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Saturday, January 12, 2013

The Bussiet Month

Well this January is shaping up to be like all others, thankfully!
As the holidays come to a close those receiving new bikes for Christmas (or needing extra cash to make up for their over spending) bring out all their old rides for selling!  So with over whelming gratitude we greedily snatched up each and everyone.
Granted, haven't had much of a chance to build any of them as we have been blissfully swamped with repairs for the last three days.  So thank you all for that! So with that knowledge we have decided to open tomorrow noon to five so I can get more rides built up for next week!  And not a moment to soon as we only have three adult rides left to sell!
ARRGH!
MOVIE REVIEW!
The other night we sat down to the new Dredd film starring Karl Urban.  I have to say they have made two Judge Dredd films so far and neither one hit the nail on the head.  Granted this one came close and standing alone as an action flick it was good albeit slightly predictable. I do respect the bravery of the director and Mr Urban for the fact that at no point do you see Dredd without his helmet.  True to the creators insistence that The Judge was the hero not the man beneath the helmet. The intense slow motion effects worked well within the construct of a drug induced "trip", and of course the gory action was made that much more effective (if you're into that) but truth be told the whole act of slowing down or freezing action shots (ie. Matrix) is becoming overdone.  Personally the intensity of  fight scene is much more palatable in the style of early Jackie Chan, or the Bourne Trilogy where you grab the edge of your seat and brace for the ride trying intently to follow the fight coriography.
Even though I have become rather jaded by recent Hollywood attempts to bring about "made for trilogy" movies I hold true to my caveat that the only ones that worked whole heartily for me are those based on the comic book fandom.  Here are characture and story lines designed to be ongoing and with continuity and their own fully developed universes worked quite well as such.  I hope this one was but a meager beginning to an on going franchise.  They created a rather convincing "Mega-City, with the towering "Mega Blocks" dotting the landscape as tombstones in a grave yard, a devastated world riddled with possibilities! 
I do so hope they work in the Wastelands !
All right with that I'd best gt some down time to be fresh for tomorrow!
See you all then!

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