Law & Order SVU

Law & Order SUV is a crazy show. Dick Wolf, the creator of the show comes up with some of the most disturbing story lines. I have been watching the show since I woke up today.

Now I realize that SVU is usually girls that have been abused, and children that have been abducted, but some of the twists have been out of control.

One I just finished watching was about a guy who kidnapped a girl whose avatar that reminded him of a girl he abducted 25 years earlier. The girl ended up being found and had stayed in the "love nest" for 25 years waiting for him. It was something I never saw coming. The twists and turns in this show are unmatched. I think that if you are someone that doesn't watch this show, you should start.

Stanley Cup

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Last night NBC showed the seventh game of the Stanley Cup Finals. It is now official. The Pittsburgh Penguins didn't blow it, this time.

They did a lot more than just not blow it. In both the semi finals, and the finals this season they came back from being down 2 games to 0 to win the series. As earlier posted the Red Wings, and the Penguins played last year, and last year the cup slipped out Sid the Kid's hands, but not this time.

The game was awesome. Pittsburgh scored early in the second period. They followed that with another goal before the second intermission. However their fearless leader went down with an injury. Crosby was checked into the boards, and left the ice to go to the dressing room. He only came back in the third period with limited play.

The Penguins really didn't need him. They managed to diffuse the Red Wings. The Wings were unable to play there game, which I think led to the victory for the Pen's.

Blahh Weekend Weather

The weather here is awful. It is damp and gross. This leads to nothing good to do for the weekend. I was planing to go to the cape, that I think has gone out the window. It most likely will be sunny on Saturday so that is a plus.

The big News as of right now is that the Red Sox swept the Yankees again. The Sox have won all eight games that they have played against them this season. The Yanks came into Boston in first, and left with their tails between their legs.

As far as things for this weekend go, There is a big movie opening this weekend. It is Year One. It is the first of all the movies coming out that I want to see.
There is a huge hockey game tonight. It is game 7 of the Stanly Cup Finals. It is the Pittsburgh Penguins vs. The Detroit Red Wings. It is a rematch of last year which made the whole series much more intense. Now they are down to one game, one win, for it all. This is my pick. The Penguins.

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There have only been 14 game 7's in Stanley Cup history, and Detroit has only won one of the three that they played in.

Here is the list

2005 CAROLINA 3, Edmonton 1
2004 TAMPA BAY 2, Calgary 1
2003 NEW JERSEY 3, Anaheim 0
2001 COLORADO 3, New Jersey 1
1994 NY RANGERS 3, Vancouver 2
1987 EDMONTON 3, Philadelphia 1
1971 Montreal 3, CHICAGO 2
1965 MONTREAL 4, Chicago 0
1964 TORONTO 4, Detroit 0
1955 DETROIT 3, Montreal 1
1954 DETROIT 2, Montreal 1, OT
1950 DETROIT 4, NY Rangers 3, 2OT
1945 Toronto 2, DETROIT 1
1942 TORONTO 3, Detroit 1

My new Idea

I have decided that every day will be a different topic for this blog. For example Monday will be Movie Monday. Tuesday will be about Music. Wednesday will be about Health and Science. Thursday will be about Current Events. Friday will be about a Weekend Review of Events for the weekend. Saturday Will be about Sports, and Sunday will be a wild card day. I will either repeat one from the week, or it will be something unique or random I find online.

Some of my posts I will write, others I will post that I find from somewhere else, so stay tuned.

Anticritic33

Knowing is half the battle

Now they know, and knowing is half the battle. This how ever does not look good to G.I Joe.

G.I. JOB HUNT?

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There was some disturbingly "uh-oh" news about the upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra film coming out of Joblo via Latino Review via Don Murphy's message boards this morning. First of all, considering the number of "vias" in that last sentence, this thing begged to be filed on the rumor tip until such time as it was more official, if at all. With that in mind, the scuttlebutt was that apparently Stephen Sommers has been fired from the project and that editor/director Stuart Baird had been brought in to try to save the hot mess the film had become. Here was what the posting from poster Endtimes had to say:

Stephen Sommers, the super hack director of the film fired. Removed. Locked out of the editing room. Stuart Baird, a renowned "fixer" editor was brought it to try to see if it could be made releasable. Sommers was then forced by his William Morris agents to pretend that he was working on Tarzan over at Warner Brothers doing design work, even though that film doesn't even have a good script yet. When word of the firing started to be whispered about in Hollywood, Sommers was summoned back to the editing room- but only to save appearances, Baird is still editing the movie with studio input.

Now, having followed the half dozen links or so (okay three) to the source material, I came to the original thread that started said rumor, only to find it taken down off of the boards. Since then, the Latino review story has been updated by George "El Guapo" Roush to the following effect by going straight to the top:

We spoke with Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura about this whole firing mess and here's what he had to say:

Lorenzo: Its very unfair to Steve, its completely untrue he was never asked to leave or been fired or any of that. That’s ridiculous. The movie tested very well.

I hear it tested as good as the first Transformers.

Lorenzo: Well listen, we tested very well and I don’t compare the movies because they are different movies, but you know I think its really destructive for a director…It hurts a guy's career when people go around talking about that he was fired or he didn’t do a good job and truth is he did a really good job. People are going to enjoy the movie and the test audiences enjoyed the movie.

He did a very good job the movie tested well and it couldn’t be more false that the studio in anyway did anything negatively to Steve.

So what really happened in the editing room?

Lorenzo: Nothing that doesn’t happen on every other movie, which is that you constantly work and work and work and you make it better and better. We had a delay on visual effects so we waited a long time to finish the movie but that’s the only thing. I don’t really know why that would be interpreting it negatively but I guess it was.

In regards to the testing the film has had so far:

Lorenzo: Everybody was happy, the studio was happy, the filmmakers were happy, the audience was happy with the movie. We had three test screenings, three different times and tested it and each time it just got better and better. We started off in a good place and we ended up in even in a better place, which is what you hope on a film from testing it.

So there you go. Straight from Lorenzo as he debunks the firing story. Like I said, I've heard from my sources that the film was tracking well. We've stuck up for this film from the get go. Why? Because we're fans of G.I. Joe. And I've mentioned on Twitter and here numerous times that I think the movie looks kick ass. All know is fans want a good G.I. Joe movie despite the Hollywood politics. We'll find out when it hits theaters on August 7th.

So considering what di Bonaventura has had to say, and that the original source posting has apparently been taken down, one might wonder, was this just some sort of hatchet job on Stephen Sommers? Was there any substance to this report at all that has since been spun into oblivion? Who knows? Anticipation of this movie has been mixed at best, and some people here and there have been calling for Sommers' head on a pike just from a trailer and various clips, mostly over accelerator suits. Others seem jazzed.

Regardless, the movie's still two months out. I reserve judgment until I see it, but I honestly don't want it to fail. I want a good G.I. Joe movie. Yeah I understand that Sommers has a lot to live down after Van Helsing. But people all too often seem to forget that this is the same guy who gave us Deep Rising and the first Mummy movie. So he can pull it off. Whether or not he actually does remains to be seen.

Fate

Sometimes there is no way you can escape fate, when you are destined for something there is no avoiding it. No matter how hard you try. I am glad I found this article. It really illustrates fate.

From Times Online

June 11, 2009

Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash

(Brazil Air Force/AP)

The remains of Flight 447 is still being recovered

Philippe Naughton

An Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident.

Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed Air France Flight 447 after turning up late at Rio de Janeiro airport on May 31.

All 228 people aboard lost their lives after the plane crashed into the Atlantic four hours into its flight to Paris.

The ANSA news agency reported that the couple had managed to pick up a flight from Rio the following day.

It said that Ms Ganthaler died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck. Her husband was seriously injured.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6479203.ece

Really a GPS

Check out this link. I think it is ridiculous that someone can demolish a house just like that, and it be the wrong house. How dumb do you have to be to do that.



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