Time for an overhaul!

Hello, everyone.  This is Random Encounter featuring yours truly!  If anybody wants to know why I haven't updated my blog, I have run of ideas to put something here.  So I ran away and started blabbing on Twitter!

That just occurred to me and I shouldn't have done this all along:  Talk about other people, places, and things not many people talk about.

Once I got this new project fixed up, expect to see new material posted up here other than bad movies, anime, manga, video games, B-movies, exploitation, and trading card games.

This is Random Encounter.  I talk about things people don't know about!

October month already?????

Owie!  I am slacking on my rants and my encounters.  Honestly, I should really get things rolling out!  In the meantime, check out some of my text related works here!  Eventually, they will be recorded!

Random Encounter: Pan Am on ABC (brief history too)

Hello everyone.  This is Random Encounter and welcome abord!

I know, I should refrain from making any airline jokes but this show made me do it!
If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll spell it out for you; Pan Am!

Once the biggest airlines in the world, Pan Am fell to obscurity in the 90s due to two energy crises,
the intense airline competition, and for making terrible business decisions.

Don't know what I'm talking about?  Here's a stock photo on the Pan Am building in New York City.

Prior to the 90s, this was the iconic Pan Am building before they made the biggest blunder ever.
By the time Tony Montana adopted the Pan Am tagline, 'The World is Yours', Pan Am was acquiring National Airlines
in order to retain the competitive advantage.  Unfortunately, the acquisition came at the ultimate price
by selling off the fabled Pan Am building to then relativately known Met Life.  You know, the Snoopy insurance commercial.

I know what you're thinking.  Why I'm not talking about the stewerdess?  I have my reasons:

1.  The main star is the grown-up Wednesday Addams, aka the gothy emo chick who thinks dead people are cool.
In addition, she's a psychotic madman.

2.  Pamela Anderson, my ideal replacement, was kidnapped by some Middle Eastern sexist who wanted to marry her amid the
fact that she hooked up with a rock star.
Bear with me, I love puns:  Pam An talking about Pan Am.  I am Pam!  Now spray it on the cookware!

Other than that, flight attendents aren't really important to me!  Besides, I'm a business grad and there's no reason
why I should pay attention to the attendees!  With that response, let's continue.

Pan Am also played a pivotal role during World War II when Juan Trippe was competing to gain the upper hand
on commercial airline travel.  Believe it or not, he, along with
his co-hort Senator Owen Brewster, attempted to legally monopolize the airline industry had it
been for one man; Howard Hughes.  You heard correctly, Juan Trippe attempted to legally monopolize the airline industry
.
Just be glad that Hughes prevented that scheme otherwise we would have been experiencing this:

Pan Am 1984:  The World is Ours!

Brought to you by Pam An:  Fly with me and I'll make you feel comfortable!

New video up!

Not your typical final destination!

Aug. 4 already????

Hey, everyone!  Well, I know that I should had updated my blog right now, but hear me out!  I finally got a better laptop!  So, keep me posted!

By the way, don't you find it sad that Obama's 50th birthday gift is the DOW Jones closing 500 in the red along with the ongoing fear regarding a double-dip recession (or the dragging recession depending on your point of view).

I also find it ironic that the same people who wanted to keep the Bush's tax cuts are the same people who had to deal with the debt ceiling crisis.

Seriously....not extending the tax cuts should have been one method to reduce the deficit.

Now if that wasn't bad enough, on the entertainment side, there's a movie that should had been considered racist in the late 60s, but was not.  However, because of this dreaded comparison along with my similar findings, it's safe to say that:

Rise of the Apes is perhaps one of the most borderline racist movies of 2011!

Stay tuned, I'll tell you more about it!

Random Encounter's Take on Selena Gomez's Three Card Monte

Greeting everyone, I’m going to talk about Selena Gomez.  No, she’s not the tennis player with a colorful mouth or part of the Addams family.  Rather, she’s the rejected Harry Potter of Greenwich Village. 

I know; Harry Potter’s popping up soon. 

To tell you the truth, there’s not much to say about her.  All I know is that she’s dating Justin Bieber.  Of course, in order to promote herself, she released a movie called Monte Carlo.  It’s just a waste of time. 

There are too many problems about this movie before I even started.  First off, I have an issue with the title.  If I want to watch about the movie Monte Carlo, I expect something about the casino Monte Carlo in Las Vegas or about the gambler who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.  I don’t care if it’s Joseph Jagger or Charles Wells since I rather read up on those people instead of some Hannah Montana wannabe who looks for love in Monte Carlo. 

It already makes my blood boil!  She just turned 18 and she already travel to France and Monte Carlo while I’m here ranting about the things I really want to do but are obstructed by those cynical slackers who are keeping me here from actually accomplishing those dreams.  Did I also mention she’s dating Justin Bieber; a celebrity wannabe?

If I had the opportunity to change the movie title, an appropriate title would be:

Three-card Monte!

That makes sense since you know you’re never going to get the lucky lady to win a decent fortune against the dealer since all he would offer is the dud. 

Another issue I had with the movie is the targeted demographics.  Whoever was part of the Selena Gomez marketing team should be fired on the spot.  Selena’s target demographic was preteens who watched Wizard of Waverly Place.  If you wanted at least somebody to watch a movie with Selena Gomez, don’t make a movie that would aim at a bunch of 17-year-olds or single lady urbanites!  Hannah Montana: the movie, despite the terrible review, had it right aiming at the demographics.  Justin Bieber and the Jonas Brothers concert also had it right aiming at the current demographics.  And here’s Selena Gomez…

(Silence noise)

Also, releasing this kind of movie during the summer is a terrible idea!

In May, we had Pirates of the Caribbean, Cars 2, and Thor.  In June, we had X-Men, Green Lantern, and unfortunately Transformers 3.  As for July, there’s Harry Potter, Smurfs which I don’t understand, Cowboys vs. Aliens, and Captain America. 

Then you have a movie starring Selena Gomez and a bunch of nobody onscreen promoting Monte Carlo.  Tagline:  It’s a PG-rated Sex and the City with a dash of Joe Millionaire.

For those who don’t know Joe Millionaire, it’s about a blue-collar bachelor posing himself as a multi-millionaire who sends invitations to a bunch of suitors to visit his ‘mansion’.  Let’s just leave it at that since it would get too complicated.

Exactly, how on earth can Selena Gomez compete with all of the superhero movies during the summer?  You can’t, simple as that!  Release the movie during September or wait until next spring.

Wait a minute, there’s another factor she’s promoting with her movie and that’s her signature song.  To be fair, her song is kinda catchy, but there’s one tiny problem which I’ll get to shortly.  Have you guys figured it out?  Not yet?  Alright, I’ll reveal it to you; she had never experienced that hardship herself. 

I understand Lady Gaga, Eminem, and surprisingly Taylor Swift because they experience hardship during high school.  As for Selena Gomez, she gets an automatic disqualification due to her bubbly pretentiousness.  Note to producers; don’t give a motivation to anybody who hadn’t experience any social hardship themselves!

Who says you’re not perfect?  WHO THE HELL CARES?

If you can’t relate to us, you have no right to motivate us!

This is why I’m sick and tired of those motivational speakers since they are clueless about the struggles we had encountered during our lifetimes and yet he probably lives in the land of excess without any conscience or second thoughts.

Of course, I’m talking to you Mr. Trump and I’m still waiting on your tax returns.  See you in my next video.

Selena Gomez already stumble her movie career before she actually started losing popularity.  Though you can argue that debate with Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson and Mariah Carey, their music careers were already taking a nosedive while Selena’s career just got started.  Let’s just hope that if her relationship with Bieber is over, she would not walk downtown and shave her head bald!

This is Random Encounter!  Coming up next, I’m going to discuss horrible, horrible bosses so stay tuned!

It's not Friday the 13th, but it should be! (My unfortunate encounter with Rebecca Black)

If there are any music reviewers out there, please rip this music apart!

Trust me, you rather encounter Katy Perry than her!

I thought Kesha was the only party girl I have to deal with when it comes to bad pop songs (though there are many others), but Rebecca Black takes the cake!

Unlike Kesha's songs that are surprisingly catchy (and yes even Rick Astley or Starship), a song by Rebecca Black would probably give me a heart attack!

So how did I encounter her?  Well, it was by accident since I was looking for songs that were relevant to Friday besides Katy Perry or The Cure.  In addition, I also heard it got top marks by having the majority of dislikes on Youtube.  Yet, Simon Cowell has yet to release his statement on the current pop music trend.

Just to make it clear, Simon Cowell had gone AWOL when this scratching blackboard track was released!  If he was so dead serious about becoming a real critic on the X Factor, then he shouldn't have slacked off when he left American Idol.

By the way, I don't care what people say, but American Idol blows.  Ever since Jasmine was booted off, I have no hope of that show anymore.  Besides Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, nobody really wins in American Idol since participating on that show doesn't guarantee any increased publicity!

When's the last time anybody talked about Justin the runner up, Clay Aiken, Ruben Studdard, Kellie Pickler, or even Taylor Hicks?

That aside, I got curious by clicking on her music video.  If Willow Smith and her agents were watching this, despite their horrible track, they would sigh in relief and glad that their song doesn't suck as much as her's.

It's a mess.  The artist can't sing, the music video is distorted, the auto-tune was ineffective, the rapper's cameo is cliched, and did I mention that she can't sing.

The worst part?  She already become infamous by appearing with Katy Perry with her song, ironically called 'Last Friday Night'. 

Yet another disqualified artist who would join with the likes of Tommy Wiseau and Ed Wood; cashing on the bad publicity in order to create marquee name value. 

Random Encounter is signing out and he dares you to click this link!

Transformers is going to suck and Megan Fox already jumped ship!

Greetings everyone, Random Encounter is making a big bet for this review today.  I know that I was supposed to review Transformers 3 for this bit, but there was an incident.  Don’t look at me, why don’t you speak to Pat Lee about the Transformer sequel.  No clip?  Alright, how about a word from Megan Fox.  There's no clip because Megan Fox became a diva!

Jonah Hex is right!  Megan Fox was hexed!

What I don't understand is why it took Hollywood too long to figure out she's not even worth casting other than anything fanboy related.  Milla Jovovich is another issue but for now....

Wait, she's in Three Musketeers?!!  Remind me about having a Three Musketeers bar when this movie is released!

That aside, I don't see any other qualities Megan Fox has other than star in Transformers.  I remember she was on one of those Superbowl cell phone commercials, but that's about it!

Honestly, with her current attitude, there's no way she would ever handle a crowd full of fanboys, ever!

Should anybody tell me otherwise, feel free to let me know!

As for the Transformers movie itself, you can really tell it was only created to cash-in the name itself in order to make a quick buck for those unrequited fans.  The movie didn't faze me at all!  If they wanted my attention, why not create a DECENT transformer toy for once!

The only times I paid retail for a Transformer Toy was during the Robots in Disguise era, following by Armada (kinda regret that), and the well detailed Alternators line.  

Pretty much, you can also bet that eventually they would make a G. I. Joe movie to revise the toyline....and fail miserably by trying to copy-cat Michael Bay's success.  

Even though I tried not to criticize Michael Bay, Dark of 'teh' Moon makes it too easy to make fun of his artistic style. 

In fact, anybody can with The Michael Bayifier! (Works well with NASA and Pearl Harbor)

 Unfortunately, there's nobody out there who can light the darkest hour of The Transformers.  It's just impossible!  Let's just hope that it put the breaks on Michael Bay's career!

Random Encounter signing out...

Extra bonus:  These will keep you entertained!

Transformers: The Movie Review
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen review
Transformers: The animated movie review
Transformers: The Comic review

Who's Your Daddy?

Sorry, really had to say it like that!  After all, Happy Father's Day is just so plain!

Unfortunately, one particular athlete has to suffer this chant!

In preparation for X-men: First Class

ADAMANTIUM RAGE!

Hangover 2 Response

Do you find it ironic that somebody predicted Hangover 2 even before Hollywood thought they can make a sequel?  Well, here it is.  To tell you the truth, I enjoyed this mocked up sequel:

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/cs/11744-hangover

American Idol: The All-American Rejects of Pop Stars (Excerpt)

Howdy, everyone.  Well, it's kinda cruel to say that, but once Pia was voted off you know it wasn't going to be anymore interesting.  This is not the end of the American Idol critique though.

Random Encounter's Ultimatum

Should I or shouldn't I put a little spin on this 'comic'?  I think I have 'The Blob' figurine somewhere in my collection...

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/30958-ultimatum-1-2

Friday the 13th with Bridesmaids

Hey everyone!  Random Encounter here!  I don't know what's scarier:  Jason Vorhees or Bridesmaids?

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

Killed in action in Abbottabad, Pakistan!

Take that Morgan Spurlock!  While you were busy promoting your wonderful Pom juice, for some odd reason US soldiers found him in Pakistan! 

As for my Random Encounter rant, let's leave that another time!  Besides, I save you two boobless hours!