Watchmen in IMAX - innnnteresting.

Last weekend I went to see The Watchmen at the IMAX theater on 42nd Street in NYC. My recommendation regarding this movie is as follows - DON'T SEE IT UNLESS IT'S IN IMAX! The sheer beauty of the graphics and special effects in this movie put the audience in aww throughout the entirety of the flick. I mean to put it bluntly, this is probably one of the most gorgeous movies I have ever seen.

Aside from the beauty of the movie, the storyline is a lot deeper than any hero movie I have seen thus far. This was definitely not your run of the mill X-Men/Superman movie. Watchmen is set during the 1960's after president Nixon and the military used a band of superheros to win the Vietnam War. Contrary to history of course, not only does the US win Vietnam with no problem, but Nixon stays in the presidency for a third term, working through the cold war with Russia. The story is about how the superhero group The Watchmen are being killed off one by one, and how this all ties into the cold war somehow. You also get the back story on how these superheroes came to exist, and how they came to work together.

So definitely go check out the movie, and figure out why the superheroes are being killed off and how it ties into the whole cold war scheme. And for sure, your best bet will be to see it in IMAX. Beware of one thing though - the vibrantly blue charachter named Dr. Manhattan is constantly naked for some reason. I mean this picture doesn't do him justice, but it's like constant full frontal blue nudity with this guy! It definitely detracted from his character a little for me because I was always thinking "How hard is it to wear pants?!"

And of course as usual I have put the movie trailer in here for you guys. It definitely doesn't explain do full justice to the movie, but enjoy regardless!

Terrell Owens Update...

I just found out this past Saturday that the esteemed Terrell Owens will be moving on to play for the Buffalo Bills. My thoughts on this are as follows:
1. I believe on the Bills part, this was a fantastic move. They are currently on the verge of being pushed out of Buffalo to be moved to Toronto (yuck) and could really use the press up there.
2. Last year, Buffalo looked to be one of the teams to beat starting the season off strong. However due to injury and just sheer lack of talent, they wound up being at the bottom of the NFL at the end of the season. Picking up a star like TO could only improve their team.
3. It was almost heartbreaking watching the Buffalo Bills introduce TO as their new teammate. As you may have noticed in the press conference, Terrell still refers to his supporters down in Dallas Cowboys as his teammates. He seems to really be heartbroken over what has happened to him over the past couple of days, and I hope that eventually he will be able to accept being a Bill. With a little hard work, and a lot of attitude change, perhaps it could be in the cards for TO to come back as a Cowboy in a year. His contract in Buffalo is only 1-year in length, so hang in there buddy - there could still be hope!

Below is the press conference for all of you who may have missed it. The fact that the media was able to get one smile out of him was amazing to me. I mean compare the press conference that he gives this past weekend to the press conference he gave when he became a Cowboy - definitely a HUGE difference.

Farewell my friend :(

This morning was probably the worst moment in all of my Dallas Cowboys-loving life. My dad woke me up in a panic to let me know that Dallas has just released Terrell Owens. Now to many of you, this was a move the Cowboys should have made eons ago. However it is my belief that this was just another foul up by the team owner Jerry Jones. Throughout this post season Jerry has been quite convincing whenever asked by the media that the Cowboys would at least be keeping TO on for another season to finish out his 4-year contract. As of last night, Jerry Jones became a HUGE liar! To me it's a shame that this has happened. We still owe him around $9 million - why not use him for one more year to make that money worth something! He may be showing some age in his game, but he is still one of the hardest working football players around. For those of you who watched the Cowboys on HBO's Hard Knocks last year, you were introduced the fun-loving, hard working, and team spirited Terrell Owens. He isn't the monster that the media makes him out to be. One thing is for sure - whoever winds up with him as a wide receiver will feel just as lucky as I have over the past 3 years to have him on my team. I know that when TO received the call from Jerry letting him know that he was no longer a Cowboy that he was probably devastated like the rest of us are right now. He has said on multiple occasions that his intent was to retire as a Cowboy.
Now on a brighter note, according to a reporter down in Dallas, this break off is not due to personal issues between the team and TO. The reason it seems is that Dallas is looking to go a different route than that of using TO as a receiver. It seems that the current plan is to develop what receivers we have (Roy Williams, Sam Hurd, Miles Austin, Patrick Crayton) and build the team up from young talent rather than using old veterans. I mean I fully understand that, but another year of TO wouldn't have ruined that. If anything they could use TO to train these young boys to play as creatively as he does.
Well for now, I guess it's just a game of wait and see as to what team will wind up lucking out and getting Terrell Owens on their team. Until then - hang in there buddy!

Below enjoy some of my favorite footage of TO doing his thing as a Cowboy - and to TO - we'll miss you!

High School Reunion - everyone's nightmare on TV

TV Land has come out with a couple of shows that no one cares about spanning from She's Got The Look to the upcoming flopper The Cougar. However the other day, I stumbled upon a gem in their original programming lineup - a little show called High School Reunion. This show is both disturbing to someone my age looking forward to a bright future, and hysterical because of the sheer pathetic nature of some of the people on the show - I mean it's like high school for 40-year-olds! What TV Land did here was to take a group of people who went to high school together 20 years agon and put them together in a house like The Real World. All of the people chosen are single and ran in different social circles while in high school together - the popular crew, the wannabes, the nerds, the skaters, the jocks, etc.
Let's start with some of my favorite members of the cast shall we? The winner of my most pathetic award goes to the looker in yellow pictured above. Her name is Jessica and she was considered the unnoticed ugly loser in high school. She comes back to this reunion to show her classmates that she is SOOO beautiful now - my thoughts? She looks disgusting! I mean she was a gross looking little girl, but she definitely looks over plasticized with all of the surgery she DEFINITELY had. She also gets upset that her best friend Maricela gets more attention from the men at the house than she does - why you ask? Because Maricela doesn't look scary like she does. How does she not realize that everyone can see how ugly she is both inside and out?
The most obnoxious award goes to the jock Dennis. He and his friend Manny pictured below were actually part of the class of '87 and decide to crash the class of '88's party. Dennis comes into the house, screws around with peoples' things, and proceeds to get drunk and offend everyone in the class of '88 in his wrath. He even goes as far as to say some racist and sexist comments to the other members of the cast.
Anyway, for those of you who have the time on your hands, watch this show. It will definitely show you, if anything, that high school is not like Vegas...people never leave what happened in high school in high school. Feelings carry over, and as much as we all try to be grown-ups about things when we see each other again, it's never possible to forgive and forget everything. For example, at your 10-year anniversary, will you forgive your best friend for hooking up with your boyfriend Sophomore year? Or will your ex-boyfriend come back and see you and miss you, or will he continue to have hostile feelings for you for dumping him Senior year before leaving for college. I have a feeling that if my high school was chosen for a show like this, it would probably not prove just as interesting, but I'm sure those of you out there will completely identify with the problems being faced in this house of living memories. Happy watching!

What did you give up for lent?

Alright, so it's probably been ohhhhhhh 10 years since I have give something up for lent; however this year, with the influence of madame Distasi, I decided that this year would be a good year to restart the habit. So starting Ash Wednesday (February 16, 2009) through Easter (April 11, 2009) I have officially given up pizza. Yes that's right, PIZZA! After literally only one day of not eating pizza, I realized the HUGE mistake that I have made. Pizza is not only easy, fast, and delicious to eat, but it is the constant craving of the drunk-muncher. After looking at my calendar from the end of February through the beginning of April, I realized that giving up pizza was a bad move for someone like me. I have events like PSK Founder's Day (which had pizza at it both days), Hoboken St. Patty's Day, actual St. Patty's Day, Chloe's Birthday, Brashley's engagement soiree...

As you can see - these are all events that the drunk-muncher inside me may come out. Thus far, I survived PSK Founder's Day Weekend with no incident, but one night I actually did dream about it - I know, already a bad sign. And to make matters worse for myself, I bought the most delicious frozen pizza from Trader Joe's a week ago, and all I want to do is eat it! So if any of you have any pointers for me on how to avoid eating pizza over this next month - feel free to message me, because I am going to run out of ideas soon! Below - a picture of my favorite kind of pizza - MUSHROOM!!!

Quarantine was definitely worth a scream!

Due to snowy weather, Wub and I decided that yesterday was a great day to rent movies and hang out indoors. So we went to Blockbuster and to my surprise, the movie Quarantine was out in the New Release section - woohooo! As many of you know, I am a total scary movie genre freak, so this absolutely made me a happy camper yesterday. I mean, snowy conditions, my best friend, a $5 foot long from Subway, and a scary movie - BEST DAY EVER! So let's dive into my thoughts about this flick.

From the start, Wub and I were very unsure of how this movie was going to pan out, because the first 20 minutes are definitely a snoozer. You start off with a night time reporter and her cameraman filming a story about the lives of firemen. As you can imagine - it was completely boring footage. However this piece does set the stage for the movie, as the viewer comes to realize that this whole film is shot from the view of the cameraman. So WARNING - if you don't like movies that are shot like this (like Blair Witch), then I highly advise you stay away from this one. I mean, luckily the cameraman is pretty steady handed, so you won't feel like you are sea sick like I did when I went to see Cloverfield.

So the story surrounds an apartment building in Los Angeles, CA that has suddenly been quarantined by the government. The tenants along with 2 police officers, 2 firemen, and the small camera crew are trapped in the building. The camera woman (played by Jennifer Carpenter of Dexter) decides that the public should know what is going on in the building, so she advises her cameraman to continue shooting throughout the whole ordeal. You soon find out that there is a reason that this building is being quarantined - there is something spreading throughout the blood of anyone infected that turns them into rabid, crazy, flesh-eating people. My personal thoughts on this movie? Well for something that started off so slow - it definitely picked up speed quickly and consistently. When the movie goes into full swing, it really picks up with tons of drama between the tenants, gruesome and bloody scenes, plenty of questions as to what this is and what the government is hiding, and of course the desperation of the apartment's current inhabitants to break free of the building. In all, I would recommend this movie for those of you who are sick in the head like me and enjoy bloody horror movies. This one was definitely pretty good! Happy movie watching kiddos!

Song of the week!

Alright, so after doing a TON of driving over this weekend, with the likes of Soberman, I had the chance to listen to a plethora of music. After being in the car that long, I decided that my blog should have a section to it for sharing some of my musical expertise with the world. So without further adieu, welcome to the very first Hollowayworld song of the week (ooooh, ahhhhh)!

This week, I decided to start off strong with a song I know that all of my friends will love and fully relate to. Apparently this song was a huge hit over the internet, and is now frequently played on many of the more popular radio stations. So this week's song is I Love College by Asher Roth. I chose this song for one reason only - last weekend I went back to my beloved school - University of Delaware (go Blue Hens). On the way back home from UD, this song came on and you should have seen the smile on my face. So enjoy kids - I hope you love the song. And for those of you who went to UD, I am positive this song describes a lot of our nights back there.