MovieBuff's 2011 Predictions

1. The St. Louis Rams will make the playoffs.
2. The Mizzou Basketball Tigers will make the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament.
3. Brad Womack will finally choose someone on The Bachelor (I hope.)
4. St. Louis Blues Hockey Team will be in the Stanley Cup semifinals.
5. A female will win American Idol and the show itself will FINALLY be cancelled after ten seasons.
6. Simon Cowell's X-Factor USA will be a huge hit.
7. The biggest movie blockbusters will be: Thor, Captain America, Pirates of the Carribean 4, Hangover 2, X-Men: First Class, Green Lantern, Harry Potter and the Dealthy Hallows Part 2, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and the American remake of The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo.
8. Prince William and Princess-to-be Kate Middleton will have a baby.
9. Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie will break up.
10. The St. Louis Cardinals will win the World Series or at least will be in the World Series.

Moviebuff's New Year's Reflections & Resolutions

2010 has been a rough year for the world: the Haiti earthquake, the economy, the Gulf Oil Spill, but let's hope 2011 will be a better year for everyone (I think it will be better.) I want everyone to have the best new year ever full of health and happiness (no negative things & thoughts). Be safe and have fun. If you don't have fun for yourself (not thinking about work and kids), then EVERYBODY will have a good year! This upcoming year contains 3 weird dates; January 1, 2011 (1/1/11), January 11, 2011 (1/11/11) and November 11, 2011 (11/11/11). Don't even think about those! All in all, I can't wait to see the awesome things God has planned for me, my friends and my family in 2011! With that said, here are my resolutions:


RESOLUTIONS:

1. I want to stay healthy all year--When I make it at work and that 4:00 work bell sounds off today for the end of 2010, this will be the first year in a while that I haven't missed a day b/c of illness.
2. I want to build better relationships with others--friends on FB, family, coworkers, etc. One of my things on my bucket list is to reunite and/or meet every friend I have on FB if I haven't yet. That's why I'm going to blog more often so I can get a piece of my mind out and be more opinionated to others. I might set up a 15 year high school reunion (I already have a FB page on here) and judging by the response and how many people have shown interest, it will happen (with some help!)
3. I NEED TO FIND LOVE--for the past 10 years, I haven't been on one date and I need to look. I've been trying to find some women who are friends of my friends on here, but if the last resort is ONLINE DATING, I will try to do that next year
   

Back to the blog......

Sorry, I haven't been blogging a lot lately...busy with work and got myself a HDVTV with a Blu-Ray player for Christmas so I've been having fun with that. But I promise that I will blog more often next year. ...

Movies I want to see in the theaters during the summer

There are so many movies out. It's hard to see them all in the theaters. I used to see most of last year's summer movies in the theater, but not anymore. Here are the ones that I want to see in the theaters this summer:

GROWN-UPS--Judging by the previews, this movie looks hillarious with Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, Kevin James & Rob Schneider. I want to see the pool scene in its entirety.

INCEPTION--This movie looks weird and good with Leonardo Dicaprio and Ellen Page from Juno. It's directed by Christopher Nolan, who directed Memento & The Dark Knight.

SALT-Angelina Jolie + action = MUST-SEE!

THE OTHER GUYS-I read about the Mark Wahlberg & Will Ferrell cop comedy in the brand new issue of Entertainment Weekly. They will make a pretty good team!

THE EXPENDABLES-If Sex & The City 2 & Eclipse is for women, then this is for men! Sylvester Stallone directs himself, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, Rampage Jackson and a few cameos from Bruce Willis & Arnold Schwarzenegger! Major testerone fest!

Thats' it--might see Knight & Day with Tom Cruise & Cameron Diaz or maybe Eclipse to see how the book relates to the movie.

Last Night's American Idol Mini Recap

Sorry about the lateness of the blog post. I had to find some time in doing this. I'm doing this during work hours. Last night's season premiere of American Idol was the first one without Paula Abdul as one of the judges. Ellen DeGeneres will take her place starting with the February 9 episode in Hollywood. Guest judges will fill in this spot for all of the audition rounds. It started last night with Victoria Beckham aka Posh Spice of the Spice Girls aka the wife of the most famous soccer players of all time, David Beckham. She did alright as a judge, but nothing too special. I'm going to recap the top best auditions and the top worst auditions on this night of competition:

• Katie Stevens--remember this name: She sang "At Last" and did it with much gusto as her age (16). She speaks fluent Portguese and has a grandmother who has Alhemizers. Top 24, for sure!
• Leah Laurenti--She was the final auditioner from last night and sang "Blue Skies." She's so original and a breath of fresh air, but we don't know much background about her. We'll see.
• Justin Williams--the cancer survivor, I forgot which kind. He sang that Michael Buble song "Feelin' Good, and it was.

Onto the bad auditions:

• Derek Hilton--Posh says that he is a cross between Chris Brown and The Eagles. He sang "Sorry Seems to Be The Hardest Word" by Elton John. Like the lyric goes..."so sad; it's sad". So sad that he's not going to Hollywood.
• Lisa Oliveri--The waitress who sang Vision of Love by Mariah Carey. That was a horrible rendition, worse than Bikini Girl's audition of that song last year.
• Norberto Guerrero--The person who sang "Everytime We Touch" by Cascada, and looked liked Michael Jackson and says he was his inspiration. Nobody can imitate The King of Pop!

Onto Atlanta tonight with Mary J. Blige as the guest judge. I'll post tomorrow!

Deleting Twitter, Blu-Ray & Birthday Celebration Review

I'm going to blog probably more often b/c I have some many things to get off my chest. One thing, I'm going to delete my Twitter account. I cannot keep up with that anymore since I don't have a Smart Phone. For those who are following me on Twitter right now, sorry. I prefer FB to Twitter now.

Also, I'm contemplating about whether to get a Blu-Ray player or not. I have about 4 standard DVD players at home and one hi-def flat screen TV. Because of the many gift cards I got yesterday b/c of my birthday party (explanation coming up.) Should I get a Playstation 3 or any other kind of Blu-Ray player? I am not a gamer, myself, so I 'm leaning towards the latter. We shall see.......

Onto my birthday celebration yesterday, it was the best birthday ever since my 30th one. I had a great time eating at a salad buffet bar, Sweet Tomatoes! Many family members came, but the most important people that came to my birthday were my high school friend which I haven't seen in 13 years. This was my first high school reunion ever! I'm, glad that she came and brought her family. Also, one of my co-workers came (it was supposed to be two, but one bailed on me the last minute;); she brought her husband. Also, a friend of mine who I haven't seen since I was like 5 years old came with her roommate. I know both of them through Facebook. They update their status as much as I do. in fact, most of them are FB friends of mine; that's why Facebook is the best social networking and missed connection tool in my opinion.

Here's a list of what I got for my birthday:

• a blue Snuggie (blanket with sleeves that was advertised on TV);
• a digital camcorder (like FLIP, but a little bigger. I'm going to upload a video on YouTube and post it on FB.);
• 14 movies on 8 DVDs--the complete Blade (vampire action movie with Wesley Snipes) trilogy plus a Blade TV movie on 2 DVDs, the first four Police Academy movies on 2 DVDs (the 80s version of Keystone Cops), the whole Rush Hour trilogy plus Money Talks with Chris Tucker on 2 DVDs, the 80s Christmas classic Gremlins with Phoebe Cates and finally, (I really wanted this for so long)....Say Anything, my favorite John Cusack movie of all time;
• $20 in cash;
• $10 Borders gift card;
• $25 I-Tunes gift card;
• $25 AMC Theaters gift card;
• 2 Target gift cards (totalling $50);
• 4 boxes of candy (including some of my favorites, Swedish Fish & Reese's Pieces);
• a bottle of wi....I mean pomegranate sparking juice (might use that for New Years Eve);
• 2 Wally World gift cards (totalling $45);
• 2 Banana Republic long-sleeve shirts and finally,
• 3 Best Buy gift cards (totalling $65)

I'm fully loaded right now! I don't expect much for Christmas, then! Thanks for all those who came! I will never forget it! On that note, I will end this post. Post comments and thoughts, please!

Glee & Julia reviews

WARNING: SPOILER ALERTS TO LAST NIGHT'S EPISODE OF GLEE.

Sorry, guys....I've been so busy lately this fall that I haven't got a chance to update this blog., but because of watching the movie Julie & Julia, it gave me purpose to update this.

What a sensational and exciting episode of Glee! and now it's off the air until April 2010 because of American Idol....like one of the songs featured on last night's shows said...."you can't always get what you want." And to quote another song featured, "my life would suck without it." In the episode, the glee club New Directions goes to Sectionals to compete against Eve's glee club and the deaf glee club, but first, Emma Pilsbury took over for Will Schuester after he was suspended for sleeping on one of the mattresses the club earned for shooting the commercial. Then, Rachel told Finn that Puck was actually the father of Quinn's baby....so Will & Puck had a fight, which made Will quit the glee club for now. At the sectionals, the whole club finds out that the other glee clubs "stole" their set list which included "Proud Mary" and "Don't Stop Believin." Later, we find out that it was the villainous Sue Sylvester who leaked the lists and she was suspended by the principal.

Back to the sectionals, the glee club met before their performance and they discussed what songs are they were going to do since the other teams perform theirs. Rachel wanted to perform a song she was preparing when she was four years old, but then Finn came back with a new song and literally saved the day for them, and OMG! the payoff was well worth it--Rachel Berry sang "Don't Rain On My Parade"--better than Barbara Streisand's version, imho! and the whole group sang the Rolling Stone's classic "You Can't Always Get What You Want." I prefer the original, but guess what? They won the sectionals anyway and onto regionals. The happiest moment came at the end when the group sang the Kelly Clarkson hit "My Life Would Suck Without You," Will & Emma finally hooked up! I simply love this show! I hope it will be nominated for a Golden Globe or Emmy next year!'

Before I saw this magnificent episode, I saw the movie Julie & Julia with Meryl Streep, Amy Adams & Chloe from 24. It's basically two true stories based into one movie....big mistake, imho. I liked the Julia part, where Meryl Streep did it again--channeled a real life character into her. She played the famous chef Julia Child. Her story is just basically about her getting into the highest French cooking school, Cordon Bleu, which made her and her husband write one of the most famous cookbooks of all time, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She should get an Golden Globe & Oscar nomination again for this. Meryl is one of the actresses who knows what's she's doing--along with Julia Roberts & Sandra Bullock. Unlike Julia's story, Julie's story is a little bit boring. Julie Powell (Adams) plays a call center rep who loves to cook. She doesn't like her life, so she decides to cook all 524 recipes of Julia's cookbook in a year with her husband & her best friend 's (played by Chloe) support. I almost fell asleep with this part, but I would recommend this for only Meryl Streep's great performance as Julia Child.

I don't know when the next post will. If something comes up and I really really want to blog about it, I would post it. Until then, Happy Holidays and a great 2010 to everyone who reads this. Please comment on this.