'Don't talk to him like that! My boyfriend kills people!'
It's snowing. I don't approve at all. I was all for that weird-ass snowless winter to continue much much longer. Possibly all the way into spring. That is not to be, apparently, because it looks like Lady Weather (*cough*bitch*cough*) remembered that it's Poland not Spain, and technically she was supposed to start with the whole snow thing already in November. And now it's freaking cold.
The Oscar nominations are out which means that now I have 24 movies to watch before February 25. Well, 33 movies if I decide to be ambitious this year and go for the documentaries and foreign features too, though - good intentions or not - these two categories are usually quite hard to get hold of, so I can't tell yet if it's going to be actually doable. I'm ditching the Best Animated Feature Film of the Year category this time, because none of the contenders elicits even the slightest spark of interest in me. It's bad enough that I would have to get myself through 'Superman Returns' (I hate Superman), 'Poseidon' (I've been resolutely dodging 'Titanic' for nine years now, why the hell would I want to watch an imitation?) and - oh, the horror - 'Click' (dear Academy, you're making me watch a movie about Adam Sandler controlling time with a tv remote, that's unwarranted cruelty).
Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor's 'Crank'
That was actually quite fun. The cheap, simple kind of fun, but still. The jerky way the movie was shot can aggravate at times and it takes time to get used to it, but, given the nature of the story, it works. What I certainly liked here is the lead character being a genuine thug, basically a bulldozer of a man, with as much charm as, well, a bulldozer. Ok, a bit more than that because it is Jason Statham and Jason Statham is still the Sexiest Bald Man Alive, but definitely not the most lovable part on his resume. On the side note: Statham is hot, sure, but not hot enough for me to want to watch him running stunts on a motorcycle for ten minutes in just a hospital robe, with his ass - a hairy ass, probably, because Statham is a manly man - totally hanging out.
My favorite scenes? Jason Statham corners his gang leader buddy in a bathroom and demands information, then a dozen of said gang leader's minions blasts in and push a veritable arsenal right into Statham's face ready for action to which their lord and master lets out exasperated 'You look like 'em Somalian niggers'. Funny.
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The Oscar nominations are out which means that now I have 24 movies to watch before February 25. Well, 33 movies if I decide to be ambitious this year and go for the documentaries and foreign features too, though - good intentions or not - these two categories are usually quite hard to get hold of, so I can't tell yet if it's going to be actually doable. I'm ditching the Best Animated Feature Film of the Year category this time, because none of the contenders elicits even the slightest spark of interest in me. It's bad enough that I would have to get myself through 'Superman Returns' (I hate Superman), 'Poseidon' (I've been resolutely dodging 'Titanic' for nine years now, why the hell would I want to watch an imitation?) and - oh, the horror - 'Click' (dear Academy, you're making me watch a movie about Adam Sandler controlling time with a tv remote, that's unwarranted cruelty).
Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor's 'Crank'
That was actually quite fun. The cheap, simple kind of fun, but still. The jerky way the movie was shot can aggravate at times and it takes time to get used to it, but, given the nature of the story, it works. What I certainly liked here is the lead character being a genuine thug, basically a bulldozer of a man, with as much charm as, well, a bulldozer. Ok, a bit more than that because it is Jason Statham and Jason Statham is still the Sexiest Bald Man Alive, but definitely not the most lovable part on his resume. On the side note: Statham is hot, sure, but not hot enough for me to want to watch him running stunts on a motorcycle for ten minutes in just a hospital robe, with his ass - a hairy ass, probably, because Statham is a manly man - totally hanging out.
My favorite scenes? Jason Statham corners his gang leader buddy in a bathroom and demands information, then a dozen of said gang leader's minions blasts in and push a veritable arsenal right into Statham's face ready for action to which their lord and master lets out exasperated 'You look like 'em Somalian niggers'. Funny.
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