Hugo takes center stage.
We explore deeper into what Hugo’s life was like after the nuclear bomb was set off. We see the changes and how he would have interacted if his life had not been altered by the crash.
Obviously, the Libby character, who was his love interest from season two or season three, comes back. Only this time she is the one in the mental hospital and claiming that she knows him from a past life. It got a little bit sappy but when she first kisses Hugo he starts seeing flashes of their time together on the island but does not know what to do with these images nor what to make of them.
Hugo was doing his normal rich guy thing with lots of his chicken restaurant’s and also lots of philanthropy. But his mom was getting upset because even though “everybody loves Hugo” she says “women do not love Hugo”.
So she sets him up on this blind date with Rosalita who is a neighbor and ends up not showing up for it. This is when the crazy Libby approaches Hugo at the restaurant with her wild story.
Meanwhile back on the island survivors are actually starting to listen to Hugo and put great weight in his decision-making. His influence on them is gaining but he also is starting to feel the weight of that responsibility.
The John Locke devil wants to know what Charles Whidmore was hiding and sends Sayid to find out. Sayid discovers Desmond and brings him back to John Locke.
Of course you’re led to wonder exactly what is going to happen and even though the black smoke doesn’t know why Desmond is there he does know that since Whitmore wants him there he should eliminate him. So he takes him out on a walk just the two of them and ends up throwing him down a well.
We aren’t shown what happens to Desmond we can only conclude that he is dead.
There was a cool dynamite scene where the protector of the “candidates” gets taken out because of the unstable dynamite. The Michael character from the early seasons of Lost appears a few times in this episode to warn Hugo of the danger of destroying the plane.
So Hurley takes this to mean that the plane needs to stay intact and they need a different plan. They’re on their way to get more dynamite from the old ship when Hurley ends up blowing the ship up.
Some of the group here follows Richard Alpert. Jack, Sun, and the pilot end up following Hugo. Richard is convinced they have to blow up the plane still. Hugo has decided that Michael is right and should be listened to so he decides they need to go talk to the black smoke John Locke guy.
They arrive in the John Locke camp and then everything goes dark so hopefully next week we will find out what happens as we march ever closer to the finale of Lost.
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“Date Night” was a movie that I have not heard much about. I guess it had gotten lost in all of the big-time releases in April of 2010 with Clash of the Titans and Hot Tub Time Machine already being released this month.
But I first saw a commercial with the main characters being Steve Correll and Tina Fey and I knew this had possibility to be an extremely funny movie. I also saw Mark Wahlberg and that hottie from the most recent Fast and Furious movie that came out in 2009 was also in it so I knew it was golden.
With this cast of characters I knew it was something I had to see. And when I saw it I was not disappointed.
Steve and Tina play this married couple who have been married for over 10 years and have like three kids. They live a boring New Jersey life.
In an attempt to spice things up they have a Date Night every week but it ends up being the exact same dinner at this crab leg place.
So Steve decides he wants to spice things up and get out of the rut that they find themselves in. And of course this is the early part of the story where you expect that some conflict is going to enter in to spice things up. And Date Night Movie does not disappoint in this regard.
Steve says he’s going to take his wife to this new restaurant called “Claw” which is a high-class seafood restaurant that is exceedingly difficult to get into. But he assures Tina that they’re going to get there early enough on Friday night that there will be an open table.
Of course, when they get there the folly of this idea becomes apparent. First off they got stuck in traffic and it takes way longer to get there than Steve had anticipated. Next the gay hostess looks at them like they are crazy to come in at 7:30 PM on a Friday night expecting to get an open table without a reservation.
So they go wait at the bar in a futile attempt to get a table. And that’s when it happens.
A sexy girl who works there is walking by shouting “Tripplehorn”. She keeps saying it “Tripplehorn”. So Steve sees his opportunity to seize this reservation that isn’t theirs because clearly the Tripplehorn’s aren’t claiming it.
They sit down and gasp at the crazy high prices. And then these two really evil looking dudes stroll up to their table and tell them that they have to go outside. Of course, they are thinking only that they are in trouble for taking someone else’s reservation.
But they would soon find themselves in way deeper than they ever anticipated because these guys are demanding a flash drive that was stolen from their mean mobster type boss. Steve and Tina tell them they know nothing about it and that they simply stole this reservation but the two evil deeds are unconvinced.
The story goes off on a huge tangent as they finally realize they must hunt down the Tripplehorns and get the flash drive otherwise the evil mob boss is never going to let them alone. And they are extremely worried about their children.
A crazy adventure then begins and a lot of self-discovery happens. They reaffirm how much they love each other and that they would do their marriage all over again.
And Tina for the first time sees her husband as he really is. He was a leader who put this whole plan together and ended up taking down the district attorney and the head mob boss because of his shrewd strategy.
This was quite funny and I give it 4 stars out of 5. Here’s a little spoiler: there’s a crazy pole dance between Steve and Tina that’ll knock you off your chair and have you rolling on the floor laughing.
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I’ve gotten into the new show Modern Family because it is a very funny show. I was a big fan of Married With Children and it’s got the actor who played Al Bundy. His name is Ed O’Neill.
It’s also got the hot mom Claire and the up-and-coming hottie Haley who is their teenage daughter. The husband and father Phil is the funny court jester type of character. He’s got his sidekick which is his son Luke who is about 10 years old and seems to be pretty dumb. Their middle child Alex is fairly smart and nerdy girl.
If you’ve gotten into watching the show I won’t go into too much of the background but basically this show is about the overbearing father-in-law who is played by Ed O’Neill. He has a 10-year-old stepson from his hot trophy wife who is much younger than him and they are both from Columbia.
So the stepson Manny and the grandson Luke are both on this basketball team together. And their basketball team absolutely stinks, they are quite terrible.
The coach of their team is incredibly abusive and neither Phil nor Jay (character played by Ed O’Neill) likes the coach. The moms are of course livid and demanding that their husbands do something about this coach.
Hilarity ensues when they go to talk to the coach and he unexpectedly just up and quits because he says he doesn’t have to take this kind of abuse. And he urges them to do better in a sarcastic tone as he storms off.
Another power struggle ensues between the overbearing father-in-law Jay and the younger dad Phil who means well but is pretty goofy. Jay claims that his experience coaching football qualifies him to be the coach of this basketball team and basically edges Phil out.
The team is getting their butts kicked and they’ve only scored 4 points when Jay gets so frustrated he gives up and goes to Phil. Of course, Phil doesn’t just let him off the hook and makes him do a series of apologies which really gets under Jay’s skin but he does it.
Phil does end up coaching this bad news Bears of a basketball team and doesn’t fare much better.
The sideplot in this show involved the mommies and how their kids are getting older and don’t want them around because they are being embarrassed. Definitely a funny episode worth watching.
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Hot Tub Time Machine was as funny as I thought it would be. I’ve always been a fan of time travel movies like TimeCop and the Back to the Future trilogy.
Of course, sometimes time travel movies are much more well done than others.
This one was fairly low-tech and didn’t use a lot of CGI or computer graphics to speak of. But the story and the humor was extremely well done.
The basic story is there are these three 40 something guys who are all fairly unhappy, bored, and unsatisfied with their mundane lives. None of them have any children that they know of. Of course, there’s a twist to that coming toward the end of the movie.
One of the main characters called Violator even inadvertently by oversight sucks up too much carbon monoxide or actually attempts to kill himself. He was jamming in his garage with the car turned on. He seemed to be happy and into the jam but maybe that’s because he was ready to die.
This is never fully revealed in the movie exactly what his motives were.
But his two friends who he’s been calling a lot come to the hospital to see him. They’ve grown apart because of a number of reasons most of which being that Violator is something of an ass. He’s an alcoholic and they don’t want to be dragged down to his level.
This is where Hot Tub Time Machine starts to get interesting. It’s revealed that John Cusack’s character has a nephew who has been living with him. In an attempt to cheer up their friend Violator they go back to this ski resort that was so hot back in 1986 which is one of their greatest memories the 3 of them have together.
And Cusak brings his nephew along for the ride. This definitely upsets Violator.
They go into the resort which has radically changed and is nothing like they remember. It’s basically a ghost town.
They were sulking and whining about how bad their lives have turned out and how they were nowhere near what they thought they would be when they were there the last time. John Cusack waxes philosophic about the super cool and super hot girlfriend he had which he let get away.
Before they go home they decide to jump in the hot tub before cutting their trip a few days short by going home the next morning. And this is when things get interesting.
The Violator has brought along a Chernobly energy drink and it spills on the hot tub causing them to go back in time to 1986. Only all four of them are transported back in time.
The nephew wasn’t even born yet so he is the time paradox in this story.
The other twist is that these guys all look the same to each other but when they look in the mirror and to other people they look young like they were in 1986.
Chevy Chase makes a cameo appearance telling them exactly what they have to do and that they have to do everything exactly the same. Nothing can change. Otherwise the space-time continuum will be radically altered and Cusack’s nephew starts to fade and disappear.
Many things are revealed including who Cusack’s nephew’s father actually is. It’s quite funny and actually a little bit predictable. The movie takes another crazy twist when the Chevy Chase character tells them exactly how to get home. Once they do, this has the typical Hollywood happy ending.
I won’t give away the ending but you got to check out how the story unfolds, the twist toward the end, and how it all plays out when it’s said and done.
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Clash of the Titans was a movie that I had greatly anticipated because I love ancient Greek and Roman mythology. Really I love ancient Greek and Roman history as a whole but especially the mythology because the stories are just so interesting. There are plenty of twists and plot turns as the gods get mixed up with men.
The main character Perseus was played by Sam Worthington who has become a very noted actor of late. I first saw him, though I did not know who he was, in the movie Terminator Salvation. He played the hybrid human Terminator mix where he had the metal endo skeleton but also a human beating heart and other actual human organs.
He was also the main character on the number one movie of all-time Avatar. So this guy has been busy and he’s become a megastar seemingly overnight. I don’t know his story but I’m sure it’s been a long time building toward his current success.
So he plays Perseus the great demigod hero who is the son of Zeus and a king Akresius’ wife. King Akresius, who had challenged the gods, was being punished. But more on that later….
At the start of the movie Perseus is with his family sailing on a ship when they across the Army or Argos which is being defiant of the gods. Perseus and his family don’t know what’s going on but the Army casts a statue of one of the gods into the sea and a great battle between them and the minions of the gods ensues.
The lowly Perseus and his family ship is damaged and sinks. Predictably, his family drowns even though he dives in the water to save them because he was cast off the ship when it capsized. Of course, all his family drowns despite his best efforts and ability to hold his breath way longer than possible. Guess it’s one of Perseus’ demigod powers.
And so we believe the hero’s journey has begun. But that is not the case because there is more to be revealed. Io his watcher, who is a demigod herself, tells him the true story of how he was conceived and who his real family was.
King Akresius was being defiant of the gods and had raised an army years ago. The gods want to destroy him and his army but Zeus took mercy. Instead, he disguised himself as the king and visited the king’s wife to impregnate her. This is when Perseus was conceived.
King Akresius was of course outraged at this discovery and cast his wife with child growing inside her belly into the ocean. But one of Perseus gifts as a demigod is that he can hold his breath for a long time and so somehow he was spared though we weren’t shown how this happened. Maybe Zeus protected him. But the queen drowned.
So now the two journey is on as our hero knows who he is and what he must do. Io tells him that he was born to kill the Kraken and stop the tyranny the Gods had perpetrated on man for all these centuries.
So he goes on a wild adventure with mythical creatures like gigantic scorpion looking things, crazy half man half demon looking dudes, wastelands and lush forest settings, and then of course the obligatory trip into the underworld to defy Hades. (Hades is the one who killed his family’s ship by sinking it)
All in all it was a rollicking tale and I highly recommend it. Even if you’re not as big a fan of Greek mythology as I am this is a tremendous action adventure movie that will get your pulse racing, hold your attention, and leave you wanting more.
Toward the end one of the main characters dies and then there’s a twist of an ending which leaves it open for a sequel. We can only hope they do make the sequel. I feel there’s a decent chance because the movie’s been number 1 for the last 2 straight weeks and is making lots of money.
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There were more revelations on this week’s episode of Lost. This one focused on Desmond and how he is now back on the island. It appears he was drugged and taken against his will on to the island.
It was later revealed in the episode that yes, Charles Whidmore, Desmond’s old nemesis had brought him back to the island against his will.
But it wasn’t just some malicious thing to get him away from Penny, Whidmore’s daughter.
Charles is truly afraid of the black smoke getting off of the island. It seems we are led to believe that this black smoke is the actual devil and if he is able to break out of the prison that is the island which holds him that he will destroy the world.
What remains unclear is if he is the devil and so powerful why does he need the help of these people, these survivors to get off the island? Isn’t he powerful enough to just break whatever chains are holding him to the island and get off himself?
They’ve hinted at it a couple of times that he needs all of the people on the list for some reason. The reason is still yet to be revealed.
I’m speculating that maybe if all of the caretakers still on the list publicly and verbally give up their caretaker rights position that perhaps the bonds which hold the black smoke will be broken.
And it was also revealed the devil or the John Locke character is going to unleash Claire to do whatever she wants with Kate once he has broken free of the island. The ominous quote was “once we’re off the island whatever happens to her happnes”.
But back to Charles Whidmore. He needed Desmond because Desmond is the only one who has survived an electromagnetic event the size that the island is capable of producing. So he ruthlessly uses him as a test monkey or lab rat and subjects him to a major electromagnetic pulse which has just killed one of Charles’ own men inadvertently.
Of course Desmond survives and then is made to be a believer in the cause of keeping the black smoke caged. Some strange things happened during the electromagnetic pulse which he does not know whether they were all hallucinations or actual memories. A glimpse of what his life is like since the survivors and Daniel Whidmore set off a nuclear bomb at the end of last season were revealed during his harrowing time in the electromagnetic field.
I won’t do a complete spoiler at the episode is definitely worth watching.
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