The New Set of Films To Look Forward To

Well...not only films.

In light of Comic Con recently, I decided to post about upcoming films and junk.

So these are a few films and shows that I'm really looking forward to.

1. Tron Legacy, Thanks to both Joe Chong and the new Tron trailer. I love futuristic night club action.
2. Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder has done right by me and I trust him by now. Plus, I love attractive young women and guns. I know. I'm disgusting. I AM MAN!!!
3. The Walking Dead, This one is actually a show... ABOUT ZOMBIES!!! 'nuff said. *edit* No. Not 'nuff said, I just watched the trailer and I have to admit, the trailer is pretty terrible. Let's just hope the show does so much better.
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, ye, I put up a trailer for this film up a while ago. and yes, I'm into this kind of stuff.
5. Priest, Some of you may be surprised that I would look forward to this particular Vampire vs. Holymen film, but I ask of you, "is it really that shocking?" I mean, I did mention that I am a sucker for religiously themed junk. Or did I? I don't know. Anywho, if you weren't surprised or shocked, then you should get to know me a bit better. Shame on you.
6. Red, I love John Malkovich, I love Bruce Willis, I love Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman (But they don't deserve their own spot, they have to share), and I love assassins. I hate Mary-Louise Parker but this is a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

Things I Am Not Looking Forward To, Though Perhaps I Should Be:

YES, This is an extra treat for those of you have read this far. An extra list. These are things that I think I should look forward to, but for some strange reason, I am not.

1. Let Me In

Why I Should Like It: I loved the original Swedish film, Let the Right One in, and it has my beloved Chloe Moretz in it. Not to mention it was directed by the same guy who directed Cloverfield, which I kind of liked.

Why I Don't: I despise "translated" remakes of great films. "Translated" remakes are films that are remade like right after the original was made. If someone remakes it in like 50 years, I'm pretty sure I'll have no qualms about it.

2. Iron Sky

Why I Should Like It: Nazis. Everywhere. Even on the moon. Yes, you read it correctly, the film is about Nazis who went to the moon for a strategic retreat during the closing of World War the Second. Now, they are back, and I don't really care what happens much after that.

Why I Don't: Because I DO care what happens much after that. I know that they'll eventually just die due to heroics of Nazi-haters everywhere. As films have taught us over and over again, the only point of putting Nazis in a film, is to kill them all violently. :-(

3. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Ok, before I go into things, I know I need to explain, why this film is on any list even remotely close to me, especially since I've expressed my utter disgust at the ending of the first film, and the entirety of the other films, in the same franchise. However, I've included it for two reasons. I hope you are understanding.

Why I Kind-of Should...umm...Like It?: The trailer, unlike the horrid The Walking Dead trailer, was pretty fascinating. I liked Jack Sparrow, much like everyone else in the world, in the first film. Then, he said, "zombies", that word alone, almost got me completely hooked, and I almost put it in the list of films that I am looking forward to. Then, I quickly came to and shoved it on this list for several reasons.

Why I Definitely Don't (Just to defend my manhood): I am extremely tired of Jack Sparrow and how he is. His behavior now seems a bit forced, it feels like Johnny Depp is tired of doing Jack Sparrow and I just don't like his personality in general. I know, this maybe working against my manhood, but whatever, I give up. I also remembered that ultimately, this was a Disney movie. And whatever attempt at zombies, that Disney is going to make, I'm pretty sure it'll end up in utter failure. Don't get me wrong, I think the zombies might look awesome, I will give the Disney design team that much credit. However, the personalities of the zombies, (yes, I just used personality again, and yes, I just ascribed personalities to zombies) will be utter rubbish. I wouldn't even be surprised if they'll be weird vegetarian zombies or something.

4. Drive Angry

Why I Should Like It: In order to understand this, you first need to grasp that I love Nicolas Cage. Don't ask me to explain I just do.

Why I Don't: As painful as it is, it just seems kind of boring.

5. The Expendables

Why I Should Like It: I am a man. And it is in the running against Eat, Pray, Love, which surprisingly I don't like, despite the word "pray" shoved in there. It also has every action star known to man in it plus some more to boot. It has china kung fu man, Jet Li. It even has a freakin wrestler in it, Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Why I Don't: They just chose the wrong man to play the villain. When I see a villain, I want to tremble in my chucks and just jump up and down clinging onto a metal bar like a monkey. I want my skin to tingle EVERY time he opens his mouth. Gary Oldman (Ivan Korshunov of Air Force One, Norman Stansfield of Leon The Professional), Alan Rickman (Hans Gruber of Die Hard), John Travolta (Castor Troy of Face Off), Nicolas Cage (Castor Troy of Face Off), Javier Bardem (Anton Chigurh or Crazy Guy of No Country For Old Men), Hugo Weaving (Mr. Smith of The Matrix), even Arnold Freakin Schwarzeneggar (The Terminator of The Terminator).

You need a man of at least this caliber to fight off against every action hero known to man. Not David Zayas (Angel Batista or incredibly adorable Cuban popo fellow of Dexter). Ugh, the casting choice they made makes me angry. I need a villain who kind of makes you question who's gonna win. Not ANGEL Bastista. HIS NAME IS ANGEL!!! THE NICEST THING I COULD POSSIBLY THINK OF! argh!!!

Well that was two sets of things that were on my mind. It went a bit longer than I thought it would but whatever.

Morning Devotionals with Scottish Song

So imagine this.

I'm sitting on my "bed" in my garage. I am singing, not reading, singing Job chapter 1 for the first time ever in a Scottish accent and a catchy tune bobbing up and down in my short shorts.

Then I come across this verse:

(paraphrased) And after Job's sons and daughters partied, Job would consecrate them. Job rose early in the morning and offered burnt offering for them all. For Job said, "It may be that my children sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.

This immediately shut me up and I just laid down to contemplate what it is that I just read.

A little background: I do not want children of my own flesh and blood. I would adopt a thousand kids, but I really do not want to have a child come from me and my DNA. The reasoning behind this is pretty unbiblical so don't judge me, but it is because I have a very negative view on humanity and children. I personally feel like, I am a pretty decent person. I'm a pretty decent Christian and pretty kind human being in general. And EVEN though I am this kind Christian, I know EVERYTHING that I have EVER done and thought and I know, that I am a disgusting, evil, unholy creature.

Now, if I am this awful subhuman creature, I know that within my own DNA, I have the ability to clone an exact replica of myself or possibly even worst, and my son would be that result. So I have no hope for my son, because I know what he'll do, and what he'll be capable of doing.

Ok, so this is where this passage fits in. IT IS NOT ABOUT ME!!! NO ONE SINS AGAINST ME WHEN THEY DO EVIL! THEY SIN AGAINST GOD!!!!! Job realized this. The first paragraph taught me how holy Job really was. I mean, I heard stories of how holy he was, but this is the first time I kind of caught a glimpse of Job's goodness.

And now, focusing on a God who created this "holy" man, if we sin not against the "holy" man, but against the HOLY GOD, then every time we sin, we are curb stomping Jesus Christ on a curb covered in feces and dog guts. Is the imagery too harsh? Because it's not. I use this imagery in order to lighten it. This imagery is a euphemism for what we really do to Christ when we sin. Because Jesus has gone through so much more for us to be "Christians".

Back to me and my fear of having children. Job's actions in the passage really showed me that my fear of my children sinning against me and making me sad and making me depressed was really a worthless concern. My concern should be that my children will sin against God and make Him sad and make Him depressed. I was worried about a parasitic bacterial speck when instead, I should have been worrying about an infinite and eternal God of all creation and the furthest reaches of the universe. Even in symbolic comparisons, I cannot really compare God to anything less than He is. It just doesn't seem right.

I love you all.

Today I Applied To Blogotheque

By the suggestion of one, Brian Han, I applied to a website. Blogotheque. :-D

I hope they hire me on the shear idiocy of my application process.

An Interesting Fact From Chinese News

My friend, Rui Guo, slept over today and in the morning he has a tendency to watch the Chinese news in the morning.

In today's news, they showed the one phrase you can say to your boyfriend or husband that'll wake them up immediately:

"I read your text messages."

hahaha. It showed the boyfriends immediately wake up and reach for their phones. One guy even said, "Did you see the pictures?!"

hahahahaha.

Oh, crazy Chinese news people and cheating boyfriends.

An Observation Regarding Humpty Dumpty

I've noticed that it never states that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.

I wonder where we got THAT preposterous idea.

The Devil

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn't exist." - Verbal Kint

Freakin Keyser Soze.

A Dulux "Colour the World" Commercial

Samuel Chung Quote of the Day

Samuel: There is Bakugan movie! (google it)

Me: Really?!

Samuel: Yeah! But it's boring.

Me: Oh.

Samuel: But I like boring stuff!

World Cup 2010: After Korea's Lost

I really do not care much who wins at this point, but there are four teams that I REALLY wanted to see lose.

• Brazil
• Argentina
• Uruguay
• Spain

I just wanted to see Brazil get off their high horse, which Netherlands executed beautifully.

I wanted to see Maradona The Hand of God cry because he was a pretty bad coach carried by a team of beautiful players.

Uruguay is just revenge for South Korea and Ghana, though both South Korea AND Ghana deserved their defeats. But revenge does not necessarily have to make sense. REVENGE!!!

And I just want to see Spain lose because I feel like their too arrogant. Actually it might be because Brian Han likes them so much. I just want to see Brian angry. By tomorrow, you will see either Richard The-Emperor Chung or Brian Han very angry. Avoid one and flock to the other depending on the outcome of that game.

Godspeed Germany! Complete my list!

My Brother Samuel

Lately, I've been getting profound thoughts whenever I play with my brother. I was thinking back to when he was a fragile baby who I almost killed in the shower (ask me in person), to when he was a slightly bigger boy who could barely talk, to now, when he can communicate pretty well. He wants to be an artist and he is the most adorable thing I've ever seen in my life. I would sacrifice my life for this child. Easily.

However, the more I see him and how cute he is, and how much he's changed so far, now he only has like 3 or 4 or so more years to go before he turns big, then a couple more until his voice gets deep, then a couple more after that until he becomes utterly uncute. I tell Samuel whenever we're together, "I will miss you Samuel." Then in his curiosity, he asks, "What do you mean? Are you going somewhere?" to which I reply, "No, I'll be here forever but you will change. You will not be you anymore." At this point, he both loses interest and stops caring about what I say anymore and goes back to his toys.

I'm wondering why I felt these things and why I said to Sam what I said. I think it was my subconscious admittance of the evanescent nature of life. Life changes. Everything changes. All good things change. For better or for worse. Now, I am aware of how depressing this post sounds. But, that's the point. For me, and a bunch of other folk who are like me, there is a far greater hope than all the good things the world can offer. Things don't change there. Good things don't end. It's pretty spiffy. :-D HOPE ON!

ZEF side!