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I saw "13 Hours" last week with my lady. I'm going to start this off by saying Michael Bay.

Okay, we all know what to expect and he delivers on his stereotypical explosions and yadda yadda yadda. This movie is basically the last 30 minutes of Zero Dark Thirty, but stretched over two hours and more explosion-y. I admittedly don't know much about Benghazi since I, to a fault, put my head in the sand about many newsworthy current events.

Now, if you take the movie for what it is...a story about the contractors that helped defend the CIA base in the area from an attack...the movie will entertain you. I don't really think I could detect any political commentary from the movie. It was basically the contractors' story and the events that unfolded during the attack.

If you like movies like Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker, American Sniper and Lone Survivor, you'll like 13 Hours. It just so happens to be at the bottom of the list containing those movies, which might not be a huge selling point.

Guns, pew-pew-pew, beards, machismo, ex-special forces lingo and catchphrases, and a rocked up Jim from The Office (along with one of the main characters from The Pacific and Pam's ex-boyfriend from The Office)...it was worth my gift card to the movies.

QuoteThe Chicago Cubs have added the Eddy Julio Martinez signing to their transactions page, and the deal is officially official. You may now do a mini dance, appropriately restrained because the playoffs are going on.

Martinez, 20, is one of the top prospects coming out of Cuba this year, and is generally regarded as a potentially very good defensive center fielder with upside in his bat.

The Giants failure is the Cubs treasure. Thanks, San Fran! The Cubs give him $3MM. He was expected to get $10MM+. I'm not sure how to read this situation as Jorge Soler got 9 years and $30MM, right? It appears as though the Cubs got a steal, but just like everything coming out of Cuba these days we'll just have to wait and see how this plays out.

I'm 6 episodes into the season. This show is good...solid. It's nowhere near as good as the juggernaut House of Cards, but the show has some layers and interesting plot lines.

Coach Eric Taylor and the hot chick from Grandma's Boy (Linda Cardellini--she looks older, but still good-looking) are in it with Sissy Spacek. Ben Mendelsohn is amazing as the loser, fuck-up shitbag brother amongst an otherwise squeaky clean family clan--but only on the surface.

So far, it's still hard not to hate Kyle Chandler in anything he does even though he is Coach Taylor in all of his work. Mendelsohn is a superb and even likeable trashbag and the rest of the cast seems to be well-rounded and good in supporting roles.

I swaw this yesterday in IMAX 3D and...stick with me here...HEY. Stick with me.

I'll bullet list why you should see it.

• Emily Blunt
• It's funny...not deep funny, not stupid funny, but "Hey, that was unusually funny" funny.
• It's got some really, really cool special effects. Not over the top. But cool. The "aliens" are very, very well done and pretty wicked.
• It doesn't spend too much time telling you why the situation is what it is, but the time it takes to tell you why you are satisfied with. If that makes sense.

This movie will not win awards. It's just a well directed movie that does what it's supposed to do and doesn't do anything wrong. The only weak spot is that some of the ancillary characters aren't very good at acting. Otherwise, it's worth a trip to the movies.

I've put off seeing this movie until this past weekend, because having not heard anything about it or not researching at all before viewing, my initial preconceived notion about this flick is "I don't want to be depressed for two hours."

Prepare to be depressed for two hours.

The grandpa scenes were nice...something about an old man hobbling along the streets and tubes of New York City with an 11 year old boy, who is kind of sure but not really sure about the old man's identity, is sort of redeeming.

Otherwise, you have about an entire movie of a bright kid who's kind of weird and says things that no 11 year old would ever say (I'm guessing he's 11, I think it was mentioned in the movie)--smarty pants type stuff with big words and such--going on a quest through New York to find a way to get closer to his 9/11-deceased father (Tom Hanks).

If you could plot your interest and emotion on a line graph while watching this movie, both lines would be near zero and fairly flat.  There aren't many highs and the tone of the movie stays somewhere between post traumatic stress and lonesome sadness.

The Great Gatsby trailer.



Why the hell is this in 3D?

Anybody still hang out in Mom's Basement?  I played the BF3 beta and loved it, even though it was glitchy.  Since it was a true beta, and DICE has shown off a solid build since (below), I'm sold.  Sucker?  Probably.

Preorder and get the Back to Karkand pack (four throwback maps and a weapons pack) at no extra cost.

Yeti and anyone else who had me as a friend on PS3, I had to create a new account:  Sad_Banana

BF3 on PS3, almost-final build:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geTOvrUVPTE

ABC, after Modern Family.  It's set in Chicago and follows a group of friends (six friends--a gay, a black married to a hot blonde, Elisha Cuthbert, a dude with a Seacrest haircut and meatball beard, and some slighly chubby, but big boobed brunette) around as Elisha and Seacrest haircut were together for eight years, then Elisha left Seacrest haircut at the alter for a roller blading douche one night stand that didn't last, now they're all FRANDS!.

The LOLS are there, but they're not like some deep intellectual funny.  It's more movie quote funny.  Last night, the gay and Seacrest haircut track down roller blading douche to beat him up in the spirit of Steven Seagal movies.  They do some pretty funny moving quoting and even quote "A Few Good Men" and Jessup and Caffey's awesome "Did you order the code red?" and "You damn right I did!" thing.  It was funny.

Summary:  the blonde not named Elisha Cuthbert is really hot, the gay is very quick with the funny and the black guy is also kind of funny.  The wife and I like it and the two episodes last night were good.

The demo went live on Tuesday.  Anybody get a chance to play it?  I think it's pretty solid.  The voice acting is great, the visuals are outstanding, the cover works well, and pretty much most things in the world you'd expect to be destructable or interactive are destructable and interactive.  After playing the demo, I made up my mind to pick it up when it releases August 24.

By the way, if you download the demo (which is fairly short, but you do get 10 minutes between receiving your mission and carrying it out to play around in the city), be sure to check out the magazine lying on your character's bar in his house.  There's also a magazine in the distillery.  There are three more in the demo (50 in the game), but I hadn't had the time to find them yet.

Some details came out about it today on GameSpy.  The game is confirmed to be set during the Cold War with the majority of the conflicts taking place in Vietnam.  Sorry for no links...game sites blocked at work.

A new Medal of Honor is set out for an October release.  Looks pretty awesome so far.  DICE is working on the multiplayer and they're the guys who did the Battlefield Bad Company 1 and 2 multiplayer games.  I'm looking forward to this one.

Hit this morning.  I'm DLing it tonight when I get off work.  Any PS3ers get a key for their beta?  I've heard great things.

<TDubbs comment about being a loser and having sex with women and pounding brews with the bros>

Anybody watching this?  It's the animated cartoon spy thing that FX is begging us to watch.  I gave it a shot last night and there were definitely some funny spots.  Aisha Tyler and Chris Parnell are two people I've heard of that supply their voices to characters.  Anyhow, there's some good casual racism and dick jokes in this one.

I saw this over the weekend.  I'm a fan of the hot Gyllenhaal's work.  I've been loving me some Natalie Portman ever since V for Vendetta (and probably before then).  To be honest, I didn't have high hopes for this one.  In fact, the wife and I defaulted to Brothers because Avatar in 3D was sold out for the evening.  Anyhow, I was pleasantly surprised.  Toby Maguire played a great Marine, then played a great lunatic.  Jake Gyllenhaal was decent as the fuck-up brother, and Portman isn't necessarily hot or gorgeous--she's just so damn cute.

Anyway, I liked the movie...there were some very tense moments, a few funny spots, and a shocking moment in Afghanistan.  Probably not worth going to the theater for, but definitely worth the rental when it releases to DVD or blueray.