I’m a latecomer to the whole “I’m the Juggernaut bitch” viral youtube craze. Â I mean I’m not that late to it, I just kinda watched it, dismissed it and went on with my life. Â Recently however I found myself with the saying stuck in my stupid head.
When I say stuck in my stupid head, I mean that it is currently the favourite response to pretty much anything. Â Of course this isn’t necessarily the best thing in the world. Â It’s fairly unprofessional in the office and I don’t think Tracey gets the humour in it.
I mean yeah it’s all funny when it’s:
Hey who drank all the cola?
I did.
Why did you do that, I wanted some of that!?
Don’t you know who I am?
What?
I’m the Juggernaut bitch.
Well maybe it isn’t that funny, but I’m telling you now it’s even more inappropriate when dealing with the post office staff:
Excuse me you’ve had this package since the start of the month and haven’t given it to us and we’ve been in several times.
Oh that’s odd. I don’t know why that happened.
DON’T LIE TO ME, DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM??? Â I’M THE JUGGERNAUT BITCH!!!
Aiiiieeeeee security!!!!
The rest was fairly uncomfortable as several security guys sat on top of me and I think some postal worker was kicking me in the kidneys.
If you haven’t seen the video or you’d like a giggle again check out the video below - I do have to warn you that the video is offensive, ever so inappropriate, not for kiddies and barely for the adults:
I know it has been a little while since I’ve written about the Shell-head film that is quickly (not quickly enough) coming to our cinemas in May. Â I’ve been keeping an eye on it and with the release of the new TV spot for it I felt it was time to reconfirm my unbelievable excitement in regards to it.
First off there are these shots of Iron Man in flight. Â One word: awesome.
I love the fact that I believe the suit, it looks as real as it could given current effects technology, I would be surprised if these closer shots aren’t the armour in reality against a green screen. Â Check out if you can (and if you can’t visit the official site for these images but larger) the scratches on the faceplate - I’m glad it gets roughed up. Â It’s meant to protect the wearer not be all shiny all the time!
That shot could be out of any of the comics! Â And finally why not take a look at the TV spot and leave a comment expressing your unmatchable excite over this film. Â All I can say is thank god they put Star Trek back to next year - two awe inspiring touch stones in one year for me might have been too much!
I can’t believe that I haven’t bragged blogged about this already. I’m trying to break out of the “every second post is about what I’ve got” angle because frankly I got a lot of stuff and I’m frequently embarrassed about it when I think about the world and its problems.
However…
This is pretty cool.
Tracey got me Mal’s gun from Serenity. Obviously not the actual prop, but a perfect replica of it! It’s heavy, and huge and ever so shiny. Well not really shiny shiny; it’s a brown coat expression.
You can get a stand for it or if you are feeling particularly gorrum about the whole thing you can pre-order Mal’s holster for it.
With these haunting words George Romero introduced to the world the pop cultural interpretation of zombies. Following the harrowing night of a small group of survivors hiding out in a farm house the influential Night of the Living Dead offers a glimpse of the horror of a zombie outbreak, World War Z by Max Brooks takes us the rest of the way.
I just finished reading World War Z and I just couldn’t put it down. After reading I am Legend (one of Romero’s influences) I was all ready to revisit the apocalyptic world, what I got was a thought provoking, scary and stunning book dealing with the ‘what if’ scenario of a zombie plague.
Brooks has really researched his stuff drawing from pandemic scenarios and what I imagine to be actually war strategy. What I expected to be a light funny book turned out to be an extremely well thought out fictional memoir of a terrible war fought by the world.
The book is set after the world’s fight back from a plague of zombies that spread around the world like a virus taking the human race to the brink of extinction. It is the collected interviews of various people around the world and their unique perspectives on the war.
There’s also an audio book that features the voices of Mark Hamill, Alan Alda, Henry Rollins, Rob Reiner, and Carl Reiner.
The best thing is that apparently they are making a movie!!! Which if handled well could be awesome and terrifying.
In the meantime it is nice to know that Bush is taking the zombie threat seriously:
I’ve noticed over the past several years or so that there is an increasing number of films that I totally get and love yet everyone else hates. Granted, I don’t always need to have the nature of humanity explored on screen and explosions are occasionally just plain fun and often I’m only looking for one or two scenes that interest/entertain/inspire that will give the rest of the movie a ‘do not go directly to jail’ card.
One of these movies is the 1997 film Con Air.
I don’t know what it is about Nic Cage films that stir people up so much, people either love him or loathe him, I don’t care cause I fall into the camp that enjoys the majority of Cave’s work (Snake Eyes? Let’s not stretch the friendship!).
I must admit that the idea of spending some time in a cell, given the freedom to exercise, learn Spanish, learn origami and do a lot of reading is slightly attractive. Of course there are flashbacks to OZ and I’m wondering if the buggery would not interrupt the paper crane folding.
I like the idea of growing hill-billy hair too and developing a slow drawling accent.
I know that film as a whole has problems but it’s got a good cast, some very nice scenery and big planes crashing in Las Vegas.
There are some memorable lines throughout and more often than not they involve Steve Buscemi playing the national treasure Garland Greene:
“Define irony: a bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.”
“What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn’t you consider that to be insane?”
“Baby O: What’s wrong with him?
Cameron Poe: My first guess would be… a lot. “
The film is typical of the whole Bruckheimer movie extravaganza experience and it is wonderful. Awesome soundtrack filled with heavy heroic themes. Explosions, sand being whipped around in the gale, slow motion running and injections of humour throughout.
One thing I do cringe about though is the ‘bunny’ lines… groan.
So don’t be ashamed that you like Con Air, proudly display this on your site:
I while ago we went to a gig and were faced with a unique young lady who appeared to suffer the same issues that Britney does with underwear except it is with pants. Â I wrote about in a previous post.
Well the saga of pants girl (the name we’ve dubbed her) continues!
We were at another gig, this time in the city and we were settled in our seats when a girl made her way through the row and suddenly there she is! Â Wearing a dress that is no longer than a t-shirt pushing her way through the line and pushing her bum into people’s faces.
We didn’t recognise her at first until of course we realised that she essentially was without pants and then saw her face! Â I suppose we should have recognised without seeing her face.
This morning I woke up and the world had a new country, my word things can change quickly!
Now it is all very well and good to be happy for the people of Kosovo but there are greater implications to be had around the world and not just for large organisations - people like you and I (well maybe not people like you - yes, I’m looking at you).
Think of it:
Gotta buy new diary with countries listed in it
Gotta buy a new globe
Gotta buy a new map
Gotta buy a new World Book
Gotta buy a new flags of the world book
Gotta buy new anything with Kosovo on it
Man talk about selfish, all worried about their own country’s independence and all.
Well it appears to be Indy week here on Quit Your Day Job. First the cool trailer is released and now I’ve just started playing Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb on the PS2. Actually it’s simply a happy coincedence as the Indy game was in the bunch of PS2 games I recently picked up really cheaply and just happened to be closest to the Playstation after I finished Lord of the Rings: The Third Age.
Ahhh The Third Age what am amazingly huge anticlimax when you finish the game. You fight Sauron, you beat Sauron (interestingly enough) and then you get to watch some footage from The Return of the King. Which I already own twice on DVD and didn’t really need to see again.
There was a brief half an hour or so that I decided to revisit early stages to complete missions with my now superhuman strength characters but quickly found this to be tedious.
The re-play value is pretty low and I suspect this will now go to the bottom of a dusty pile and not get looked at again. Not that it wasn’t a great game and I was remarkably surprised at how much I enjoyed it, just it’s over now and there is no point in going back to it.
Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb is a game that I believe I once got out from the video store or the library and it did very little to capture my imagination or interest. But I think it was on the PC and I don’t tend to play on the computer very much.
So far the game is pretty much a Lara Croft clone except with Indy (not Indy’s voice mind you) and the Indy music, oh and less Raptors.
I’ve already face the frustration of jumping over something, landing in the water and realising that I’ve gone backwards and now have to work my way back to the point I just left.
If you are considering going to see John Rambo because you love gory violence or you’re a gun nut or you think that movie violence is designed to glorify war or violence then please don’t bother.
You will miss the fucking point, and very likely will never get the point.
John Rambo is rated R but it shouldn’t be because of the very graphic violence of which there is a lot of. It should be rated R because it deals with an extremely harsh reality that frankly no child should ever have to be aware of but every adult needs to.
What humans are capable of doing to each other is simply horrific and in John Rambo it is laid out bare with no warm and fuzzy in sight. It is presented in a graphic and blinding light in this film.
I’m the first to admit I know very little about the situation in Burma, I know that those protestors were slaughtered:
A SENIOR Burmese intelligence official claims thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle. source
I have read, since watching this film about the experiences of the children who have been forcibly drafted into the army and the atrocities that they have witnessed. Children.
Some may criticise the film John Rambo for its heavy handed approach to the violence and again there are reasons why this film is rated R and no children should watch it. It is this graphic death and destruction that makes the film a success because there is simply no other way to effectively show this scenario. In order to get the message across it has to reach out of the screen and smack you in the face with its blatant horror and the miserable, terrible existence that these people live in.
I have seen some movie violence in my time and this film is in a whole other class on its own. It is an assault on your senses. The Reviewer (who I highly recommend and enjoy reading) probably sums it up best:
There were bits of bad guys flying all over the place. Things getting shot off, blown off, ripped off, cut off, in the end there were more pieces of people than people in the movie. source
This didn’t have to be a Rambo film, but I think it is nice that it was. Like dropping in on an old friend to see how he’s doing and after Stallone’s revisit to his other iconic character in Rocky Balboa I was really interested to see what he did in this one.
In fairness the plot is small and overshadowed by the action, some of the characters are clearly caricatures of reality although I have seen that burning optimism in the eyes of missionaries who shall fear no evil in the real world so maybe that’s the point being made. Some of the acting matches the plot in its limitations. Stallone it must be said as Rambo is a forceful presence in this film.
The bottom line though is that the plot and even the acting comes second to experiencing the horror and hopefully becoming aware that these things do happen in the world and that they shouldn’t and that we shouldn’t ignore it. We should be outraged.
Strong message from a film that had the potential to be a joke or at the very least dismissable.
I’m a latecomer to the whole “I’m the Juggernaut bitch” viral youtube craze. Â I mean I’m not that late to it, I just kinda watched it, dismissed it and went on with my life. Â Recently however I found myself with the saying stuck in my stupid head.
I just finished reading World War Z and I just couldn’t put it down. After reading I am Legend (one of Romero’s influences) I was all ready to revisit the apocalyptic world, what I got was a thought provoking, scary and stunning book dealing with the ‘what if’ scenario of a zombie plague.
I’ve noticed over the past several years or so that there is an increasing number of films that I totally get and love yet everyone else hates. Granted, I don’t always need to have the nature of humanity explored on screen and explosions are occasionally just plain fun and often I’m only looking for one or two scenes that interest/entertain/inspire that will give the rest of the movie a ‘do not go directly to jail’ card.
Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb is a game that I believe I once got out from the video store or the library and it did very little to capture my imagination or interest. But I think it was on the PC and I don’t tend to play on the computer very much.
John Rambo is rated R but it shouldn’t be because of the very graphic violence of which there is a lot of. It should be rated R because it deals with an extremely harsh reality that frankly no child should ever have to be aware of but every adult needs to.
Some may criticise the film John Rambo for its heavy handed approach to the violence and again there are reasons why this film is rated R and no children should watch it. It is this graphic death and destruction that makes the film a success because there is simply no other way to effectively show this scenario. In order to get the message across it has to reach out of the screen and smack you in the face with its blatant horror and the miserable, terrible existence that these people live in.
