Wow, we decided to make a blog......why? Our lives are fun, and let's face it......yours isn't. There are thousands of REALLY boring blogs that people read everyday. Here's the thing, we are adventurers, explorers......we're kind of a big deal.
Our adventures are tops and we want to share them. Our goal is to see the entire United States together..Fifty-Nifty-United-States. So far, we've seen 8 together. Not alot, but not bad considering we haven't even been together 2 years.

In this blog we want to share reviews of films, music, ghost towns, and other crap.....I can't concentrate, we are watching "The money Pit"

So our focus is on Tom, and not here.....this will likely be a common theme with us....um, distraction, not Tom.

We're planning on displaying stories and photos from our previous adventures to start things off, and then we'll probably do that throughout this blog, when times get slow.
Now, to get you started, here are a few shots from our previous adventures.

The Brothers Bloom

We've kicked off our little review site here with a review of a bad movie. I really didn't want to, but I needed to get the IronMan 2 thing out of my system.

So now I'd like to move on to a much more pleasant review. The review of ONE of our favorite films The Brothers Bloom

It's a little older, about a year, but it's amazing, and hey, you can go rent it as soon as your done reading this; THEN you can hate yourself for not just buying it outright.

Every once in a while, a movie comes along that Truely fires on all cylinders, from the Writing and Acting to the Art Direction and Score, The brothers Bloom is one film that leaves us feeling Completely satisfied.

The movie opens with a nice expositional background on the history of our main protagonists (the movies namesake, of course) Light hearted writing in this introductory scene masks a more serious undertone, setting what turns out to be a theme for the entire film.
This movie is fun, witty and well paced. It's a Con-Man film and so much more.

The movie takes place all over the world, to beautiful, and romantic locations, to which the Cast travels by equally romantic means: steamship, train, '83 Cadillac misrepresented as a '78......The travels themselves are a lot of fun.

The visuals (meaning cinematography, art direction, wardrobe, and anything involving visual communication) in the Brothers Bloom are masterfully shot, Always convincing, and brillantly understated, They draw you into the films MANY settings and at times can even leave you confused as to what Era the film is even taking place. The sets are vibrant, while the characters are most often in muted, or monochromatic attire, creating a beautiful, but not overpowering contrast.

The music in this film is Perfect, from the sentimental theme song, to the surprise Kat Stevens balad, every song suits the scene, mood, and exotic setting perfectly. We are afficianatios of musical scores, and this movie passed our strict screwtany with flying colors.

Finally, the cast and characters. In reality there are 4 leads to this cast, the brothers, their female, Japanese cohort, and their "Mark," a female shut-in, epileptic, photographer, and self-described "Hobby collector" All the characters are very intriguing, and bring a unique tallent and personality to both the Con-Crew, and the film. Every roll is played convincingly, no matter how unlikely the quirk or outlandish affectation, somehow they always manage to sell it as perfectly reasonable, and even normal.

The Final Word: If you enjoy good Cinema, if you like a few clever twists in a plot, if you appreciate a film that maybe doesn't fit the Hollywood standard, of what a movie SHOULD be, but can appreciate a great film for what it is, Skip renting this one and just BUY IT!

Ironman 2

Wow, Let me begin by saying Both of us Thuroughly LOVED the origonal Iron Man.
It wasn't a profound, or prolific film, but I don't believe that every film should try to fit the same catagory. Ironman 1 was a good popcorn film, with enough plot, drama, and humor to keep you interested, paired with a cast of characters whiich played their parts convincingly.

Ironman 2 was a Grim disapointemen in Every aspect. We waited in line for the 12:00 premier, we were both excited, but knew the film probably wouldn't be as grand as we were hoping. It was evident from the trailers, that "2" was going to be a little more "cheesey" than the first, and that Micky Rorke couldn't perform a russian accent to save his.....well, Career. What we didn't expect was the Overwhelming Camp, the shallow and uninteresting humor, and the boring and flat plot.

The film opened up with a large expo which is revieled will be going on for an entire year........there are no words.
This cheesey scene, it's blairing Ac/Dc, and cheap humor set the tone for the rest of the film.

The plot felt convoluded, and rushed. We were introduced to a few new characters, and the back story of minor characters from the last film were explored further......yet, not enough to care about any of them. There were just too many threads and not enough time in the flick....plus none of them were really interesting anyway.
Aside from these complaints, It really felt like the writers were trying to convince us the characters were still the same ones we had fallen in love with in the last film. Regretably, they weren't. Too many changes to the characters made even Tony Stark feel like a bit of a stranger.

The cherry of the cake of disapointment with this flick was the fact that the film lacked severely in the area of drama and conflict. Every time we were introduced to an adversary, or faced a delema, it is beaten or resolved before the true effect could even set in. There was no secret way to solve a puzzle, no difficult decision between love and greater good, just no soul to this film, whatsoever.

Here's our final word on this one: Pass it up. Just love the origional. Let it be your go-to film when you want a good popcorn movie, and try to convince ourself that they never made a sequel, that SOMEHOW managed to completely ruin the most promising super hero franchise of all time.