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Ke$ha Admits to Using Auto-Tune

Words from Michele Bachmann on Founding Fathers

Basically, if you haven't already caught on, I hate Michele Bachmann and I will be devoting myself for the next year and a half to persuade my readers not to vote for her. You can vote for anyone but her.

When Selena Met Shia!

This is the cutest thing ever. Selena gets starstruck when she meets fellow Disney Channel alum Shia Labeouf.

She was so embarrassed. I love her even more now.

Selena's Love You Like a Love Song! My Latest Obsession.

Okay, the music video is kind of strange. But I love her and I'm addicted to this song.

MI:4 - Ghost Protocol Looks Good!

Love me some Jeremy Renner! Tom Cruise is good too, minus his spiritual beliefs.

Check out the trailer for Mission: Impossible 4 - Ghost Protocol. Looks very action packed. I hope Jeremy doesn't turn out bad. That would be sad.

Please, Disney/Pixar -- No More Toy Storys

You need to quit while you're a head.

But look who I'm talking to. Disney… They see money and they'll do anything to get to it regardless of reputation.

Tom Hanks is currently promoting his new movie Larry Crowne with Julia Roberts. While being interviewed, he said that he thinks a fourth Toy Story is coming and they're working on it now.

I thought the 3rd one was going to be the last one, Disney? Even the toys seemed to think it was over. They were (spoiler alert) past on to a new owner and left Andy. Audiences were sad to see it end. It was a bittersweet ending and it was perfect. We've excepted that Toy Story was concluded, but now you're saying you want to make another? Ugh.

Where is Pixar in this? I was under the impression that Pixar was against sequels, but now all of a sudden they seem to be loving them.

Disney/Pixar movies are known to be the best in animation. At least that's what I think. They all have original and solid stories and do extremely well at the box office. Every single Pixar film has been nominated for an Academy Award (only 8 were nominated for Best Animated Feature because that category was added in 2004, they won 6; 2 Pixar films were nominated for Best Picture).

Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, WALL-E, Ratatouille, and Up are all the original works of Pixar. Each year, Pixar puts out one film. This year Cars 2 came out. Next year, Pixar will be putting out another original called Brave about a Scottish warrior. Then Pixar will be putting out a prequel to Monsters, Inc. entitled Monster University, as said, another Toy Story, and they're throwing around the idea of an Incredibles sequel. Personally, I didn't care for Cars. It's my least favorite and it had little potential - story-wise - for a sequel. I always thought that The Incredibles would have successful sequels. The first movie even sets up for one.

I'm getting off track. Regardless, Pixar puts out great movie. I trust them to do amazing sequels like the Toy Story's. I just don't want that to be their thing. Sequels can only go so far before they become old. One of the reasons that Toy Story 3 did so well was because there was a 11 year gap between 2 and 3.

Disney needs to stop focusing on the merchandising aspect and thinking with their wallets. I understand that's how business works. But eventually, things get old and over done. I don't believe Toy Story is that way since Toy Story is forever, but Toy Story had an amazing conclusion and should be left alone. If they do choose to continue, it needs to be done tastefully.

Thanks for reading my ramblings. :)

DVD Tuesday! New releases! 6/28

Movies:

-- Sucker Punch

-- Season of the Witch

-- Beastly

-- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Music:

-- 4 - Beyoncé

-- When the Sun Goes Down - Selena Gomez & The Scene

-- Transformers: Dark of the Moon Soundtrack

It's Britney Spears vs. Terminators in 'I Wanna Go' music video!

Fucking awesome! Good for you, Brit!

DVD Tuesday! New releases! 6/21

The Adjustment Bureau

Unknown

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

The Eagle

Cedar Rapids

Rocko's Modern Life - Season One

Bachmann get glittered!

I really loathe the Tea Party. They're such a hateful group. Like ultra conservative. Like they want everyone to be white, straight, and Christian/Catholic. …didn't Hitler try for the perfect race too? Hmm…

Please Republican Party, vote a non-Tea Bagger to be your presidential nominee!

Lady Gaga - The Edge of Glory

This one was kind of a let down for me. She needed background dancers I think. That's it.

I hope she makes a music video for Hair or Schiße next.

Jurassic Park May Be Rebooted

I did enjoy the third one, but I'd pick the Rex over Spino any day.

So rumor has it that the Jurassic Park series may be rebooted after years of wondering if a fourth one will ever be made.

Apparently, Steven Spielberg has been having secret meetings with a writer from I Am Legend to brainstorm ideas on how to reboot the series. It's possible that they're looking for a new storyline completely instead of redoing the first movie which is based off the book.

Personal thoughts…

Hmm… To be honest, I'm leaning more towards the sequel. The sequel, however must be very thought out. JP3 worked, but it seemed to be like a side story away from the main series. Personally, I would like another movie with John Hammond in it and I want the story to be around him and the science of the dinosaurs like the first two. Not something where people crash on one of the islands and need to escape. We have cell phones now… it's just not realistic anymore (and you can't use the no service, dead battery, or dropped in water excuses… that's cliché).

A reboot would work only because, by the time the movie is released, it'll be 10 years after the previous films release. Meaning that it follows my rebooting rule of 10 years between series. However, I feel as though making a reboot (or in other words a remake) of Jurassic Park is like remaking Jaws, Star Wars, or E.T. They're classics that shouldn't be messed with. For me, the reboot would have to have a completely different title in order to not be confused with the iconic original.

Thoughts?

Teaser Trailer for Alvin & The Chipmunks 3

Yay! And a Titanic spoof. You know this is going to be good! ;)

Percy Jackson 2: The Sea of Monsters is a Go!

After questioning whether or not the first one was good enough for a sequel, we've learned today that Fox is committed to making the second Percy Jackson book into a movie.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters has gone into production with a hopeful release date in 2012, which is surprisingly soon. Logan Lerman will be returning as Percy Jackson (since he lost to Andrew Garfield for Spider-Man) and Harry Potter 1 & 2 director Chris Columbus will be stepping down to allow Diary of a Wimpy Kid director Thor Freudenthal to give it a shot. Columbus will stay on as a producer.

It wasn't a sure thing for this movie to be made. The first one was released to mixed reviews and just okay numbers. Eventually, it did make $226 million internationally with only a $95 million production budget. Those seem like good numbers until you look at the US domestic gross which is only $88 million. Typically it depends on how well you do in the US before you decide on whether to make a sequel or not.

Another factor that make a sequel questionable was that they altered the first movie from the original book to a point where important things were left out and will make a second movie hard to understand without clarification.

NY Republican Senator Backs Gay Marriage in New York!

Progress.

Let me give a little background info first. On June 15th, the New York State Assembly passed the same-sex marriage bill for the fourth time by a vote of 80-63. Now it moves to the state's Senate where it has always died. This time, we're hoping for it to be different. Only 32 senators need to vote yes for the bill to pass and, according to new sources, 31 senators have shown support.

New York State Senator Roy McDonald made this quote:

"You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn't black and white, good and bad, and you try to do the right thing. You might not like that. You might be very cynical about that. Well, fuck it, I don't care what you think. I'm trying to do the right thing. I'm tired of Republican-Democrat politics. They can take the job and shove it. I come from a blue-collar background. I'm trying to do the right thing, and that's where I'm going with this."

Why do I want this to pass? Well, it's the right thing. But also because New York, along with Illinois, California, and Texas seem to be this country's most influential states, in my opinion. If those states can be won over, then I feel slowly but surely other states will pull through as well.

I also feel as though nationwide same-sex marriage legalization is inevitable. It will happen whether it's tomorrow or 2035. Today's young republicans are far, far more tolerant than the old farts that are in office now.

It's important to remember that although the republican party generally is against same-sex marriage, not all republicans believe that gays should not marry.

Final Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Trailer!

HARRY POTTER

AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS:

PART II TRAILER

THE FINAL TRAILER OF THE HARRY POTTER SERIES

MTV Should Change 'Movie Awards' Title to 'Twilight Awards'

I'll get right into it.

The MTV Movie Awards used to be a fun, entertaining awards show where, unlike the Oscars, the nominees are the most popular and funniest films of the year. It was just a fun show that young people can vote for and they also have performances and premieres of movie trailers and exclusive scenes.

Now, we all know my feelings on the Twilight movies. I hate them so clearly I'm biased. I acknowledge that. But they also suck, like they are terrible movies. Critics and regular movie-goers would agree. The only people who feel they should be nominated for Oscars are those biased in favor of the Twilight movies.

It all started in 2009 with Twilight. They were nominated for 6 awards, winning 5 of them. One of which, they had two nominations in one category. And Robert Pattinson won Breakthrough Performance Male… uh, no MTV, him playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter would be his breakthrough performance.

New Moon had a slow year the following year with only 4 nominations. But lucky for them, they won all the awards they were nominated for.

This year, Eclipse was nominated in 6 categories. In two of those categories, they had multiple nominations (mostly because K Stew whores herself and kisses both Taylor and Robert). Out of the 6 categories they were nomiated for, they won 5 losing only Best Breakout Star.

I should mention that for the past 3 years, the Twilight Saga has taken home the highest award of Best Movie. Yeah… it beat out amazing movies like Avatar (Oscar Nominated Best Picture), the Harry Potter series, Inception (Oscar Nominated Best Picture), Iron Man, Slumdog Millionaire (Oscar Winning Best Picture), The Dark Knight, The Social Network (Oscar Nominated Best Picture), and Black Swan (Oscar Nominated Best Picture).

I understand that the movies win because they were the most voted for, but they're being voted for by teenage girls multiple times a day while masturbating to pictures of Edward or Jacob while reading Twilight fan fiction and wearing plastic vampire/werewolf fangs. Twilight is also one of those things that you either are obsessed with or don't care about, like Justin Bieber.

MTV, having Twilight win everything is very risky. It can either make or break your show. Personally, I think the MTV Movie Awards have lost what little credibility they had by allowing Twilight to take over. …They win everything, they constantly focus all camera attention on the 3 cast members (one of which is camera shy and uncomfortable to watch -- that would be the girl with the personality of a wall), they premiere the trailer at the end of the show just to keep viewers (that shows that the show couldn't do well on its own).

With Breaking Dawn: Parts 1 and 2 (don't get me started on the unnecessary 2 parts) coming out this year and next year, it's needless to say that I will not be watching 2012 and 2013's MTV Movie Awards. If MTV had a soul, they would be a lot of focus on the final Harry Potter movie. Harry has been around for 11 years and has gotten little recognition. Over the past 10 awards shows, Harry Potter has only been nominated 18 times and won twice, both going to Tom Felton the past two years for Best Villain. So, in basic terms…

Harry Potter Series - 10 awards shows - 18 nominations - 2 wins - one movie left

Twilight Saga - 3 awards shows - 19 nominations - 14 wins - two movies left

And don't give me that "clearly that means Twilight is better" because it's not. The Harry Potter series has been nominated for 9 Academy Awards and has an average IMDb.com user rating of 7.4 / 10 stars. The Twilight Saga has zippo Oscar nods and an IMDB.com average rating of 4.9 / 10 stars.

Honestly, I don't know how this rant became a debate of Twilight vs. Harry Potter. My focus was Twilight and MTV's Movie Awards. I hope I made my point. Basically, MTV, I'm starting to think Twilight pays you to let them win. Either that or you need to improve your awards show and regain your credibility.

Okay, I'm done.

Amazingly Epic New Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Posters!

Finally! Professor McGonagall gets her own poster!! Along with Professor Flitwick and Fred & George. But… um… where's Ginny's?

Twi-Hard Watches Breaking Dawn Trailer

Oh sweet Jesus, is this chick serious?

Scratch that...

Is this necessary?

I'd understand a Harry Potter fan crying over the final trailer because it's been like 10 years with the movies and 14 years with the books. But I don't get crying over 3 years of Twilight movies coming to an end. I don't think this is necessary. Everyone knows I'm on Harry's side of all Potter vs. Twilight arguments, but I'd hope Twilight fans would even agree with me on this. Twilight - 3 years. Harry Potter - 10 years. I would hope that people would be more attached to Harry at this point over sparkly vampires.

This chick needs to stop reading Twilight fan fiction and move on with her life!

DVD Tuesday! New releases! 6/7

-True Grit

-Just Go With It

-The Company Men

-Sanctum

Movie Review: X-Men: First Class

Warning: May contain spoilers. You've been warned.

(out of four stars)

I must say that this is the best X-Men movie to date. I enjoyed the original trilogy, but this movie had it going on.

Honestly, I'm not even sure I can criticize this movie in any way.

I loved that they were able to tie a real historical event in America and X-Men together perfectly. I learned about the Cuban Missile Crisis in 8th grade, but I never really understood it. The only this I remembered about it was that it was called "The Cuban Missile Crisis" but the conflict was actually between the US and Soviet Russia. This movie, while being laced with fiction, helped me get the gist of what my 8th grade teacher was trying to explain. See… movies can be educational.

At first I wasn't sure about James McAvoy as Professor X, but he definitely grew on me. In fact, they did a great job with this cast, including Kevin Bacon. I must comment on the range of accents and languages that Michael Fassbender (Magneto) and Kevin Bacon had to pull off for their roles. I understand that Fassbender is in fact German, but he did have to speak Spanish during his scene in Argentina and he did it perfectly. I also enjoyed Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique) and Nicholas Hoult's (Beast) performances.

My one disappointment was that Xavier was paralyzed in this movie. First off, I should say that they did it in a great way. I looked up how it was actually done in the comics and that was stupid. Something about an alien dropping a rock on his legs. In the movie, Moira (who is a human) gets upset and begins shooting at Magneto with Xavier standing somewhat behind him. Magneto deflects her bullets. One of which ricochets and hits Xavier's spine. What's great about this is that we know Magneto deflected it and it happened to hit X. To Magneto, human Moira shot him, which makes him despise humans even more.

Now, why am I disappointed that he was crippled? Because by the end of the movie, I was hoping for a sequel and hoped that if they didn't cripple X, then they'd be somewhat obligated to make another to depict that.

Now, if you've made it this far into the review and you've seen the movie, I hope you'd agree with my thoughts on the movie. If you haven't seen the movie and you've gotten this far… WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING? Go see this movie!!! It's amazing and I want it to make money so they realize they need to make another!!

Fun fact: the movie makes two cameos; neither of which are creator Stan Lee who normal appears in all movies based off his comics. One of which is obvious and I absolutely loved but will not spoil. The second is while Mystique is lying in bed for Magneto. Magneto tells her that she is too young so she changes her appearance to that of her older self played by Rebecca Romijn, who appeared as Mystique in the original trilogy.

For those who care -- The Breaking Dawn Trailer