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So happy!

Awesomes! (The Blink 182 reunion part, not the Coldplay winning part)

Blink 182 are back!

Fuck yeah!

Blink 182 are reunited to present a Grammy tomorrow night (Sunday). This is the first time they've shared a stage since their show in Dublin in December 2004! Nobody knows if they're performing yet, but them presenting is a huge step considering the bad feelings between Tom and Travis/Mark!

Get the fuck in!

This is less a blog post, more exclamation of excitement!!

Also, I will take back all I have said about Tom DeLonge in the past 4 years!

New album being recorded in 2009 too!

ZOMG! Fanboy Alert!

Just found this:

The New Frontiersman


It's a viral site for the Watchmen movie adaptation. With ever bit of information released about this movie, I just get more and more excited! It's my favourite comic book EVAR and I've never been more excited about a movie. XD

Movie Madness, on my part.

I enjoy movies. I like to think that I've seen a large number of movies, and would know quite a bit about cinema too. Now, I'm bragging, far from it actually. For a while now I've known that despite all the films I've seen, there are a near unsurpassable amount of 'classics' or must-see films that I have not seen. What makes this worse is that I have a serious amount of said classics/must-sees at home on DVD, but have never watched.
So I've decided it is time to take action. Never again shall conversations among housemates read

'Have you seen Blaah*?'
'Yeah it's class!'
Me: 'Nope, never got round to watching it.'
'David, you're a disgrace!'

*Blaah is not an actual movie, but if anyone wants to make it, please send me it when your done! :)

So as of last weekend, I have started to watch every unwatched DVD in my possession.
From memory the following are DVDs I won but have not seen:

• Heat


• Casino


• Goodfellas


• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest


• Battle Royale


• North By Northwest


• Giant


• Maltese Falcon


• Three Colours trilogy


• Pan's Labyrinth


• 12 Angry Men


• Casablanca


• Citizen Kane


• Raging Bull


• The Elephant Man


• Strangers on a Train


• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)


• The African Queen


• Dial M for Murder


• Mystic River

Now to the above list add the following films which I haven't seen but don't have. Still not excusable I know, so if anyone wants to loan me some, that'd be a wee bit awesome alright!


• Godfather trilogy


• Alien series


• Rocky series


• Rambo series


• Snatch


• Grosse Point Blank


• Schindler's List


• Any Sergio Leone films


• Predator Series


• Låt den rätte komma in


• Memento


• Evil Dead series


• Pi


• Die Hard 1,2,3


• Independence Day


• Hard Boiled


• Lethal Weapon series


• Fargo


• The Big Lebowski


• ...of the Dead series


• Se7en

Just for the record I chose Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells and High Fidelity as the movies to kick start this plan!

Please leave other suggestions in the comments section!

/buys popcorn company

Update

Just a quick update.

This blog now comes with a new feature. If you look a little under this post you will see a few boxes. These link my blog to each of those sites like Digg and StumbleUpon. So feel free to click away!

Thanks,

Davey

Review: The Wrestler

'The Wrestler' is Darren Aronofsky's fourth feature film as a director. It star's Mickey Rourke as the protagonist, Randy 'The Ram' Robinson, a battered, aging, broken down professional wrestler. The Ram was a big star in the 1980's, but now, twenty years on, he finds himself wrestling for various indie promotions at the weekend.
In the 1980's, The Ram wrestled the Ayatollah (played by former WCW star and personal favourite Ernest 'The Cat' Miller) in a sold out show in Maddison Square Garden. After one booking, a promoter proposes a rematch between the two to Randy, who agrees, thinking it will propel him to the top again.
We later learn, on Randy's return home' that he lives in a trailer and cannot always pay his rent, leading him to sleeping in his van after popping pain meds. The next day Randy goes to work at a super market where he loads boxes. His boss, Wayne, is, well, a prick; making fun of wrestling and insulting Randy. Wayne is played by Todd Barry, who some people will recognise him from the final episode of season one of Flight of the Conchords. See: The Doggy Bounce.
Anyhoo, I digress! Randy later wrestles Necro Butcher (as himself) in a bloody hardcore match, which involves a great scene with a prosthetic leg. After picking up the win, Randy suffers a heart attack in the locker room. After a bypass surgery, the doctor tells Randy that he can no longer take steroids or even wrestle. Forced to work at the deli in the super market, Randy tries to live life without wrestling. He tells stripper Cassidy (Marisa Tomei) about all his problems at a strip club he frequents. Now Cassidy too is getting old for her profession and so empathises with Randy. On her advice Randy visits his estranged daughter.
From here on out, it'd get a bit spoilery so I'm going to stop.

I adore this movie, and as a huge mark, it has become one of my favourite films. It uncovers the reality and hardship of professional wrestling and shows that it's not all fake. Sure, it's predetermined, but the hits are real, and this movie captures that realism beautifully. The use of real wrestlers in the locker room scenes also adds a bit more for the marks watching.
Please go see this movie. It's beautifully shot and Aronofsky has created a character in Randy that the audience really feel for. However, it is Darren Aronofsky after all, and the man isn't a big fan of hope in his movies, so don't go expecting a happy sing-song at the end. To me this is a good as cinema gets.

/aside
If anyone has seen this and loved it, check out Beyond The Mat for some insight into the lives of some real Randy 'The Ram' Robinsons.


Score:
10/10