Let me take that back. Go ahead and watch it, but only by following these steps:

1. Have somone pay for your ticket.
2. Make sure to bring a handheld system with you (preferably a Nintendo DS) and a good game (like New Super Mario Brothers).
3. Watch the first 15 minutes of the movie. Nice cars and extreme violence; the way all movies should start.
4. Leave the theater and fire up your NDS from step 2. Play for the next 1 hour and 15 minutes.
5. Re-enter the theater and watch the last 30 minutes. Enjoy the action and firefights.

What bugged me about this movie is that I wanted to like it. I like Heat and Collateral, so I figured that this movie would fall in line with those. The two actors look like a great modern-day version of the detectives from the TV show. The firefights were so loud and lifelike that I thought that one of the bad guys was sitting next to me shooting at the screen.

When I mean loud, I don’t mean like 80s action movies loud. I mean like there are people in the theater surrounding you and shooting at each other. If you go see this movie, it should be for the gun fights (all 2.5 of them). The story, if it is there, was totally lost on me. I didn’t understand anything that anyone was saying; maybe it was all the loud gunshots. I thought everyone was speaking English, but they spoke so quickly, so low, and so full of police/drug cartel jargon that I just couldn’t follow what was going on.

Joystiq posted a link to a YouTube montage of Sega’s Sonic games over the past 15 years. I didn’t know how big a Sonic fan I am until I watched that video. I have almost every game shown, and a couple that are not shown. Now I want to go pick up the few that I don’t own. Sonic Team has remained consistent over the years in terms of music by including pretty cheesy music that most gamers laugh at, but I can’t get enough of. My favorites are the Sonic CD theme song and Sonic R’s Paradise Island track (I think that’s the name of it). I’m not alone; Nad’s favorite is the theme to Sonic Adventure.

Last week on the bus, Will and I started talking about what to name our children. It is a conversation that we have at least once a month, but this time it was different….it was friggin’ hilarious in fact because we were trying to come up with the most horrible names possible for them.

To give you a bit of history, we decided a long time ago (okay, we were still in high school…) that regardless of gender that their initials would be AMD. AMD was derived from my love of Dungeons & Dragons and Sailor Moon. If you are confused, good - that just gives you an idea of how screwed up someone’s name was going to be. There have been several iterations of name combinations and honestly we still don’t have a suitable female name. For the males, our first son WILL be named Aidan regardless of how popular the name has become in the last 2 years. As a mom, I will take pleasure in being able to say that my son has my name. For those of you that are a little “De-De-Dee”, it is the exact reverse of my name. So, currently our first son’s name will be Aidan Michael. Other male names in the running are Avery and Artemis (which can also be a kick ass girl’s name as proved in a SNES Super Scope Six classic called ‘Battleclash’). The female names are a bit more difficult, but I would like to work Aoi as a possibility. It is japanese for blue, was first used by a character in Virtua Fighter and sounds like ‘owwweee’. The other name I would like to use as a middle name is Mariposa (spanish for butterfly).

So where does this start to go horribly wrong? When you consider names like Altima Maxima Diaz!!!! Here are some other monstrosities:

Accord Mitzubishi, Aztek Mazda, Audi Mercedes, Ariel Mini, A4 M3, Aviator Moutaineer, Accent Montana, Aerio Magnum, Acura Mercury, Aura Maybach…you get the idea. Aurora Milan and Aston Martin aren’t too bad, but we won’t be getting any money from these car companies for naming our children after their products.

It can get even worse if we consider themes other than cars. There are food products, video games, computer components, scrapbooking items, D&D races, creatures and spells, cartoon characters and clothing companies that can also be considered.
Overall, we want to give our children names that they can live with. I think we got the male names taken care of, but my need to have female names that are unique just makes choosing their name that much harder.

If you have a suggestion for either a male or female name, send us an email or post a comment.