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Jan 12 2008

Why Did “In the Name of the King” Fail?

Published by thought under movie review

Have you seen, “In the Name of the King,” yet? No, you say… Well you didn’t waste two hours of your life on rubbish.
This movie goes to show every movie watcher that big actors don’t make a great movie. On top of that, big directors nowadays don’t even make great movies. Let’s take a look at this guy Uwe Boll. Somehow he gathered up a ton, and I mean a ton of big actors to play in this movie. If you didn’t catch that last part, I mean a ton:

  • Jason Statham … Farmer
  • Leelee Sobieski … Muriella
  • John Rhys-Davies … Merick
  • Ron Perlman … Norick
  • Claire Forlani … Solana
  • Kristanna Loken … Elora
  • Matthew Lillard … Duke Fallow
  • Brian J. White … Commander Tarish (as Brian White)
  • Mike Dopud … General Backler Will Sanderson … Bastian
  • Tania Saulnier … Tawlyn
  • Ray Liotta … Gallian
  • Burt Reynolds … King Konreid

You may not have heard of all of the actors above, but you will have seen them in a movie or two beforehand. I spent a majority of the movie just trying to pinpoint what movies these actors had previously been in. I would have thought that directors would know using this many big actors would tear the plot apart and turn the movie into an attention-fest.

If the excess of cameos wasn’t enough, try taking a watery plot and sprinkling it with quick fight scenes that make your head actually spin.

The scary thing is that Uwe Boll is actually still making movies and has at least seven he is putting his hand into right now.


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Jan 10 2008

Here is a Recap of Today’s QuickRead

Published by thought under QuickRead

Thirteen Ways to Blogging Success- Delusions of Grandeur offers some tried and true advice to becoming or maintaining a successful blog. However, #10 is based on a misconception. It is of course proven false by Mike’s Money Making Mission(currently has an Alexa Rank of 133,724 - and dropping/and PR of 3).


5 Tools To Make a Man’s Life Easier
- Scoot provides us men with a couple cool gadgets to make our lives easier.


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Jan 10 2008

Documenting Your Thought Process

This past week has been a little interesting to say the least. One thing that I noticed and really concentrated on was the fact that I was able to catch almost every creative idea I had, and also write it down. It is amazing how many great ideas our brains process when you give it the chance.

First of all, let me explain why it is important to document ideas, and not just place them on the back burner in your mind. When you have one great idea and throughout your day begin to work with it and re-work it again and again in your mind, you begin to lose the original idea. In turn, you come out with something that is, most often, entirely different. When you mentally try to backtrack and figure out what your original idea was, you find that the idea is either gone or that it is insignificant.

Here is the process, if you can call it that, for writing down and documenting ideas. My understanding of the way my mind creates ideas is fairly simple. I will have a stream of great ideas over a short time, and if I don’t document them, I will only remember one or two. So in order for you to catch every idea, you have to be tuned in to the way your own mind works. Whenever I personally have any type of idea, even if it sounds ridiculous, I write it down.

The most important thing that I do to document these ideas is to have at least two or three notebooks around at any given time. One is usually already open and turned to the current page with the last idea. As far as writing the idea down, anything will do. A picture, a word, or even a sentence will work. As long as you have an understanding of what that representation means, you cannot go wrong.

Hopefully now if you had the same problem with ideas as I did, you will be able to catch everything that is going through your mind. The process is indeed simple and may very well be done more efficiently. Yet, for now you can see the importance of documenting your own thought process.


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