The combat scenes were pretty intense even though the movie garnered a PG-13 rating, and in the beginning scenes of the movie the mysterious Aliens are not shown. For me, the movie was very good at creating suspense and an air of mystery surrounding the Marine’s enemy and how devastating the Alien attacks and tactics are.

Here’s a summary from IMDB (click the link for more info):

A Marine Staff Sergeant who has just had his retirement approved goes back into the line of duty in order to assist a 2nd Lieutenant and his platoon as they fight to reclaim the city of Los Angeles from alien invaders.

BATTLE: Los Angeles Trailer

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IMDB Plot Summary, Cast, More
World Invasion: Battle Los Angeles Offical Websites
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Beginning in October (on this blog) and in September (on my tech blog) I will be giving away one book or set of books per month. Dates and specific details will be announced when the giveaway actually begins!

I am also doing a book giveaway on my tech blog … go and check it out here.

RELIGION

90 Minutes in Heaven (By Don Piper with Cecil Murphey)
The Prayer of Jabez (By Bruce Wilkinson)
Secrets of the Vine (By Bruce Wilkinson)
Opus Dei (By John L. Allen)

MANGA

Mission: Protect the Waterfall Village! (By Masashi Kishimoto and Masatoshi Kusakabe)
Innocent Heart, Demonic Blood (By Masashi Kishimoto and Masatoshi Kusakabe)
Naruto Volume 2 (By Masashi Kishimoto)
Naruto The Movie: Guardians of The Crescent Moon Kingdom (DVD)
Naruto Shippuden 3, Original and Uncut
Yuyu Hakusho Volume 1 (By Yoshihiro Togashi)

ROMANCE NOVELS/PAPERBACKS

The Time Traveler’s Wife (By Audrey Niffenegger)
Heart of Fire (By Kat Martin)
Darkness Unknown (By Alexis Morgan)
Obsessed (By Susan Andersen)
The Champion (By Heather Grothaus)
The Warrior (By Heather Grothaus)
Forever Yours (By Janmarie Anello)
Deep, Dark & Dangerous (By Jaid Black)

MISC

Cirque Du Freak, Volume 1 (By Darren Shaw, Art by Takahiro Arai)
Ghengis Khan, Conqueror of the World (By Leo De Hartog)
Prophecy (By Sylvia Brown)
The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook, A Guide to Healing, Recovery and Growth (By Glenn R. Schiraldi, Ph.D.)

DISCLAIMER: Besides any explicit comments that I make about these books, I am not endorsing them, nor expressing approval of their content. These are books my family and I have collected over the years and thought it would be nice to give them away. Again, these are not endorsements by myself or family members for these books.

These Amazon links show the books and info, covers may vary slightly….

Mission: Protect the Waterfall Village!
Innocent Heart, Demonic Blood

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The Joes and Cobra are treated to a super-upgrade of technology since the last cartoons I saw as a kid. If you can, I would recommend checking out the movie, even if you aren’t a GI Joe Fan since you will also be able to follow the story line and enjoy the hi-tech super-battles that permeate the movie.

Check out the Official GI Joe: Rise of Cobra site.

GI JOE RISE OF COBRA (Youtube Video)

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This funny movie is worth watching and features some amazing stars and American History. Oh, I never found any cool maps of the Smithsonian Institution National Archives, so if you did, please drop a comment below.

Official Website

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Trailer

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UNRELATED: Prince of Persia Movie Trailer

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It seems I’m in a minority group with those who thought Terminator Salvation was a great BLAST of a movie. There was very little I didn’t like about the movie, and I can’t think of anything I didn’t like about it.

The ever-important John Connor has grown up, Skynet has come to life and executed Judgment day and mankind struggles to survive. Terminator Salvation is set in the future of the first 3 Terminator movies and after we’ve lost the battle to destroy Skynet before it comes to life. As evidenced in the trailer below, everything in the future is not as had previously been known… it seems Skynet has used its travels to the past to gather intelligence.

TERMINATION SALVATION TRAILER:

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Today [October 7, 2008], we’re taking our first steps to providing YouTube users with this kind of instant gratification, by adding “click-to-buy” links to the watch pages of thousands of YouTube partner videos. Click-to-buy links are non-obtrusive retail links, placed on the watch page beneath the video with the other community features. Just as YouTube users can share, favorite, comment on, and respond to videos quickly and easily, now users can click-to-buy products — like songs and video games — related to the content they’re watching on the site. We’re getting started by embedding iTunes and Amazon.com links on videos from companies like EMI Music, and providing Amazon.com product links to the newly-released video game Spore(TM) on videos from Electronic Arts.

Now, if the price is right for those purchases that will be great, I already buy MP3′s from Amazon.com. Go YouTube! Here’s a good example of a YouTube wil embedded advertising:

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When credits roll if you get up and walk away you aren’t going to miss anything.