Clock Watcher

Today started well, getting things done and a normal clip. Suddenly the 10am rolls around and Im walking with cement shoes. It may be work volume. I only have 1 client where there is any work to be done. It may be sleep. I got a good 7 hours more than usual.

Either way it’s a lame duck Friday.

The summer “relative visitation” tour rolls into Peoria this weekend. Can’t complain about free meals. It’s also just good for the mind to experience a different form of relaxation stimuli than your well understood home.

Unprofessional Movie Review

I watched Underworld 2 last night. The first Underworld movie had a cool Matrix meets Vampire vs. Werewolf boxing match. There was a great desperate vibe coupled with good fight scenes, adequate special effects and copious amounts of latex and leather wearing male and female supermodels. Essentially it was very close to being everything I enjoy about sci-fi/horror films. Did I mention vampires fighting werewolves I mean c’mon!!!

So now we have the continuation of the story. While it has its entertaining points this effort has a blindingly bad weakness that makes the movie almost useless in my eyes. I don’t want to give spoilers as if you are a fan of the first movie it is a worth while venture to check out this film. So be warned.

In this film the werewolves are as wimpy as a nerd in a locker room. You’ll get to meet the first vampire and the first werewolf in this film The first vampire? Well he takes the films protagonists to task, whupping butt on a regular basis. Just wait for the impalement scene it’s pretty brutal.

The flipside of this uber vampire is his wolf brother. However, after all this hype we get the uber vampire and the uber wolf fighting our heros. And the uber wolf goes down in minutes? What the heck?

The wolves are treated mainly as props here to provide a quick jump loud nice growl scare and then be killed in some form of macabre fashion.

The cool thing about the first film was that the wolves were viable threats and could give the pain as good as they got. Here they are just a scare and a snapped neck.

In the end we have an unexplained power vampire and a wolf/vamp crossbreed who are now left to carry out their future. My guess would be that they have orc babies and try to conquer middle earth.

Overall it’s a silly movie, but so was the first. If you’re a fan buy. If you have no clue rent or borrow.

Have a good weekend.