CinemaSins

On Youtube there exists a channel called CinemaSins.  Personally, I am a huge fan.  This guy is hilarious, and while there are an awful lot of nerds out there ready to attack him on semantics, everything he says, to me is spot on.

CinemaSins takes films, runs through them and points out the common sense and editing errors that there are in the film and for each one applies one "sin" to a sin count.  Then at the end sentences that film to a consequence based upon text from the film.  For instance for the movie Twilight one of the opening scenes features a semi-truck... which no one is driving.  Tally one sin.  At the end of some of the films he tallies bonus round sins, in the case of Twilight, for every obnoxious and unneeded breathing, sighing, laughing, crying moment of Bella Swan's during the movie.  If you are a major Kristen Steward fan, I suggest not watching it because you will undoubtedly become one of the very nerds I spoke of earlier, however, if you join me and the majority of the world, including the UK for what she did to Robert Pattinson, who I'm also not a fan of, then you will love, love, love CinemaSins and laugh so hard you will cry.    Check out all of his other film critique's also.  I'm a big fan of the Matrix and Resident Evil ones.  As far as I'm concerned... CinemaSins- Sin count: very few, Sentence: continue on counting movie sins forever


CinemaSins: five stars.

Movie: God's Not Dead (Spoilers)

I am highly disappointed.  I was all ready to give the movie God's Not Dead five stars, deducting for the stereotypical poor acting by the non-lead actors, but adding for the fact that I enjoyed the message. But the ending.  What a horrible way to end a movie that was supposed to have a great message. Okay, so the professor was a dick, but the fact is is that he was beginning to realize what he had done wrong, and that he was wrong, on his own because of the events that had taken place, so what was the point of him dying?  Personally, if I wasn't a Christian and I watched this movie, I would leave it with a new found conviction in my lack of faith, or at least the idea that, perhaps God's NOT dead, but he's a jerk!  Why would you have an hour of build up to the main character, played by Kevin Sorbo, of how he came to be so angry with God, just to have his chance at redemption and the ability to right his wrongs taken away?  Mind you, this scenario may be realistic, but the fact is there was no conclusion to this story.  Kevin Sorbo's girlfriend's reaction to his death wasn't seen.  Dean Cain's change from his mother's narrative wasn't seen.  The affect of the boy's life afterward, and frankly the fact that not one person gave the credit to God for all of what took place and the "God's Not Dead" movement, the glory was all given to the boy.  What kind of message is this?  True, most Christians would not have the courage to do what the main character had done, but frankly so what?  He made a man who had lived his life encouraging others to not believe because of a hatred he had inside him to question his doubt.  That's a great feat in and of itself.  But then, for that man to die on the way to his redemption and turn around, immediately after he died to have thousands of people mocking him?  This movie, while a nice attempt, really let down, not only myself, but I believe everyone it was trying to reach that isn't a little cold hearted.  This film could have had a great message, however, the mocking of the recently departed, though the characters in the movie had no way of knowing, we as audience members did, and the writers did a poor job with the timing of the ending scenes.  It made Christians seem mean, cold hearted and vindictive, instead of convicted, strong hearted and pure.  Shame on the writers for this.

God's Not Dead two stars.

Vitamin Waters

This is one of those ideas I wish I had had first. Vitamin waters, by Glaceau, was invented by none other than 50 cent. This product is amazing, the packaging is great, and the clever little sayings on the side are ingenious (and also sparked their own craze of people thinking they're clever by putting sayings on their packaging... their twitter... basically everyone thinks they are profound these days while very few actually, well, are.)  I could drink 20 of these a day if it wouldn't break the bank.  Coca-Cola bought out this incredible product for a measly $4.1 billion.  (Like I said, I wish I had thought of it.) And it continues to produce a rising profit for not only Coca-Cola, but also 50 cent who is still collecting 10%.  So if you thought 50 cent had pretty much disappeared into the world of music production, think again! That guy is out there making your waters and eating it too.  I have a whole new respect for 50 cent that now includes something other than "Go Shawty, it's your birthday, we're gonna party like it's your birthday" of which I can not forget the lyrics, no matter how hard I try.  Way to go 50 cent.



I give Vitamin Waters 5 stars.