, although the Machine still want control.

     Now enters BNL, the faceless company known as Buy n Large. It was created when the AI from the Incredibles went off to do it's own thing. This company is the basis for all the corporate examples in every Pixar movie. We first see this in Up when BNL tries to seize Ed's house. In almost any other movie you can find signs of the  company everywhere, from the makers of the batteries that powers Buzz Lightyear (secondary protagonist), to logos strewn throughout the movies. BNL takes over the world leaving one thing, Cars (pixar movie), which are intelligently human like, with incredibly advanced AI. Machines need humans to keep them functioning, explaining the energy crisis in Cars 2. However, since there are no humans left on earth, the cars slowly start to die. 

     Bringing us to Wall-E. In the movie humans are on a ship in space called the Axium (one of the ships supporting human life is space). We see that all along an evil AI has been controlling the ship with out the humans knowing. The end of the movie you see the humans return earth and plant a tree, which has a surprising likeness to the one in the movie, "A bugs life".  Flick (the main protagonist) is warned not to leave the island for fear of birds snakes and other bigger bugs, not humans. Which is another reason to believe that A bugs life is way in the future. Their would not be a lot of them, and so they would not be as much of a threat.

     Humans, machines and animals exist together until a newer species arrives know as monsters. Monsters Inc is a movie that takes place about 1400 years after Wall-e.  There are two theories on how these monsters came to be. The first which is that humans have evolved after living on a radioactive planet for 800+ years, or that humans have crossbred with animals to create some kind of super monster thing.  Everything needs humans to survive so it goes to reasons that the monsters would be as well, and they do. Harnessing the fear of humans as power.  You might think that humans would still be alive and thriving, because we see monsters and humans interacting. What if instead of the doors going into alternate places, they went back in time when humans were still the dominant species, harvesting greater amounts of fear. This also explains why the Mosters Inc corporation would be so paranoid with anything from the human world entering the monster world. It could cause a butterfly effect and alter the future. If you recall, Boo ( supporting child role) made it through to the monster world  and after not being able to see that world again, became her life's obsession to try and find it. So she went searching the globe for this world and on her quest she found, magic, and used this magic to travel back to old Scotland. Yes, Boo is the witch! You may say this is complete craziness, but there's actually proof to back this up. When you are in the witches hut, you can make out a wood burning of Sulley,( the main monster protagonist that boo falls in love with in Monsters Inc). as well as a pizza truck that she is carving (has an appearance in every Pixar movie).
 It would not make sense for her to know either of these things unless she had previously experienced or saw them.  As well as the fact that she uses the door to transform the contents of her hut. That is your proof! I will say that this is just a theory, coincident or not.

Review for Black Mass

Black Mass takes place in Boston in the 1970s. It is the true story of  Irish gangster James "Whitey" Bulger (Johnny Depp). It fallows Bulger's unholy alliance with the FBI to help bring down the Italian mob. As this alliance spirals out of control, Bulger increases his power and evades capture to become  the most dangerous gangster in U.S. history
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 I loved this movie, I am a big fan of the gritty crime genera, and this movie brought a lot of my favorite elements of other mob movies that I loved into one picture. With drama, action, gore, good story line, and with a great cast, you get a thrill ride of ups and downs. This movie brings you into the story, letting you experience the actual life of a gangster. Johnny Depp brings his character to life, capturing the likeness of the real guy, with his temper, ruthlessness and spurts of insanity. Johnny is not the only one to bring a great performance to the screen. Benedict Cumberbatch  plays William Bulger, The most powerful man in the Massachusetts senate, as well as Bulgers brother. Joel Edgerton also brings life into his role of FBI agent John Connolly, who strikes a deal with Bulger, but slowly starts to be dragged into his world and starts to lose sights of his morals as the movie progresses. 
If you are as much of fan of crime and mob movies as I am, I think and hope you will love this movie as much as I did. 

  

Star Wars

What can I say about these movies. They made my childhood, set the bar for any future films had watched or will watch and pretty much gave me the definition of what is known as amazing movie. The first time I ever watched star wars was at the age of 5 when my dad secretly rented the 4th episode and hid it from my mom. That night we took a little portable DVD player and watched it under the covers with head phones so not to wake my mom. This remains one of my fondest childhood memories so far.
The movies speak for them selves, with 44 awards just to the first episode, most notable an Oscar, Golden Globe and even a Grammy for its soundtrack. They are also known as one of the most iconic and best trilogies in history, along with a fan bases that is just mother fluffing huge!  All of this is well deserved with its amazing action sequences, amazing performances and ground breaking special effects for its time. Although even after all this these movies still have there faults. These faults come in the form of  episodes 1,2 and 3 which were George Lucas's fallow up prequels to the first 3 episodes. Even tho they were bad they still have their redeeming quality such as the fight in Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, between Darth Maul, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn. .
When Anakin Skywalker's mother dies in his arms after being captured by Tusken Raiders in Episode 2: Attack of the clones. Then in Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, when Anakin fights his old master Obi-Wan on Mustafar when Anakin is on his final stages of becoming a Sith. 
This pretty much proves that even if a star wars movies is crap that doesn't mean there cant be a few pearls hear and there. All in all I absolutely love these movies and I 100% recommend them to anyone who has not seen them already.

Review for the transformers series

When I say the Transforms series, I'm not referring to the beloved cartoon from the 1980s. No, I'm referring to the series of movies directed by the hyper active, explosion loving human known as Micheal Bay. These movies were dumb, they just were, the acting sucked, the screen play was OK, all we had was Shia lebeouf  screaming for petty much the entirety of the films, and he had such an amazing thing to work off of. Yet even then, these movies did so well, each raking in 6 figures per movies. Why you ask, well its simple, Micheal bay has excepted that these movies are dumb and just rolled with it, and it worked. What makes these movies so popular is the amount of over done action, impossible stunts, the amount of explosions, badassery giving from the transformers and a complete disregard for physics (but then again what movie does). I mean in the newest one, we get to see Optmis prime riding a giant transformer T-Rex!



its pretty dumb and we all know it but it is still awesome. In this sense Micheal Bay is  genius, in his own way i mean of course, but when you think about it, its kinda of true. He has figured out a way to make movies that everyone knows will probably be crap but yet no matter how many of these movies that he puts out, chances are there will be millions of people to eat it all up and give there money to see something that has already been done in the past movie or just another variation . All in all I cant say much about it tho because I myself have seen these movies and I personally kinda enjoyed them, so this just my opinion.

Movies have played a huge part in the few years that I have been on this earth, and although I have a huge respect for the silver screen, I have noticed that movies today have started to get worse and worse. It seems like most of them are just reboots, squeals and prequels of well known movies that the director just wants to squeeze more money out of the franchise. Plus it didn't really need a reboot or a squeal in the first place. I mean come on, I cant be the only who has noticed. Just look at some of the most recent movies to be released, Terminator Genisys, Fant4stick (yes, that's how they actually spelled it) and a much more, although it would take me like a day to write them all down. I wouldn't really mind it if the movies were actually any good but sadly a lot of them aren't. I cant say this about all movies lately tho, because among all of those fails, there are actually some good ones such as Mad Max: fury road, Avengers age of Ultron, Ant man, Inside out and so on. Sadly with all these good ones there are the awful ones that just seem to be a quick cash grabs with well known A or B list actors a crap ton special effects, over the top action sequences, and cheesy or over sexual jokes that the director thinks will make up for the complete lack of good screen play and bad acting. I'm not necessarily saying that the actors themselves are bad just the character and how they play it is bad.
Another thing that I have started becoming a them is book to movie adaptations. The actual concept of this is pretty cool, I personally do like to see my favorite books put up on the silver screen, but I think people need to realize that not every best seller needs to put in a god damn theater! Plus just Hollywood keeps cranking these out, so it is just damn annoying. Especially since every one seems to be exactly the same!  I mean yes there is some variation but its just like serving up the same crap coming from different people, although it might taste different and give off a new look, underneath its all pretty much the same thing.