Is This Good For The Company?

The Bob's Think That You Aren't Challenging Your Self Enough, Games Industry.

In an age where having an individual product isn’t enough, where building a brand through viral marketing via ‘synergized releases’ -- its easy to lose sight of what’s important. Did we need the insulting and insensitive advertising campaign circulating the release of Dante’s Inferno? When you ate Dominio’s pizza in the 90’s where you thinking, “You know, if I could avoid the Noid and eat pizza, life would be so close to completion.” Maybe the Doom movie should have been released straight to DVD, seeing as theater goers typically do not support video game movies starring men [Angelina Jolie & Milla Jovovich]. The point is, we have come far from the days of Ducktales and Aladdin. We exist in a time where seeing a broken cd on the sidewalk is common. Furthermore, seeing brands stretched and skewed to make a buck -- makes what you liked about said brand much more disposable.

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The Brog's 2 Year Anniversary!

Trust Me, I'm Just As Surprised As You Are.

It all started with an image of Jeff Goldblum in short-shorts. We’ve been through a lot haven’t we? Internet memes. Epic gaming rants and the institution that is the nonsensical image at the end of my movie and game reviews.

This is the part where I issue some form of “state of the brog” address. There are plans, but for the handful of you who actually read this site, expect more of the same. Which, I guess, is more of anything I can get my mind around. There won’t be some major site overhaul or “Brog 2.0 beta” experience. I do like making banners with me in them, so expect more of those [narcissism]. For the eight of you who have stuck with The Brog this long ... I apologize. No one should willingly subject themselves to such poor grammar on a regular basis. I salute you.

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Inception Review -- What Dreams May Come

Hot Tip: Typically When One Dreams Of Water, It Usually Means Change Or The Urge To Urinate

Ambition powers great artists. However, ambition doesn’t always make for great art. There are usually a lot of moving pieces in a final work and a lot of reasons why that final work came to be. Christopher Nolan’s Inception is definitely an example as to why a lot of moving pieces don’t always bear the fruit of the greatest art, but usually makes for better ideas for the medium. There are so many great aspects of Inception that I’m sure hundreds of reviews [including this one] will miss many of the finer details. Some of these details are marred by questionable pacing and character detachment. This may be one of the best movies of the summer, but that really isn’t saying much. With flaws, Inception is definitely a technical achievement in movie-making. I have to recommend it just based on how ambitious it is.

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Cyrus Review -- Marisa Tomei Gave Birth To Jonah Hill?

Its Almost Like One Of Those "Find What's Wrong With This Picture" Isn't It?

Is it possible for a movie to be completely competent and incredibly predictable? Cyrus intends on proving around every turn, is something you have probably already thought of seconds before peering around the corner. We are also to believe that a sexually confident Molly, played by Marisa Tomei, is the mother of something resembling Jonah Hill -- who plays Cyrus. Though the casting may be a bit odd for the movie’s low budget nature, Cyrus makes for an interesting conversation while you figure out how odd or apt a reference is that John C. Reilly actually does visually favor the animated ogre, Shrek.

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Twilight: Eclipse Review -- It Was The Best Of Times

Flowers Are In Bloom, It's Still Cool To Have 20-somethings Play High School Students...And Apparently Virgins.

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Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work [Review]

I Never Thought I'd Watch A Documentary Centered Around Joan Rivers. I Also Never Knew How Joan Looked Without Makeup.

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Iron Man 2 Review: Please Don't Let There Be A Third.

Terrence Howard Said "Maybe Next Time Baby". I Never Thought I'd Prefer Howard Over Cheadle In ANY Role, But Here We Are.

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Nightmare On Elm Street Review: How To Fail At Remakes 101

With Such A Memorable Impression The Original Nightmare On Elm Street Left On Fans, This Remake Sought To Destroy All Hope Of Fond Memories Of The Franchise. Mission Accomplished.

Nightmare On Elm Street fails as, what one considers, a bad horror movie. Think about a movie like Twilight. A movie where all compelling action and horror thrives on characters behaving in a manner that goes against logical thought, but somehow the cast of idiots manages to survive a near death experience. In this remake of Nightmare On Elm Street, director Samuel Bayer decides to go against conventional wisdom by constructing an absolutely conventional failure of horror film. There is no form of realistic horror in Bayer's remake. There is no character worth vying for and worse off, Freddy isn't funny. Nightmare On Elm Street has no entertainment value because every aspect of this movie is devoid of anything interesting. How do you make a movie about killing dumb privileged teenager's in their sleep this awful? 

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Kick Ass Review: Truly A Flawed, Bloody Mess

Chris Hansen Is The Name Of The Gun.

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Date Night Review: "The Movie Where Fey & Carrell Got Unfunny"

Fey: "No Steve. Stop Calling NBC...We're Stuck In This Thing"

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