INKSTAND

This movie rocks, plain and simple. That is, if you enjoy seeing people get blown to pieces, which I do.
There is, of course, some weak-adhesive of a plot that holds this thing together. Some dumb-assed do-gooders want to go to Burma to help people or something, and Rambo tells them it’s a bad idea. They get killed/captured and the mercs sent to save them get killed/captured. Now Rambo has to save their stupid asses and defeat an army in the process. This of course leads up to a final battle that was full of what was best described by someone in the room (Matt? Bird?) as “Reagan-era violence.”
Computer graphics are utilized in some of the best ways I’ve ever seen, ripping people apart, setting them on fire, and having arrows shoot through them. Old-fashioned blood-burst-packets are used as well. Women and children are not spared, as the militants savagely shoot and/or rape them. This of course more than helps to justify Rambo’s liberal dismembering of their bodies, dispatching of their limbs, and exploding of their heads.

Here is a nice montage of the action…Not too many innocent people getting f’ed up here, mostly just the bad dudes. So don’t feel guilty, just watch.

Every once in a while when I’m looking for a refreshing beverage I see root beer and think “That would be great, if only it had caffeine.” I know Barqs has caffeine, but I haven’t had it in years. I know Jeremy and Matthew have recently tried it for it’s caffeine content but were unimpressed with it’s flavor. I was looking for a boost today at work and remembered that we had just gotten this drink in and it was the natural choice to go with. Bawls energy drink is pretty good by me so I thought a highly caffinated root beer would be a winner. My attention was also drawn to the gimick of not only using the word “geek” in their name, but using the “33″ to replace the “ee”, a nod to leet speak, or 1337 speak, or whatever the hell. It is also nice to see a decline in the usage of limit-pushing, poorly-spelled adjectives like “xtreme” or “maxxed”.

It tasted all right. It was crisp and sweet, but as far as root beers go it was a little lack luster. While it had a tiny bit of that energy-drink flavor to it, it wasn’t strong enough to make you think you were drinking yet another flavor of Monster. As for it’s energy-boosting abilities, the web site says it’s about as strong as a cup of coffee, and I will agree. I drank it at about 8 pm to push through the last couple hours of work and I made it, although I felt fatigued after 10. It’s about 11:20 right now and off of work so, as usual, I’m not alert but not ready ofr bed either. I’ll probably play Warcraft, which is the kind of thing this drink was designed for.

I’ll probably buy it again at some point. Put it into my stable of energy drinks. But at over $2 per 10 oz bottle, I sure won’t be drinking it all the time.