var title = 'CKA Forums Entertainment Feed';
var url = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/recent_blogs_c-2.html';
var site_url = 'http://www.canadaka.net/forums';
var site_desc = 'Canadian forums with a focus on politics and current events. The CKA forums are the most active & largest non-partisan Canadian forums online.';
var time = 'Tue, 22 May 2012 11:23:40 -0700';
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data[0]['title'] = 'Is Bond finished?';
data[0]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/is_bond_finished_c-2_u-15486_b-3242.html';
data[0]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/is_bond_finished_c-2_u-15486_b-3242.html';
data[0]['username'] = 'bootlegga';
data[0]['blog_id'] = '3242';
data[0]['blog_message'] = 'It looks like with MGM in financial trouble, they won't be a Bond movie for several years at best!
Quote:
These are dark days for James Bond fans. It will likely be years before 007 returns to the screen, thanks to money troubles at MGM, Bond’s longtime studio, which has been up for sale since November. Even Daniel Craig seems to have moved on, signing up for the lead in a different potential franchise, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The last time the Bond series was put on this sort of “indefinite” hold was back in the early 1990s, after a series of legal battles (and Timothy Dalton) nearly wrecked the series. It took six years to get it up and running again. And in Hollywood today, six years is an eternity. “No franchise can afford to be away from screens for that long anymore,” says a former MGM exec. “You lose too much momentum. Even for Bond, it could be deadly.” Of course, Bond has defied death before — just ask Blofeld — so we’re not counting him out just yet.
One possibility: “[MGM] should sell the Bond franchise for a billion dollars to some sovereign company in Abu Dhabi and promise to make Bond movies in Abu Dhabi from now on,” suggest one financial analyst familiar with the MGM sale. The name is Bond, Jamal Bond. We could live with that.
http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/08/05/this- ... bond-dead/';
data[0]['blog_time'] = 'Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:14:30 -0700';
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data[1]['title'] = 'Sleep Deprivation via Five-Month Old Kitten';
data[1]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/sleep_deprivation_via_fivemonth_old_kitten_c-2_u-32497_b-3211.html';
data[1]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/sleep_deprivation_via_fivemonth_old_kitten_c-2_u-32497_b-3211.html';
data[1]['username'] = 'Country-Hermit';
data[1]['blog_id'] = '3211';
data[1]['blog_message'] = 'A few days before Christmas I rescued a malnourished and homeless kitten. His name is Kaos (pronounced chaos). He lives up to his name.
Don't kittens ever sleep?
I've always been a dog person. This is the first, and quite possibly the last, cat I've ever had. My home isn't cat-proof. My life isn't cat-proof. My poor scratched up body isn't cat-proof either.
I've learned that cats are nocturnal. I've also learned that it's true. Very, very true. Kaos plays all night long without regard to my desperate need for sleep. Do I wake the kitten while he's napping in the sunshine? No, I respect his need for rest. I wish he'd reciprocate!!
Did you know cats can live up to twenty years? Yikes! Twenty years of no sleep sounds very unappealing. But I won't give him up. When he curls up in my arms and purrs contently, I know I did the right thing by giving him a home with unconditional love.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to rescue mothers ashes from falling off the fireplace mantle where Kaos perches in his quest for those pesky dust-bunnies.';
data[1]['blog_time'] = 'Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:45:31 -0800';
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data[2]['title'] = 'Review of Avatar';
data[2]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/review_of_avatar_c-2_u-15486_b-3182.html';
data[2]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/review_of_avatar_c-2_u-15486_b-3182.html';
data[2]['username'] = 'bootlegga';
data[2]['blog_id'] = '3182';
data[2]['blog_message'] = 'When Jake Sully’s (Sam Worthington) twin brother is killed in a mugging, he is recruited to travel to the planet Pandora. There he join RPA’s scientific team and will use a genetically engineered hybrid ‘avatar’, which resembles the native inhabitants, known as the Na’vi by humanity. A rapacious corporation has a massive mining operation on Pandora, extracting unobtainium, which is key to an energy and economic crisis on Earth. The corporations scientific team is trying to win the ‘hearts and minds’ of the natives, while at the same time employing heavily armed troops to protect themselves from both the natives and the violent wildlife on the planet.
While on his first mission outside the mine, Sully is separated from the rest of his team and forced to spend the night in the harsh jungle. While fighting off a pack of vicious predators, he is rescued from the wildlife by Neytiri, a Na’vi hunter. She is convinced to bring him back to her clan’s home, the Home Tree. There, he is given a chance to join the tribe if he can complete the same rituals as other warriors. As soon as Sully informs his superior, the ultra gung-ho Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang) of this event, they expect him to spy on the Omaticaya clan’s home, as it sits on the biggest deposit of unobtanium in the area.
Neytiri takes Sully under her wing and begins to show him their way of life. At first, he is both skeptical and reluctant, but over time, both Neytiri and the simple pleasures of the Na’vi way of life lead Sully to question his mission. The question soon becomes, to whom does Sully owe his allegiance?
Avatar has been compared to other films like Pocahontas and Dances with Wolves. For sure, the metaphor of ecological collapse and industrialism run amok is heavily presented in this film, with references like ‘Earth is a dying planet’ and ‘where the humans come from, there is nothing green’, and so on. Certainly, the RPA corporation shows that it is much like some greedy corporations today, in...
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data[2]['blog_time'] = 'Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:05:31 -0800';
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data[3]['title'] = 'Review of Zombieland';
data[3]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/review_of_zombieland_c-2_u-15486_b-3152.html';
data[3]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/review_of_zombieland_c-2_u-15486_b-3152.html';
data[3]['username'] = 'bootlegga';
data[3]['blog_id'] = '3152';
data[3]['blog_message'] = 'Someone in America made the fatal mistake of eating a bad hamburger, which was infected with Mad Cow. Instead of slowly killing them as usually is the case, the virus mutated, and caused massive brain swelling in its victim in a matter of hours, which in turn created a homicidal maniac with a hunger for human flesh. Thus began the zombie apocalypse in Zombieland.
The hero of the story, Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), is a nerdy college kid trying to make his way home to Columbus from Austin Texas. He quickly introduces the audience to his rules of survival, like rule #1, Cardio. If you can’t run, you can’t get away from the zombies, which is hilariously illustrated by a zombie chasing a fat guy across a field. Rule #2 is Double Tap or don’t be cheap on bullets. Use a second one to make sure the zombie stays down. And so on.
He quickly meets Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), a wise-cracking, zombie-killing machine who is on a mission to find a Twinkie. After meeting Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin), they are tricked into surrendering their weapons and vehicle. A chase ensues and again they are tricked, losing their weapons and vehicle. This time though, Columbus convinces them to all work together in their goal to get to Pacific Playland, an amusement park outside Los Angeles. There, they discover all sorts of odd things.
Zombieland is more comedy than horror (zomedy?), so for those of you who are looking for gore and gruesomeness, you’ll have to get your fix elsewhere. There are scenes of zombies munching on hapless people, but the gore is minimal and secondary to the film. The zombies in the movie are also of the fast variety, so purists may not enjoy it as much as the typical Romero versions. And finally, because the zombies were created by mad cow, a brain shot is not necessary to kill them.
However, despite these ‘flaws’, the movie is highly entertaining. It is fast paced, action packed and laced with tons of dark comedy. I would guess that ...
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data[3]['blog_time'] = 'Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:56:17 -0700';
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data[4]['title'] = 'Social Mentality Towards Video Games:';
data[4]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/social_mentality_towards_video_games_c-2_u-31437_b-3082.html';
data[4]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/social_mentality_towards_video_games_c-2_u-31437_b-3082.html';
data[4]['username'] = 'Praxius';
data[4]['blog_id'] = '3082';
data[4]['blog_message'] = '
You know, over the years I have heard pretty much all the sides there can be made in the war against video games, what makes up those video games, and I have come to my own personal conclusion on how I feel people should view video games.
Too many people have been getting into uproars on what they find their children playing, that they never thought the game they bought their child and the game their child have been screaming and crying for months, had so much violence, sex, or other adult material. They think video games should be like pong, or like Tetris, or perhaps some My Little Pony simulator..... but once you put adult themes to something with the identification of "Game" then you've gone too far and you're attempting to corrupt children's minds and make them into crazy murderers or kids who run away from home because they get addicted to the game.
Now on the flip side, you have the counter-argument about video games being just entertainment, expression of a story or art, they're just for fun and shouldn't be taken seriously. This side get's into an uproar because the other side wants to take the things they find fun out of the things that are supposed to be fun. They feel that governments, law makers and protectionist groups are trying to police and restrict freedom of expression and all that good stuff..... and soon, nobody will be able to do anything unless it is run by the government first and their board of politically correct fear mongers.
But much of the things I see continually being left out of the arguments are the following:
1 - Almost everywhere you go in the world where you can buy and play a video game, no matter what computer you have, or what console you use to play them, they all have ratings on them that look sorta like these:
...
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data[4]['blog_time'] = 'Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:50:47 -0700';
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data[5]['title'] = 'Resident Evil: Afterlife arriving in late 2010';
data[5]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/resident_evil_afterlife_arriving_in_late_2010_c-2_u-15486_b-3066.html';
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data[5]['username'] = 'bootlegga';
data[5]['blog_id'] = '3066';
data[5]['blog_message'] = 'Quote:
Sony's Screen Gems is eyeing a September 17, 2010 release for the fourth "Resident Evil" installment, to be titled Resident Evil: Afterlife. The ending of the third film, Resident Evil: Extinction, left the door wide open for another sequel.
Paul W.S. Anderson revealed late last year he was indeed writing the next film.
As hinted at the end of "Extinction," the story will shift to Tokyo, Japan.
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data[5]['blog_time'] = 'Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:26:35 -0700';
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data[6]['title'] = 'Weekend Box Office';
data[6]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/weekend_box_office_c-2_u-15486_b-3002.html';
data[6]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/weekend_box_office_c-2_u-15486_b-3002.html';
data[6]['username'] = 'bootlegga';
data[6]['blog_id'] = '3002';
data[6]['blog_message'] = 'As expected, Star Trek blasted the competition this weekend, raking in $76.5 million for first place. X-Men Origins: Wolverine dropped one spot to 2nd with roughly $27 million. Romantic comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past opened in third place with $10.5 million, whiel Beyonce's thriller Obsessed slipped into 4th with $6.6 million, and the comedy 17 Again rounded out the top 5 with $4.4 million.';
data[6]['blog_time'] = 'Sun, 10 May 2009 20:29:15 -0700';
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data[7]['title'] = 'Review of Star Trek';
data[7]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/review_of_star_trek_c-2_u-15486_b-2993.html';
data[7]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/review_of_star_trek_c-2_u-15486_b-2993.html';
data[7]['username'] = 'bootlegga';
data[7]['blog_id'] = '2993';
data[7]['blog_message'] = 'The movie starts with the birth of Starfleet’s most infamous captain, James Tiberius Kirk (Chris Pine) and follows his beginnings in Starfleet. Along for the ride are Capt Pike (Bruce Greenwood), Spock (Zachary Quinto of Heroes), Doctor Leonard 'Bones' McCoy (Karl Urban); linguist Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Helmsman Sulu (John Cho) and a 17-year-old Russian navigator named Pavel Chekov (Anton Yelchin). Halfway through the movie, Scotty (Simon Pegg of Shaun of the Dead) drops in too.
Although Uhura, McCoy and Kirk are still cadets at the academy, they are ordered into space to help man the few ships Starfleet has in Earth orbit to respond to a distress call from the planet Vulcan. When they arrive, they discover it is a trap and all but the Enterprise are destroyed. Pike, Kirk and Sulu launch an attack to save Vulcan and deal with the marauding Romulan Nero (Eric Bana).
Star Trek starts off with a bang and races along right to the end of the movie, without any noticeable lulls. The acting is great, especially Quinto as a young Spock, fighting to suppress his emotions. He loves, fights and rages, all the while trying his utmost to suppress them. Instead of the always logical and almost mechanical Mr. Spock played by Nimoy from the TV series and films, we are greeted with a Spock who must constantly battle his human emotions. It was an incredibly refreshing take on the character. Pine is in fine form as Kirk, the irrepressible and reckless rule breaker. His constant willingness to fight the unwinnable fight is right on par with the original Kirk. The scene when he takes the Kobayashi Maru test is particularly enjoyable. The film has tons of homages to Star Trek lore, with explanations why McCoy is called Bones, rationale why he doesn’t like Spock, Kirk’s willingness to sleep with hot green aliens, and so on. There are tons of great one-liners and jokes as the cadets learn their jobs.
I can definitely see some Star Trek faithful upset at the liberties J.J. Abrams has taken...
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data[7]['blog_time'] = 'Sun, 03 May 2009 08:55:17 -0700';
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data[8]['title'] = 'Review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine';
data[8]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/review_of_xmen_origins_wolverine_c-2_u-15486_b-2992.html';
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data[8]['username'] = 'bootlegga';
data[8]['blog_id'] = '2992';
data[8]['blog_message'] = 'Hugh Jackman stars as James (AKA Wolverine), while Live Schreiber takes over the role of Sabretooth, his brother. Both are endowed with superpowers from a young age, and were born more than a century ago in Canada! After accidently killing a man, the brothers flee their home and family. They wind up fighting in both World Wars and Vietnam, where Sabretooth goes berserk and kills his CO. They are both tried for murder, but the firing squad is incapable of doing the job, due to their quick healing ability. A general, Victor Creed, offers them a job in an elite special ops unit, tackling the dirty jobs regular troops simply can’t. After James tires of the death and killing, he leaves the unit and becomes a lumberjack in the Canadian North. However, his past comes back to haunt him and soon he is on a mission of revenge.
Despite all the negativity about the film online, I thought it was pretty entertaining. It was well-paced, enjoyable to watch and a good all-round movie. As I didn’t know any of Wolverine’s back story to begin with, I wasn’t disappointed as others here were when they watched the bootleg.
While it wasn’t as good as the early X-Men movies, it was a fun popcorn movie. And the best line in the movie?
Creed: “Your country needs you.”
Wolverine: “I’m Canadian.”
That says it all. Canada truly kicks ass!
7 / 10
[youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPmbGzQaOCs [/youtube]
http://www.x-menorigins.com/';
data[8]['blog_time'] = 'Fri, 01 May 2009 15:47:28 -0700';
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data[9]['title'] = 'Full Transformers trailer online now!';
data[9]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/full_transformers_trailer_online_now_c-2_u-15486_b-2991.html';
data[9]['url'] = 'http://www.canadaka.net/blog/Entertainment/full_transformers_trailer_online_now_c-2_u-15486_b-2991.html';
data[9]['username'] = 'bootlegga';
data[9]['blog_id'] = '2991';
data[9]['blog_message'] = 'Watch it here;
http://movies.yahoo.com/premieres/13240 ... ardformat/';
data[9]['blog_time'] = 'Fri, 01 May 2009 15:45:52 -0700';