zacharyc » Movies http://zacharyc.com Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:50:49 +0000 en hourly 1 Review: Fired Up! http://zacharyc.com/2009/02/23/review-fired-up/ http://zacharyc.com/2009/02/23/review-fired-up/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:02:44 +0000 zacharyc http://zacharyc.com/?p=494 This is the new cheerleading movie about two football players who give up football camp for cheerleading camp to try and hook up with cheerleaders. Bottom line, not a great movie, wasn’t expecting much out of it, so wasn’t too disappointed. What frustrates me is that the joke content is very young, but the visual content is somewhat sexually inappropriate. That didn’t make for a great combination for me. That being said, there were a few funny lines and a ton of throwbacks to my childhood cheerleading experiences. The vote 3 on the Tubbs scale.

]]> http://zacharyc.com/2009/02/23/review-fired-up/feed/ 0 “Live Free or Die Hard” http://zacharyc.com/2007/07/07/live-free-or-die-hard/ http://zacharyc.com/2007/07/07/live-free-or-die-hard/#comments Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000 zacharyc http://zacharyc.com/?p=9 I saw the new movie “Live Free or Die Hard” the other day, and I wanted to speak some praise about it. As I’ve gotten older I have become more of an action junkie, and this movie fit that mold perfectly. Bruce Willis was really great. I had been afraid from the commercials that he wasn’t going to act like the same character in the other Die Hard movies, but in the end he played it great.

What a shock Justin Long played a computer guy. He is probably most famous for his appearances in Apple Inc.’s Television commercials. I was very excited to see that he was using an Apple monitor at his apartment (in the beginning). Other than Dodgeball I have not really seen him in a heavy acting roll. I’m quite pleased to say that he was really great at his roll.

One last mention, Timothy Olyphant was the major bad guy. You might remember him from Gone in 60 Seconds. He plays a very computer savvy villian, and he does it well.

Alright, skip this next bit if you haven’t seen the movie and want to be surprised. The technology in the movie was a little far fetched, though it does make you think how much we do invest in our current technology. Why you would bring a PDA to hack a network, or monitor something is beyond me. If you had unlimited resources (which the bad guys clearly did) wouldn’t you just get ultralight laptops? They would be quicker to set up and use. Oh well, I guess it is just a movie.

Conclusion: Good movie, worth the watch. Take a chance if you have the time.

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