Jacob’s Blog

I’m not sure what I think about all these “The” movies. I think they should come out with a movie called, “The Blogger” or “The Insomniac.”

The Prestige was one of those movies which tries to keep you in the dark about some fact only to reveal it to you in the end. Of course, I’m not going to tell you what it is, but it is a little better than, “Oh, the aliens don’t like water.” I figured some of their secrets out a little early, which either makes me think that they were too obvious or that I’m still missing something.

Overall, the movie was interesting, but it did some of that time jumping that I thought was overly excessive and confusing. It was so bad that I’m still not exactly sure the order of some of the events.

Two thematic elements of the movie are secrets and obsessions which I’m concluding are both bad.

This movie is not scary, not overly exciting during parts, but makes you think a little bit. Watch it with friends because you will probably want to talk about it when you are done. A movie to see, but I wouldn’t recommend haste to see it. I can’t remember any musical score, which probably means that it wasn’t exceptional. It is PG-13, probably because there is hatred and death in the movie.

Last night I finally saw Superman Returns with some friends (who happen to be some really cute girls). I really liked it. The musical score was very well done. The casting was good, in fact, really much better than I thought it would be. The suspense was pretty good, but I didn’t exactly find myself biting my nails. Some of the parts were kind of predictable. For example, someone falls off the building… of course Superman is going to fly in and catch him just before he hits the ground.

The movie did a good job at explaining some of the Superman fundamentals, such as kryptonite, but left some other subjects as to why Superman is called Kal-El and who is Jor-El less discussed. It made me wonder if they were trying to tune the movie to those who had never seen anything Superman before, or those who have grown up with Superman.

The dialog was entertaining, especially some of Lex Luthor’s lines. However, “I forgot how warm you are,” made me want to gag.

Overall, it was a good movie. I don’t know if I will go out and spend $20 bucks to buy the DVD, but I’m likely to want to rent it and watch it again.

I got a package of baja california starbursts, and the blue ones definately aren’t my favorites.

Bottled in Orem Utah, Howie’s Premium Root Beer is some of the best root beer that you can drink from a 2 liter bottle. Root beer is one of my favorite beverages, and I’ve tried many brands, so don’t take it lightly when I saw that Howie’s Root Beer is great. It is smooth, creamy, with the frosted mug type of taste. It is especially great with icecream to make root beer floats.

This article about Cyberduck, a file transfer program for OS X moved here.

I attended tonight’s basketball game where BYU overcame Wyoming 80-67. It was an exciting game, but with its own frustrations.
Continue reading BYU over Wyoming…

I recently viewed the film, The Brothers Grimm, and I was pretty disappointed. I felt that this movie had so much potential, but completely failed at being a great and entertaining film. The basic story was good. Many of the actors were good, except for maybe that one guy who was maybe suppose to be italian, and the special effects were ok. But there was so much of the movie that just plain didn’t make sense. The continuity of the movie was aweful, and I felt like there was too much that wasn’t introduced, such as some of the characters.

Although the movie was pretty bad, I did have a chance to see some of it a second time, and it was better the second time. However, it is too bad that you have to watch it once first in order to be able to see it the second time.

Even the second time through the movie, the friend that I was watching it with continuously asked me questions about who was who and what was going on, and I really couldn’t answer her at all.

I don’t recommend this movie, unless you really want something that doesn’t make complete sense. If you do see it, you might consider doing some research about the actual Jacob Grimm first.