So, I saw Prometheus last weekend, and amidst the mini-dramas of that weekend, and assorted things happening this week, have been stewing on it and what I thought about it. In the meantime, I’ve been reading assorted other opinions, which seem divided between two camps: either whoa hoa, that is one metric buttload of What-Is-This-I-Don’t-Even or ( Read more... )

It has been a long week for me, for reasons I can’t really talk about. I was going to see if I could kludge together some book reviews, but… maybe next week on that. So, let’s see… what can I talk about?

There’s writing, of course. The Morpheist is at 26.5k, and I’m thinking I can get it to the end (about 32k or so) within the next two weeks. ( Read more... )

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Here's a direct-to-DVD flick that knocked me out. I guess you could call it psychological supernatural horror, a film that's bold enough to follow its own logic down into the depths without a cop-out ending.

Grindhouse stomps all over 300's bloated, slo-mo ass. Two surprises, though:

1. Robert Rodriguez delivered the better movie. Maybe it shouldn't have been such a surprise in retrospect, or maybe Death Proof just suffered in comparison from being shown after (instead of before) Planet Terror. But Planet Terror had the over-the-top action-cheese ( Read more... )

Am I the only guy who thought that all the CGI-effects and fight-scene choreography in 300 were not enough to make up for how utterly tedious, bloated, and full-of-itself it was?