As I've probably mentioned, good movies and bad movies - for me - have one similar point: I dwell on them. The key difference is with a good movie, I find more reasons to like it. With a bad movie? I find more reasons to dislike it. Guess which one Avatar falls in? So on this sunny Memorial Day, I will pour out my thoughts ( Read more... )

When Adrienne was gone, I watched pretty much every sci-fi Rifftrax there was - this included five Star Wars movies (all except Return of the Jedi) and three Matrix movies, plus a few more. I concluded a couple of things, chief amongst that CG has interesting limitations insofar as action scenes go ( Read more... )

Adrienne's not here, so I'm watching a bunch of movies I might not otherwise watch - crummy stuff, in large. Well, I just watched a so-so Thai action movie, Demon Warriors. I won't go through the fairly incomprehensible plot, but the upshot is that sometimes when a person commits suicide they are granted evil super powers. Then, they fight! At ( Read more... )

I just got done watching the movie Doubt, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley (off of the play Shanley also wrote). It's got a really great cast, including a brief but dazzling performance Viola Davis. It is also one of the most intellectually and, you won't hear me say this too often, hehe, morally insulting pieces of media I've ever ( Read more... )

Soon I'll write about a fairly heavy thing I've read, but mostly in Adrienne's journey to the East Coast I've been numbing my consciousness with cinema that ranges from the truly awful to the really great. Tonight I watched two movies, one Chinese and one Japanese ( Read more... )

I really hate reading The World Socialist Website's arts reviews. Most recently, David Walsh - their go-to guy for most of their media reporting - reviewed Sonderbergh's "A Girlfriend Experience". First off, he doesn't actually like anything unless it's done by non-Americans or is an unwatchable art house movie, which disturbs me because those ( Read more... )

I just got done watching the remake of the 1973 film, The Wicker Man, called, yes, The Wicker Man ( Read more... )

Since I'm talkin' about the Muscles of Brussels, let me tell you about my last encounter with Van Damme ( Read more... )

I'm going to admit something and it's going to be very hard for me to say it. But I think I owe it to people to be honest and forthright about it. *takes a deep breath*

I really liked a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie. The movie is JCVD. I don't like it because it's a good action movie or a good martial arts movie. It is neither. I like it ( Read more... )

You've got reprise a role done by Jack Nicholson and do is so well that Jack looks like a pussy, and then you've got to die.

V. srs thoughts tomorrow.