My review of Ted

I've been looking forward to this one. For a long time. Since the rumored Family Guy movie, I've been hoping MacFarlane would be successful in his film endeavors. I went to the first possible showing: 12:35 Friday afternoon at the west Warren Theater. A good sized crowd got to see the movie; it was a very good sized crowd for the early afternoon. We were in store for a profane but touching comedy.

I'll start out by saying I'll try not to spoil the party too much by giving anything away. I can tell you that Seth MacFarlane's comic genius in Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show surges through to his movie writing/directing. A lot of profane and drug related humor made me laugh, and the rest of the audience laughed too.

So, the jokes are there, and the movie is downright hilarious, but it goes beyond that too. Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg are great. Mark Wahlberg's role could have easily destroyed the movie had someone lesser taken the character. I could see someone overacting in some of the humorous parts, but Wahlberg does great. The "Thunder Buddy" song as shown in the red movie trailer is an example of something that could have been ruined by overacting. But no. And MacFarlane was enjoyable too. His voice sounded a bit like Peter Griffin's at times, but that's to be expected.

The plot is simple, but it works for this kind of a movie. Wahlberg has been wasting time, smoking weed and shooting the shit with his Teddy bear while Mila Kunis tries to get him to move forward in various places in life. The job, the romance; they suffer.

I  won't say any more than that because many of you haven't had the chance to see it yet. I will say that this film is not for children and definitely deserves it's R rating. And I will also say that Seth MacFarlane is a comic genius.

New house, New life

Things have been swarming in love and life. I bought a house. Yes. I bought a house. How about that? And I love the house too. I built a theater in the basement complete with an HD projector and a 7.1 surround sound system. That's my real pride of the house.

And of course August will be huge for me. I'm getting married. Also, I'm going to be teaching five classes at Cowley. That's a butt-load. So new house, a soon-to-be wife, and a job. Right now I have nothing to complain about.

The thing that has eluded me this summer has been updating this blog. I've decided I will update things at least a few times a week. I haven't been able to update due to my constant moving. From parents house to crummy apartment to parents house to new house. I'm finally settled, and I hope to add some followers soon.

Yes, while I am an angry liberal, I promise not to turn this into a political blog. There are enough of those out there, and many of them are full of...well...shit. I'm not going to sink that far down. Although...this will be used to discuss current events, film, literature, sports and the like.

I just got back from the movies. Ted was fun. There are hints of Family Guy throughout, and Mila Kunis is as beautiful as always. This is the story of a foul mouthed Teddy bear and his friend. I'm not going to go into depth about it much, but it is definitely worth seeing.

Other films I've seen recently that are worth seeing:

The Raven
Prometheus 3D
Avengers
21 Jump Street
Men in Black 3
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Fido


I may end up watching Real Steel tonight.

Again, I am currently in search of followers. Feel free to comment, and I will continue to update.