We went to see Adventureland on Sunday after seeing it on the listings for the neighborhood beer theatre and seeing a high rating on RottenTomatoes.

Let's get one thing out of the way up front: as the RottenTomatoes review implies, this is one more retelling of a story that's as old as the hills. It's a formulaic movie. You'll know every turn ( Read more... )

(This was posted on Utopia at 6:30am yesterday. See previous entry for context.)

Sep 29, 2006 3:29 from Neurophyre ( Read more... )

You know, if I keep thinking about them, Samara or Kayako are going to come visit me. Maybe both ( Read more... )

jwz had this to say about V for Vendetta a while back and I keep thinking about it so I might as well repost it and say I agree, despite never having read the comics, er, graphic novels, and having no interest in doing so:"I think the biggest mis-step the adaptation made was to make Evie [sic] basically lower-middle-class. The comic had a real ( Read more... )

V for Vendetta carries the Wachowski name of Matrix fame, but take note: the brothers are in the screenwriter slot, not directing. Vendetta has more somewhat more substance than the Matrix films -- most particularly the latter two -- and also more emphasis on it ( Read more... )

I'm fair to middling at the moment. I got out of bed and went to all my classes today despite little sleep. I probably got the minimum grade I wanted on my Info Systems midterm. Yay.

The grad student using the wiki for her class asked me to come to her class on Thursday to help people out with questions on usage. She wants to clean up their ( Read more... )

A first and last and dollar-short thought on the Oscars, which I did not watch and do not care about, and which is not my own thought but rather Wil Wheaton's:"On the subject of montages: putting The Day After Tomorrow in with movies like All the President's Men, Network, and Schindler's List? Are you serious? I hope someone got seriously laid, ( Read more... )

"Chick flick" certainly isn't the first moniker that comes to mind when one hears the words King Kong, and rightly so. Everyone knows the story, even unspoiled media virgins like myself who have never seen the original. Giant ape. Girl. Giant ape climbs Empire State Building with girl, smacks down some airplanes. Stop me if you need spoiler ( Read more... )

My aspiring-director friend called me yesterday and said, dude, go see March of the Penguins. He also said that he and his fiancee snuck into The Skeleton Key afterwards and that it was horrifyingly bad, but see my previous review for all that.

March of the Penguins is a French film, although the US release is narrated in English by Morgan ( Read more... )