Secret Pirates Ending

If you went to see Pirates of the Caribbean 3 already, and didn't stay for the after credits ending please read on, if not you may just want to go see the movie yourself before you read it. Below you will the secret ending worth sticking around for.

-SPOILER-
"Ten Years Later," appears on the screen, as a young boy around 10 years of age is seen singing "Hoist the Colours" as Elizabeth is walking with him. It is understood that this is the child of Will and Elizabeth. The sun then sets, followed by a green flash. Will then appears on the mast of The Dutchman, sailing towards the shore.

Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Review: One HELL of a movie

This month may have been one of the most dynamic, action-packed, expensive movie month in the history of film making. The tri-fecta of third installments is sadly over. It started off with a poor excuse for Spider-man 3, got a good boost from Shrek 3, and I was swept out of the water with the eye-dazzling Pirates 3. I did my best to stay away from other reviews before venturing into the high seas of the Caribbean this time. It payed off much better than I could have even hoped for.

Pirates of the Caribbean is a franchise that will be around for decades to come. It started off with the stunning first installment, and one of the first actual Pirate movies to be a hit since the elaborate movies of the 40s and 50s. It caught the hearts and attention of people all around the world. Based on the Disney ride, and with many inside jokes about the pirate world and the ride itself, the movie exceeded expectations to the point that they were able to announce a 2nd and 3rd installment at the same time. Now the 2nd one caught me completely off guard and I wasn't sure how to digest it. It was confusing, long, and I will admit a little boring at times. Still I stuck by my wits and claimed to all my friends it was a good movie. The reason I said this was because there had to be a reason why Disney, of all companies, would make viewers have to sit through this. It all made sense it the final or at least the 3rd one.

I am still trying to recall all the fascinating moments in the movie, the characters were played perfect, the storyline couldn't have been better, the action was definitely not what you would expect from a Disney movie, the score kept you heart beat up the whole time, and everything finally coming together in this movie was just perfect in every sense. There are numerous scenes in this movie that will make you want to go back for more. It starts off with Pirates around the world being hung, and sentenced. Then quickly shoots over to Singapore where the map of World's End is in the hand of Captain Sao Feng. The setting around him is done up in with details that makes you just wish you could pause the movie and take a virtual tour of the place. We join the main characters who were looking for Sparrow. Will Turner is having problems with Elizabeth and they haven't spoken for the whole trip. This time it seems as if everyone has there own plans in front of the loyalty of one another. The double crossing gets a little out of hand at times, and makes you want to just give up, but pay attention closely, good ol' Jack knows what he's up to.

It gets really crazy when we visit Jack is Davy Jones' Locker. There are dozens of Jacks as he hallucinates in this afterlife like state. This is probably one of my favorite parts, the weirdness of it all makes me feel like I'm in some type of Led Zeppelin/Pink Floyd world. Later on everyone meets up with Jack as they cross the into World's End. Pirates and pirates there are many in this movie, they do just the right amount of time on each character to get the point across and develop a sense of personality for each. Elizabeth comes on as beautiful as ever, Will is becoming the pirate he is destine to be, Captain Jack is at his best, and Barbossa is a good guy...maybe?

The movie really gives you an idea of just how intelligent, and famous Captain Jack Sparrow is outside of the first two movies. He is a legend not be reckon with, his father also is the oldest pirate known, played by Keith Richards. In the end it's as almost every character has some goodness left in him except Lord Beckett, and even he shows a sign of giving in to the pirates in the end. I wasn't sure why he did what he did in the end, but it sure made one hell of an awesome seen with splinters flying everywhere....you'll see. There were definitely a lot of camera angles that can be traced by to Neo in the Matrix style. With Sparrow and Jones fighting on the mast inside the maelstrom with a spinning 360 view, Lord Beckett's death walk, to Elizabeth and Turner marrying each other.

This movie is worth 20 bucks to see, and if you see it once you should see it again. The best part of it all is probably when there is the meeting before the huge battle between all the main characters. The electric guitar with the bass, and the camera spinning around them from miles away while they approach each other on the virgin sand surrounded by crystal clear sea water. That is by far one of the best scenes in any movie I have seen. The sudden twist at the end, which really makes the whole story come together is even more surprising. Although there were a few things I still don't get, that's probably because it's a little over my head, this movie was just down right amazing. I will see it again, probably today, and I will give further feedback on it. The most important message in this movie is that Pirates just can't be trusted, and that's what made the movie from the start. Sparrow used this to his advantage but also he did help everyone in the end. Elizabeth and Will finally do what we have all be waiting for, yet there is a question that I was still curious about and that is of Calypso. Maybe that question was answered after the credits, I wouldn't know because I walked out, but please stay for the whole thing. I give Pirates of the Caribbean a 5 out of 5 for a hell of a swashbuckling time.

Shrek 3 Review

3-D animation is what color movies were in the 1940s. It is still fascinating to see these creatures come to life on screen, and they quality has been getting better with each film. Shrek 3 will make your jaw drop when you see the first close up of Shrek. He looks so real with his freckles it's a little scary. What I love about the Shrek movies is that they are meant for kids, but has lots of adult humor, so adults have an excuse to sit through a cartoon. All of the Shrek movies take an extra step that crosses the boundary that Disney movies dare not to, that's why I enjoy them so much.

The 3rd movie was a little short, but for the most part I was entertain the whole time. The best thing about short movies is that there is never any down time if it is a relatively good movie. Although this movie kind of annoyed me a little bit when Shrek runs into more problems again and he gets down on himself again. I wish they would try and find something else to work the plot around then the fact of him having to overcome some impossible odds while questioning himself throughout the whole time. The best thing about this movie was Gingerbread man, Pinocchio, and Donkey of course. They steal the show around the sobbing Shrek who is always having problems that everyone else around him deals with just fine.

The movie overall is a decent one. The laughs are non-stop, the incorporation of other classic fairy tales is great, and the animation is the best I have seen so far. I wish they would make a spin-off of Gingerbread man or Pinocchio. Shrek is a cool guy and all, but I think we've all had enough with his poor misfortunes that lead him to the best of things. I give Shrek 3 a 3.7 out of 5, it was a great addition to this series, and I am looking forward to the Puss-in-boots spin-off and the supposedly next 3.

Top Alternative Songs of the Week 5/14/2007

Well the summer is here and that means time to roll down the windows, crank up the music, and enjoy the ride around town. Here are the top ten songs of the week:

Top Alternative Songs of the Week for May 14, 2007

1. Nine Inch Nails- Me, I'm Not
   
2. The Used- The Bird and the Worm
3. Modest Mouse- Fire It Up
   
4. Nine Inch Nails- Capital G
   
5. Sparta- Taking Back Control
6. Kings of Leon- Knocked Up
   
7. Chevelle- Well Enough Alone
   
8. Mika-Grace Kelly
9. Cold War Kids- Hang Me Up To Dry
10. Reggie and the Full Effect- What the Hell is Stipulation
    

Rant by Chuck Palahniuk Review

All of the sudden, I have become hooked on Palahniuk and his out of this world works. Ever since picking up Haunted two months ago I have been reading all of his books. I dropped everything the day the new book by Chuck came out on May 1st, even though I was in the middle of finals week. The book was a little different then any of his last, written in an interview type of way. The book chronicles the life of Rant Casey, by having interviews of people who were directly involved or somehow affected by him in life. The way it is done is quite genius, to write something from different perspectives keeping all the characters in mind, and then actually putting a story together with each character having different input on the main one. This book like all of Palahniuk's books has facts that relate to how the government is somehow controlling us, and plans to have absolute control over us all eventually. There are random facts throughout the books about certain civilizations that used disease or viruses to control or just wipe out people. Then there are the little weird habits of certain characters, not as much sexual in this book as you would expect, but this book sure has a boat load of actions that aren't typical in our everyday nature.

Do I dare say that Chuck is slowly approaching the status of a great author known as George Orwell with his talk about the future concerning government intervention in our everyday lives? Chuck closes the gap between imagination and reality with this novel. Maybe one day this will be classified as nonfiction, or maybe it already was nonfiction as he says in the end. If there ever was something to take away from a fiction book that seemed so far fetch, yet so possible was the idea of "boosting" as explained by Shot Dunyon, who is one of the main characters influenced by Rant Casey. The concept behind "boosting," is that humans in the future will have neural transmitters in the back of their necks. They can plug devices into them or record certain moments of their lives for future pleasure. Think of them kind of like a USB port, but they record all five senses. Matrix mixed with real life kind of thing going here. The future doesn't have books or movies, just boosting. Then the other futuristic idea was "Party Crashing," were Nighttimers drive around hitting people with their cars, of course there are certain rules that pertain to running full speed into people. What the idea is like though, is kind of like the idea in "Fight Club," putting yourself in a position of fear and pain that will make you feel euphoric for a little, possibly even reaching a sense of enlightenment.

Nighttimers and Daytimers is the gap between people. More or less like Vampires and real people. The lines are drawn to provide more of a racial separation though. On top of all this is a rabies outbreak caused by Rant Casey which attacks the whole world in a violent zombie like stage that makes people go mad. It's a shame Palahniuk didn't concentrate on this part of the book a bit more. He eventually ends the book with a cool twist on time-travel from his perspective, explaining how it is possible to live forever and become stronger by having sex with those who gave birth to you. It's way to complex for me to explain on here, but it's a neat idea for someone to think of. Then the idea of Rant being his own dad was kind of odd. I mean in the beginning of the book he hates his parents and his dad's a dick, so why would he's dad be a dick to himself. I wasn't sure of that, and how could his dad fall for the tricks he did to himself. The gold coins were also interesting, but how he exactly got them was confusing as well. There are so many things left open for the reader to explore once he reads the book.

Palahniuk puts on another terrific showing of his brilliant skills with Rant. In the end I was satisfied with the plot, although the time-travel theory was almost too much, but maybe it was just enough since I love to think of time-travel and somehow he explained the different possibilities and how it work to one's advantage if executed properly. The future always seems bleak, but as Rant put it, "The future you have tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday." I give this a 4.6 out of 5. I was completely enthralled with this book once I hit the party crashing chapters, then I hit time-travel and it blew my mind. I love how Chuck gives reasons of why things are possible if something per se like time-travel is possible. The best of authors can only convince you of the impossible, and Chuck sure does that. I just wish the ending was a little more clear, and we had some input from Rant on this oral interview besides the few lines he said before he vanished. Plus if he goes back in time again, wouldn't that cause more problems, and would that mean he would be his own grandfather? If anyone could maybe explain there different view on this book, I would like to hear it, I thoroughly enjoyed but I bet I missed a lot or at least looked at things a lot different.

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28 Weeks Later Review

This movie has all the potential to become something amazing. The on-site location of a London to shoot to the movie, lots of people, a larger budget than the last, and there aren't any big name actors in it. That said let's take a look at a movie with zombies that are jacked up on steroids. Going into this movie I expected a decent amount of gore with an alright storyline to tag along. The concept behind this movie was 28 weeks later after a huge virus broke out in England, the US government has come in to help clean up and move people slowly back into their homes. Of course there is that one damn person who becomes a carrier, and doesn't get infected by the disease.

The story starts out with a bunch of random strangers shacked up in a farm house, when a kid comes to the door to escape zombies, he brings all the havoc with him. Of the 7 people inside only 1 was thought to make it out, this was the father of the children the movie is based around. The twist occurs because the father had abandon his wife to escape in fear he might get bit. When the children come back to the city they escape to areas where they aren't allowed to go to. They find there mother, but she has been bit. The rest I'll leave to the imagination.

With a mellow, yet intense theme song representing the movie, it seems you can almost do anything and scare people. As you will see in the first 20 minutes. The movie starts out pretty damn cool, no introduction of cast members, just an all out zombie fest. I'm not sure of the technical term for the use of mixing sound, and special effects with timing of attacks by monsters, but they use it well. Sad to say they didn't use the same skill with the video editing and camera work. Whenever the zombies attack the camera goes all "Blair Witch" on the viewers, and it's quite annoying. Trust me, I understand that complete havoc is occurring and that everyone is turning on their fellow man. Yet, I don't need a headache. Some of the best parts of this movie are ruined by the camera work. There is one part were a lady is leading the children away from the US Army, and she is using a night vision scope lens on a rifle. Instead of having them follow her, we are looking through this lens for about 5 minutes as she tells them to make a left or right and all we see are the big eyes of these lost and confused children. This really hurts the appeal of the movie.

Then we have some flaws in the script. Why in the world is the army killing innocent people, when it's obvious if someone is infected or not. Why does the helicopter pilot go nuts when the one guy jumps on for help? Why didn't they use gas right away instead of bombing and destroying the whole city? Why in the world with lock down and security everywhere, weren't there people around the mother guarding intruders? How in the hell did the father become a thinker when he got the virus? Why were some soldiers just dead on the ground without having turned bad? Why did they lock the people up without protecting them in the cellar?

So many unanswered questions, make a poor excuse for a movie. This may be the end of the zombie generation of movies at least for a few decades. I hope they make a trilogy out of this, even though I just bashed it. I would love to see American forces storm the beaches of Normandy again and just complete destroy these damn zombies. Although the smart thing would be to drop the bomb, but hey, we're America when do we ever make civilized decisions?
The score is great, the setting is perfect, the acting alright, the script is pathetic. Mix it all up and shake it around, throw in some carnage and crazy scenes where zombies bang there heads against glass at a rate of 100 times a second, and you get a 3 out of 5. It's entertaining, but it will also give you a headache with all the camera angles, and loopholes.

Lullaby by Chuck Palahinuk

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk Review

The story itself is a bit odd, the focus of it is based around journalist Carl Streator who is trying to understand the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. He soon finds out it is more than he had actually hoped for. Sooner or later he realizes that he himself has a great power and is not quite sure if he is the only one. A single song that puts people to death after they hear it in the most relaxing way is what he has uncover. It can be said anywhere and affect anyone in the world if they are thought of when the poem is said. As the book starts to unravel more and more people die and he learns that there are others who also know the poem. These others, most of them parents of dead babies, have no clue that they have the power of life and death with in their household. The story starts to get pretty good when he meets up with someone else with the same power, and knows they have it, they start to travel across America eliminating each book they come across.

Throughout the novel there are two people young adults, hippies, who constantly remind Carl of how power is abused and when certain species are introduced to a new area they destroy it and repopulate it benefiting it themselves but harming the environment. This means that we as humans have taking complete control of our surroundings for our own benefit, but have destroyed it for the use of other species around us. This message is flashed on again and again. Then there is the other message of Big Brother throughout the book. If this poem gets into the hands of the wrong people or even the government it would destroy free thought, and everything would have to be handled in a different way with the government filtering out almost everything and controlling our thoughts.

During his journey across America he falls in love with Helen. Helen is in the same shoes as Carl and knows of the power, but craves for more. Her secretary who brought along her boyfriend on the trip, believe in supernatural powers, and are looking for a book that contains spells for almost everything.

Here and there you will encounter a chapter with italics in the book, weird mysteries or sitings of people doing abnormal stuff. They are using the power of this book to alter the thoughts of mankind for the better of the world, so at least they think. The book isn't a bad read, it's just a little to much. From the beginning to the end the thought of a poem that could destroy the life of another is kind of ridiculous, but Chuck as always puts on a great show with facts and history lessons from the past to back up the credibility of some characters throughout the book. The endings is the best part, it's a shame he didn't continue on for another 50-100 pages or so to conclude the books and get the bad guys. It would've made the book a perfect read, instead this fictitious book does get the idea across about Big Brother and how silly things like this could destroy a perfectly modeled society like ours. I give this a 3.7 out of 5. Probably my least favorite Palahniuk book. Although the facts and ideas raised from this book are just as good as any I have read. My favorite part is when Carl thinks that maybe you don't go to hell for what you do, but you go to hell for what you don't do in life.

Spider-Man 3 Review

When I go to the movies and watch all the eye dazzling trailers I usually forget what I am watching, sometimes even wishing that I was watching one of those movies instead. Spider-Man 3 was one of those trailers, notice how I said trailers and not movies. I went into this movie expecting the best of the best. The movie took the crown for most expensive budget ever for a movie at $258 million, and third overall when numbers are adjusted for inflation. War and Peace coming it at a surprisingly high cost at 560 million. Either way this movie had everything going for it, it could be just an average film and somehow still manage to please all the fans, because Spider-Man can do no wrong .

Now let's get to the movie. It started off alright, although the introduction was a bit longer than most movies, and everyone knows how pointless and annoying they are especially when it's like the cherry on top of the trailers, commercials, and trivia questions that appear over and over. The movie starts out with little pathetic Tobey Maguire finally happy about his life, and everything is just going fabulous. School is great, Mary Jane loves him, and well the movie takes a sudden downfall about 2 minutes into it. Kirsten Dunst is singing a duet, and Parker is lip-sync hing it in a way you might find a fool who knows the song but not the words. Things take a quick down turn when Mary Jane loses her job and starts to complain like a typical girl about her life to Peter. Did we forget how much of a bitch she was in other movies to Parker when he wasn't known as Spider-man, and her life was just amazing? I didn't. Soon enough she makes his life fall apart, and Harry the little rich boy comes after Peter for payback. It's not really anything personal, he's just a bored young man, has no women, and wants to use his power on somebody. Anyway good old Spidey is nice and saves his life, and what do you know Harry forgets what happens.

Sooner or later, like the other two Spider-Man movies, he starts to question himself. After Mary Jane does enough crying and whining you start to want to smack her yourself, and then Harry comes back again in a vicious way. Mary Jane betrays him, and makes her big move on Harry. He then gets infected with the parasite tarish stuff. He becomes an Emo douche bag, pointing fingers and walking down New York like a jackass for about 15 minutes. Then he does the most embarrassing pelvic thrust I have ever seen on the big screen. This isn't a 1 second thrust, but about a good 30 seconds of him thrusting his pelvic. Parker then tries out his new style, and starts to become Jim Carrey, NO LIE. Just like the club scene with Cameron Diaz in the Mask, Tobey breaks out in the most atrocious display of a spoof of the Mask since it came out. There is about a 10 minute scene of him dancing around, gliding on a chair down the dance floor defying gravity, and get this, he brings down the house with his moves and piano playing skills. I honestly was waiting for him to open his mouth up and say "Smokingggg."

Bring in the villains, the Sandman is a joke, how do you defeat him? Then we got Venom played by Topher Grace, and he does an alright job in human form, but in no way is he a Venom. Things only get worse from here on. Harry and Peter have it out with a bang bang score during the whole fight scene, if this wasn't the score from Friday the 13th I don't know what is. Fast-forward a little more, the final battle takes place, Harry comes to help Spider-Man who wants again is left with his mask all ripped apart at the very end of the movie. He saves the day and manages to defeat the ever powerful Venom, and say good day to Sandman. Harry finally dies, and puts his life before Peter's. Mary Jane cries again in the end, for about the 18th time.Right before it ends the classic cemetery scene takes place like the first one. The movie is concluded the way it started, with Dunst singing. Ear plugs pleaseeeeee.

The acting was the worst I have ever seen by any of these actors. Mary Jane was just downright annoying, and pointless. Tobey was over the top, and I don't even know what Franco was smoking during his part. On top of that the score had to be an inside joke or something with other composers. The action scenes were all the same. They started off intense, slowed down at times, and switched the camera angles so much you weren't sure if you were looking from the ground up, or from inside Parker's camera lens. The whole movie seem like a horrible spoof on Spider-Man, throughout the whole 2 hours and 30 minutes there was stupid, pointless scenes. This movie gets a 2 out of 5, I just hope they stop producing this series now before it turns into Star Wars 1,2,3. Just so everyone knows I give the first Spider-Man a 5 out of 5. That was one of my favorite movies, I don't hate Sam Raimi or anyone else in the series, it's just that this movie was THAT bad.

Hot Fuzz Review

From the crew who brought you Shaun of the Dead, comes another comical look at intense action with "Hot Fuzz." The expectations were high going into this, and it was like an ice cream cone with a little treat at the very bottom that makes you finish it. This movie, although a little annoying at some parts, with the camera close-ups and the sound effects for certain parts to spoof those action movies, was enjoyable. These guys can make something that is suppose to be joke, and turn it into a rather serious concept. The brutal killings that happen around town are quite graphic for a comedy. The whole time as we wonder what exactly is going on there is that confusion that you would normally not get in a real action movie. The two main characters Sergent Angel and Danny played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost put on another good performance. They compliment each other just as good as peanut butter and jelly, for without one of them, neither part is funny.

The movie is rather dull at some parts, especially in the middle, and it makes you cringe with the suspense that may or may not be building up. Then the climax comes and makes up for it, in ways you would never suspect from a movie like this. The western, Eastwood like shootout in the end is something that Hollywood should take notes on. This made all the difference for this movie. I give it a 3.8 out of 5, only because the British accent at times was a bit tough to understand, and some parts are just extremely pointless. Still the way it pokes at action movies and still gives back more action than others makes it a winner in my book.