Bang Lime Pop Drop (review)

I used to adore Bang energy. The Coke sued them, bankrupted them, bought them and cut out almost every flavor I enjoyed. 

Now I RARELY get them because the only flavor they still have around I like (Sour Heads) is impossible to find around here, plus I've moved on to Ghost energy drinks now. 

But whenever I see a new flavor...I have to try it for old times sake. 

The name alone reminded me of one of the my favorite flavors Lemon Drop so I was hoping for something good. Instead, I got middle of the road. 

It beats the Key Lime Pie flavor from back in the day (which was one of my least favorites) but fell short of expectations. 

I really wish they'd bring back the Lemon Drop flavor. (sigh)

Have a good weekend folks!

 

Dracula (Review)

 Holy cow, I've seen the best Dracula movie of all time. 

Not only that but (at the moment) the best streaming movie I've seen this year. Shockingly good. Excellent, I would even say. 

The trailer didn't look like much but my goodness, how this movie pays off. 

Well worth your time if you haven't seen it already. I couldn't believe how engaging the plot, characters and scenery was in this movie. Amazing. 

I just hope this isn't the only movie to "wow" me this year. 

See it. 

We Bury the Dead (review)

 When an explosion happens off the coast of Tasmania, it kills everyone within a 55 mile radius. Yet some are known to come back to life after the event. 

It's our protagonist job of cleaning up the dead, reporting those who still walk to the army to kill and (secretly) find out what happened to her husband. 

It's a "zombie" movie that wants to be something different and in return, ends of being something completely boring. 

It's been a long time since I've quit a movie halfway in. Usually, i can plow through it while playing games or looking up stuff on the internet. But not this one. It got so bad, that I ended up watching a history of the 1969 baseball season instead. It was THAT bad. 

What a waste of time, money and effort (if there was any) in this movie. Avoid at all cost. 

Outlander (review)

Catching up with my reviews of movies I've seen this year come "Outlander" from 2007. 

I never knew this movie even existed until a friend told me about it a few months ago. 

The story of man who crashes his spaceship on earth during the time of the vikings. With the help of a local clan, he tracks down a beasts that came with him on his ship. 

It's a wild tale that keeps you interested yet comes up short in ways I can't describe. I felt like the premise was there as well as some of the scenes but as a whole the movie was missing something to put it on a higher scale for me. 

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed watching the movie but in the end felt it came up short. 
 

Strange Harvest (review)

 A while back my nephew wanted to watch this movie made to look like a documentary (they even dedicated it to the fake victims in the film) about a serial killer who also has a supernatural essence surrounding his killings. 

Twice I had to remind his friends that this was a movie and not an actual event....yep. 

Guess the movie was so good it had them fooled....twice. I can't say for sure but I even think I saw one of them trying to look up information about the serial killer on the phone. 

Geez. 

Anyway, is it worth the watch? Meh. It's not bad but really nothing to impress. 

Ranking Baseball Cards: Triple Play

 In an attempt to lower the price point in the market, these cards were released in 92 at the low price of 99 cents. So that kids who didn't have money could collect a cheaper version of baseball cards. However, some of these sets surprised me. 

3) 92 Triple Play

Yeah, they look cheap don't they? I remember seeing these and laughing. Thinking little kids were getting ripped off and not even knowing it. They look more like "premium" Pinnacle cards than anything else. 

2) 94 Triple Play

Really good looking set. It's funny how this shoestring "cheap" version of baseball cards far exceeded the look of its rivals in such a short time. Love this look. 

1) 93 Triple Play

This was the set that made me do a double take when I first saw it. I loved it. I couldn't believe the "cheap" version of baseball cards looked so beautiful. So I collected the entire set. The packs were cheap and the common cards cheaper so it wasn't that hard. Its one of the biggest surprises in my collecting era. I never knew cheapo cards could look this good. 

That about wraps it up for baseball cards folks! Have a great weekend!

Ranking Baseball Cards: Pinnacle

 As always, Score was one step behind the competition and came out with their version of "premium" a year later in 92. Here's my short rankings of their mess. 

3) 92 Pinnacle

The fact that Score had the balls to call this "premium" is laughable. For a base Score set this would look decent. But "premium"? Dreaming!

2) 93 Pinnacle

It's funny but even with the Premium label these cards are far inferior to anything the base cards were showing us in their sets. Pathetic. 

1) 94 Pinnacle

Well look at this! they finally came out with a good looking design. I don't remember these, maybe it's because I never bothered to consider what Pinnacle was coming out with that year but these look ok. So maybe they did learn their lesson as time went on after all. Too bad it wasn't soon enough for me to ever care about collecting them.