Divergent

DIVERGENT

      When you think of the definition of the word "DIVERGENT," you should think of this movie. The meaning of the word (for those who don't know) is, "Tending to be different of develop in different directions." Now if you have seen the movie or read the books then you should already know that this is very true for Tris and Four.  The very definition of the word really does make since for the this movie.  It has action, drama, and romance.  All of which I love in my choice of movies.  Although this may be backwards, after seeing this movie, I'm definitely intrigued enough to want to read the trilogy.  I can't wait for the second part to this movie.

      To have some kind of injection that would tell you what kind of life you will lead is one that I'm most people would want.  However, to know that you are different from everyone else and having the option to choose your own destiny, seems like a pretty sweet deal.  Not having to worry about disappointing your family is the only thing that may hold you back from what you truly feel in your heart.  For many of us, we know what we should do (or at least what our parents what us or wish we would do), but we choose to follow our hearts instead.  In the end, we have to do what is best for us.

      Divergent was definitely a great movie and worth every dime.  I give Divergent a 4 stars.  This is a movie worth adding to my collection.  Til next time folks...............................................

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Rap music just isn't the same anymore

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      I'm back!!!!!  Today we are going to change things up a little bit.  Instead of movies, let's talk about how horrible rap music today really sucks.  If you are having the old school rap music blues, I'm right there with you.  What happened to the way music used to be.  Now a days you rap about anything and get signed.  Right now, the only rappers that didn't change much (lets be honest, you have to grow up sometime) is Luda and Busta.  I mean sure they've changed, but for the better (in my own opinion).  This Wiz guy, I mean the best song he did (in my opinion) was Black and Yellow. Then you got some dude named Waka Flocka, who?  I'm sure no one is REALLY paying these guys any attention.  Think about it.  It's the beats that these guys have that has everyone screaming, "Man this track is Hot!"  If they were really listening, I'm sure they would agree that this is garbage.  

      These guys out here rapping now are nothing like the legends that have made their marks.  They can't bring people together to enjoy their music.  You say you like this crap they're spitting these days?  Who's your favorite artist, and what is your favorite line?  Can you even name your favorite line?  Even those we once enjoyed is falling off.  Kanye West new album (I sampled it) doesn't even seem like him anymore.  My favorite line from one of his songs is, "Do anybody spit real sh-- anymore?" If someone was to ask me that question, I would have to answer no.  What happened to old school West and Jay?  Missing B.I.G and Pac right now.  NWA, Ice Cube, old school Luda and Busta, I mean the list just keeps growing.  Even old school Dr. Dre and Snoop.  What happened to rap?  Where did it truly go?  You can't even turn on the radio without hearing this "new school" rap.  Did they forget who put rap on the map? I talking about Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane, Queen Latifah, De La Soul, Mc Lyte, Kool G Rap, Kurtis Blow, and many many more.  They were the ones who started this. I mean yes you have your blues, R&B, jazz, country, so on and so on, but these legends changed the way we listen to music.  Rap has been changing year after year.  It went from good, to bad, to better, and now WTF.  I think a lot of these artist need to go back to the booth, put on their headphones, listen to what made rap the way it was, and start over.  The ones that lost their way need go back and listen to what made them hot and do it again.  I don't know what happen, but I know they can keep what ever it is they are calling the mess.  I'm better off without the radio and their so called rap music.

Well, that's all I have to say about that right now.  If you think I'm wrong (even though this is just my opinion) then leave a comment, tell me who you think I should listen to, or pick a song you think I should listen to.  If you can do that, I can listen and then I will post what I think.  Til next time folks.........

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Jack Reacher

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      When you are an army man (or woman) and you have been in trouble before, innocent or not the next time around, Jack Reacher will find you.  This movie had "some" action but over all a very well put together movie.  Reacher is not a man you can find, he finds you if he needs to. 

 

      A young man accused of random killings was arrested and when he was questioned at the station, he didn't ask for a lawyer, he asked for Jack Reacher.  Although he did have a lawyer, all she wanted to do was keep him off death row.  This young man was accused once before for the same reason, however the government let it go because of the type of men he killed.  Now I don't want to give too much away, this is a movie worth seeing. 

 

      Jack didn't care about anything but the facts and in his eyes, the facts shows that no matter what, the young was guilty.  The asked Jack to look closely at the scene of the crime and compare it to the evidence.  Once  he did, things got a little crazy.  Jack was attacked many times, however, that didn't stop him.  In the end, Jack Reacher found out the truth and realized that the young man was innocent.  Jack no longer had a reason to stay so he disappeared again.

 

      Like I said, this is a movie worth seeing.  I give this movie a 4 1/2 stars.  Tom Cruise always gives his best in every movie he is in and he is a great actor.  Well, till next time folks........

 

 

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The Croods

 

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      Here is a movie where things do go bump in the night, well, kind of.  The Croods are a family of six and as you can see, cavemen.  The world is changing and it doesn't look good for them.  The Croods appear to be the last of their kind until a young man named Guy meets Eep.  Grug didn't like Guy and he didn't like change.  Grug is the super protective type so making sure his family was taken care of was always number one. 

 

      Guy wasn't afraid of change and knew how to survive.  In fact, the only thing Guy was afraid of for a while were the Croods.  Soon everyone warmed up to one another and the only thing left to do was keep moving.  The Earth itself was changing and homes and families were being destroyed.  Although the Croods managed to survive, Guy's family wasn't so lucky.  Once they found a safer place to call home, the family of six became a family of seven.

 

      This was a pretty good family movie.  I would take the children again if I could, it was well worth the money.  I know it doesn't seem as if the movie was any good, but this is one of those that you have to go see it yourself.  I give the this movie 4 1/2 stars, it made me laugh a lot.  Well, that's it all for now folks, till next time...........

 

 

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Fast and Furious 6

 

 

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      Despite the fact that I am super late with this post, there are no words to discribe how SWEET this movie was.  We all know just how much I love my action movies.  Well, this is one of those great action movies.  When you see this movie, you can tell that making this movie cost Hollywood a lot of money.  All those cars getting smashed and crashed, but it was worth it.

 

      The action doesn't start til Agent Hobbs pays Dominic Toretto a visit asking for his help.  Knowing that Dom wasn't going to just offer his help, agent Hobbs gives him a reason to say yes by telling him that Letty is still alive with a pic to show as proof.  Not taking any chances, Dom shows Brian O'Conner and his wife (Dom's sister) Mia, the possility that Letty is alive.  However Dom doesn't want O'Conner to help just in case things go south.  Mia doesn't care, if Letty is alive, she is family and everyone should help her get home. 

 

      All hands on deck now.  Everyone is called to help, Roman, Han, Gisele, and Tej.  Agreeing to help agent Hobbs in finding Shaw, things got a little messy.  Shaw was always 5 steps ahead of them because he had someone on inside.  However, the team wasn't aware of that issue til later on.  Dom has known Letty for years and knows everything about her, right down to the kind of cars she likes and how she drives.  In the middle of chasing Shaw, Dom comes face to face to a familar skill of driving and decides to follow it and soon found out for himself that Letty was very much alive, but she had no memory of him or her pasted life.

 

      In the end, Letty realizes that Shaw never cared about her and that he was using her to get what he really wanted.  Shaw orders Letty to get on top of the tank to release the car that is slowing them down.  Once on top, the car that hanging off the tank get caught and Letty goes flying in the air and so does Dom in an attempt to save her not knowing that they would survive the fall.  At this point, Shaw is captured and everyone just wants to go home, or is he......

 

      Shaw manages to find a way out of custody and tries to go catch a plane out of the country.  However, before he does, he reveals his little helper officer Riley, the young lady that has been helping agent Hobbs the whole time.  During the plane scene,  we find out just how much Han loves Gisele and how much she loves him back.  The team loses Gisele and leaves Han feeling very hurt.  Even though Letty has no memory of Dom, she was afraid that she had lost him as well.  Hobbs thanked everyone for their help and asked what they wanted, Dom's response was, in short to return back home. 

 

      For those of you who stayed after the credits rolled and for those who didn't, they did a flash back to Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift.  This flash back was when Han was being chased by someone else and crashed and died.  Well, we find out who it was chasing him.  Although we don't have the characters' name yet, the actor in this scene is no one other than Jason Statham himself.  When you think about most of the roles he has played, this fits him perfectly.  I give this action packed movie a well deserved 5 stars.  For those wondering if this is it, the answer is no, there is talk of at least 3 more in the making.   Till next time folks.......

 

 

 

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Tyler Perry's Temptation

 

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      Here is a movie that needs to be talked about.  If there is one thing Tyler Perry does well, it's movies and plays like this one.  He has this thing with life lessons and turns them into good movies, sometimes they're funny and sometimes they're not.  Temptation is one of those movies I think a lot of women and men should see because the plot is something many people have gone through or is going through it.

 

      In this movie you have a young woman who married her high school sweet heart and was happy, until she met another man through her job.  She got her degree in counseling, but was working for a "dating" service as the interviewer.  When the company she works for decides to merge with a social network company, things get a little messy. 

 

      The CEO of this social network begins to work very closely with the young woman.  He starts to tell her how he would treat her, where he would take her, what he would buy her, and how different and better and how spontaneous the sex would be.  Told her how pretty she was.  Questioned her marriage and made her believe that there is something better than what she has.  Unfortunately, it all worked out in his favor.

 

      On the other hand, there is a woman who is running from a man that beat her on a regular.  Not that I don't blame her for running away, she good reasons to.  However, she didn't run far enough.  Before I forget to mention, the guy she is running from is the same guy running the social network company.  This woman finds a job with the young woman's husband and neither of them have a clue that they are talking about the same man, that is until she decides to tell him she has HIV.

 

      Needless to say, in the end the young woman and the CEO start arguing.  The young woman gets beat up so badly that after her wounds healed, she was never the same and was HIV positive too.  Although she lost her husband, they remained good friends.  She did become a marriage counselor, but she didn't have her own practice like she wanted.

 

      In the end people, don't let anyone come into your happy home and take everything away from you and your family.  Just because you made a mistake and you realize that you made that mistake, that doesn't mean that your number one person will always be there to pick you up and still stay with you.  I give this movie 4 stars.  It was a really good movie, the only complaint I have is that is was too predictable.  I love the plays and movies Tyler Perry does because almost everybody can relate to them.  Well folks, that's all for now.  Til next time.............

 

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IRON MAN 3

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      Lights, camera, action.  The best part of this movie was the action.  I've said it before and I will say it again, I love action based movies.  Moving forward, this was one of the best out of all three (in my opinion).  The only thing I didn't like about it was the fact that it didn't have nearly as much action as Iron Man 2.  I have to say though, when the house starts to come down, due to some rockets from the helicopter, I really like the way Stark made sure Pepper was safe and then she saved him.

 

      If you notice, in every hero based movie that has a sequel, they always remember their mistakes and it always comes back to haunt them.  The day Iron Man became who he is was day all his problems started.  In this movie, Iron Man has anxiety attacks which came from his help of saving the world in Avengers.  After dealing with that, he realized the most important person he should have been keeping safe the whole time.  That's a good thing, right?  For most men, they don't figure that out til it's too late......lol.

 

In the end, Iron man finds out who the real man behind the crimes are and once again saves the day and saves Ms. Pepper.  He also decided to get help for himself.  Now, before end this, there was word that Robert was no longer going to play as Iron Man after this movie.  I'm not sure how much of this is true, however, at the end of the movie, Stark says Iron Man will be back.  Also, if you are a true Marvel fan like myself and my family, then you know that at the very end of the movie there is always some form of short clip, so if you go and see it, be sure to stay after the credits roll.  I give Iron Man 5 stars.  I mean sure, it could have used a little more action, but lets not over do it.  Til next time folks........

 

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Next up, Temptation, Croods, and John Reacher.  Movie madness time.