I wanted to see this movie in theatres, but I let bad reviews talk me out of it. Then I saw it at the drug store and decided to pick it up, and now I know: those reviewers are idiots. Either that, or they don't get the kind of goofy comedy that Hannah-Barbera made a staple of their output; everything from The Flintstones to Scooby Doo was all ( Read more... )

Damn, but this movie is profoundly stupid. ( Spoilers ahead. )

I'm sad for John Carpenter and Kurt Russell. Just this morning I had cause to look up the wiki entry for Escape From L.A., a movie I have enjoyed for its over-the-top badassery and silliness. According to the entry on Snake Plissken, Russell's character, there were no fewer than three canceled Snake Plissken projects in the works by Russell and ( Read more... )

... or maybe they never were and my silence was borne of laziness. In any case, I'm planning to post more.

Updates since my last post of consequence:

At work, ( things are going fantastic... )

My date and I tonight went to see Mike Judge's new movie, Extract. I left feeling ambivalent at the ambiguous ending. Here's what happens ( Read more... )

My date canceled for yesterday, so I instead invited everybody who was in my apartment to go see it (the date and I will be rescheduling to see it later -- it was good enough that I will happily do so). moiracoon and stormdog, it's always good to see you. Thanks for coming down!

Up is a character-driven story about the nature of adventure. Not too long ago I ( Read more... )

Apparently this isn't a well-known term, so hereAs regular members of my studio audience know, I work at a radio station Sunday mornings until approximately noon. This afternoon as I was going to my car, a young woman was across the street, poking her head into doors, apparently looking for an open restaurant. As I was getting into my car, she ( Read more... )

In the last couple months, I've seen the following in the theatre:

Monsters Vs. Aliens: Like Kung Fu Panda before it, MvA demonstrates that Dreamworks animation has come into its own. I remember their earlier works having little to no appeal for me; Antz came out during their "let's steal ideas from other studios then rush them to release so it ( Read more... )

Though it's not over yet as I write this, I'm done doing stuff for the day, so it might as well be.

Anyway, bammba_m and I had ourselves a nice day of hanging out. We had planned to go see Monsters vs. Aliens 3D at 11:30 this morning, so we met at 9:30 and had breakfast at Steak and Shake. Though we were originally slated to eat at IHOP, I'm glad we ( Read more... )

I meant to post this a couple weeks ago. I somehow managed to forget that Pixar is a company to be trusted. Cars starred two people of whom I have rather low opinions (Owen Wilson and Larry the Cable Guy) and Ratattouille... well, to be honest, I didn't really know what to make of it when I first heard about it. I've taken my finger from the ( Read more... )