19 Things I've Learned

1. How to use Google Analitics
2. How to use Google Adsense
3. Creating Widgets on Webs.com
4. Creating a Webs.com Website
5. Creating Webs.com Pages
6. Using a Counter on Pages
7. How to create a blogger.
8. Adding widgets to my blog.
9. Creating blog posts.
10. Creating Hyperlinks.
11. Using Cafepress.
12. How to create an Ebook
13. Setting up a ClickBank Account.
14. Using Click Bank.
15. How to properly promote items.
16. Creating a Landing Page.
17. Adding amazon products to my page to make money.
18. Generating Traffic.
19. Setting up a PayPal Account

Un-Watchable

So after my review of whatever it is that is called Chillerama I got to thinking about other movies that I had to turn off because I couldn’t watch them anymore. I am not talking about movies like the Human Centipede II, which is probably my least favorite movie I have never watched. I am not talking about the kinds of movies that are created for the soul purpose of gore, or gross outs. There are whole genres of movies I will never watch because I don’t believe they have any redeeming qualities. Shock is the lowest form of entertainment, it is why I refuse to watch Hostel, A Serbian Film, or Human Centipede. I tend to think more about movies that I will never watch again because for some reason they struck a nerve. There is an Australian movie called Wolf Creek, it has pretty good reviews, and from what I remember was actually a pretty well made movie, and aired at both Cannes and Sundance. I watched it one afternoon in a friends dorm room, as we usually did a couple times a week, but for some reason I have never felt so much dread in my whole life. I guess I have to give the movie credit for that, setting the story in the desolate Australian outback, just gave of an aire of no hope at all. We ended up turning the movie off well before it was over because of how we felt, I never plan on rewatching but I will recommend it. It’s pretty cool to me that movies can actually make someone feel real emotions about things.

The Avengers

Man o man I cannot wait for the summer blockbusters to be in full swing, but easily the first thing that will set the stage for this summer is The Avengers! Seems like we cant get enough of Joss Weedon this summer, Cabin in the Woods is already one of the best reviewed movies of the year, and early reviews of The Avengers seems that he could have struck gold twice. The Avengers is Marvel Studios culmination of well received Comic Book Movies. In my opinion the first Iron Man took the title of best Comic Book Movie away from SpiderMan 2, but quickly lost it to The Dark Night. It doesn’t matter because Robert Downey Jr.’s portrale of the billionaire Tony Stark is fantastic. Iron Man 2 may not have been as good as the first it still set up perfectly for this movie. Captain America, the first avenger, was probably my second favorite, I loved the movie, because who doesn’t like seeing a wimp go to supersoldier and beat up Nazis. The Avengers of course is rounded out by the Hulk, whom I expect to be wowed by because I have never been that big of fan, Thor who I kind of feel the same way about, Black Widow, and Jerimey Renner playing Hawk Eye, which I honestly cant wait for, as I am a huge Renner fan. The movies leading up to this have sort of made it an event, and I am totally okay with it. After Iron Man came out and Samuel L Jackson showed up after the credits talking about the Avengers Initiative, every film since had a reference to the next movie, and placed these heros into eachothers movie, creating one solid universe. I really hope that this movie does well because I would love to see an intricate movie universe that goes as deep as the comic universe. Hey a kid can dream cant I.

Prometheus

There is so much internet buzz about Promethius, and as with most things before they are released I am trying to do my best to avoid any possible spoilers. This includes me not actually seeing an actual trailer for the movie, but I have to put my trust in ridley scott. The only things that I actually have seen are the grand set pieces that are reminiscent of Alien. What I do know is that Promethius is set in the same universe as Alien, one of my favorite movies. Ridley Scott is returning to the director’s chair for this sequal? Prequel? Whatever it is I cannot wait. Promethius supposedly will not have the famous alien or its face huggers, but I am very okay with that, especially after seeing one of their viral marketing for the movie, featuring one of my favorite rising stars Michael Fassbender. Fassbender will play a human like robot named David. His demeanor and speech are so close but there is still a distance. The way he stresses some words, is definitely causing some distress. Watch the video below to get a better understanding of what I mean. This summer is going to be a great one, with Avengers, Spiderman, and the Dark Knight Rises, but I really think that the one I am most excited for has to be Promethous. I think there is something more mysterious, about it, I really hope that it lives up to the hype. I hope that they don’t just remake alien, but I definitely feel like that they are smarter than that. It’s been a few years since I have been this excited about a Science Fiction space movie, I think the last was Moon which was beautiful. I have complete faith that this movie will be one of the best of the year.

Cabin in the Woods

So Cabin in the Woods, I guess I have very little left to say on the matter, but really quick on the blog I wanted to post a picture of the white board that the puppetmasters place their bets on. It is easily one of the best parts of the movies, and gets all your nerd juices running. It is just an easy list of some cliché horror movie monsters but its so good none the less. The horror classics are there: werewolf, alien, zombies, whitches, clowns, demons, snake, mummy, and vampire. But seeing it all at once is just enough to go wild. The board includes nods to other movies like the “angry molesting tree” a total nod to Evil Dead and also Deadites, which is what the zombie like demons in Evil Dead are called, which shows how much respect Weedon has for Sam Rami and the whole seriese itself. The Hell Lord is a nod to Hell Raiser. The next groups areother stapeles of horror lore reanimated, jack o lantern, scarecrows, wreatihs, the doctords, sasquatch. And finally the ones that get the most laughs from the crowd: not just witches but “sexy witches”, a Unicorn which doesn’t seem terrifying, but when it spears a random person later on the laugh is one of the best in the movie. DragonBat is a personal favorite of mine, as well as the terrifying merman. Also, never rule out Kevin. The whole movie gets my undying respect and love, I just wanted to point out one of the best things that is easy to miss if you only see once.

Stuck In a Rut

After writing about famous directors that got their start in the genre it made me think harder about the ones who never were able to shake off the stigma of being a writer or director of horror. The person I think about the most is George A Romero, the creator and director of Night of the Living Dead. He was so promising as I have stated before Dawn of the Dead is one of the best not just zombie films but horror films in general. The way that it statires mall culture, and consumerism in America was outstanding. He singlehandedly created the modern day zombie, but from there what else was there. Night of the Living Dead, Dawn and Day of the Dead, Crazies, Martin, and Creepshow are all horror classics, but what else was there. He will forever be known as one of the greats of independent cinema. But after 1988’s Monkey Shines there is little else to him. Hollywood started remaking all the first two movies he did, and poorly I might add, but this lead to the zombie boom of the last ten years. Romero, it seemed would be back on top, the grandfather of the zombie, however all the movies he made were terrible. Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead and Survival of the dead were all critically panned, even by fans of the genre. It is a shame that Romero couldn’t ever get away from the world of zombies.

Stigma #2

There are of course directors that absolutely transend this mold. Hitchcock is absolutely renowned as one of the greatest directors of all time and Pycho will almost always be noted as one of the best “horror” films, with Norman Baits always being known as one of the best “horror” villians. The Brids and Rear Window are also notable as being inbetween the horror and thriller categories. Peter Jackson won an academy award for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, but will always be beloved by the entire film community not because of the Lord of the Rings or Hobbit series, but because of his first two movies, cult favorites Dead/Alive and XXXX , two low budget gorefests filmed in his native New Zeland. David Cronenburg comes to mind. Sam Rami of Spiderman fame directed The Evil Dead seriese and Army of Darkeness, two of the largest cult films that are loved by many. Ridley Scott is another great director. Alien is one of the scariest movies ever made, and it is wonderfully shot and clostrophobic that it always is on the list of greatest movies of all time. He went on to direct Blade Runner, and Gladiator. Even giant James Cameron who directed the two most profitable movie of all time Titanic and Avatar directed Aliens. Rosemary’s Baby which is one of the creepiest, and most loved movies of all tme was directed by the controvercial Roman Polanski. The movie itself transends horror s does Stanley Kubrik’s The Shining. What is it about these two movies especially that people will take as far as not even calling them horror. What is the stigma? Why do we perpetuate this.