Damn you Civ4 Beyond the Sword

First week on the blog and I’m already struggling to find some content to write.
The thing is, I haven’t seen a lot of movies this week. I’ve been preoccupied with the game Civ4 beyond the sword. I’m hoping to make this up after I watch Live free or Die Hard this weekend. I’m really looking forward to it. Die Hard is and always will be the number 1 action movie in my book. Add to that the good reviews I’ve read and a cameo of my favorite movie persona Kevin Smith and you can’t go wrong.

Kevin has his own blog at www.silentbobspeaks.com, it’s the only celebrity blog I consistently find the urge to read for. He even has an entry over his heterosexual man crush Bruce Willis, you can look it up, it’s posted around December 2006. I can compare it a bit with the way I feel about Kevin Smith. Well…. You know… he’s not an action hero or even remotely close to that. (except for that one bluntsaber-force thing he did in Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back) but every time I see a Kevin Smith related item on my screen I can’t stop watching. The first movie I ever saw of Kevin was Dogma on VHS. The sound was terrible, it must’ve been a video thing, but I loved the movie. Such a great way to satirize religion and faith, but in the mean time still give a clear message bout moral values. And of course the humor was right up to my ally. I’m not such a movie freak (or at least I wasn’t) that everytime I looked at a good movie I had to know who made it. So I left it at that. I’ve seen Jay and Silent Bob in the mean time and started to recognize the characters.

One time I was watching TV at 1:00 am in the morning with some friends, to drunk or to lazy to get out on a Saturday night, and we were watching some dude infront of a mike telling his life story. He was answering questions from college students and taking his time to do so. Every story he told turned into a great anecdote or joke and the hours went by like they were nothing.

That’s when I started to actively follow Kevin Smith’ career, picking up Clerks (I can’t believe I had to import that one from oversees) Chasing Amy and his other movies.The man is a genius. If you haven’t seen any of his work you’re missing out. Or if you have seen his movies, but are not a fan, please look at some clips from an evening with Kevin Smith on YouTube.

I’ll let you know what I thought about Live free or Die Hard next week. I’m sure I won’t be disappointed, It’s Die Hard!