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Saturday, May 9, 2009

Well like most of my previous blog posts this one has had a few months for me to sit and think about. I think that what has stood out the most will be the butchering of Marvel, My disappointment in the Sharks, my excitement for Alex Ovechkin, my overall thoughts of the NHL playoffs, my hockey league, NHL 2k9, some thoughts about school, and some things people do that piss me off. Now before I get to typing/ you get to reading I realize now how much I wish I was recording this, it seems easier not only to do but to really say it how I feel it should be said but oh well. Now I'm starting with the wolverine movie I'll do my best not to have extreme spoilers but just in case I'll have the first word of the next topic in bold. The movie was decent at best. It started off pretty good and was climbing to beat my low expectations of what this movie would be but at about half way it got bad, I mean real bad and it was getting worse as the movie went on. We'll put that thought to the side and go with what I thought was good with this steaming pile of a film. Really surprising was the casting in the movie, I'm a real stickler for keeping cast members from the series but the change with Sabertooth was good, the role wasn't the best but the acting was much better. Ryan Reynolds was this biggest shocker with how well he played Deadpool, er Wade Wilson, He delivered he few lines that he had with that Deadpool feel, he gave a different way to how the merc with a mouth, remember this, looked like. Will I Am did a good job as John Wraith, and Kevin Durand was an excellent Blob and someone I wouldn't mind seeing as the Blob in another movie. In general the idea was good, lets face directors wont follow the comic or book to the same exact thing, and the first half was good even with its small inconsistencies with the comic but it was stuff I could live with. Now to my thought of how bad this movie was. How is Maverick a blond haired blue eyed German an Asian dude? Never mind that he didn't have his wicked awesome powers but I mean he only thing that could have been more of would be if he were brown. Gambit was mediocre at best, his saving grace was his limited time on screen so the actor couldn't destroy him completely. Now back to the merc with a mouth one of my favorite marvel characters, the wise crackin', smart mouthed Deadpool was turned into a mouth less every power abomination. Then back to the plot, the inconsistencies went up it took a nose dive, and then they tried to pull a scene where Wolverine doesn't think he's Canadian. Now here's something I found ironic about the whole X-Men movie series, Hugh Jackman is Australian, in an 80's X-Men cartoon, I don't know if it was the pilot to the 90's X-Men show or if it was a one time deal, the voice actor for Wolvie was Australian, in the 90's cartoon I forget what episode it was but in the middle of all the hacking and slashing Wolverine yelled I aint Australian. The Sharks where do I begin with how much they suck or how high they got my hopes up. Lets start with the second one. This regular season the Sharks did what all the NHL media said they wouldn't do and that was win the presidents trophy for best record in the league, beat the Bruins, and play one of the bes if not the best game of the regular season against Detroit in the second home game against Detroit. Going into the post season the sharks get the Ducks who just squeaked in The games that the sharks were in they looked dead the only life I saw was in Jumbo Joe Thornton who shot when he could, drew penalties, and beat the crap out of getzlav, Dan Boyle was the only player that seemed to score at all in the series, Torrey Mitchell showed jump and oomph but he had missed all the regular season and was probably trying to protect his contract, and Jeremy Roenick was playing the hardest I've seen him play in a few months, because lets face it this may be JR's last playoff run. The biggest let downs were Erhoff, excuse me Airall, I should get his name right, the name says it all, Captain Patrick Marleau who's regular season silenced he critics of he cant play with just under 40 goals, I think 39, but came up flat in the post season, Mike Grier, sorry buddy you went down too late in the season to have come back and you showed it by not skating, shooting, or being defensive, and the biggest disappointment was the refs calling a goalie interference on one of the Sharks hat wasn't anywhere near the net, and then don't call goalie interference when the Sharks goalie is getting pummeled right in front of them, and my favorite of all he non calls was the second best diving cry baby to Sidney Crosbaby, Corey Perry, dove then had a scissor hold on Airall's for over a minute, now all I wanted to know was where were the calls. So moving along congrats to the Blue Jackets for making their first playoff run, but its tough when you get swept in the first round by the wings a team they owned in the regular season. Congrats to AO almost scoring at will on the Pens who after his hat trick went to the media and had Crosbaby cry that Ovie has an illegal stick, and all that for AO to say oh well its not so what can I do. And I also called this round, the NHL is getting what it wants with the Caps and Pens in a play off round. Moving to my final thought I want the Cup final to be the Caps and Wings. School is moving along but I'm just joking around now until I can get to next semester, I'm still doing the work and getting good grades its just it so boring. The most boring class I have is my weather class, I know that global warming is a problem and all but they need to stop the BS and tell it straight, I mean how can one source say the this is a pollutant help global warming but another will say the its not a pollutant., and my favorite one I've heard was that were going to clear the pollution by blasting more pollution into the atmosphere. In the same class we had an online assignment about An Inconvenient Truth and had to write what the biggest threat was I said " The biggest threat from global warming to humans is Man-Bear-Pig, half man, half bear, and half pig. He is the biggest threat because he will hunt you down and kill you for no reason I am super cereal." If you got the reference were best friend and if you didn't well I don't know what to tell ya, it's a joke but if you did get it awesome. Realizing I went slightly out of order I think I'll backtrack and talk some what about my hockey league. I play center/wing, I've dominated in the face off circles only losing a few times a game, until recently I've scored goals in all my games including my first hat trick in one of them, I have a few assists, and the coolest thing is that the members of my team asked me to comeback and play for them in the next season. In my hockey game NHL 2k9 I finally have a franchise that hasn't frozen up yet, I have it with no CPU trades, and no injuries, I had to do this because I tried a few combos to get a some what realist season but all froze just before the trade deadline, I mean my Wings gone, Hurricane gone, first Sharks gone, Bolts gone, Caps gone. My current franchise is the Sharks with Jumbo Joe, AO, Draper(claimed off waivers), JR, Dan Boyle, Mike Green, and Nabby even though he cant seem to make a save to save his life. Yes I hacked and slashed the Sharks roster but I don't feel bad because of how pissed off they made me during the post season. Ok this is already long so I'm going to save the things people do that piss me off for my next post because I'll give it time to simmer and it will be good.

And boom goes the dynamite. Deadpool wins

Posted by gambit89, 11:16am
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Tuesday, Dec 23, 2008

I know its not much but im back on from my last few weeks of finals and school work, which finished today woot. really not much has happened, just studying and i got a firsthand look into a fire ball. yes on the 13th of december the coolest thing thats happened that hasnt been hockey or school related was i got to see what a fireball looks like in your face, so i decided to have a mid december bbq at about 9 PST. I turn on the gas of the grill and hit the button to ignite it nothing, i do it again and see the spark on the outside not the inside, i try to shove it in and i get shocked, so about four minutes have gone by and im holding the button them boom the gathered gas went and i was in the cloud. it was awsome when the fire went out i had to pat my eyebrows and hair to shake out the singed parts, oh it just looked like fire througout my feild of view. my only hockey update is that i have the spin move down. and thats my boring life, but now im on break so lets go have some fun oh and happy hollidays

go sharks

Posted by gambit89, 12:08am
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I know its not much but im back on from my last few weeks of finals and school work, which finished today woot. really not much has happened, just studying and i got a firsthand look into a fire ball. yes on the 13th of december the coolest thing thats happened that hasnt been hockey or school related was i got to see what a fireball looks like in your face, so i decided to have a mid december bbq at about 9 PST. I turn on the gas of the grill and hit the button to ignite it nothing, i do it again and see the spark on the outside not the inside, i try to shove it in and i get shocked, so about four minutes have gone by and im holding the button them boom the gathered gas went and i was in the cloud. it was awsome when the fire went out i had to pat my eyebrows and hair to shake out the singed parts, oh it just looked like fire througout my feild of view. my only hockey update is that i have the spin move down. and thats my boring life, but now im on break so lets go have some fun oh and happy hollidays

go sharks

Posted by gambit89, 12:08am
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