As I've talked to people online, I've found it odd that I've heard so many people say that 2010 was one of the worst years for movies in recent memory. However, to me, 2010 was probably the best year for movies. Normally, I go to the theaters maybe once or twice a year, three times tops. But this year, not only do I have enough movies to fill a Top 10 list (which will be coming soon) but I also have a list of notable movies that I missed out on. You see, I'm not a professional critic, no matter how much I'd like to be one. Can you imagine complaining about crap you hate...and actually getting PAID for it? But no, I have to spend my own money, of which I don't have much, and therefore I have to be much more judicious in what I see. In some cases, it works out in my favor. As much as I'd like to see how bad The Last Airbender really was for myself, I don't want to actually waste money on it. But in other cases, there are movies that I genuinely want to see but missed out on just because I didn't want to see them badly enough or was just plain broke.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Sarcasmatron's 2010 In Music: The Top 10 (Part 2 - #5-#1)
Hey guys, surprisingly enough, I haven't died. I figured I'd give you a bit of an update of what I've been doing the past month or so that I haven't updated Sarcasmatron before charging right back into finishing up the Top 10. Basically, all I've been doing is laying in bed and puking my guts out. I'm not 100% sure what I got but it was basically the flu. Although I never had a fever or anything like that, I pretty much alternated between puking and having dizzying headaches and that was enough to lay me out for a good couple weeks. I didn't go to work (though I tried a few times and would start throwing up within an hour or two) and I didn't have the strength to do anything but lay in bed. And believe me, when you don't have the strength to freakin' sit in front of a computer and update a blog, you know it's bad. I tend to avoid care due to my lack of insurance and my general distrust of doctors, especially since I usually only get sick for a day or two at a time. But after a few weeks, I finally had to suck it up and get some blood work done at the ghetto cheap-ass clinic near my apartment that deals primarily with methadone addiction. The blood work didn't show much, basically that I had an infection but nothing serious enough to go to the hospital, or even require medicine. There was a little red flag raised at the Billirubin levels in my liver but if there was anything wrong with my liver, there would have been 5 or 6 other things that would've come up. So basically I just had to wait it out. And once I finally started feeling good enough to go to work and do things again, we got totally butt-blasted with snow last week. We were supposed to get a blizzard and people were already calling it Snowpocalypse 2011 but while we got a shit-ton of snow, I was a bit disappointed. Nevertheless, it was still enough for me to seclude my paranoid-driving self and stay in bed.
It sucks because for the past month or so, I've literally done nothing but lay in bed and watch movies. Save for watching the Royal Rumble a couple weeks ago with a friend (which ended up being pretty awesome BTW), I haven't seen my friends in all this time. I've been meaning to join up in some of their gaming sessions again but I'm still pretty disinterested and all this laying in bed doing nothing somehow hasn't given me any good character ideas. Except for the times I've gone to work, it feels like I've been cut off from civilization. Hell, I didn't even go to work today, not because I'm not feeling good but because business has been really slow and despite me being out for the past few weeks and getting backed up on some work, there's really no reason for me to be there right now. So I'm going to be scraping by in the money department, which will in turn cause me to stay secluded in my apartment even more. I haven't even played any video games since I don't want to be a dick and take my roommates' XBox 360 into my room. I've been meaning to do another playthrough of Fable III since I went straight through the story the first time and did little to no side missions. And I'm still not all that far into Fallout New Vegas either.
So instead, I've been watching a ton of movies. I thought about doing a Random Movie Roundup but with all the stuff I've watched over the course of this past month, but there's so much that I'm not even going to bother. First off, I went through Netflix and started watching a ton of TV shows, finishing off all the available episodes of Mythbusters I haven't seen yet. I moved onto American Pickers but I couldn't watch a whole season of two guys driving through the Midwest in a van going through piles of old people's crap without feeling wholly depressed about the situation. So then I watched the Robocop trilogy, which then resulted in me going into an 80's movie kick with stuff like Escape From New York, The Running Man and Howard The Duck. Then that turned into 80's wrestling where I watched a bunch of Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage matches. Then I got tired of watching movies so I listened to a bunch of commentaries. That way, I could lay in bed and just listen instead of wearing myself out with the act of actually having my eyes open and paying attention to plot. And that brings me up to the current point, where I just finished going through Seasons 1-3 of The Venture Bros. backwards (meaning from Season 3 down to 1) with commentary, which then urged me to find and watch Season 4.5 that I missed at the end of last year. The whole thing reminded me that The Venture Bros. is indeed the best show on television today. Sorry, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Though I will say that Always Sunny is the best live-action show with Community running a close second. Beyond that, I still don't watch much TV so I can't really comment on anything else
Anyway, enough with my rambling, it's time to finish up this Top 10. Forgive me if the remaining list seems a bit rushed. Honestly, I just want to get this done. Who the hell does Best of 2010 articles in February? And since I still have to go through my list of movies, it could be going on into March at this rate.
It sucks because for the past month or so, I've literally done nothing but lay in bed and watch movies. Save for watching the Royal Rumble a couple weeks ago with a friend (which ended up being pretty awesome BTW), I haven't seen my friends in all this time. I've been meaning to join up in some of their gaming sessions again but I'm still pretty disinterested and all this laying in bed doing nothing somehow hasn't given me any good character ideas. Except for the times I've gone to work, it feels like I've been cut off from civilization. Hell, I didn't even go to work today, not because I'm not feeling good but because business has been really slow and despite me being out for the past few weeks and getting backed up on some work, there's really no reason for me to be there right now. So I'm going to be scraping by in the money department, which will in turn cause me to stay secluded in my apartment even more. I haven't even played any video games since I don't want to be a dick and take my roommates' XBox 360 into my room. I've been meaning to do another playthrough of Fable III since I went straight through the story the first time and did little to no side missions. And I'm still not all that far into Fallout New Vegas either.
So instead, I've been watching a ton of movies. I thought about doing a Random Movie Roundup but with all the stuff I've watched over the course of this past month, but there's so much that I'm not even going to bother. First off, I went through Netflix and started watching a ton of TV shows, finishing off all the available episodes of Mythbusters I haven't seen yet. I moved onto American Pickers but I couldn't watch a whole season of two guys driving through the Midwest in a van going through piles of old people's crap without feeling wholly depressed about the situation. So then I watched the Robocop trilogy, which then resulted in me going into an 80's movie kick with stuff like Escape From New York, The Running Man and Howard The Duck. Then that turned into 80's wrestling where I watched a bunch of Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage matches. Then I got tired of watching movies so I listened to a bunch of commentaries. That way, I could lay in bed and just listen instead of wearing myself out with the act of actually having my eyes open and paying attention to plot. And that brings me up to the current point, where I just finished going through Seasons 1-3 of The Venture Bros. backwards (meaning from Season 3 down to 1) with commentary, which then urged me to find and watch Season 4.5 that I missed at the end of last year. The whole thing reminded me that The Venture Bros. is indeed the best show on television today. Sorry, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Though I will say that Always Sunny is the best live-action show with Community running a close second. Beyond that, I still don't watch much TV so I can't really comment on anything else
Anyway, enough with my rambling, it's time to finish up this Top 10. Forgive me if the remaining list seems a bit rushed. Honestly, I just want to get this done. Who the hell does Best of 2010 articles in February? And since I still have to go through my list of movies, it could be going on into March at this rate.
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