What happens in Bruges
Current mood: happy
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Let's face it. You and I (quite a few of you), we've talked about movies many times. Sure in some cases I did quite a bit more listening than talking (sorry 'bout that). But the fact is, my movie loving friends, I know what kind of movies you like; and I know what kind of movies I like.

I guarantee you will like this movie called In Bruges.

I guess I'd call it something like an action dramedy. It kind of satires some parts of the action movie genre while not going overboard and having its own story and theme aside from the satire. Also, I'd say it has elements of Boondock Saints, Resevoir Dogs, and a little bit of No Country For Old Men. It's definitely pretty freakin graphic but It has some good storytelling devices and dialogue.

Watch it.

-I wouldn't lie to you.

Currently watching : In Bruges Release date: 2008-06-24

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I’m going to kill myself
Current mood: ashamed

House Bunny??? Seriously? Frikkin...House Bunny?

A 27 year old skank gets kicked out of the playboy mansion for being too old, then (SOME-FRIKKIN-HOW) goes on to be the house mother of a sorority of smart girls with bad social skills and teaches them a valuable life lesson in whoreship. ..while learning someting from them too.

The world just isn't worth living in anymore.

It's probably the worst example of old movie formulas over used and going horribly wrong.

especially with lines like "now we can be the best versions of ourselves" WHAT the frik?

If it weren't for The Dark Knight coming out this summer...there'd be some killing going on. lots of it. Also,  Don't Mess With The Zohan looks pretty good.

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Today, Marlon Learned...

A valuable English Lesson

Underline/italicize                                          "Quote"
Albums                                                              Songs
Movies
Musical Compositions (symphonies and crap)
Artwork


That's about all.
Never forget what'll make you look smart.


ok bye.
-Recovered quotation mark abuser.

Currently reading : Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) By Jane Austen Release date: 1983-12-01

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I am Bat’s throbbing sense of vengence. (Marlon ranting about movies)
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

  So, I've been writing a kind of pseudo-miniscript of pure dialogue and reading about Dissociative Identity Disorder, which eventually-as most roads do-lead me to reading about Fight Club and all the thematic nuances and literary devices and whatnot within the movie and especially the book. And being as I came out of the womb a die-hard Bat Man fan that, of course led me to contemplating the upcoming movie and all of my (as of yet) fulfilled hopes and exceeded expectations of The Dark Knight [the movie].

  I found out there was a definite sequel for Batman Begins shortly after I'd finished reading Fight Club and realized the book had a lot of things that would work well in The Dark Knight. Like I seem to remember a reoccurring theme of the face of a grotesque clown --or demented smiley face, something like that-- in a building blown up by Project Mayhem and, most notably the ear-to-ear scar left on the narrator after getting shot in both sides of his face. (turned out the quote is "an angry Halloween Pumpkin. Japanese Demon. Dragon of avarice") I remember thinking how cool it would be if the Joker lead a kind of anarchist, terrorist group of space monkeys and also if the constantly plastered smile on his face was more of a scar. Cause that's just the kind of guy I always pictured the joker as being although the smile cut into his face idea was definitely post-fight club. Also, I always thought he should have this mixture of this scary, horror movie type creepiness mixed with a kind of dark comedy vibe going on. (I mean a 'he'll probably mutilate me just for laughs' type of creepy, not Jack Nicholson's 'he'll probably lure me in with candy and balloon animals and try to rape me but hopefully dislocate his hip in the process so I can run to safety' type of creepy)

   The most amazing thing about the new batman movie is they seem to have captured exactly that, especially with their viral marketing which happens to be better than all the viral marketing to date in the fact that it's not just trying to get you to spend money on the movie (cough, Cloverfield) but it exposes all of the interwoven story and character histories while actually immersing you in the world in which the story takes place. You get to be one of the Joker's space monkeys and carry out all these Project Mayhem/Cacophony society stile tasks, without doing anything that'll actually get you arrested (but if you take it the extravmile and do so it'll probably just make the movie look even better). Or you get to work with the police force to help take down the Joker's henchmen, or work with Harvey Dent to help take down the crooked police force. . .it's kind of like rock, paper, scissors.

   The thing I hate most about most of the comic book movies I hate is they're too comicbooky...in that they give off the same feeling as paying 20 dollars for a 16-page pamphlet that'll probably fall apart two weeks later unless you take REALLY good care of it in the hopes that it'll become a collector's item 50 years from now so you can get your money back. And they're too overstated, they don't have enough believability, all they have is a toe dipped in reality. I mean, there's something wrong when you're dangling from Twoface's helicopter, the helicopter flies through a random stained glass window and because broken glass is just too boring (It's true, Jonas Brothers...kill yourselves) it freaking explodes  in a massive fireball and you're still holding on to your rope ladder or whatever not even a little hurt and neither is the helicopter. It's ridiculous. It's awesome that Christopher Nolan is making these movies from the "If this was real, it would" perspective instead of having it like a cartoon with real people playing the parts. The weird thing about that is often times the cartoon versions of comic books are more realistic than the live action. I know the Batman cartoon of the 90s has always been the truest representation of what the hero should be, in my mind. That's where the Tim Burton movies fell short too (aside from him not giving a crap about the source material) cause everything he does is freaking superfluously stylistic and ultimately lacking substance and realisticity(shouldbeaword). The best thing about Dark Knight, I think, is the fact that they fixed the whole "batman can't move his neck" thing. Seriously, what was so hard about making the neck part of the suit cloth instead of plastic? They did it in the Adam West one.

  I guess where I'm going with this is, my experience a while ago going to Universal City to watch I Am Legend in IMAX where I saw the perfect example of what Gotham City should be like. Where everyone's some kind of criminal and what kind of BAMF you have to be if you're going to be a super villain.

you can watch it here the amazing bank robbing scene from the movie.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/batman/the-6+minute-dark-knight-bank-heist-trailer-334675.php

In the video, you can't see the full screen and it's not in the awesome IMAX quality, but I think you'll get the picture.

also, I don't want to give anything away, but shoving a grenade in someone's mouth with a string attached to the pin with one end of the string in your pocket and driving away is just hardcore.

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In the style of film noir.
Current mood: anxious

Yesterday, on my way to school, I had my mp3 player playing through the car speakers on shuffle and Vanilla Ice came on.

I blasted it.

...The whole way there.

Mostly because I figured the image of some Black dude driving anywhere playing "Ice, Ice Baby" at the top of his speakers is too hilarious to pass up.

For added effect I tried looking as hard as I possibly could, one hand on the wheel, gangster lean, mean-mug at passing drivers, don't laugh.

Got a few weird looks at stop lights. Thought about throwing up gang signs.

But partially, it was a statement against the current state of mainstream rap music (at least, that's my story)...in the fact that it sucks. The vast majority of it sucks.

And  "Ice, Ice Baby" as horrible (HORRIBLE) as it is, it has better lyrical quality than most of the songs getting played now.

People speculate that the subject matter of the songs is what makes them bad. They say that because they're about arrogance, violence, money, womanizery, or just plain gratuitous sex, they're terrible. (many of these people consider Tupac the only rapper they respect, Megalol!) Not the fact that it has lost all the poeticism, musicality and originality that makes good music. Many of them have entire cds full of one-chord songs and, oddly enough, that chord doesn't even change from one song to the next. They've stopped using any kind of poetic device and resorted to using the same cliché as the last guy, 'cause it was clever when the first guy used it eight years ago.

Honestly, for all I care they can rap about bubblegum on Mars or teaching a nine year old to shoot heroin. It's all fiction anyway. Just make it poetic and musical, that's all. (but I gotta admit, I might throw something if I hear one more song about parties, money, or strippers.) I think people try too hard to analyze music. Music is mainly supposed to be felt.

Thus, the difference between Einstein and Ellington.

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Speaking of things styled after film noir. Jessica Alba + Bruce Willis = I Freaking Threw Up!

P.S. http://youtube.com/watch?v=l7lYLYaGNNs

Currently watching : Sin City Release date: 2005-08-16

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yeah [part two]
Current mood: blustery

I hate everything about the summer.

I'm glad improv and the Dark Knight exist.

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Marlon
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

does NOT want to have to listen to Hillary Clinton talk for four years.

-He'd set something on fire.

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What Marlon Learned From The TV

Only gay men do meth.


think about that next time someone offers you drugs.

-Thank you California PSAs

P.S. Meth will give you AIDS

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YES!
Current mood: hopeful

Finally I have my laptop! just got it yesterday and it feels dang good.

the irony of the matter is, on wednesday, I'll be giving up myspace.


. . .for forty days.

yup.

I got Lent in my pocket this year. so if you don't hear from me for a while (on myspace), you'll know why.

I'm still deciding whether or not I'll use facebook since I never really use it anyway.

Currently watching : Knocked Up (Unrated Full Screen Edition) Release date: 25 September, 2007

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A Christmas Crime Story [part 1]
Current mood: appologetic

[sorry, This year due to some problems (nobody giving me time to work on it), I'm going to have to post this chapter of my "Santa Claus Is Freakin Evil And I Can Prove it" story in pieces which makes me sad. I only have about half of it written at this exact moment...heres a peice]

Prologue

You may have noticed, today is Christmas Eve. Many of you as children, unlike myself, were told that the every year, on this day of the year, hailed the coming of a benevolent spirit known as Santa Claus. You were told that if you were good all year long and gave an offering of milk and cookies and maybe a carrot or two for his reindeer he would lavish you with gifts in the night and you would wake up on Christmas morning with an abundance of joy under an evergreen tree.

As you grew older you realized that this Santa Claus your parents told you about was no benevolent spirit, but an endless chasm of lies and an abyss of painful fallacies. A trick passed down from parent to parent in a semi-sadistic fashion to exploit the naivety of children and coax them in to behaving for a full year every year.

I'm writing this blog today to agree with you, Santa Claus is a thing based on lies and deception but not quite in the way you think he is. It's true, Virginia, Claus is not a complete work of fiction exactly, in fact Ol' Saint Nick is real, very real. He is not however, a benevolent spirit by any means.

Chapter one: -here-

Chapter Two: God-Father of Chrimestmas: Part 1

"President Bush and Rumsfeld may ignore the issue, but we are fearless in our reporting and analysis as we list the charges and plead for help to indict and arrest the world biggest CRIMINAL EVER!!... THE EVIL KNOWN AS SANTA CLAUS" --The Dave and Danger Show.



 Throughout the history of humanity, our world has been plagued by its fair share of heinous criminals, Al Capone, Jeffery Dahmer,  Machine Gun Kelley, Osama Bin Laden, Zeev Rosenstein, Ted Kaczynski, etc. The worst of them all is a criminal you all know, maybe at one time loved, you've probably sat on his lap and told him your innermost secrets, written him letters and even incited him into your own home. No, I don't mean Bill Gates, that's for another time. Last year I painted a verbal portrait for you revealing Santa Clause as a Nazi. Today, I'll show you that the jolly old hatemonger is guilty of more than just war crimes.
His resume in fact, includes prostitution, drug trade, human trafficking, slave labor, and various sexual offense.

In fact, Santa has a criminal record longer than his "naughty or nice" list. You name it, he's probably done it. In all honesty, Santa Claus has left a trail of blood that can wrap around the world twice without breaking a sweat. The end of this habit of evil, is not currently in sight. . .maybe that destination will be more reachable if we know where (or how) it began.

An old 1823 interview with Santa Claus, he mentions growing up as Kris Kringle (although it has been discovered that his real name was Nicholas Kringle) in a less than wealthy family in a small town in Greenland where he developed an interest in mechanics and carpentry. "I was nothing more than an ordinary, second-rate toy maker back then" The Claus said in a jolly tone "Now. . . A lot of things have changed. . .I guess I was just in the right place at the right time. Even so, I had to work; hard. I made some. . . mistakes, but they were worth it. They were worth it." The more gruesome story comes from an anonymous ex-partner of Santa's who said he was "there since the beginning" in an interview he told me  how at first Santa's intentions were good. "Toys for the kids," he said, "That's all he wanted, we and a few friends of ours started a small company, there were five of us. . . The toy business is a rough one; you gotta be tough to get by, gotta break a few legs to get ahead so we did it. . .whatever it took to get toys for the kids, you know? That's what we kept saying, but after a while it stopped being about the kids and went to beating the next guy, after that, we just wanted to control the market. And we still did whatever it took" What did it take? Organized crime. . .

-until next time.

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