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This is one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. Check out this ridiculous violent and amazingly insane intro video for an Alaskan College Hockey Team.

This is most violent polar bear I’ve ever seen.

I love how the bear decided to blow up Alaska’s conference rivals campuses before saying fuck it and just destroying the entire world.

I’ll get my son to fuck one of you young rappers up.

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Droppin' Ballz Vol. 31

Some old, some new, but 100% JANKSY!

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Tracklist:

1) Jay Electronica - Exhibit C (prod. by Just Blaze)
2) DJ Kay Slay - See The Light feat. AZ, Raekwon and Ghostface
3) Brother Ali - Blizzard Rap ‘09
4) Joe Budden - 40/40 feat. Royce Da 5’9
5) Talib Kweli - Come Around feat. Royce Da 5’9 and Termonology (prod. by Statik Selektah)
6) Lessondary - Faded
7) Juelz Santana and Lil Wayne - Move the Damn Thing
8) Crooked I - Fear Freestyle
9) Method Man, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon - Our Dreams
10) Get Busy Committee - Left Behind (prod. by Da Beatminerz)
11) Styles P - Shadows
12) Redman - Oh My (prod. by Just Blaze)
13) Reks - Rap-a-Nomics feat. Slaine and Torae (prod. by Statik Selektah)
14) Strong Arm Steady - Best of Times feat. Phonte (prod. by Madlib)
15) Royce Da 5’9 - Psycho Flow
16) Reflection Eternal - Just Begun feat. Jay Elecontronica, Mos Def and J. Cole
17) U-N-I - Pussy feat. Evidence
18) Edgar Allen Floe - Mighty Flow Young feat. Nottz and Royce Da 5’9
19) Bun B - Best in the World (prod. by Statik Selektah)
20) Souls of Mischief - Tour Stories
21) Black Milk - Keep Going
22) J. Cole - On Top of the World

Ethan Didn't Like Legion

Don’t see: Legion

Legion begins with the angel Michael coming to earth in a scene very reminiscent of The Terminator. The comparisons/rip-offs don’t stop there either. His first move once on earth is to cut off his wings, making him human. Why you ask? We never find out. We do find out his mission is to fight off other angels and protect an unborn baby. So I guess being human makes that easier. More likely it’s to add tension to the movie and the writer couldn’t think of another way. Anyway, he’s in Los Angeles and the city loses power suggesting something bad is happening so he steals a car and is on his way.

We are then taken to a roadside diner in the middle of the desert. This diner happens to be populated by the blandest, cookie cutter characters available. It’s owned by the embittered Dennis Quaid and his simple yet loyal son (who has an inexplicable Texan accent). The staff includes the pregnant Sarah Connor waitress who rejects the son’s love because she thinks she’s not good enough and Charles S. Dutton (Rudy) as the quietly optimistic cook. Stranded with them are a rich couple, their rebellious teenage daughter, and Tyrese presumably because he was in the area. I think it was actually just Tyrese, and not a character. Will this ragtag crew be able to save the baby and with it…humanity? Probably.

After a while listening to them whining about unimportant problems and encountering a possessed, ceiling-walking grandma, Michael finally shows up. This is when the movie really…keeps sucking. He brings guns and gives out as little information as possible. You know, for drama. Special effects are used on the first possessed person to show up, and from then on they just look like people. A movie about a God-defying angel fighting angel-possessed humans devolves into a lame, predictable zombie/horror movie. I actually thought there was some potential too.

The action is never exciting, as a good portion of it is the cast shooting guns, which never need to be reloaded, at the possessed. In between these boring scenes there are even more boring scenes. Each character is given what seems to be exactly two and a half minutes of alone time with another character in order to impart wisdom and/or show how multi-dimensional they really are. There’s a good chance the writer took the dialogue in these scenes from Lifetime movies of the week, but no one will know for sure. These heartfelt moments are supposed to make us feel for the characters and maybe add some emotion to the deaths but they never do. They die uninterestingly and the movie moves on. It doesn’t help that the characters barely notice when someone dies.

This movie does nothing right and brings nothing new to the table. Even God can’t do anything right in the movie. His lazy half-assed plans go nowhere and fail incredibly easily. Even though there are a lot of possessed people, they don’t put any effort into the mission and are easily killed. Finally he sends just one angel to get the job done. Even though it’s Gabriel (the t-1000 of angels), why just send one? Why just send one plague? Why let that ridiculous ending occur? Why give up so easily? Why is Tyrese still in movies? How is a baby going to stop the apocalypse? In the end, none of it really matters because the movie isn’t worth thinking about after it’s over.

1/5

Do see: The Book of Eli

The Book of Eli doesn’t rise above its post-apocalyptic predecessors but it definitely holds its own. It’s a highly stylized western set about 30 years after most of the world is destroyed by a “flash.” The scenery resembles a Mad Max film but sharpened and polished. It and the violence are given the feel of a graphic novel which works very well. Denzel Washington plays the main character, a wanderer with two objectives; walk westward and protect his bible at all cost. He gives his standard performance which helps elevate the movie.

He eventually gets to a community controlled by the super intense Gary Oldman. The conflict in the movie arises when Oldman discovers Washington’s possession. It turns out all religious writings have been destroyed after the flash, along with most other books. Oldman and Washington share a common bond in that they were both alive before the disaster, and understand the power of the written word. Washington puts his faith in it, in this case the bible, and believes he is on his quest for the good of man. Oldman wants the bible for his own means. He thinks he will gain further control of the community and eventually his power will spread.

The supporting cast is kind of hit and miss. Ray Stevenson plays Oldman’s top henchman extremely seriously and is overshadowed by Oldman’s scene stealing. Mila Kunis is out of place in general first as a servant then as Washington’s sidekick. Maybe she’s supposed to stand out from everyone else, but it just never feels right. Of course we get the usual outlaws and townspeople who have carved out their own niches in the community.

The movie is very deliberately paced and sometimes comes to a complete stop, giving it a sense of unevenness. The downtime works to expand on Washington’s character while also keeping him and his mission mysterious. It makes the action stand out but shines a light on the dialogue which is definitely the weakest point. There is a heavy dose of God/religion injected into The Book of Eli, especially once the end of his journey is reached, and there is no way around it but it doesn’t bog the movie down. The movie is more about man’s motivation in general. Faith, placed in anything, can be the most important aspect of a person’s life and religion, like anything else, can be used for good or evil. Washington’s journey is entertaining no matter the reason, and the ending itself requires a leap of faith as huge as Eli’s.

3/5

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2009 National Wildlife Federation photo contest

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