choke

I just finished reading the novel 'Choke' by Chuck Palahniuk, he's the guy that wrote the book fight club.
I liked the book so I give it five out of five stars.

This is an interesting website that looks like it was set up by the book publisher for this book.

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/palahniuk/index2.html

This website gives some background and a short summary of the book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choke_(novel)

the departed

On Monday I watched the movie 'the departed'.
I really liked it.
It was about the state police in the boston area working on a case to take down the Irish mob in boston.
The police get Leonardo di Caprio's character to infiltrate the Irish mob but at the same time the Irish mob have Matt Daemon's character infiltrating the police.
Also, near the end of the movie we find out that the police had one more person on the inside with the mob and also the mob had another police officer working for them.
Most of the main characters including di Caprio and Daemon end up waking up dead near the end of the movie.
I would suggest that you rent it.
I rented it from netflix and on tomorrow or friday I should receive the second dvd of the movie so I will rate this movie later on this week.
I'm assuming that the second dvd has a bunch of extras and maybe even a second version of the movie so I am looking forward to seeing the second dvd.
This is a link that is related to the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Departed
The last name of the irish mob boss is Costello which to me would indicate that he is probably Italian, but in this movie there is bad blood between the Italians and the Irish, and the Irish mob boss (who is played by Jack Nicholson) has no trouble showing his dislike for the Italians.
4-2-2009
I just finished watching the second dvd of the movie 'the departed' and I am giving the set four and a half stars out of five.
The second dvd basically had almost two hours of extras in it but a majority of those two hours was actually a film or movie with the director, Martin Scorcese, talking about and showing clips of all of his movies up to that point.
The rest of the extras involved stuff related to the movie and they were entertaining, I liked them.
But the film with scorcese talking about his previous films, it was called scorceses on scorcese, wasn't really related to the movie the departed...I would of rather of seen some enterviews with the cast about their experience on the movie.
Don't get me wrong, the part scorcese on scorcese was entertaining but I did feel that it was too long and at times boring (and I think I also found his personality to be at least a little annoying), but it just didn't belong on this dvd and I think I've viewed it before when it was attached to another movie or something and I think it was released a couple of years ago as a stand alone dvd.
So I would of given the dvd's of the movie 'the departed' a full five stars but the extra 'scorcese on scorcese' was too long and it didn't belong on this dvd because it doesn't fit with the movie, and I think it was released a couple of years ago as a stand alone dvd.

crowley

Last week I rented the movie Crowley from netflix.
The movie is about this cult leader from the 1920's that dies and then is brought back some time later by some sort of computer program.
I rented the movie because the preview of it that I saw indicated that there was a lot of sex in it.
It actually turned out to be not that bad of a story as well.
The extras that were included on the dvd weren't that bad either so I give the dvd a four out of five stars.
This link is about the man this movie was based on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley
After I watched the movie I was surprised to discover that Aleister Crowley actually existed.
This link is about the movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Wedding_(film)
In the UK the movie was released as 'chemical wedding'.

Rise: Blood Hunter

I watched the movie 'Rise: Blood hunter' last night on netflix.com.
I liked it, but I don't think it was the most amazing movie I have ever watched.
I give the movie three and a half stars out of five stars.
It was a vampire movie and it had some nudity in it so usually that means its worth watching.
This is a link to a good summary of the movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise:_Blood_Hunter

Crash

I just watched the dvd 'Crash' that I rented from netflix.com.
I give the dvd, as a whole, three and a half stars out of five stars.
I liked the movie enough to recommend that you watch it if you haven't already but I did not like it enough to want to watch it again or to go out and buy the dvd.
The dvd included a behind the scenes video that was kind of interesting, but it wasn't enough to give a dvd a higher rating.
If you want a summary of the movie I'm going to include some links below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(2004_film)

Dead Like Me: Life after death.

3-17-09 Earlier today I watched the movie of the tv show called 'Dead Like Me'.
The movie of the tv show is called 'Dead Like Me: Life after death.'
The show and the movie are about a group of people that become grim reapers.
After these people die they're chosen to do god's dirty work by collecting the souls of the person that is about to die and then after the person dies the grim reaper shows the soul the way to the light.
The movie itself is like an extended version of the tv show and I think it also picked up where the last tv show left off but it also ended in a way to where the tv show its self could eventually pick back up.
I give the movie five stars out of five.
I really recommend that you watch the television show episodes of this movie before you watch the movie.
***3-18-09 I think I really jumped the gun by giving this movie a five out of five because when I realized that they made another episode of my favorite show, you know 'dead like me', I got really excited.
So I think I let my emotions get in the way of giving this movie an honest rating.
I rewatched the last episode of the tv show and I think I'm going to have re-evaluate my previous rating of the movie.
I now give the movie three and a half stars out of five stars.
I would strongly suggest that you watch the television episodes instead of the movie.

YPF

I just finished watching the movie, 'YPF' which I rented from netflix.com.
The title is short for young people fucking and the movie is about what you would think it is.
Its the story of four different couples having sex over one night, but its a comedy, not a porn movie.
I really liked the movie, I was entertained by it and I thought it was funny.
The acting was good and believable and the plot was believable.
But I'm a little disappointed with the dvd as whole, there was only one extra which was the trailer for the movie.
If there was more to the dvd then i would of rated it higher.
I give the dvd YPF four out of five stars.