I've been laid up after having surgery on my foot so I have lots of reviews to post from all this free time on my hands. I'll start with The Hangover which was hilarious. Three guys wake up in their trashed Vegas hotel room after a crazy night out on the town for a bachelor party to find a chicken, a baby, and a tiger - but no groom. They have no memory of the night before and try to retrace their steps so they can find their friend. This movie was absolutely laugh out loud funny. This is a must see.
Yesterday I went through South Park Season 12. If you're a South Park fan this is a must see. The first few episodes were a little on the weak side, but as the season progressed the episodes got funnier culminating in the best and last episode of the season where Butters thinks he's turned into a vampire after getting a Hot Topic makeover and drinking Clamato. I love Butters.
The rest of the movies I watched I can't really recommend. Deception, starring Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor, is slow and predictable. Harsh Times, starring Christian Bale, is about a stupid white guy trying to fit into Latino street culture. One Missed Call wasn't scary at all. Lars and the Real Girl wasn't bad, but I thought it was supposed to be comedy and it turned out to be a touching indy film.
Now for a couple book reviews. The first one is a short story that was free on the Kindle called Serial by Jack Kilborn and Blake Crouch. It's three chapters long. The first chapter follows a male serial killer who rapes and tortures a hitch hiker in a cornfield. The second chapter follows a female serial killer who drugs her victims so she can tie them to the back of the car and drag them until they die. The third chapter has these two serial killers meet each other and gets interesting as we watch them try to kill each other. Very twisted. It's not bad, but I'm glad it was only three chapters because it was disturbing.
The other book was also a free Kindle download called The Alchemyst by Michael Scott. It's aimed at a pre-teen audience, but it was a good little story. It's about Nicholas Flamel and the philosopher's stone, which can make the elixir of life. Some bad people steal the codex of ancient formulas and it's up to a set of twins to help Flamel save the world from destruction. Cute, but I can't recommend it to an adult audience.
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