(insert dance)
-- Boosh
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
The Bourne Idiosyncrasy
I just finished watching the Bourne Supremacy and I officially have healthcare. Clearly the first is more important
I have to admit, the Bourne Identity was a bit disappointing. While I applaud the creativity of the idea and I'm sure it was a hell of a book, I feel like the story was incredibly rushed along. Given the formulaic pattern of movie lengths, I understand why things were so condensed, so I was willing to proceed along the trilogy, soon to be a quadrilogy in 2012. For example, I would have loved to see some background on the other assassins. What a waste of Clive Owen. I'm thrilled that they kept Julia Stiles off the screen for as much as possible though.
The Supremacy was decent enough. I just don't understand why it's so important to kill Bourne. It's not like he possesses all these secrets. Yet, here I am watching fight scene after fight scene, very fast paced. Chase scenes, all of that. Frankly, I haven't seen the third one and I can already tell you what it's about. The CIA goes looking for him for some BS conspiracy reason and Bourne kicks their asses and manages to prove that he's right and they made a mistake. Fighting and chase scenes mixed with Hollywood's stereotypical government agency bureaucracy dialogue that Fox's 24 manages to do so well.
I hate to digress already on my second post back, but what is it with government agencies and power clashes in Hollywood? It's so boring. Can't these government agencies just work together?
I suppose the beauty of all of this is that we're watching actors pretend that they know what it's like to run covert investigations and track government assassins. Blowhard after blowhard, rarely making shrewd decisions. I'll have you know that even covert organizations have employees with a sense of humor. Think Mission Impossible III and Enemy of the State. Yeah I know I just listed 2 movies whose main characters I hate, but they make my point.
Ok Time to watch how the CIA will misunderstand something about Bourne while other people set Bourne up to be killed and Bourne ends up showing the CIA they were wrong.
I have to admit, the Bourne Identity was a bit disappointing. While I applaud the creativity of the idea and I'm sure it was a hell of a book, I feel like the story was incredibly rushed along. Given the formulaic pattern of movie lengths, I understand why things were so condensed, so I was willing to proceed along the trilogy, soon to be a quadrilogy in 2012. For example, I would have loved to see some background on the other assassins. What a waste of Clive Owen. I'm thrilled that they kept Julia Stiles off the screen for as much as possible though.
The Supremacy was decent enough. I just don't understand why it's so important to kill Bourne. It's not like he possesses all these secrets. Yet, here I am watching fight scene after fight scene, very fast paced. Chase scenes, all of that. Frankly, I haven't seen the third one and I can already tell you what it's about. The CIA goes looking for him for some BS conspiracy reason and Bourne kicks their asses and manages to prove that he's right and they made a mistake. Fighting and chase scenes mixed with Hollywood's stereotypical government agency bureaucracy dialogue that Fox's 24 manages to do so well.
I hate to digress already on my second post back, but what is it with government agencies and power clashes in Hollywood? It's so boring. Can't these government agencies just work together?
I suppose the beauty of all of this is that we're watching actors pretend that they know what it's like to run covert investigations and track government assassins. Blowhard after blowhard, rarely making shrewd decisions. I'll have you know that even covert organizations have employees with a sense of humor. Think Mission Impossible III and Enemy of the State. Yeah I know I just listed 2 movies whose main characters I hate, but they make my point.
Ok Time to watch how the CIA will misunderstand something about Bourne while other people set Bourne up to be killed and Bourne ends up showing the CIA they were wrong.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Happy 2011
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm proud to bring back droppintreats to our loyal reader(s). I'm not going to apologize for the long break we took. I firmly believe if you cant give it your best, don't waste your time. I simply wasn't able to put the time in these past few months. I make no excuses.
So here's an update on what everyone has been doing. Rocco is still working with retards on a daily basis and teaching them how to order Wendy's. Jimmy works from home and his days on the orange line are limited due to some details to be revealed later. As for D...who cares.
To be fair, D did some serious traveling this summer. We did our BC tickets again and managed to make it through one entire game. all in all, it was a good showing for 2010. I did more traveling but I won't bore you all with the details like I did with my European adventures.
Unfortunately despite the many personal triumphs, 2010 was a pretty bad year. ESPN finally showed their true colors with Lebron fiasco. I've never seen such biased journalism in my entire life, including politics. Sure, the argument can be made that ESPN's mission is to entertain via sports, rather than report on sports. If that is your argument, my counter would be, what was entertaining about the Decision? Nothing.
We all know how I feel about Brett Favre so I won't waste any time talking about it. The Red Sox have had quite the offseason and I don't understand why the same people who hate the Yankees for buying championships are so happy with the Sox. Ever since this new ownership rolled into town, they have been spending hundreds of millions and continuously having the 2nd highest payroll in MLB, second to the Yankees. Only 2 teams continuously pay MLB's luxury tax, the Red Sox and the Yankees. So yeah, the Red Sox made some big moves and it's fine to cheer for them, but can we please stop hating the Yankees? The Red Sox are exactly like the Yankees. They can pay whoever they want, when they want, and they choose to do so. Red Sox fans sound ridiculous criticizing the Yankees payroll. That being said, the Phillies may be the team to beat.
But maybe not. Halladay and Lee are awesome, dont get me wrong. however, I think Oswalt and Hamels are fairly overrated. Neither are bad pitchers and I think any team would kill to have them as a 3rd and 4th starter. I just dont think we should annoint this Philly rotation...yet. To me, the early 90's Braves are the gold standard of pitching depth because they proved it. Let's see what Philly does, but I agree that it's definitely exciting.
I just got around to seeing the new Bond movies and while I know I am a few years late, Daniel Craig is pretty awesome. Casino Royale is such a good movie. By the way, I saw the Hurt Locker too and I have to say that while it was a good movie, it was sad to know that's the best we had. I mean, of course I'm happy Avatar didnt win, but we need better movies.
So what can we expect for 2011? The unification of Boosh D and Jimmy under the same roof would be a start. Probably more drunk nights in Southie. Justin Bieber...Sandstorm...shimmying. In that order. Since the world is going to end in 2012 presumably, I need not remind you how important it is to live 2011 up.
Well, I just wanted to let you all know that droppintreats is back, Boosh is back,
WE'RE ALL BACK MANG
I'm still taking suggestions for my 2011 adventures. I have some ideas but I'm always open to others.
So here's an update on what everyone has been doing. Rocco is still working with retards on a daily basis and teaching them how to order Wendy's. Jimmy works from home and his days on the orange line are limited due to some details to be revealed later. As for D...who cares.
To be fair, D did some serious traveling this summer. We did our BC tickets again and managed to make it through one entire game. all in all, it was a good showing for 2010. I did more traveling but I won't bore you all with the details like I did with my European adventures.
Unfortunately despite the many personal triumphs, 2010 was a pretty bad year. ESPN finally showed their true colors with Lebron fiasco. I've never seen such biased journalism in my entire life, including politics. Sure, the argument can be made that ESPN's mission is to entertain via sports, rather than report on sports. If that is your argument, my counter would be, what was entertaining about the Decision? Nothing.
We all know how I feel about Brett Favre so I won't waste any time talking about it. The Red Sox have had quite the offseason and I don't understand why the same people who hate the Yankees for buying championships are so happy with the Sox. Ever since this new ownership rolled into town, they have been spending hundreds of millions and continuously having the 2nd highest payroll in MLB, second to the Yankees. Only 2 teams continuously pay MLB's luxury tax, the Red Sox and the Yankees. So yeah, the Red Sox made some big moves and it's fine to cheer for them, but can we please stop hating the Yankees? The Red Sox are exactly like the Yankees. They can pay whoever they want, when they want, and they choose to do so. Red Sox fans sound ridiculous criticizing the Yankees payroll. That being said, the Phillies may be the team to beat.
But maybe not. Halladay and Lee are awesome, dont get me wrong. however, I think Oswalt and Hamels are fairly overrated. Neither are bad pitchers and I think any team would kill to have them as a 3rd and 4th starter. I just dont think we should annoint this Philly rotation...yet. To me, the early 90's Braves are the gold standard of pitching depth because they proved it. Let's see what Philly does, but I agree that it's definitely exciting.
I just got around to seeing the new Bond movies and while I know I am a few years late, Daniel Craig is pretty awesome. Casino Royale is such a good movie. By the way, I saw the Hurt Locker too and I have to say that while it was a good movie, it was sad to know that's the best we had. I mean, of course I'm happy Avatar didnt win, but we need better movies.
So what can we expect for 2011? The unification of Boosh D and Jimmy under the same roof would be a start. Probably more drunk nights in Southie. Justin Bieber...Sandstorm...shimmying. In that order. Since the world is going to end in 2012 presumably, I need not remind you how important it is to live 2011 up.
Well, I just wanted to let you all know that droppintreats is back, Boosh is back,
WE'RE ALL BACK MANG
-- Boosh
I'm still taking suggestions for my 2011 adventures. I have some ideas but I'm always open to others.
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