So, I saw the movie, Role Models, on Friday, November the 7th and I got to say, it wasn’t bad.

The movie is pretty much about two salesmen that goes around to different schools to give a talk about how drugs are bad and how they should get there energy drink instead.  One day, Danny, played by Paul Rudd, gets dumped due to him becoming more of an asshole.  He snapped and parked in a no parking zone when he and Wheeler, played by Seann William Scott, went to there next job.  When they got out there truck was being towed away from which Danny snapped and tried to steal the truck back which lead both him and Wheeler into the slammer with two options, do 30 days in jail or 150 hours of community service.

You can see where this is going so far.  Pretty much they are to be role models to a few kids.  One kid is one that always pulls a fast one to try to get there "big" to not come back and another is into a foam sword fighting game called LAIR (I believe that’s how it was spelled, can’t remember).  They pretty much work together and work out there differences and became good friends in the end.

In the end of all things, it was a pretty funny movie that’s worth seeing.  By the way, I would write more but I can’t remember half the movie due to being extremely tired and don’t feel like remembering a thing.

So what is this movie all about?  Pretty much it’s about a guy name Max Payne who lost his wife and kid due to a murder and they couldn’t find the third suspect.  Because they couldn’t find the third suspect, Payne transferred to the Cold Case Unit.

Not very exciting is it?  If you ask me this movie wasn’t that exciting to begin with.  Anyway,

Payne is still out to look for the third suspect that everyone said that he was more likely gone anyway.  One lead got him to talk to one person who didn’t say much so he went back to his snitch.  At the "snitch" hideout he met this one girl who just wanted to have his body which he didn’t want to give up and threw her out of his apartment (oh, I forgot to mention that, he took her back to his place to try to get more "information" from her).

As the movie moves on you see more and more of those demons or "angels" as they call them.  Of course, only those who are on this one kind of drug is able to see those "angels" and most of them die by them as well.

The movie is just long, and boring, for the most part, with unneeded special effects in unneeded scenes.  Like I would say more about it but I don’t want to give away the ending since, I would admit, worth seeing at least once.  For now, just enjoy this boring movie review I just gave you.

The movie stars Vin Diesel as some mercenary named Toorop who was once an veteran who takes on a high-risk job escorting a young lady named Aurora from Central Asia to New York.  He thinks this is just a basic pickup and delivery job but when trouble started coming he soon starts to wonder what exactly he’s “delivering.”

Alright, enough of the “Synopsis” gist of it, lets get down to business to the actual review.  Please note that there are some spoilers here so if you do want to watch this piece of shit movie, then I’d advise you don’t read on, otherwise, read on!

The movie starts off with part of the ending (believe it or not) then the actual movie starts when Toorop walking through the streets of Russia and beating up some guy for what seems like money he paid for a gun that didn’t work…. Yeah… *clears throat* anyways, after that he moves on through more streets picking up what looks like dog meat and up to his apartment.  After cutting up his meat and cooked his meal he was welcome by some uninvited guests (one of which he kills and tells the other guys that it’s cool and will walk quietly out as there was only unfinished business between the two).

Anyways, to make a long story short, he was pretty much forced into delivering Aurora to New York for some weird reason and truth be told I’m still trying to figured out what the hell is going on.

All I know is that this movie keeps jumping around.  At one moment you see Toorop arguing with Aurora then the next they’re like all buddy buddy.  Hell, they’ve gone as far as almost having a sex scene with Toorop and Aurora (and she’s like, what?  probably about 15 years old I would guess).  What kind of message is that?  That it’s alright to have sex with underage women as long as they consent to it?

Even the ending makes no sense.  Some how Toorop finds Aurora at the place where Toorop said he was going to fix up some day and some how the “bad guys” found them right away, even though the tracking device planted in Toorop’s neck is supposedly removed (at least that’s what I’m assuming granted that that doctor is smart enough to remove it out).

This movie, in general, has no plot and not worth your money.  In the great words of Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons, “Worst, episode, ever”

At first, I had no intention of seeing this movie mainly because I “thought” it’d be a waste of time and money after the previous movies that’s been converted from comics (Spiderman, X-Man, Punisher, Daredevil, etc).  But then I’ve actually been hearing good things about the movie, and this is from word of mouths (I don’t read critic’s reviews because they’re biases in some ways) so I thought whenever someone feels like going out to watching it I’ll join them, sure enough, one of my co-workers wanted to see the movie too so I went with him.

My thought after watching the movie?  Wow…  Just… wow…. A lot, and I mean A LOT, better then what I thought.  I thought the movie would be some what of a bore fest and everyone who saw it and said it was good was kidding around but damn they were right, this movie was good.  If you ask me, this is probably the best movie I’ve seen that was converted from a comic.  The lines weren’t “Cheesy” per say and the acting was really good and well thought out.

Believe me, with this movie being this good, I wouldn’t doubt that there might be a sequel.

But what’s it about?  Well, it’s pretty much about this guy who is a CEO of this high tech end manufacturer company that manufacturers military weapons.  One day he went on a business trip to a hot spot to sell some new kind of missile system but was captured.  The people who captured him wants him to make that missile system for them but he, instead, created an iron suite to escape.  During the time he was captured he saw all the weapons that the enemy had was manufactured by his company.  Now that he’s finally escaped and back home, he’s pissed off that the enemy has his weapons that he design to save Americans life that he shut down the weapon’s department and created the actual Iron Man suite in his personal work lap and killed off those who are using his weapons and blah and blah and blah.  I’m sure you’re tired of reading this…

Anyways, point being, watch the movie, you won’t be disappointed.

MOVIES

Star Wars: Ep 3, Revenge of the Sith (or whatever) – Watched on: Don’t care – This, I swear, was crap, although it’s better then the first one and I haven’t bothered watching the second one so I don’t even care. The ONLY cool part (for me) was when they put the mask on Darth Vader. Why I let Trev and Joe talked me into seeing it with them (which would be the second time for them) is beyond me.

Batman Begins – Watched on: 7/2/05 – This movie was pretty cool, the first half of the movie was pretty boring because it was showing his past and all that, but after that part, when you see him starting to become batman, it was pretty cool. Although I do find it funny how the guy was driving some nice car but in the last other batman movies, you see him driving those classic cars instead of the one he was driving in the movie, so unless he sold that off or something, that makes me wonder.

Manga

Magister Negi Magi (AKA: Negima!) – I liking this read really much. Created by Ken Akamatsu (the creator of Love Hina) back in 2004. This manga series is actually an anime series now but it isn’t as great as the manga, although I’ve heard it was getting better. Negima is about this boy who is training to become a magister magi like his father, the Thousand Master, but in order for him to continue down his path, he has to complete an ordeal, and that is to become a teacher at an all girls school! That’s all I’m going to say :-P

Last Hope – This isn’t bad for a manga that isn’t created in Japan (not ALL mangas are from Japan :-p ). This was created by Michael Dignan (writer) and Kriss Sison (artist). It’s pretty much about a person who grandfather is trying to kill and so he jumps to another time to run from him. But doing so destroyed his portal device. Waiting there for a few years, he saw a kid who is really a wiz on read advance devices and such, at which he was trying to disguise himself as a normal high school student. One day, the guy pulls the wiz kid aside and took him to his house at which he told him that he knew he was hiding something and then he came out and said he was his last hope for getting his time portal device fixed. Really not bad from the new publisher Seven Seas.

Amazing Agent Luna – Another release by the new publishing company, Seven Seas. Created by DeFilippis & Weir (writers) and Shiei (artist). It’s about a teenage girl name Luna who has a secret, and that secret is she’s a spy. Her mission is to go to this one high school as a student and gather information. This is her first time she ever went to a normal school. What’s worst is that she has to keep her ID a secret. Watch her go though hard times for this is the first time she well ever feel any of this things.

Alice 19th – It’s a pretty cool manga. It’s pretty much about a girl name Alice who find herself having to know the lotus words to fight an evil that’s in everyone’s heart.

Imadoki! Nowadays – I was actually touched with this manga. It’s by the same creator of Alice 19th (Yû Watase). About a small town girl who moves to a high richly city to go to school. She finds that trying to fit in with the rich is hard but that wouldn’t stop her from making friends.

Sensual Phrase – Okay, I didn’t started reading this tell one of my friends told me that it was really good (although she only read a couple vol. (forgot how many though)), so I decided to check it out. I must admit, after reading the 8th manga, I’m really interested in it and probably keep looking for new releases (just like Negima and some others). It’s pretty much about a girl who was going to submit a lyric that she written up for some contest but a twist happen. Before she could submit it, she almost got hit by a car. The person in the car was a young man, and to make it up to her, he gave her a back stage pass, and when she departed, the man saw the lyrics and took them. The girl was in disbelieving that she lost her lyrics but when she went to the show the guy who almost ran her over WAS SINGING HER SONG! The guy who almost ran her over jumps into the crowd and picks her up and takes her on stage. After the show, he came up to her and asked her to be his lyricist. What well happen to her now? You got to read to find out :P

Tsubasa – Why should I even bother commenting on this? It’s great! Although I won’t recommend watching the anime if your reading the manga, it’s just horrible

xxxHOLiC – Another great one by CLAMP that’s not worthy of my comments… oh, and this and Tsubasa does crossover!

Bleach – This manga series has really been a good read so far, I’m reading volume 9 right now (well… not right this second). Bleach is pretty much a guy name Ichigo who can see ghosts. One day, a monster attacked him and his family. A death god name Rukia shows up and tries to take down this “monster” called Hollows. But, because of Ichigo, she gets hurt and gives Ichigo an option, become a death god and destroy the hollow or don’t. Ichigo decides to become the death god and defeats the hollow. Rukia only meant to give him half of her powers but it seems like ichigo took it all! What happens from there? You got to read/watch and find out!

Since I got a lot of mangas, I’m just going to stop there…

Anime

Bleach – Read the review for the manga. Only differences is that, from what I’ve heard, it covers loose ends from the manga.

Shuffle! – This is such a great anime! Based off of a visual novel by Navel, this series is pretty much about a guy who is surrounded by girls. Three of the girls are really popular in school, so popular that they have there own unofficial “bodyguards” that causes more trouble for the guy then its worth. Now, before you go on to saying, “oh, it’s just another series about a guy who’s surrounded by girls,” I do have to say that the story is actually more depth then that plus the leading male isn’t DUMB either (compare to the other ones I’ve seen). Oh, didn’t I mention that the king of gods and the king of demons are trying to have him marry one of there daughter? (You just gotta watch to understand what I’m trying to say ;) ).

Black Cat – This series just recently came out, and so far I’m pretty hook. I think what got me hook was the opening theme song, Daia no Hana by Yoriko. It’s pretty much about a guy who is train to kill without emotion, he’s XIII, also known as Black Cat. He meets up with a guy who tries to capture bad people for money when he went on a mission. Are these two going to meet again? You just gotta watch ;)

Anyways… Since I’m too lazy to go on, and I should be in bed now, I’ll just say this, I’m going to, from now on, right up an review for each ep of any anime I’ve seen or for a manga I’ve read. Even though there’s a lot of reviews you could read, I’ll tell you what I think of it and what bugs the hell out of me ;)

Well… good night all!