My best movies of the last 10 yrs.

Of course as we leave one decade and move to another one it is natural to reflect upon the years past. As every crappy entertainment magazine will do I will follow.

Don't worry I know you won't agree with this list. Why? Because every one's taste in movies is different. That's what makes these things fun, because there is no wrong or right answer to this. But here is what I think are my 15 favorite movies of the last 10 yrs. These are in no order or ranking.....

1. Almost Famous(2000)- When I saw it, it was one of the most awesome movies I had seen in a long time. Good music, awesome subject matter and Cameron Crowe is great at setting a scene that looks like 1970's America. 10 yrs later I still watch this movie once a year.

2. Shrek(2001)- In my opinion the best animated movie to come out this decade. Always funny and combines fairy tail with outright mockery of Disney. Always a plus. And pretty much the only thing that keeps Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy employed anymore.

3. Training Day(2001)- Until Joker in Dark Knight I hadn't seen a more evil villain this decade than Alonzo. This dude was pure evil, crooked cop who was more of a thug than the dudes he was trying to put away. He was so good as a bad guy that it actually made Ethan Hawke believable as a good guy.

4. Bourne Identity(2002)- Honestly, before this movie came out, who thought that Hollywood could make Matt Damon a bad ass? I mean Will Hunting was a tough guy but then he cried like a baby at the end on Mork's shoulder. All the pretty horses, school ties, Legend of bagger vance, the talented Mr. Ripley the list of weak roles goes on and on. Then came this movie, where Damon kicked ass like Seagal did in the 90's. He showed us.......well played sir well played.

5. Pirates of the Caribbean(2003)- Just an awesome fantasy/action movie. Johnny Depp's performance was on point as a drunken ship captain. It mixed fun, action, and humor. And it made Disney movies cool to watch again.

6. Napoleon Dynamite(2004)- Say what you will about this movie but it was dumb enough to make you laugh. It was a sleeper hit and at one point in 04 it was cool to say vote for Pedro. For some reason the dull unemotional acting worked for this movie. I think it's because in high school for everyone there was a guy like this dufas.

7. Ray(2004)- Best Biopic to come out in a long time. Great music, well directed, Oscar for Jamie Foxx. Also very informative, I mean how many of you knew Ray was a heroin addict till you saw that movie?

8. The 40-yr old Virgin(2005)- This brought back the rated R comedy in a time where everything was going PG 13. It launched the career's of Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, and put Paul "I was in clueless in 95 remember me" Rudd back on the map. It was also the movie that started the Apatow standard of mixing shock humor with a sentimental story. There was so much funny stuff in this movie that if you haven't seen it, stop reading and go watch it!

9. Sideways(2005)- I'm yet to meet anyone other than myself that likes this movie but it was nominated for several Oscars. To me it was the beginning of the modern Bromance movies. And come on, who ever thought that dude from wings would get nominated for an Oscar?

10. Star Wars:Revenge of the Sith(2005)- In the 90's when Lucas announced that he was making prequels to the original trilogy this is what I expected. Not Phantom, not attack of the clones(or Titanic on Tatoone as I call it). This was the action pack, light saber dueling, explanation as to why Vader is the way he is. Yeah it was dumb reasoning but at least we know now! I thought it was damn good(no match for the Original Trilogy but far better than the 2 before). If only C3PO had picked up a light saber and kicked some ass it would have been perfect!

11. The Departed(2006)- This was just a great movie about crooked cops and drug dealers in Boston. Awesome cast, great director who made it look real authentic. Now some of the accents were not spot on but the acting was so it is forgiven at least by me.

12. Clerks II(2006)- Slackers still at 30. I think this is about the best and most meaningful movie Smith has done since Chasing Amy. Right amount of humor, right amount of story. Always great to see what happens to characters after the movie ends. Hopefully there will be a clerks 3. Middle aged and still slacking!

13. Superbad(2007)- If 40 yr old virgin brought back the R rated comedy this guy perfected it. Everyone had that one weird night out with your buddies in high school and this movie reminds you of it. This movie put Jonah Hill and Michael Cera on the map. Both were extremely funny and have gone on to do great movies since. I sometimes find it had to sit through an hr and a half movie that takes place all in the same night put this one pulled it off.

14. The Dark Knight(2008)- The Joker...ENOUGH SAID!

15. Star Trek(2009)- One of the best reboots to a movie in a long time. Cast was perfect(could you get a better Spock?) Great action and suspense. This made me like Star Trek and trust me I am not a Trek fan!!

Well that's it. Feel free to comment and add to it. Like I said before movies are the opinion of the person watching them so my list and yours are probably completely different.

Drew Mack

The Return of the Franchise

This will probably be a shorty blog but oh well.

It was brought to my attention last night through a few exchanges on facebook that with all the crappy videos I have made I have been neglecting all but one of them. I tend to push the latest one on youtube allot and forget that some of the other ones are pretty damn funny too.

So during this exchange on FB it lit a new fire in me to start pushing the one that started it all. Also the one that stars Drew Mack and Drew Mack alone. So I will not stop or rest until Indiana Chunky and the Shed of Destiny has more views than any other video I have posted. Thus it will settle the agreement on who's got the better drawing power and also put the video that launched it all back on top.

Of course this is all in good fun. So be sure to stop by my youtube site and experience it for the first time or again for the 1st time. Oh and if I can't get it past the views of my other videos with in a month........I WILL MAKE A PART 2 to it this time staring me and my cast of regulars!! So tell your friends and even your enemies to check it out!

www.youtube.com/drewmack78

Thanks
Drew Mack

Metallica: WTF am I doing at this shit?

So I've gone to a few concerts this year and all have been pretty good. I normally don't listen to or like much heavy metal, I'm more of a punk rock hip hop dude, but when the opportunity comes up to see bands that are considered "Legends" I generally will go check them out just cause it pretty much guarantees a good show. So when a friend asked a few months ago if I wanted to see these head slammin homeboys, I said yes.

Not not only is it a prime opportunity to see some awesome music played live but the people watching pretty much makes it worth the price of admission alone. Every one and their grandpa(literally there was a dude on the floor who had to be 60) was at this show. These fans were pretty diverse from old bikers, to old metal heads still "livin the dream", to their fans that grew up and now wear flip flop, shorts and play golf. Where it has to be kind of disappointing to them to see there fan base get so old over the years it also has to put them at ease in some ways. I mean now the band can do things they were never able to do when the hardcore fans were younger, like smile on the stage when they are having a good time and ask the audience to clap during the songs(cause that's so metal!).

With that all said the show was pretty good. I mean the opening bands were pure garbage. The 1st band I don't even know and the second was Lamb of God. I'm pretty sure they just played one 30 min song because all the music sounded the same and all the singer did was growl and yell.

Then came the main event. Metallica took to the stage, and where I haven't really followed these guys in a while there was the shock of seeing James Hetfield with pretty much a snow white goatee. These guys were probably the loudest band I have ever seen in my life. I considered for a moment buying earplugs, and that pretty bad seeing as how I have seen dozens of bands in my life and have never needed them.

The show was pretty good they covered most of their albums with the exception of load, reload and St Anger( I think all albums they would like to forget) They sang some songs I knew and chanted along to, and a bunch I didn't know but liked. The set ended with one encore and about 20 min of them hanging around after they were done throwing out guitar pics and stuff. They clocked in at about 2 1/2 hours.

Over all I had a good time and was glad I got the experience of seeing the kings of metal live. Don't know if I would see em again but I would recommend seeing em at least once.

-DM-