Nov28

Your Fratoscope: November 28, 2010

by tonyd on November 28, 2010 at 2:54 am

If your birthday is this week: The good news is, the guy holding your pot doesn’t give you up when he’s raided by the cops, the bad news is, thanks to you everyone is going to miss the Willie Nelson concert.

Aries: You will be outed by Wikileaks. Next time you give a reacharound to diplomat, don’t follow up with a email asking how he liked it.

Taurus: The stars say, your plan to find that douche in real life who pwned you in Call of Duty and kick him in the nads is totally sane and reasonable. Anyone else would do the same thing.

Gemini: Stop passing around that link as real news. It’s the Onion you dipshit.

Lemini: This week you’ll eat what you think is leftover turkey, gravy and stuffing all mixed together. You realize later that you ate the dog’s food. Still good though.

Cancer: The stars say that knocking you keep hearing is your heart. Maybe you should cut back on your Red Bull and Four Lokos.

Leo: This week you’ll find out that the reason no one has said anything about you wearing your Halloween costume this long is because they like you to look like a slut.

Virgo: The creepiest thing that will happen to you is not that you will walk in on your roommate masturbating, but that he won’t miss a beat when you do.

Libra: You find out your Virgo roommate is one of those uptight people who can’t be real.

Scorpio: The stars say, when you can’t remember a girl’s name until you see their vagina, maybe it’s time to scale back your sexual adventures.

Sagittarius: This week, your prank goes a little too well. Not only does the iguana totally freak out your housemate, he stomps it to death. Sadly, the pet store will not refund your $500.

Capricorn: You will be shot with a potato gun and robbed by a group of nerds. Don’t worry, they only take your protractor.

Aquarius: You will realize that John Stamos has been slowly letting the air out of your tires and then filling them back up before you notice. Either that or you watch too much Glee.

Pisces: While it is okay to pee in the shower, you will find out this week it is not okay to poop in the shower, especially when you’re not taking a shower and when you ask to borrow a friend’s bathroom.

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Nov27

Frat Boy At the Movies: Wild Target

by tonyd on November 27, 2010 at 12:02 am

Wild Target stars Bill Nighy as a hitman that falls in love with his target, Emily Blunt. Rupert Grint plays Nighy’s hapless apprentice. It’s a pretty solid movie and worth seeing.

The movie opens with Nighy committing his latest hit with excellence. Ever the professional, his entire life has centered around the kill. Following in his father’s footsteps, he’s known nothing else. However, some tiny part of him wants something more.

Enter Blunt’s character’s Rose, a huge kleptomaniac, she pulls off a sell-the-fake-painting con and is targeted by her victim. After following her around, Nighy grows to like Rose and can’t bring himself to kill her. He eventually becomes her bodyguard. On the way, Grint stumbles on the scene and Nighy decides to make him his successor.

Yes, this movie has been done a thousand times before, but never this well or this funny. Nighy pulls off the uptight Englishman, while Blunt tears through scenes causing chaos wherever she goes. Grint is essentially a slightly stupidier version of Ron Weasley, but it works well in the movie. He has a few very funny scenes.

Directed by Jonathan Lynn, the movie zips past at a good pace. Almost ever character has some kind of charm to him or her. It’s really well done.

Definitely one to see. If you want to take your date to an arthouse movie that won’t bore you or rent something cool in the next month or two, check it out. I give it 8 out of 10 keggers.

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Nov27

Frat Boy At the Movies: Monsters

by tonyd on November 27, 2010 at 12:01 am

Monsters is a gritty, indy movie with a great premise that ultimately falls short. Six years ago, NASA sent up a probe to explore and/or gather some alien life. Unfortunately, on the probe’s return, it crash lands in Mexico, contaminating our planet. After six years, the weird aliens are now occupying infected sections of Mexico and are slowly making inroads into the U.S.

The plot of the movie revolves around a reporter that agrees to help get his boss’s daughter back to the U.S. Unfortunately, complications arise and the couple ends up walking through the infected zone.

Now you might look at this trailer and expect the following things: Cool aliens infecting humans, half-human, half-alien hybrids, a scene where something bursts out of a person’s chest, another scene where someone is pulled into the darkness screaming, “Noooooo!”.

You might expect a Cloverfield-like ending where everybody dies and aliens run amok. You might expect robots, future technology, laser battles, androids or light sabers. You tell me from watching this trailer.

After many, many tense scenes of the main characters nearly being killed by the aliens, none of that happens. In fact, the final scene is kind of boring. And the end scene at the beginning of the movie doesn’t really work for me. We don’t gain anything as an audience member by seeing it really. In fact, I was expecting to see the scene RIGHT AFTER that one, but then the credits roll. What happens?

Well, I guess in this type of movie, that’s not suppose to matter. We’re suppose to look at the aliens, who are essentially giant, dumb animals and say, “Ah, WE are the Monsters.” Unfortunately, that doesn’t really work either as everyone in the movie is relatively nice to the couple, except for the few souls that are key to putting them in the situation to begin with.

I could go on into more detail about why the movie doesn’t work, but overall, it just doesn’t deliver as a big alien invasion movie or a clever indie movie. It sort of bridges the gap between and fails to deliver on both. Although I wanted to like Monsters, sadly, I must give it 3 keggers out of 10.

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Nov24

Twitter in Focus: Greg Proops

by tonyd on November 24, 2010 at 12:01 am

Hello, bros! And welcome to Twitter in Focus where media comes to die! This week’s contestant is comedian Greg Proops who might remember from his many stand up gigs and Whose Line is it Anyway? He’s funny, he’s in improv and he tweets. Let’s see how well.

November 14th: “I am overwhelmed by how much love you give Chicago. I love you back. I can’t come back soon enough.”

Greg’s stand up is pretty awesome and pretty smart. Let’s look at a clip.

November 14th: “I met Dennis De Young from Styx, saw Sam Shepard speak, couldn’t by a drink or a meal and got mad affection on the boards. Boom Boom Pow.”

Busy day.

November 14th: “And was touched by the Mancow.”

Oh, yeah, Mancow. One of his crew joined the frat.

November 15th: “Chelsea Lately Tonight Kittens. Be there.”

I have never seen that show, but here’s a clip.

November 16th: “Hey all y’all. Atlanta Thursday through Sunday. Laughing Skull Lounge. http://www.vortexcomedy.com/”

Ooo, good name for a club.

November 17th: “Grits on the Horizon.”

Yeah, that’s Atlanta. There is a most awesome 24 hour diner. Very East Coast.

November 18th: “Tonight, twice-nightly. Atlanta, kittens. http://www.vortexcomedy.com/”

Nice. I love Atlanta. I’m only there during Dragon Con, but it is a nice town. Lots of homeless, but even they are polite.

November 19th: “Regular Guys radio. Then, perhaps, the biscuit that flies.”

Flying biscuit? Hmm, tweeted improv doesn’t work I guess.

November 19th: “Dig some Odd News. http://oddnews.yahoo.com/video-odd-news-23096664”

Looks like a fun gig. Did you write it the one-liners? I like the one about Harry Potter fans.

November 20th: “Been to the Biscuit. Tonight two shows at the Skull then a secret Relapse at one bell.”

Oh, another strangely named bar in Atlanta perhaps?

November 20th: “Proopcast http://twitpic.com/38m9ia”
November 20th: “The Smartest Man in the World Proopcast This Wednesday 8pm Bar Lubitsch 7702 Santa Monica Bvd Admission is free for the sexy”

Damn, look at you. Flying all over the country. How did you enjoy the TSA enema?

6 hours ago: “Peach compote. Repeach. Peach compote.”

Yeah, that’s Atlanta. All about the peaches.

Okay, let’s rate Greg’s tweets. I think he had a good balance of plugs, comedy and links. I mean, he’s a busy comic, so I’m surprised he did this much original material just for his twitter. I feel like I can follow Greg a little bit on his journey. I give him a 7 for Style, 9 for Mustness and 8 for Insanity. That’s an overall score of 8, totally worth following. And if you have a suggestion for Twitter in Focus, email us here.

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