Al Gore, recently coming out in support of Barack Obama here in Detroit, has proven himself to be a hypocrite once again. After his mansion in Tennessee was shown to be consuming an exorbitant amount of energy, he took initiatives to make the home more energy efficient.

Unfortunately for Gore, the last year has seen his energy consumption go up 10%. In the past year, he used more than 213,000 kWh of energy, enough to power more than 19 average American households in the same period. If the person telling us to reduce our carbon footprint can't do it himself, how can he expect us to? Or is his thought similar to the carbon credits being proposed in Congress - He can use all the energy he wants because it is offset by the money spent to reduce it and by speaking against it...

You can only run away from a problem so long...

Source: Tennessee Center for Policy Research

After my recent review of The Happening, I figured movies couldn't get much worse. Wow, was I wrong. Last Friday, I recorded the movie Route 666 on my DVR after seeing about 5 minutes of it. Needless to say, I was very tired at the time and apparently not thinking straight.

During my last review I made use of the spoiler tag, as to not give away the plot from the movie. I don't really care about that luxury this time because if you read this, you'll probably garner more enjoyment in the few minutes wasted here, rather than the 86 minutes you would never get back from watching Route 666.

The idea of the movie is simple. There is a highway - Route 666 - which is evil, and has been closed down. Years ago, there was a convict chain gang working, and they had an "accident" - which means that they were brutally murdered by the law enforcement in charge. Now they happen to be ghosts/zombies/whatever walking the highway and killing anyone who stumbles by. I thought to myself, this won't win any Oscars, but it might be enjoyable - hell, it's got Lou Diamond Phillips in it!

Words can't really describe how terrible this movie was. The camera shaking was so bad, that I nearly got sick to my stomach. It made The Blair Witch Project appear to be focused and steady. I think if I continued to think about this film I'd vomit in my mouth, so without further adieu, here is the trailer for the movie...and somehow they put all the best parts into the trailer - I know, how could those be the best parts of ANY movie. Oh well, I won't get those 86 minutes back.

Tomorrow is the day where political junkies such as myself rejoice. Stardock is releasing the sequel to the 2004 smash hit, The Political Machine.

What is The Political Machine?

The Political Machine is a PC strategy game in which players run for President. Players can choose an existing candidate or can design their own from scratch, then choose a map/scenario to campaign in. From there, players must tackle the issues and battle against their ideological opponent for victory on election day.

The game goes into great depth of the way politics work. I've pre-ordered my copy and am just waiting for the e-mail saying I can download it. For more information, and to pre-order a copy, please visit - http//www.politicalmachine.com/

Here's a new video just released from the Michigan GOP. While obviously biased, it does represent some of the sentiment felt in Michigan regarding the Democratic candidate for President...

M. Night Shyamalan's newly released movie came out this weekend. I haven't gone to the theater for a very long time now, but my wife saw the advertisement on TV and really wanted to see it. We decided to take in an early show on Friday as to avoid the rush, and it paid off, being the first ones in the theater. The popcorn was good and the chairs were comfy. After that, things just went downhill. In a nearly empty theater, a couple guys decided that the seats next to us were the best available, rather than take any number of empty seats. From the incessant snorting, to the phone calls during the movie, the atmosphere wasn't anything to brag about. Unfortunately, neither was the movie...

The initial premise of a mysterious disease causing all that were affected to essentially commit suicide had some promise, but fell apart before the story could take hold. Some of the problems were that the actors didn't act as normal people do, going completely out of the way of what you would expect. For instance, when the actors discover an abandoned truck, with keys in the ignition, they didn't take said truck. Rather, they looked for a map and walked a couple miles.

These things were just nitpicking however. If you still wish to see this awful movie, then obviously don't click on the spoiler tags or you'll be reading the entire premise of the movie...

[spoiler] The movie fell apart in the middle when it changed from being a horror/suspense film like some of the previous offerings from Shyamalan into a political statement. This was first evident when the idea that plants were responsible for "The Happening." Afterwards, when the hypothesis was that human stimulation was causing the plants to react, it seemed like an absolute let down - Plants, scary? Sorry, not so much.

Shyamalan lost the audience when the twist at the end of the movie had an interview where the banter was trying to figure out if "The Happening" was something caused by the environment due to a human threat, or if it was government testing. Unfortunately, he left no doubt as to his opinions and let the talking head make a comment claiming that he would believe the government wasn't responsible if there was another incident in a different location. This was of course proven when a similar situation happened to end the movie, cementing the film as environmentalist while setting up Shyamalan for a sequel. [/spoiler]

If you want to see a green movie this weekend, you'd be better off seeing The Incredible Hulk.