Amidst a terrorist scare, I saw a movie in Times Square

As I mentioned in my last post, I went to visit a friend in the biggest city of these United States last weekend. Despite suffering an embarrassingly bloody tooth brushing accident (sadly not kidding) within 45 minutes of our arrival, I had an amazing time. We rode the Staten Island ferry, ate one slice each of the largest pizza known to man (see below), enjoyed the...scenery in Central Park (85 degrees and sunny = bikinis), and hung out 70 floors up on the roof of Rockefeller Plaza (by far the coolest part of the trip).

And while I caught up with an old friend I hadn't seen in a few years, the guys went to a 3:30am techno show in Brooklyn and danced their asses off. My only complaint for the trip is that we didn't run into Jay-Z or Andy Samberg...maybe next time.  Also, we shot the following music video.



Odds are pretty good you've already been told about this video 8-10 times on Facebook in the last few days, so I'm sorry if this is overkill. But hell, music videos are mini movies, right? Totally belongs on the blog. Plus, I finally figured out how to embed videos onto the page instead of just linking to everything. So...hooray me! 

Anyways...as the title of this newest post suggests, The Bo'z caught a midnight showing of Kick-Ass in Times Square Saturday night. You may not have heard, but there was an SUV filled with all kinds of things that blow up a few blocks away from us. The news would have you believe that this was a huge deal. But to us visitors who were in Times Square pretty literally the whole time this event was taking place, it was just annoying that we had to walk around the giant police barricades a few times. (The following picture was taken in the part we WERE allowed to be in..still pretty awesome) So...long story made a little bit longer, we weren't really worried about going KABOOM while watching our flick.

About that flick...Kick-Ass pretty well lives up to its name. There's a few pretty egregious plot problems, but a couple great fight scenes and Nicholas Cage's hilarious acting (yeah, I said it) more than make up for them. Definitely worth your $9 and my $12.50. (Speaking of the price: 1) I was honestly expecting it to be like $15 in New York, and 2) we sat in by far the most legit, non IMAX theater I've ever seen. Huge digital screen, awesome sound, and it probably sat 2,000. Awesome. Worth it.)

Until the next four paragraph intro to a half assed one paragraph review,

Colin

P.S. Here's a small taste of the best scene of the movie. Yes, that's Nick Cage, and no, he's not batman.