Riker Retaliates

Hey there, Silent War Fans! Riker has another plan to kill David. Does it work? Well, in the chapter I have for you fine people, it goes a lot better than all his previous attempts. What does that mean? You'll see.

Horror Movies on Netflix

So, a few days ago, I was looking at Netflix to find something scary. It was Halloween, my roomates were both out and I wanted the crap scared out of me. The problem is, there were so many movies in the Horror section and I had neither seen nor heard about most none of them. I finally settled on a movie called Bitten. I didn't even watch a full hour of it.

So, please, fellow Netflix users, does Netflix have any good horror besides The Thing on its on-demand service? That is actually scary?

Wednesday: The First Break

Today is the first of the every-other-week schedule. I realize I have to talk about something. But what? Hmmm.....

Monday Question: Why do Politicians Need to Fight?

If you have been paying attention to the recent political shitstorm, I mean, the 2012 Election, you'll have noticed that politicians have gone from trying to be stately gentlemen to wild animals and boxers intent on getting as many crotch shots as possible.

More and more politicians, it seems like (me and my fellow Democrats included) seem to be wanting to get into office by claiming "they won't compromise." I'm sorry, but won't that just cause more problems? Won't that just make the Congressional approval ratings just slide further down the tube?

Honestly, those aren't the important question. The important question is why are they like this in the first place? I know the answer has to do with us, we're the ones who voted them in. But still: what have we told our candidates that would make them think treating debates like boxing matches is acceptable?

So, last week was not this blog's best. Sorry about that. However, there is some very big news today. I have come to the end of all the pre-writen Silent Wars stuff, so I've decided to move to releasing content every other week. I really want to do well on this one so I'm going to take care to keep quality up.

In other news, check out Rock of Ages. I admit, its a juke box musical, but there's a reason for that: it is celebrating the 80's. It's not artistic or pretentious and its got an energy that few films can match. Also, if you want to see some famous actors sing and don't want to spend a hundred bucks on a movie ticket, check it out. Right now.

I admit, the beginning isn't as strong as the end, and the songs at the start (like many other musicals) have the tendency to come out of nowhere, but the movie makes up for it by having every single song being awesome. That's right, there isn't a single song that sucks accidentally. (For songs sucking on purpose, see Undercover Love.  You can tell why the band that plays it gets forcibly removed from the stage.)

In short, if you want to see

1. Really good song and dance numbers
2. Fun (if not award-winning) acting
3. Something that makes you feel nostalgic for 80's rock
4. Tom Cruise act crazy
5. Tom Cruise without a shirt
6. Catherine Zeta-Jones singing
7. Strippers

then this is the movie for you. Buy it and the soundtrack.

The Silent Wars: Local Color #6

Summary of new Silent Wars: Local Color: Blake shares some his childhood secrets and David Gould goes shopping!

You know what? This is the first time I've mentioned Blake in my summary. The truth is that Blake is just as important to the story as David. Maybe more, as he's more relatable. After all, which is more common: an 18-year-old with a baseball scholarship who dreams of pitching for the Red Sox, or a 15-year-old who is able to... well, do what David does. As a hint to who I think is more relatable, Blake is based on a person I know.

State of The Blog #18

I have been editing for the past few weeks. While I should be putting more time into it, I find I am having trouble with getting things done in all aspects in my life. I haven't finished Borderlands, I haven't been getting that much done with math, and my attempts to do math things get in the way of everything else. Isn't college fun?

That being said, I think my writing quality has improved. Maybe not that much, but fixing mistakes can only help, right?

Silent Wars #5

Where last we left off, our anti-hero David Gould had broke into the headquarters of the mercenaries known as Rottweiler. After stealing a sweet ride from Rottweiler's leader, Riker, David heads off towards Chicago.

When we pick up this week, Riker has come back from a joyride. His discovery of the damage done by David, this already unstable mercenary goes off the deep end. Riker takes all his combat staff and leads them on a manhunt for the elusive David, never mind law enforcement. He also is beginning to prove the second biggest hazard to himself and his men after David.

How to stop bad movies: A Cry For Help

So, yesterday I watched a certain movie directed by a certain director who makes money by trolling fans of a certain medium. I really do not want to mention names here, not to protect this man, but to protect you, dear reader.

Yes, this director's movies are that bad.

The movie was one of the few times (perhaps the only one) where the director didn't take a beloved existing franchise and twist it into something terrible. It was about someone very similar to that psycho guy who shot up a theater of people watching The Dark Knight Rises, except this main character was fictional and killed more people on his little spree. While I won't tell you the name of the film, I will tell you that the only reason I didn't stop watching this travesty of a movie was because a) I thought the main character would die and b) I would enjoy watching the main character dying.

None of this happened. It was then I realized that this director makes his money by trolling people. I have to admit that his strategy is brilliant. If I identify him and his movies, then people will want to watch his movies just to see if they're as bad as I say they are. Then he makes money. Seriously, that is how the director works, and it is a genius strategy. Any one of his movies are guaranteed to get views. This person, if I am honest, is a genius.

So, how do I tell the world what I think of this person and the movies this person has made without generating views, and not being a complete dick about it? I mean, what if this director wasn't trolling his audience? I'd honestly kind of feel bad if he actually was bent on doing good.