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My New Employment with Encom!

Yesterday I came home and this was in the mail! I was very excited and decided whatever it was, deserved to be blogged about. So i took a few pictures to chronicle my first experience with an ARG!!


Inside the package was an Encom badge (with Group 7 Clearance). It is super freaking cool looking!


So i threw the badge in my scanner, so that i could get a clean image of that barcode to the right of my picture from 1982.


As my picture was scanning, i downloaded a barcode reader app on my iPhone. The barcode on the Encom badge sent me to this link! Damn i love technology!! Looks like i need to charge my phone.


I input the site listed in the barcode. I don't know the last time i actually typed out http://www, but i didn't want to screw this up. I logged in to the site using my Badge ID as well as my super secret FlynnLives.Com password.


Once i was in, this page was displayed.

This was the most interesting part of the main page. I wish i was going to Wondercon. On the main page there was nothing to click on, with the exception of my email inbox which is located on the upper right hand side of the page!



This is my inbox, which displayed the five emails i had received. Here they are in order.

This must be in reference to a pre St. Patrick's Day party. Who has a party on a Sunday?


Screw this "stick in the mud". I want my Tagalongs!


You will have to come grab them out of my cold dead hands!


Uh Oh! I think that the Flynn Lives supporters need to be more subtle.

And Finally....


This got me pretty freaking giddy!!

I will keep you updated on future events, such as these.

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What is Rich Fields Doing Now?

GETTING THE PARTY STARTED

Shitty DVD Cover of the Week - Alessandra Celletti Paraphenrnalia

Big Brother Amazon

Amazon must be following my weekly searches, because i had received an email today from them that was littered with Shitty DVDs.

BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!

What is Rich Fields Doing Now?

SINGING GOOD VIBRATIONS

TRON Legacy: The Teaser Trailer

I haven't really posted a lot of TRON news up on this site, but anyone following me on Facebook knows that i am incredibly fired up for the sequel. For a while now, people have been able to look at the VFX CONCEPT TEST done for the film.

This past weekend i went and saw Alice in Wonderland (review to come?), but more importantly i saw the new trailer for TRON Legacy. Although it is just a teaser, it still shows a lot from the world of TRON and i am incredibly excited. I have a feeling that it wont live up to the hype that i am setting myself up for, but i also feel that it wont diminish the 1982 film. It looks like TRON and the music by Daft Punk is great. It is shaping up to be a cool looking movie!



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Shitty DVD Cover of the Week - Boys of Summerville

Tomorrow Never Dies

Tomorrow Never Dies may be my favorite of the Brosnan films, even though i dislike all of the characters and the story. I wish that i could take the best moments of the Brosnan era and mix up the characters and story element to make one big average movie.

My excitement for Tomorrow Never Dies starts at the very beginning of the film. That's right, the famous James Bond 007 Gunbarrel Sequence. It is only like 15 second long, but is always the highlight of going to see any Bond movie in the theater. It is the film's way of saying, what you are about to watch is set in the history of the franchise. Since Goldeneye was the first 007 film i saw in the theater, you can imagine my delight hearing David Arnold's music played at the beginning as opposed to Eric Serra. David Arnold took elements of John Barry's orchestrations of the James Bond theme and did his own Gun Barrel motif. Hearing an actual orchestra play something that sounded like classic Barry was so refreshing. An i knew that this time around they were going to do things right, if not better.

The movie on the whole isn't very good. Go figure, but i do like that there isn't a ton of CG. There are some great sequences and all of the action scenes are well done, with the exception of the motorcycle chase, which feels slow and awkward. The movie also suffers from a huge lag in the third act. Not that the first two acts are fast paced, but it gets starts to get way overbearing. It doesn't help that Jonathan Price puts in a horrible performance as the main villain, Elliot Carver. On top of the shitty villain, you have two of my least favorite bond girls of all time, Michelle Yeoh and Teri Hatcher. I do not like either of them in this movie and the new characters are what usually make or break a bond film. At this point, we have already seen 007 in seventeen adventures, so a lot of the entertainment value lies in the supporting cast, which was just heinous.

Judi Dench returns in the role of "M" and once again talks about her balls. Why would they have two back to back Dench Testicle jokes? It's baffling.

Over all the movie is just so-so. So considering that this is my favorite of the Brosnan films, really shows you what you are in for on the next two outings.

Tomorrow Never Dies, although has an incredibly slick look, great action and an amazing score by David Arnold, is still forgettable and boring.

★ ★ ½

What is Rich Fields Doing Now?

EATING LUNCH

This Brings Me Joy.

Shitty DVD Cover of the Week - Broadway's Leading Ladies

Cop Out - Review

This past weekend i caught the new Kevin Smith directed buddy cop movie, Cop Out. As you all probably know by now, Kevin Smith did not write the film, but was hired on to direct it only. I have seen every Kevin Smith film, and every one since Chasing Amy in a theater.

I consider myself a fan of Smith, but i am not as enthusiastic about his films as much as when i was in high school. It seems as i have been maturing, Kevin Smith hasn't. His films have looked better over the years, but not by much. When i go into a Kevin Smith film i usually go into it with lower expectation. For a guy who i have been following for as many years as i have, you would think that my expectations would rise. There is something about Kevin Smith's films, that will always feel like an indie film from the 90's.

As soon as Cop Out started i could tell it was a Kevin Smith movie. A generic establishing shot, silent, with a shitty font is interrupted by some outdated song that is way too obviously trying to convey a message. In this case, it is a shot of what i assume was Brooklyn because after the the awkward pause and shitty font "No Sleep til Brooklyn" began to play. It is almost Smith's calling card, to let you know to take the movie lightly, because he is just that one guy who started as a clerk in a New Jersey convenience store. It was only ten seconds into the movie and i was already preparing for the worse.

Once i got through the first scene, in which Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis interrogated a perp, i was reminded that i actually can relax and enjoy Kevin Smith's newest movie. Of course that shitty font from before was blown up real big to reveal the title of the movie. Jesus dude, what is up with the shitty font? This is Kevin's Smith's most slick looking film, yet that font looks so fucking cheap! Why don't some movies just use the font from the posters? It's always baffled me.

After a couple minutes being frustrated with that font, i started to get back into the movie. As i said, the movie looked really slick. For a budget of $30 million, i thought he put together a really good looking film. I think that DP Dave Klein did a great job. He is to be commended for giving the movie some life.

Another key factor into making this movie really enjoyable was Harold Faltermeyer. Some of you might know Faltermeyer's work from such films as Fletch, Beverly Hills Cop and The Running Man. All of those movies, from the 80's, used nothing but synths in their scores and Cop Out does the same. The score, mixed with Smith's directing style, really make this movie have the feel and pace of an 80's buddy cop film, which is something i really enjoyed.

The story of Cop Out is really tough to convey in a short amount of time, but the real reason someone goes to see this movie is to watch the antics of Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis. I have to tell you, every time these two were on screen together it was an incredible pleasure to watch. There are a few scenes where they are not together and it's just not that great. My only gripe with the characters Jimmy Monroe and Paul Hodges is that they were not up to "those wacky antics" throughout the entire movie. They are not the crazy cops that i was hoping for. Their methods are not as insane as you would think. It's not that the characters are straying from the comedy aspect of the story, it's just that the commercials lead me astray of who these two guys were. Tracy Morgan is funny as is Bruce Willis, i just hoped that the movie was "straight-laced cop and insane cop".

One of the highlights of the film was definitely Sean William Scott! Sean William Scott's Dave character is an annoying drugged out psychopath, who could have been way too annoying. I admire Kevin Smith for showing restraint on this character in particular. If there was too much of Dave, it would have killed everything. Another highlight was "the other cops" Hunsaker and Mangold. The two cops that are in direct competition to Hodges and Monroe was brilliantly played by Adam Brody and Kevin Pollack.

One misstep as far as characters goes, was Kevin Smith's use of bad guy "Po Boy". The character was all over the map and off-putting at times. The character should have either been all the way goofy, or all the way intimidating. I definitely blame this misstep on Smith. I wish he could have figured out this character more fully before committing it to screen.

My last gripe with this film is Kevin Smith's editing. I understand why Kevin Smith would want to edit all his movies, but this has always been my problem with Smith's films. You can tell by watching it, what scenes Smith loves. A lot of times, his scenes play out like a dvd director's cut, which always translates into poor pacing issues. I really wish that Smith would hire a professional editor to work with so that Smith could please the audience and not just himself. I just chalked up the weird pacing to "It's just like an 80's movie".

Other than the weird pacing issues and shitty font, me and Stevi found ourselves really enjoying the film, a lot! I had a blast watching these two guys interact. I would even go as far as saying i would love to see a sequel. Even though i am still a Kevin Smith fan, i would love to see someone different direct the sequel. If Kevin Smith showed some restraint in the editing room and less restraint on making Tracy Morgan stick to the script, this film could have been really amazing! As it stands it's just a good, entertaining movie.

All in all, i was really surprised about how much i liked Cop Out and would love to see a sequel that pushes the boundaries of the vulgar buddy cop action comedy.

★ ★ ★ ½