It is time to take a stand!

Watch this video!

Now watch this:

What is the world coming too?!

I am down for expressing yourself. But this trend of dudes prancing around the dance floor needs to stop. Fellas you need to be able to just say "No!"

-tp-

Movie Review: The Book of Eli

Rating Whoa!

Let me get this out:

"What a great movie!"

Expectations: Going into to this movie I was very curious about it. I had never seen Denzel in an action movie so I wondered if he could pull it off. So let me put your fears to rest. Yes he pulled it off. Now don't get me wrong. He is not pulling a "Conan the Barbarian" in this movie.

The fight seems are not drawn out , but they have a good amount of "stick and move" and a healthy slice of suspense added in. And for this movie all this really works well. So it will leave you satisfied.

Plot: In the movie Denzel is living in a post-apocalyptic world, think "Mad Max", where everyone leaves in ruins and scavenges for food and resources. Denzel is a wanderer on a quest to the West coast of America to fulfill his purpose in life. His purpose in life is to deliver a special book there. I know, I know, there are big questions marks now.

The movie gets interesting because it brings up the topic of the power of knowledge. In the post-apocalyptic world, all the books are destroyed. So most of the population is not educated and can not read. The antagonist is a leader of a town, who is well read and knowledgeable. He uses this to control the people around him. And the sparks start flying in the movie when he meets Denzel's character who does not want to be controlled. Think Rambo in "First Blood".

Conclusion: All in all I suggest you see this movie. It has the right amount of action combined with the right amount of substance. There is a very short list of movies that can combine the two like this and The Book of Eli did it.

-tp-

Movie Review: Legion

Lame Rating

First let me get this out: This movie is worth seeing. But just not in the movie theater. This is more like a "boring Saturday, I have nothing else to do, lets see what's on TV" movie.

The concept of this movie is sound. The world is ending because God says "time is up!" He plans to kill everyone on earth. And the only way to save the world is to save this unborn baby. One of the head Angels of God's Army decides that he doesn't want the mankind to end so he takes it upon himself to stop God and all his Army from annihilating the world.

Up to this point the movie sounds interesting. But once I sat my butt in that theater seat right in front of someone that had not bathed in 2 days I knew I was in trouble. I should have gotten up right then. But I held my breath and pressed on.

(Spoiler alert)

The reason this movie did so bad was based on one thing, the story.

The story goes that God wants to kill everyone on earth using his massive army of Angels. In order to do this, Angels start possessing the "weak" minded/willed people on the planet. And by controlling these possessed people he can eradicate the world. (Think of killer zombies controlled by Angels and/or God). One of the first hurdles in the movie was this part in the story. I thought to myself,

"If God wanted to kill everyone on earth why would he do it one hand-to-hand fight at a time?"

I mean God can blink his eye and blow up the whole earth with his thoughts. Or since he already created these super powerful Angels, which they show in the movie, why limit their abilities by taking possession of humans? Another in the movie that did not make sense was when an angel takes possession of a human the human became this Evil looking, sharp toothed, cussing monster. It didn't make sense these heavenly angels created by God could become these demon things while carrying out his orders.

As the story goes on the "good guys" have to protect the baby and the mother from the attacking force for zombie/Angel possessed people. Basically all the zombie people do is try to run into the building the good guys are trying to defend. Oddly enough , none of the Angels thought to bring along any guns, bombs or some really cool Heavenly Rail Gun!

No they go for the dumb approach and just hope they can run into the building with no weapons or armor or common sense!

Now I know when the writers sat down to write this movie they probably made this a conscious decision. Because let's be real, if God wants you dead you are going to be dead. So suspending belief I watched on (and kept holding my breath, that guy behind me was extra stinky).

The next part in the plot is around this baby. It is suppose to be a prophet that will lead the people out of darkness. So at the same time God gives the order to "kill everyone on the planet" he picks a baby to be the spiritual leader for the whole world, to be born while the world is being destroyed. So it seems God was hedging his bets:

God: "If this baby is born before my angels kill him then I will give the world another chance."

Now odds are if you are going to see this movie you are going for the action. So the plot isn't suppose to be that important. It had some decent action scenes but if they could have done a lot more. You don't have to have a big imagination to think about how cool a movie would be having angels having a huge war on earth. But instead the movie reduced something cool to a zombie/survival flick all taking place inside a dinner. They did not even really make the movie suspenseful or scary.

In the end this movie was a lost opportunity. It could have been great. It had a smooth cast. Smooth story premise. But it ended up with a rough, poorly made product.

Don't bother spending the $11 bucks at the theater. But for kicks watch it at home.

-tp-

IMAX "Think Small"

Don't get me wrong I like the "real" IMAX experience. But lately I have seen IMAX imposters popping up around my house.

They say they are IMAX , but really they are mini-me versions of IMAX. If I knew any better they look the same size as a regular theater. I am not even sure what I am paying extra for!! I have to pay the normal IMAX price but get the adnormally small screen.

What makes it worst, most theaters don't advertise they have the small IMAX screen. The only way you will know is the moment you go in the theater and

have that sinking feeling like you have been cheated!

This is all an in justice!

My experience went from this:

To This:

TP

Obama Chia Pet

OH MY! I have seen it all now!

You know this guy is famous when he has his own Chia Pet!!

I need to work on my own!!

-tp-

Concert Review: Live Post from the Maxwell, Common and Chrisette Michele concert

First let me say I have never heard so many women scream all at once for one man. :-)

The concert is very good. Chrisette did her thing on stage for one of her first times out here. Common went all out during he segment! He did the old and new songs and even found time to break dance on stage! I wish I would have seen him in concert earlier. :-)

Maxwell is up now. He has all the ladies in a trance. My own lady has a little of drool our her chin. Just kidding. :-) But Maxwell said it best during the concert, "brothers, if you can find a lady tonight I can't do nothing for you."

Seriously, if your single, you could run some real game in an atmosphere like this :-)

-tp-

Finale - TP BBE 2009

TP BBE 2009

We have come to a final close of TP BBE 2009. We partied in the Bay, up to Lake Tahoe and all the way down to Las Vegas. We even busted a move at a Bollywood concert!

Check out the pics and video below from the past month.
Thank you all for making this a special one.

"We Be Clubbin my friends."

Video:
TP BBE 2009 Commerical: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ZIwSxbfjI
Ziplining: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8IY0YBDog0

Pics from the Event: http://www.webeclubbin.com/gallery/
-tp-