Heavyweights | "Don't put Twinkies on your pizza!"

It's on Netflix... go now and watch!

Heavyweights has always been one of my favorite Ben Stiller movies. Yes that Ben Stiller! He is hilarious in this along with the Fat-Camp goers to Camp Hope! I actually didn't realize it was on Netflix til yesterday when a friend shared they were watching it on Facebook. I have my own copy of the movie and watched it over the weekend not knowing it was on there. Here is a brief breakdown of the movie if for some unknown reason you haven't seen it yet. SPOILERS!

Fat kids got to fat camp that acquires a new owner who actually wants to get kids to lose weight so he can sell his own workout system called the Perki-System. The fat kids stay fat and overcome both the new owner and the fit/popular kids from a nearby rival camp. 

I guess technically you don't have to watch it now but I'd highly recommend it because its just so funny and you wouldn't get the "Don't Put Twinkies on your Pizza" line in the title of this post!

Netflix | Original Jurassic Park Trilogy

JURASSIC PARK!!! The original Jurassic Park Trilogy is now on Netflix as of June! So you need to watch them stat! 

No but seriously how awesome is this, you can literally watch the movie that changed CGI as we know it. The original Jurassic Park set the standard in melding both Animatronics & CGI bringing to life Michael Crichton' vision. 

Individual reviews for these movies will be coming so be on the look out for those! In the mean time make sure to check out these films on Netflix!

As a little bonus. I highly recommend going and buying this sweet Clever Girl shirt from the Chivery!

Netflix Movie of the Week | Jurassic Park

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer: Michael Crichton

Originally Aired: June 11th 1993

If you haven't read my original post yet the original Jurassic Park trilogy is now streaming on Netflix! The start of June Netflix began streaming these and as a huge fan of the original movie I had to write up a review of Jurassic Park.

Michael Crichton laid the ground work in his book with a crazy concept to create living and breathing dinosaurs using clone technology. The creative part of the story to me when I first saw this movie was how they found millions of years old dinosaur blood. A Mosquito. 

This scene pictured above was one of the most revolutionary scenes in all of movies. The first time we got to see a live dinosaur on a movie screen! Of course CGI has come a long way since then but this scene, at the time, was beyond exciting. Steven Spielberg wanted to meld both Animatronics as well as CGI to create this movie and he did just that. 

You follow the billionaire John Hammond as he recruits the top archaeologists and doctors to come sign off on his new amusement park, Jurassic Park. Dr. Grant, Dr. Sattler along with Dr. Malcolm are the three experts that Hammond hires to consult him on his park. The Dr's along with Hammond's grandchildren set out through the park.

To not spoil it all for you but poo hits the fan, the parks chief computer network engineer laid forth a plan to steal dinosaur embryo's to sell to Biosyn for $1.5 million. This coupled with a tropical storm oh and of course dinosaurs the group struggles to make it out of the park alive.

So, have you seen the original Jurassic Park before? Knowing that this released in 1993 what do you think of it?

Let us know in the comments below.

Netflix Movie of the Week | Atari: Game Over

Hey whats going on everybody? This weekend the Mrs and I joined some of our close friends for a weekend getaway in Branson Missouri. We had rented a cabin in the woods... (insert dark ominous music) The weekend has been great and I definitely don't mind having a couple of work days off! Anyways I figured I would watch some movies on Netflix and too my surprise they have added some documentaries that had been removed for a while.

The first movie I picked to watch again was Atari: Game Over. 

If you haven't seen this yet I would highly recommend it to you. This movie showcases the rise and fall of Atari. However the main reason for the movie is to discover the burial site for ET the game produced by Atari. 

The landfill and search for the site and spot of the burial of these games to me was secondary. My main interest was listening to Howard Warshaw, Chief game Engineer for Atari, talk about the glory days and life as a game developer in the height of the gaming industry. Warshaw created many million copy sellers including Yars Revenge and Raiders of the Lost Ark. 

In the end it wasn't just ET that led to the downfall of Atari in fact there were a lot of terrible games out for the system. However ET with so much hype and media surrounding the release of the movie and the timing of all the events there had to be a scapegoat. ET was just that. SPOILER: the landfill was excavated, games were found and some of them were ET. It wasn't a burial ground for that game it was a dump site for a warehouse with many Atari games that closed due to the fall of Atari.

So what say you? Have you already seen this documentary?

What did you think?

Any other Netflix suggestions?

-Joe

The cover art in these old games make them worth picking up as a collector!

Neflix | Disney

If you have been living under a rock for the past month you may have missed this HUGE announcement by Netflix:

Netflix Inc. has acquired exclusive U.S. rights to movies from Walt Disney Studios in a deal that catapults the Internet video-on-demand service into direct competition with pay TV giants such as HBO and Showtime.

The three-year agreement takes effect in 2016 and is a blow to the pay channel Starz, which currently has the rights to broadcast Disney movies, including its Pixar animated films and Marvel superhero pictures, about eight months after they are released in theaters.

Disney has also agreed to give Netflix nonexclusive streaming rights to more of its older titles — including "Dumbo," "Pocahontas" and "Alice in Wonderland" — starting immediately.

Netflix's chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, called the deal "a bold leap forward for Internet television."

"We are incredibly pleased and proud this iconic family brand is teaming with Netflix to make it happen," he said.

Being an active subscriber to Netflix for the past 5 years it's exciting to see the direction Netflix is taking. You better believe we are going to be snuggling up to so Disney and popcorn come September!

What do you guys think? Excited like me? Let me know in the comments below!

Daredevil Season 2 Trailor

Just when Matt thinks he is bringing order back to the city, new forces are rising in Hell's Kitchen. Now the Man Without Fear must take on a new adversary in Frank Castle and face an old flame - Elektra Natchios.

Bigger problems emerge when Frank Castle, a man looking for vengeance, is reborn as The Punisher, a man who takes justice into his own hands in Matt's neighborhood. Meanwhile, Matt must balance his duty to his community as a lawyer and his dangerous life as the Devil of Hell's Kitchen, facing a life-altering choice that forces him to truly understand what it means to be a hero.

-Netflix YouTube Channel

Netflix || What's in My List?

What's going on everyone, Joe here and I thought I would try a little something different with this post. My idea? Share with you what's in My List on Netflix! This list is going to be in the order as found on my Netflix account, they are in no particular order. So here we go! 

The 1st 5 items on my list are the League, the Interview, AHS, Arrow and Daredevil!!! Good start right?

Here I started to mix some things up and included a couple of movies I actually used to own on VHS. But Joe, what is VHS? Well young one it stands for Vertical Helical Scan and used to be the standard for movie buyers, renters and owners! Be kind rewind. Also, there are only 2 movies in this section so you should be able to find out which ones those are! :)

Some more good'ns here! The Dude, Archer and one of my new favorite shows... Comic-Book Men!

I may actually need to clear some of this stuff off the list here... lol Haunted House 2 is no where near as good as the first... I'm just saying.

Favorite one from this group is RED vs BLUE!!!

One word... SUPERNATURAL the wifey and I are on a huge Supernatural kick right now. Dare I say we want to find a Supernatural conventions!

Another stellar group here... I have been actively catching up on Dr. Who along with Supernatural from the last section. Then World War Z, Rescue Me, Underworld and Leprechaun Back 2 The Hood?? Front runner for top 5 section here so far!

BATMAN nuff said!

Another Leprechaun appearance here plus Jay and Silent Bod Strike Back

BATMAN!!! Even tho its Clooney Batman its still Batman! Plus if you have ever been looking for a LARPing movie give Knights of Badassdom! Oh and just look at the cover for Jedi Junkies, you can't be mad about that.

So... what do you think of the shows and movies on my list? 

Whats on your list? 

Do you have any suggestions some something for me to watch? Let me know!

Find me on twitter @iamjoebrooks

MARVEL'S DAREDEVIL: JON BERNTHAL CAST AS PUNISHER FOR SEASON 2

From IGN.com

Per Marvel.com, Walking Dead alum Jon Bernthal will portray Frank Castle - aka The Punisher, one of Marvel’s most popular characters. He is a vigilante who aims to clean up New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen by any means necessary, no matter how lethal the results.

“Jon Bernthal brings an unmatched intensity to every role he takes on, with a potent blend of power, motivation and vulnerability that will connect with audiences,” said Jeph Loeb, Marvel’s Head of Television. “Castle’s appearance will bring dramatic changes to the world of Matt Murdock and nothing will be the same.”

Check out the new bullet-riddled Daredevil logo from the show's official Facebook page...

This Week on Netflix: Snowpiercer

So we get back from vacation and I was looking for a movie on Netflix to review... I've seen Snowpiercer on there for a few months now but there was something about the looks of it that turned me off. However, Sunday I finally gave it a shot. Let me first break down who some of the actors and actresses are in this movie.

First and foremost Chris Evans, yes the Human Torch & Captain America himself!

Ed Harris! I'll never forget him in the Abyss.

Ollivander from Ollivander's Wands & the Harry Potter franchise, John Hurt. 

Plus many other notable actors and actresses!

Back to the review. From the beginning you follow a group of people on the Snowpiercer. What is the Snowpiercer? The Snowpiercer is a train created by Wilford built to sustain life in the cold, life on the Snowpiercer was the only life left on Earth. The Snowpiercer constantly travels around the globe on a global track built by Wilford. The Snowpiercer is segmented off by section, the further back you are the lower in the food chain you are.

You follow Curtis, Chris Evans, and a group of people living in the rear of the train. Their living conditions are horrible, no light except what is provided by the lighting on the train and they are far from clean. Curtis and a group of able bodies look to fight back against the powers that be. Guards make daily headcounts which you later find that its for population control on the train. There is only so much room on the Snowpiercer. 

The most interesting part of this movie was seeing all the different sections as Curtis and his men push towards the front. From their dingy and dirty living quarters, to the water purification section, sauna, aquarium, first class, drug class, party class and then the engine room. All different, all unique and were very interesting. This was the main draw for me I was excited to see what section would come next! The only draw back to the movie, to me of course, is the ending. pretty awkward actually if you watch and think about it. Re-population may be a bit tough. 

Anyways, I would definitely recommend checking it out. It has that future apocalyptic feel to it and Captain America is in it!  

What did you think? What movies do you recommend on Netflix? Let me know in the comments below.

 Posted by: Joe @thee.social.nerd

This Week on Netflix: Total Recall

​When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real, or does he? -IMDb

Browsing through Netflix this weekend between my episodes of Dr. Who we decided to watch us some old school Total Recall. Arnold plays Douglas Quaid your everyday average guy, well until you see his wife played by Sharon Stone. But like I said other than that he is an average guy working 9 to 5 but he struggles with nightmares of Mars.​

Total Recall is set in the future and a booming industry is called Recall is where you can implant custom memories. Why pay for a vacation when you can just by the memories off that vacation at a fraction of the cost? Not only can you buy these implanted memories but you can enhance these memories by adding different features such as your identity or the woman you're with in those memories. Quaid decides he wants to get his own memory of Mars where he is a Secret Agent.​

Follow Quaid on his custom Recall or real life adventures both on Earth and on Mars. Where you find some very interesting characters, one of which I like to call "Trits" you'll know when you see her!​ The movie does a good job at hiding what is real life and what are Recall memories. Definitely worth the watch and in my opinion much better than the remake in 2012 so go check it out!

Posted by: Joe @thee.social.nerd

This Week on Netflix: Dead Snow 2

Yes, there was a Dead Snow 1! 

If the worst day of you life consisted of accidentally killing your girlfriend with an axe, chain-sawing your arm off, and watching in horro as your closest friends were devoured by a zombified Nazi battalion, you'd have to assume that things couldn't get much worse. In Martin's case, that was only the beginning. -IMDB

This may have been the funniest and best horror/comedy I have seen since Shaun of the Dead! You get introduced to Martin, the main character and you automatically think of "Idle Hands" except its "Idle Arm!" This movie gets even more interesting when a Nazi army of zombies are awaken and Martin has the answer to defeating them in his arm! Martins new arm has the ability to raise anyone from the dead. So he brings the dead back to life and with him and a small group of the living look to take out the Nazi zombie horde!

I highly recommend this movie to any zombie movie lover and looking for something different, not so main stream, to watch. I'm looking forward to showing both Dead Snow 1 & Dead Snow 2 to my wife to see what she thinks as well!

I give it a 4 out of 5 and if you have Netflix it should be on your list of much watch movies!

What did you think of Dad Snow 2? 

Posted by: Joe @thee.social.nerd

This Week on Netflix: Knights of Badassdom

​Live-action role players conjure up a demon from Hell by mistake and they must deal with the consequences. -IMDB

Knights of Badassdom was actually a movie I had been wanting to watch for a while prior to it being released on Netflix but never got around to it. Listen to these 4 main actors/actresses in the movie and you'll see why: Ryan Kwanten (Jason Stackhouse from True Blood), Steve Zahn (from Sahara), Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) and Summer Glau (Arrow & Serenity). Not only did I want to watch this movie because of these actors but when was the last time you watched another movie about LARPing? Probably never! 

You follow Joe (Ryan Kwanten) on his reluctant journey through the Kigdom of Eliphaz as his roommates force him to tag along in their LARPing adventure. Eric (Steve Zahn) unknowingly releases a demon during a ritual they perform and they struggle to undue what had been done.

Things do get a little weird when the demon starts to make its presence and begins killing off those partaking in the event. However as I said before Summer Glau is in the movie so if LARPing actually has women like that involved... where do I sign up? 

All in all its a fun movie... should you watch it? Eh... you could probably skip over this one and live a full and happy life. I give it 1.5 Turtle Shells our of 5. The extra half a point was because it was about LARPing! 

Posted by: Joe @thee.social.nerd

Netflix Making Legend of Zelda TV Series

The Wall Street Journal reports Netflix and Nintendo are in the early stages of producing a live-action series based on The Legend of Zelda.

The publication's sources describe the project as being in the "early stages" but is being thought of as "Game of Thrones for a family audience."

No writers have been attached the potential series yet.

The words "Game of Thrones for a family audience" sounds amazing! I hope this actually works out and turns out to be as amazing as it sounds now!

This Week on Netflix: Horns

Blamed for the murder of his girlfriend, a man (Daniel Radcliffe) awakes one morning to find he has grown a pair of horns. Armed, now, with supernatural powers, he sets out to find the killer.

This was quite an interesting movie. I've been wanting to watch it for a while now and never noticed that it was on Netflix. Who knows it may have just been added I haven't paid too much attention. 

Daniel Radcliffe has come a long way from his wizarding days of Harry Potter. I haven't seen any of his other movies but I have been wanting to watch this one​ and I was surprised how much I liked it. 

For a brief synopsis of the movie you follow Ig (Daniel Radcliffe) after he is blamed for the murder of his girlfriend Merrin (Juno Temple). In a fit of rage after a brief ceremony for the loss of Merrin, Ig finds himself being upset with God and destroying the memorial. From there things get weird. Ig wakes up and notices that he has begun growing "Horns" and that everyone in town seems compelled to tell him the truth about anything and everything. As the movie progresses you start to uncover what truely happened to Merrin as well as her secrets. ​

If you have Netflix or still have a local movie rental store give this one a shot it does get a bit weird in the end but it was a good watch.​

Posted by: Joe @thee.social.nerd

What's on Netflix

Video Games: The Movie

Video Games: The Movie, a feature length documentary, aims to educate & entertain audiences about how video games are made, marketed, and consumed by looking back at gaming history and culture through the eyes of game developers, publishers, and consumers. The film is not just another film about the games industry, but attempts something much more ambitious; the question of what it means to be a 'gamer', a game maker, and where games are headed. Storytelling and the art of the video game medium are also explored in this first of it's kind film about the video game industry & the global culture it has created.

Source: IMDB

Narrated by Sean Astin who you may remember him as Rudy or maybe better know as the "stupid fat hobbt" Samwise Gamgee. This documentary takes us on a ride through the evolution of video games.

During this evolution timeline we get to go back to the very beginning and then end where games are the treated as not only gameplay but as art. Most of our readers will recognize these consoles and games, for myself I know it was a great way to take you back to how games used to be.  

My first console I ever owned I got on Christmas. This was still in the 80's and I remember being the luckiest kid in the world. My video game experience at that point revolved around two prior consoles, the Atari 2600 and the Intellevision. But back to the movie, they did a good job at hitting all the diffent generations of games/consoles. One of my favorite moments of the documentary was the launch of the Playstation 1 and the voice of Sony, Crash Bandicoot. The reason this stuck out was because I was a Nintendo fan boy at the time, didn't own a Nintendo 64 or a Super Nintendo but if I was good we would rent the console for the weekend. The reason this stood out to me was how much I hated the Playstation and that stupid Bandicoot! At the time I thought, "how dare this thing call out my beloved Mario!" Again, just one of the many memories that surfaced during my time watching this movie.

Not only did this movie address the different consoles made but the progress of society from taking a stand against Atari and its terrible rendition of ET to the acceptance of video game gameplay as an art. 

If your browsing through Netflix looking for something to help bring back some of those feelgood childhood memories this is one you can't go wrong with. The movie does jump back and forth on the evolution timeline which is the one and only draw back, thiis however doesn't take away from the movie one bit.  

Mean little Bandicoot... Right? haha

Posted by: Joe @thee.social.nerd

Netflix: 90's Batman Takeover

I've been a Netflix subscriber for a few years now. I didn't initially jump on the digital streaming movie/tv show bandwagon but I finally decided to join. This was back when you were still able to get both dvd rentals and streaming combined for one price. Also, at that time the service had categories to where if you paid more you could get more dvd rentals at one time. I chose the basic package which got me one dvd at a time and unlimited streaming. This was the very first monthly subscription I had ever signed up for and glad I did. The current movies listed for streaming is leaps and bounds better than they used to be. 

Speaking of better movies I've noticed the emergence of Batman movies popping up on Netflix. Not only Batman movies but the movies I grew up with. 90's Batman dominated my search with Batman Returns (1992), Batman Forever (1995), Batman & Robin (1997) then two animated movies with Batman Beyond (1999) and Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2008). 

I had also noticed at the time of this post my favorite Batman movie had been removed. Batman with Michael Keaton released in 1989. This brings me to one of Netflix' downfalls, the movies never last at least not all the good ones. I've heard Netflix is where movies go to die which isn't a bad thing. I've made sure to add Netflix to every portable device we have in our home and regularly flip on the AppleTV to tune in to a movie or show I have already added to my list.

If you're looking for a streaming service I would highly suggest checking out Netflix. For only $7.99 a month it's a cheap way to either eleviate your cable bill, catch up on recently released and older movies or just have the conveinence of VOD (video on demand).

Posted by: Joe @thee.social.nerd