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Personal statement: I’m a non-denominational protestant Christian. I work for a company called Geeks On Call. We provide on-site computer maintenance to homes and small businesses. I enjoy the work, but my schedule and pay (I work on commission) is incredibly unpredictable, which makes scheduling and budgeting very difficult.

     I’ve been big into martial arts since I was seven, and fitness since the late 90’s. A lot of people see body builders as “muscle heads.” You’d be surprised how much planning and study go into effective fitness. The best builders know more about biology and anatomy than just about anyone short of a phd. If you don’t know WHY your body grows, you’re never going to effectively learn HOW to get your body to grow.


So, to sum up, I’m a Christian. I’m a geek. And I can kick your butt if you have a problem with either.

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Freddy Vs. Jason
Freddy Vs. Jason
Good if you don't care about de ...
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 "This movie really got on my nerves, because it ignored the finale chapters in the evolution of both of the title characters. It starts with Freddy resurrecting Jason, because he needs people to fear him in order to gain power, so that he could return. The thing is, he did it by just “convincing” Jason to come back, at which point Jason rose from his grave. Wait. Back up a minute. Grave? Jason Vorhees was definitively killed by a family member. Not to mention his body was blown to pieces. So how was Jason once again whole, and in a grave? And if he could come back at any time, why didn’t he? Seems like a pretty cheap cop-out way to bring him back. Then there’s Freddy. Freddy got his power from people fearing him. That much is true. However, in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Friday, they finally revealed how it is that he keeps coming back, no matter what they do to him: he wasn’t just a restless spirit, he had made a pact with three dream demons ... " [More]
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
The series gets a mercy-killing.
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 "My word, it’s no wonder Wes Craven felt the need to redefine Freddy in “A New Nightmare.” By this point, he’s like a cartoon villain. The killings (while I’ve never been that guy who watches these things for them) were like watching a sicker version of Bugs Bunny. There was even cartoon sound effects! Freddy looks a little better than he did in the last movie, but not by much. He now looks more like he’s got a weird skin condition than horrible, disfiguring burns.And the plot didn’t make a whole lot of sense, either. We start with an on-screen message that says the movie takes place ten years from now (well, ten years from 1991, when it was made. Although nothing looks different), and apparently, Freddy has killed every kid in Springwood (the town Elm Street is located in). The killings are all rules “mysterious deaths and suicides” and apparently all the adults are suffering from “mass hysteria.” Alright, so we ha ... " [More]
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
A Major Disapointment...
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 "Take Mortal Kombat, add more characters than you have time to do anything with, and remove everything that wasn't a fight scene, and you've got Annihilation. " [More]
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
The worst of the series.
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 "Shatner: good in front of the Camera. Poison behind it. 'nough said. " [More]
Highlander II: The Quickening
Highlander II: The Quickening
The movie that spawned "The Hig ...
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 "Widely accepted as one of the worst sequels of all time, Highlander II takes the story of an ostensibly mystical race of immortals, fighting for the prize of ultimate power, and redefines it as a sci-fi tale, where the immortals are in fact alien beings exiled to earth, with the prize being the ability to return home, or grow old and die on earth. When Connor McLoud, now an old man, kills another alien who has just been sent to earth, he is made immortal once again; and must use his abilities, along with help from Ramirez (who, apparently, Connor can bring back from the dead just by calling his name, which kind of makes you wonder why he took this long to do so), must battle an oppressive future government to save the world. This movie was so bad that it spawned what I refer to as ?The Highlander Rule?, which says that when a movie sequel reaches a certain level of awful, I simply refuse to acknowledge its existence when speaking of the franchise. " [More]
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
The Worst of the series
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 "Easily the worst chapter in the series*. Be it the lack of interesting characters, the completely, utterly incomprehensible ending, or just the fact that in a movie named "Jason Takes Manhatten", Jason only spends about five minutes IN Manhattan, this movie was just plain crap.*It should be mentioned that since V goes off on such a tangent that it doesn't even include Jason, I do not consider to even be part of the series. " [More]
Highlander: The Source
Highlander: The Source
Quite possibly the worst sequel ...
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 "So I turn on Sci-FI today at 9pm to watch The long-rumored Highlander movie about Duncan's search for the origins of the immortals?!The one that was never released in theaters? The one that I've not seen ANY ads for? It's just on? WTF?O.k., so I watched it.Well, now I remember why I call the Highlander rule "The Highlander rule." OMG it was awful. It was just. Freaking. Awful. It takes place in, I dunno, the future? I mean, the world had descended into complete chaos and it was all post-apocalyptic, but Joe was still alive, and he was mortal, so it couldn't be too far away. About 90% of it was done in front of terrible looking blue screen. The acting was meh. The writing was awful. Lots of random encounters with bands of post-apocalyptic crazy people. The visuals were awful. And the ending? oh. God. The ending.Apparently, "there can be only one" does not mean that they had to kill all the others; it just meant that there was only one with a pure ... " [More]
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Never give up on your ideals.
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 "A classic tale of uncompromising idealism winning over all. " [More]
On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront
A True Classic.
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 "A true classic, this one has everything. Great acting, great script, great plot, and one of the few depictions of a Catholic Priest actually ACTS like 80% of the Priests out there, instead of the clichéd, over-used stereotype of the hypocritical , Bible-bashing villain in sheep’s clothing. Five Stars. " [More]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
The Worst of The Series So Far...
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 "A couple weeks ago, I started watching the Elm Street movies. The second one was awful, and was immediately placed on my Flixter list “the worst sequels of all time.” I didn’t think they could MAKE a worse Elm Street flick. Then I saw part 5. Ugh. It starts with the acting. Horrible. Every cheesey line was PAINFULLY delivered. The Plot wasn’t bad, but it was hideously executed. How the hell did they come to the conclusion that Amanda Kreuger hung herself if they never found the body? And why was her dead body still standing? If she did hang herself, shouldn’t her corpse still be hanging there? Did she somehow die standing up? And how did her body get sealed up in that room? Then There’s Freddy Himself. Not only has he been turned from a classic being of pure evil into a flat-out comic book super-villain (a transformation that, I think, started in the second movie and got slowly worse), but the instead of using makeup to give him his trad ... " [More]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Better than part 2, but still u ...
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 "Still better than part 2, but all in all, just another unnecessary victim of the dreaded "sequel rule." " [More]
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
The best of the series so far...
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 "I remember when I first started hearing about Freddy Kreuger in the 1980’s. I was too young to know the term “lucid dreaming”, but I understood the concept (and years later how to actually do it), and I always thought that if I was in the situation the Elm Street Kids found themselves in, I would have used it to battle Freddy. Clearly, I wasn’t the only one to think of this, as that’s exactly what happens in Nightmare on Elm Street 3. Heather Langenkamp returns as Nancy Thompson, the only surviving Elm Street child from the first movie, who is now a psychiatrist specializing in dream therapy. Nancy arrives at a psychiatric hospital specializing in sleep disorders, and finds that the last of the Elm Street Kids are being terrorized by Freddy. This time, however, things are not quite as one-sided as they were during her first encounter. One of the children, Kristen, has a special gift that allows her to pull others into her own dream. They devise a ... " [More]

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The originals were great, so how did they spawn THESE abominations?! Note: only one movie per fr ...
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I grew up in the 80's, so I consider anything from the 70's or earlier an oldie.
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Memories of my generation (5)
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Overrated (3)
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