Quickie Movie Reviews!
Given that my storymuse seems to be back (huzzah!) and to stop me from doing something incredibly stupid (like set up a SG-1 newsletter) I present quickie movie reviews for films that I've seen recently.
X3 will get a review all it's own - I have 'history' with that franchise, it will explain why I think it's such a pile of bat dren.
Ahem...;)
First up... Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
Saw this about a week or so before a grand jury in the States found two of the major players of this fiasco guilty as all heck. On the evidence put forward in this film... I am not surprised at all.
This story reads like a script for a modern day noir thriller instead of a business scandal. It starts with a dead body and goes from there. We're talking dirty dealings, amorality up the wazoo and strippers, in the first hour alone. Not to mention the real reason why Schwartzenegger is the Governor of Calif. I'm not even touching the whole 'Kenny-boy' thing. Too damn easy!;)
I've already taken the liberty of recommending this for the Business School stock. It explains what happened in language that a non-business person can understand. And the strippers will keep peoples attentions too:D
Recommended
The Da Vinci Code
I have a beef with Ron Howard and Akiva Goldstein. There, I said it. It dates back to the first of the LotR trilogy when they stole the prize for Best Adapted Screenplay from Mr P. Jackson and Misses F. Walsh and P. Boyens. The latter had performed a miracle by making the most unwieldy of the three books into a lean, mean adaption. Which is a lot more than what you can say for Goldstein.
If that doesn't convince you - three words 'Batman and Robin'.
I think we can also add 'The Da Vinci Code' to that list too.
This wasn't a terrible film. No, it just was... meh. I emotionally involved in the trailers before it than I was in the film itself.
I cried at 'United 93'; heavens help me when I see the actual film!. Laughed like a drain at 'Pirates of the Carribean - Dead Man's Chest'; so did the guy sitting next to me, amused by the swearing.
The story is believable hokum. Believable in that it wouldn't surprise me that such a thing happened. That Jesus did marry and have a kid, he didn't live in a vaccum. The book is a ripping yarn of the 'in one eye and out the other' variety. Hell, it's been described as a film script ready for filming.
So why must it be so damn pedestrian?! It only livens up when Sir Ian McKellen makes an appearance. He acts everyone else off the screen. Hell, Alfred Molina and Paul Bettany are in this too - top actors all of 'em and this is the best that can be done?
Oy - they've really got to raise their game for 'Angels and Demons'!
If you must see - wait for the DVD. Go see 'Cars' instead;)
X3 will get a review all it's own - I have 'history' with that franchise, it will explain why I think it's such a pile of bat dren.
Ahem...;)
First up... Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
Saw this about a week or so before a grand jury in the States found two of the major players of this fiasco guilty as all heck. On the evidence put forward in this film... I am not surprised at all.
This story reads like a script for a modern day noir thriller instead of a business scandal. It starts with a dead body and goes from there. We're talking dirty dealings, amorality up the wazoo and strippers, in the first hour alone. Not to mention the real reason why Schwartzenegger is the Governor of Calif. I'm not even touching the whole 'Kenny-boy' thing. Too damn easy!;)
I've already taken the liberty of recommending this for the Business School stock. It explains what happened in language that a non-business person can understand. And the strippers will keep peoples attentions too:D
Recommended
The Da Vinci Code
I have a beef with Ron Howard and Akiva Goldstein. There, I said it. It dates back to the first of the LotR trilogy when they stole the prize for Best Adapted Screenplay from Mr P. Jackson and Misses F. Walsh and P. Boyens. The latter had performed a miracle by making the most unwieldy of the three books into a lean, mean adaption. Which is a lot more than what you can say for Goldstein.
If that doesn't convince you - three words 'Batman and Robin'.
I think we can also add 'The Da Vinci Code' to that list too.
This wasn't a terrible film. No, it just was... meh. I emotionally involved in the trailers before it than I was in the film itself.
I cried at 'United 93'; heavens help me when I see the actual film!. Laughed like a drain at 'Pirates of the Carribean - Dead Man's Chest'; so did the guy sitting next to me, amused by the swearing.
The story is believable hokum. Believable in that it wouldn't surprise me that such a thing happened. That Jesus did marry and have a kid, he didn't live in a vaccum. The book is a ripping yarn of the 'in one eye and out the other' variety. Hell, it's been described as a film script ready for filming.
So why must it be so damn pedestrian?! It only livens up when Sir Ian McKellen makes an appearance. He acts everyone else off the screen. Hell, Alfred Molina and Paul Bettany are in this too - top actors all of 'em and this is the best that can be done?
Oy - they've really got to raise their game for 'Angels and Demons'!
If you must see - wait for the DVD. Go see 'Cars' instead;)