Bears hump in Waterton, Alberta. The hike takes between 30-90 minutes depending on how quick you are. But either way it is worth the view once you are up there.

I decided to go see V for Vendetta this past weekend. I had never read the comic books but it was still a great movie. Great story, great action, and a great cast. This will be added to my ever growing collection of Natalie Portman movies. Definite Purchase, if only for this quote...

"This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

After watching it on saturday afternoon, I thought "Why not make it an all Natalie weekend?" Flipping though my collection I pulled out... The Proffesional, Heat, Beautiful girls, Where the Heart Is, Anywhere But Here, Star Wars: Ep 1, Closer and finally Mars Attacks. I didn't manage to watch them all just The Proffesional, Beautiful Girls and Mars Attacks.

I still haven't been able to watch CLoser since I saw it in the theater. This may seem kind of weird since it is part of my collection, but I found I had a very real connection to the characters in the movie and remember myself having those conversations with others in my life years ago. Still freaks me out, but I can't just let it sit on the shelf... maybe next weekend.

Just as a side, and maybe something for Cuppojoe to watch for... I noticed that in Peter Jacksons "King Kong" Look in the background, there are an unbelievable amount of the letter "K" hiding in the scenery and backdrops.

In case you haven't read my other blog "Allow myself to introduce... myself!" (Austin Powers).

I am a movie freak. I love everything about movies. The incredible stories, the actors and actresses but most of all the escapism. Being able to let go of the world and let the director take you to another galaxy, on a romantic trip and sometimes even show you your world from a completely different perspective.

My collection of video and dvd currently stands around 500. I don't have a favorite genre, my movies range from Terminator to Titanic, The Matrix to Midsummer nights dream, Beauty and the beast to Bowling for Columbine. I do however have a couple favorite actors/actresses some of which are Bruce Willis, Geena Davis, Adam Sandler, Natalie Portman, Jean Reno... ok, more than a couple.

I also enjoy taking photo's. I will try and throw one up every Friday... let's call it Photo Friday. Because, let's face it, after working on Friday you don't really want to sit down and spend an hour writing.

Until later...

Hello everyone... anyone?

I thought it was about time I got a "real" blog address. I have been posting over at angelfire for a while now but I am hoping to get a few more readers over here. To check out any of "the old stuff" go to

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Alrighty, here we go.

So I decided on the weekend to see King Kong. And well I was looking to waste some time but I was hoping that it wasn't going to be such a waste. Did anyone else think this movie sucked? Or am I the only one?

If you haven't seen it I won't spoil it for you if you still intend on watching this crap. However I did enjoy it up until they got to the island and ran into the locals... after that it went downhill faster than Antoine Deneriaz on a ski hill (look it up).

The CG was pretty cool. I am sure Peter Jackson would have it no other way, but it doesn't make up for the scenes that dragged on or had nothing AT ALL to do with the story.

It kind of reminded me of Chronicles of Narnia. Which, looking back I forgot to post on... anyway. Both Chronicles and Kong had at least 4-5 scenes they could have cut to make the movies much shorter and more to the point.

So unless you are a die hard Peter Jackson or King Kong fan I wouldn't do much more than rent it when it is released on Tuesday. Make sure you have 3 hours to spare to get through it as well.

Chronicles of Narnia will be released to DVD April 4, 2006. Again unless you are a die hard fan, I wouldn't bother with this one either.

This week in TV I am attempting to watch all of the original episodes of the Transformers. I can't wait for the live action movie next summer. Check out the site www.transformerslive.com