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My blog entries are private from here on out since I'm now an educator who is trying to get a job. I will try to write more frequently, because I always have an opinion with something to say about everything, but I rarely express it anymore publicly. If you like you can propose topics to blog about. Improv blogging at its finest!
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Aaron Empsall

I Have Seen the Elephant

I'm not voting for Palin-McCain.

I Love Movies that Others Hate!

I've realized that when it comes to movies or even music for that matter, my taste is so broad that it really is hard to get a grasp on for the average person, so often people will assume I will hate something that I ended up loving.

I like silly movies like recently She's The Man, The Marine, and Roll Bounce for example.

There are so many movies from the 80's and 90's that I love that so many despise or assume they will despise, I just think it is funny. I like bad movies. Anyone else out there want to join the club?

Moving on, Here are some of the movies that I can just watch over and over and over again. If there were 50 movies that meant the most to me for some reason or another. These movies are it, and definitely in the Aaron Scooter Hall of Fame:( In random order)

Back to the Future Trilogy
The Karate Kid
Boyz N the Hood
National Lampoon Vacation
Coming To America
Ghostbusters
The Godfather I and II
High Noon
The Green Mile
Kill Bill I and II
The Last Dragon
The Monster Squad
Office Space
On the Waterfront
Boogie Nights
Pulp Fiction
Taxi Driver
There's Something About Mary
Tommy Boy
True Romance
Wayne's World
Do The Right Thing
Glory
Goodfellas
The Goonies
Gremlins
Halloween
Happy Gilmore
The Lost Boys
Oldboy
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Predator
Rebel Without A Cause
Rudy
The Shawshank Redemption
Stand By Me
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Anchorman
Backdraft
The Good, Bad, and the Ugly
Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas
Punch Drunk Love
Magnolia
Star Wars
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Super Size Me

These are not my Top 50 movies just ones that have had a huge impact on my life!

Halloween(2007)

The pre-requiste for this review: I love Halloween(1978). It was one of the first horror movies that I really loved. It was the movie that changed my mind towards the genre. I used to be real closeminded to the idea that the horror movie could be an art form, but Halloween changed me for life, and I became an instant sponge for everything horror. Thank You, John Carpenter.
Fast forward to 2007****Woooooooosh***********
I saw Rob Zombie's Halloween opening night with Josh Scooter. I didn't like House of a Thousand Corpses when I saw it, so I had none for The Devil's Rejects, and it turned out to be one of the best movies in the "terrifying" genre that I have ever seen, which leads to high expectations for Rob Zombie, but low expectations in how they can improve on the original. My philosophy was if they can make it as good as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes then I'll be satisfied, and not like The Fog remake.
The beginning of the movie seemed like it went on and on and on, perhaps a little too much, and I read on Aint It Cool that it reminded them of the Patton Oswalt joke about George Lucas and his Star Wars backstory, which I thought was hilarious. The little Michael Myers was creepy in a Dakota Fanning way. It was an interesting take overall, but probably too much.
Once the movie catches up to the original story, it kind of rushes through it, and it changes the story up quite a bit, the acting isn't as solid as the original cast, but typical of today's "teen casting", which means up and down, good moments, horrible moments. It pretty much doesn't know if it wants to homage the 1978 version or blow it up and destroy it. Zombie comes up with some mixture of it that many are split on. I loved seeing Sid Haig in this, and didn't love Malcom McDowell as Dr. Loomis. I read that McDowell never saw the original so he wanted to come at this completely original, well perhaps, he should have just watched the damn orignal and put on a proper Dr. Loomis performance.

All in All: I actually really liked it, which is a little surprising since most hardcore fans kinda Hated it. I didn't go Patton Oswalt and go with theory of I don't F'ing care about Michael Myers as a little boy. I actually enjoyed seeing the evolving monster, but I kinda wanted more but done in a tidier way. The change in the ending was "neat" but I worry that many only want these new satisfying endings. I really prefer the original ending, but it would be ridiculous to say I wouldn't.

If you are a horror fan who can leave your Halloween bias at the door, you'll like this, so check it out!

Blades of Glory

Well, I finally saw it.. However, I don't know what to think of it now. It's a somewhat humorous movie with lots of gags and pratfalls that Will Ferrell and his ever growing "Comedic Frat Pack" have become known for. Jon Heder is same old, same old Jon Heder that I think everyone over 14 is sick of. I don't mean to insult 14 year olds there either. Will Arnett plays Gob Bluth as the evil figure skating antagonist who is paired with his real life wife, Amy Poehler. Jenna Fischer plays the orphan Annie like little sister of the evil figure skating couple(Arnett, Poehler). The highlight is Will Ferrell. His over the top portrayal of Chazz Michaels was worth the watch if you are a Ferrell fan, which I am. Nick Swardson plays his typical kooky oddball character, this time he is a stalker of Heder's character, Jimmy MacElroy. I love when Swardson's Hector character tells Jimmy that he is going to wear his skin or something like that. Those moments are what I was waiting for. All in All- It was a silly comedy, and one of Ferrell's worst movies, but still watchable for Ferrell fans.