Well the other day I got up to goto work and when I got out to my car I found that someone had broken an egg on the driver's side of my car. They probably threw it as they went past, but not really sure. We think that it might have been the neighbours from across the road as the house they lived in got sold, and so they were moving out. Of course we can't prove who did it and I guess it doesn't matter who was responsible for the act of vandalism.
The night before I watched the show called "American Dad", which isn't the best show. In fact its pretty much a copy of "Family Guy" which is by the same makers. The episode involved the Dad of the show having issues with his neighbours saying bad things about him, and so he used his work to have them all moved out so he had no neighbours to complain about. I was thinking that sometimes I wish that we could have the neighbours moved out, but know it would be a selfish act, just because they do things that annoy or interfere with our lives. We share a common wall of the house with one neighbour and they at times are loud and obnoxious especially if they are partying and/or drinking.
It seems that no matter where you go and live, we are surrounded by bogans. I'd like to live in a house where the nearest neighbour is half a kilometre away. A house much like the one on Forest Gump that Forest lived in. It was on a large property. There would be problems with a that type of house, and that would be living out of town.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Superhero
Today we drove to werribee for the day and went to the cinema to see "Superhero Movie." This is a comedy in the same vein as the Naked Gun, it started by showing the main character putting on his costume with narrating with a voice over, which then took us back to how he became a superhero.
He was an ordinary teenager who was in love with the girl next door, although she was in a relationship with another guy who as expected was a jerk to him. While visiting a laboratory where the scientists were doing genetic experiements, he was biten by a dragonfly.
A few days later he woke up to find that he could climb walls and had super strength. He tried to use his powers to help people but ended up hurting the people he loved. Realizing he needed a costume he set about drawing some designs. Some of these were pretty stupid really, and were just part of the naked gun humor. The Hourglass became his enemy who wanted immortality and was played by the guy who was Shooter on Happy Gilmore.
The movie had parts from many other superhero movies, like Batman when he had witnessed his parents murder, and Spiderman with the upside down kiss. They also had the X-men with Professor Xavier and his school of "Non-Asian gifted people."
Professor Stephen Hawking made an appearence several times during the movie, and each time was used for some Naked Gun style jokes. This was really his main purpose for being in the movie.
There was also alot of toilet humor used in parts of the movie, as well as some dialog that probably isn't appropriate for children, although it could be classed as a "family" movie. There were quite a lot of children under 15 years in the cinema.
Anyway you probably think that I've written this terribly, but that doesn't matter. All in all the movie gave us some laughs and was worth seeing, but I wouldn't go to the cinema to see it a second time.
He was an ordinary teenager who was in love with the girl next door, although she was in a relationship with another guy who as expected was a jerk to him. While visiting a laboratory where the scientists were doing genetic experiements, he was biten by a dragonfly.
A few days later he woke up to find that he could climb walls and had super strength. He tried to use his powers to help people but ended up hurting the people he loved. Realizing he needed a costume he set about drawing some designs. Some of these were pretty stupid really, and were just part of the naked gun humor. The Hourglass became his enemy who wanted immortality and was played by the guy who was Shooter on Happy Gilmore.
The movie had parts from many other superhero movies, like Batman when he had witnessed his parents murder, and Spiderman with the upside down kiss. They also had the X-men with Professor Xavier and his school of "Non-Asian gifted people."
Professor Stephen Hawking made an appearence several times during the movie, and each time was used for some Naked Gun style jokes. This was really his main purpose for being in the movie.
There was also alot of toilet humor used in parts of the movie, as well as some dialog that probably isn't appropriate for children, although it could be classed as a "family" movie. There were quite a lot of children under 15 years in the cinema.
Anyway you probably think that I've written this terribly, but that doesn't matter. All in all the movie gave us some laughs and was worth seeing, but I wouldn't go to the cinema to see it a second time.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Moment of Truth
Have you been watching tv on a tuesday evening recently?
After a couple of weeks of a show called Monster House, channel nine replaced it with the American show "Moment of Truth". This show is a game show based on contestants answering personal questions truthfully in order to try and win $500,000. In typical fashion there are many comercial breaks, when they preview upcoming questions or contestants, and then following the break they replay the lead up to the current question. This method of programing stretches a program that could be fitted into a half hour timeslot to fill a full hour with commercial time.
The aftermath of the game show has wrecked much of the relationships of the contestants. Basically the wording of the questions could be taken as having a yes answer from something that happened in the past or the way the person felt in the past or might feel in the future.
Sometimes the questions people have found to have lied about would seem to have an obvious answer, such as "Do you think you're a good person?" Her husband would have said no, after many of the answers to previous questions, like if she was still in love with her ex. Her father thought she was a good person, and she answered yes, only to lose the $100,000. So far no one has made more than $100,000 in ten episodes.
It would be a very difficult thing to admit these extremely personal things on national tv and in front of friends and family. Many questions are related to how committed the contestant would be to their partner or if they trusted them.
I was looking at Wikipedia about this show and the ratings started quite high with viewers in the US, but it dropped quickly each week until an episode screened that created alot of publicity in magazines about the contestant that ruined her marriage based on the questions that she answered.
I guess it would take a lot for them to ax this show. They have already created a second season which they previewed on the final episode of the first season.
Feel free to leave comments on this post. Would you go on a show like this?
After a couple of weeks of a show called Monster House, channel nine replaced it with the American show "Moment of Truth". This show is a game show based on contestants answering personal questions truthfully in order to try and win $500,000. In typical fashion there are many comercial breaks, when they preview upcoming questions or contestants, and then following the break they replay the lead up to the current question. This method of programing stretches a program that could be fitted into a half hour timeslot to fill a full hour with commercial time.
The aftermath of the game show has wrecked much of the relationships of the contestants. Basically the wording of the questions could be taken as having a yes answer from something that happened in the past or the way the person felt in the past or might feel in the future.
Sometimes the questions people have found to have lied about would seem to have an obvious answer, such as "Do you think you're a good person?" Her husband would have said no, after many of the answers to previous questions, like if she was still in love with her ex. Her father thought she was a good person, and she answered yes, only to lose the $100,000. So far no one has made more than $100,000 in ten episodes.
It would be a very difficult thing to admit these extremely personal things on national tv and in front of friends and family. Many questions are related to how committed the contestant would be to their partner or if they trusted them.
I was looking at Wikipedia about this show and the ratings started quite high with viewers in the US, but it dropped quickly each week until an episode screened that created alot of publicity in magazines about the contestant that ruined her marriage based on the questions that she answered.
I guess it would take a lot for them to ax this show. They have already created a second season which they previewed on the final episode of the first season.
Feel free to leave comments on this post. Would you go on a show like this?
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