Because I'll be damned if I'm redoing all that Markdown formating in HTML. Enjoy the delicious link, thank you very much.


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Watched Ant-Man on the plane. It’s a good clean perfectly functional Marvel formula with its own spin. It isn’t FANTASTIC but it does absolutely nothing WRONG either. It’s good. 8/10. Ethnic bullshit was a little annoying as was sexist bullshit but at least they’re working on it. Just a reminder that there’s STILL NO BLACK WIDOW MOVIE MOTHERFUCKERS ( Read more... )

2014 is actually shaping up to not suck. While I have woefully and seemingly permanently fallen off the writing wagon, other good things have at least happened in this meandering existence I call a life. All I need is focus. And Kill. Thus spaketh Tom Cruise ( Read more... )

“What you need to remember, with these guys, is that they don’t know they’re con men. They’re wildly overconfident. Omnipotence, omniscience-that’s part of the mythology that surrounds the Special Forces. I had those guys hitting on me every last day in Baghdad.” She held up her fist, showing Milgrim her plain gold wedding band. “Your guy can walk ( Read more... )

Excluding the technical excellence of the puppets, Labyrinth is a steaming pile of fecal matter. Yes, that Labyrinth. Apparently it's some kind of cult hit that girls who turned 20 in the 80s think is awesome. I, to put it mildly, disagree. It was shit. The kind of fairytale logic faerie weirdness it waa trying to portray works a lot better on the ( Read more... )

Iron Man 2's latest trailer rocked my face harder than a baby-kicking rhino.

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If Avatar wins anything other than Best Visual Effects, I will be deeply offended.

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I have now seen Avatar. Impressions follow. ( You might stop breathing if you unwittingly read the spoilers though. Hence, LJ Cut. )

Rewatching Pitch Black today, it's hit me dead-on why that movie succeeded and Chronicles of Riddick failed. One could argue there were many reasons but they can all be reduced to one: The Furyans. Get rid of that element and the whole narrative pulls together like a Rube Goldberg spidermech ( Read more... )