The Thanksgiving weekend is upon us, so I’m going to try and use this here computer for nothing but mindless web browsing and World of Warcrafting for the next few days. (Our Thanksgiving dinner will be Cornish Game Hens, as per recently established tradition. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘movies.’
November 22, 2009
a quick sunday poll.
Doing some research for Beeg Eemportant Theeng, and finding myself in need of material.
What’s your favorite movie set in the 1920s/1930s United States?
November 20, 2009
pew pew. maaooowwwwnnn.
I know I’m months behind the Kool Kidz, but I finally had a chance to watch the new J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot. (Minor spoilers ahead, just in case you’re even less hip than I am, and haven’t seen the new Trek yet.)
Liked:
The visuals were amazing, as is to be expected of current-day CGI. The [...]
August 24, 2009
more flash movie reviews.
So I picked up another small stack of rental movies on Saturday, and (miraculously) managed to watch two of them over the weekend: Coraline and Inkheart. Both of them are movie adaptations of Kid/Young Adult fantasy books.
Coraline was just a lovely, charming piece of work. It’s hard to explain the Gaiman Factor to someone who [...]
July 26, 2009
it’s all that slovakian midget porn.
Here’s what the salesguy said to me when I bought my 120GB iPod:
“I don’t know anyone who can actually fill up an iPod classic.”
Here’s my current iPod status:
Dear Steve Jobs: Please to be making beeger iPod, kthxbai.
July 16, 2009
two to the body, one to the head…
Another movie on my to-watch list I finally got around to spinning up in iTunes: Collateral.
Hot damn. Somebody gave Wacky Tommy some excellent lessons on how to properly handle a pistol in general, and the execution of a Mozambique Drill in particular. He comes across as such a badass in the movie that it almost [...]
July 14, 2009
the movie critic is [in].
A few short critiques of movies I’ve finally gotten around to watching recently:
Aeon Flux
Synopsis: Resistance super-assassin goes up against autocratic government. Don’t try to figure out the plot too much, just enjoy the visuals. It’s Equilibrium with Charlize Theron instead of Christian Bale kicking the shit out of people.
Verdict: It wasn’t as terrible as I [...]
June 26, 2009
on the general suckiness of sequels.
So I hear the Transformers sequel is pretty good….if “good” is defined as “sucks only slightly less than ‘Gigli’.”
I have a pretty dim view of sequels in general, mostly because the majority of sequels merely tries to cash in on the success of the first movie, rather than offering something new and original. The worst [...]
May 7, 2009
a gun for werewolf.
Answering my own question about original werewolf movies or novels, I’ll name Whitley Strieber’s Wolfen, which was a pretty good and inventive novel, and a tolerable horror film (even if the film diverged from the source material quite substantially.)
For those who asked or commented…yes, I’m toying with the idea of a novel in the genre. [...]
May 6, 2009
rawr.
A question for readers of urban fantasy:
What’s the most original and interesting variation on the werewolf theme you’ve read in fiction or seen in a movie?
