The Blitz Blog

Useful stuff to know before Evil arrives on May 15th

blitzie — Sun, 13 May 2012 07:00:06 +0000

How to get the collector’s edition from Amazon while it’s out of stock 1: Have chrome or firefox installed. 2: Get this addon for firefox http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imacros-for-firefox/ or this addon for chrome http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cplklnmnlbnpmjogncfgfijoopmnlemp 3: Go to any item on amazon or your account settings, and make sure 1-click ordering is turned on. 4: Open iMacro and [...]

Toy Soldiers: Cold War Review

blitzie — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:41:36 +0000

Toy Soldiers: Cold War is the last offering from Xbox 360’s Summer of Arcade, featuring such awesome games as Bastion, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet and to a lesser extent Fruit Ninja Kinect. I wasn’t able to play the original Toy Soldiers game but when I saw TS:CW’s core gameplay, and being the huge tower defense [...]

Cowboys & Aliens Review

blitzie — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:10:23 +0000

Cowboys & Aliens is the latest offering from Iron-man director John Favreu and Dreamworks 3rd try at a comic-book inspired movie. This was one of the summer movies that I wasn’t really anticipating even though I liked the source material (Cowboys & Aliens comic from 2006) but the casting for this film was top notch [...]

LunarGlide+ 3 Review

blitzie — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:45:34 +0000

I bought the original lunarglide back in 2009 for a few reason: 1) I’m too lazy to have my running pronation checked at the local store so having a shoe that ‘adjusts to your style’ was perfect, 2) the original black/orange LG’s looked pretty cool and you can even wear them casually & 3) My [...]

Bastion Review

blitzie — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:52:36 +0000

Sony might have the leg up on Microsoft with it’s first party lineup for 2011 but the 360 is definitely way ahead of the PS3 with it’s downloadable offerings. One of the first games to come out in this year’s summer of arcade is a game called Bastion, which was released last July 20, 2011. [...]

Rise of the Planet of the Apes Review

blitzie — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:25:55 +0000

After the disaster that was Tim Burton & Mark Wahlberg’s reboot of Planet of the Apes, I told myself to just abandon all hope that the franchise could ever do better than the original film. And so when I heard about Rise of the Planet of the Apes I had no intention of learning more [...]

Captain America: The First Avenger

blitzie — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:07:16 +0000

I’ve had mixed feelings about this film for a few months now. On one hand I’m so happy that there’s gonna be a capt america movie and that it actually ties in to the avengers movie for next year and on the other hand I’m scared because I didn’t think Cap would translate well to [...]

Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows Part 2 review

blitzie — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:30:43 +0000

First of all, let’s just take a moment to soak in the bad-assery of Harry Potter series. This is like our generation’s Star Wars (esp since I refuse to recognize the existense of Star Wars I-III) and it’s really an awesome kid’s book series, so awesome in fact that even us adults have become fans [...]

Transformers 3 review

blitzie — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:23:12 +0000

If you stop and analyze or try to understand what’s going on in transformers 3 while you’re watching it then you won’t like this film. The pacing is as bad as Green Lantern and what’s worse is that the film tries so hard to be funny during the 1st and 2nd act but it keeps [...]

Dear John Movie Review

blitzie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:36:00 +0000

There’s been quite a few movies based on Nicholas Sparks novels, Message in a bottle (1999), A Walk to Remember (2002), The Notebook (2004) and Nights in Rodanthe (2008). I’ve watched all these movies except Message in a bottle; The Notebook is still one of my favorite ‘chick-flicks’ and even Nights in Rodanthe wasn’t that bad. The latest film to draw inspiration from Nicholas Sparks’ books is Dear John, this time the lead role goes to Channing Tatum who plays an army fellow and the leading lady is Amanda Seyfried who plays a girl named Savannah.

I usually try to be light on the spoilers during my reviews but this time I’m going to spoil as many details as possible. The thing is, if you’re in a relationship you’re probably going to be forced to watch this film anyway so I’m just making sure you know what you’re getting your self into.

John Tyree (Channing Tatum) is an Army soldier who’s on leave when he meets Savannah Lynn Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) who’s enjoying spring break with a couple of friends. Savannah accidentally drops her purse on the beach and John jumps off the dock to get it for her because her whole life is in that purse. We never saw what was in that purse so I’m just going to assume that they made up everything to justify Savannah’s attraction to John when they first met, that and his chiseled abs probably. The thing is, the chemistry just wasn’t there, I never once believed that these two were in love with each other even if you add in that cheesy montage of the 2 weeks they spent together.