While I've been unpacking, I've been watching James Bond movies.  Yes, yes, pretty much everything is wrong with Bond, but damn if those movies don't really, really appeal to my inner sixteen year old.  I mean, who wouldn't want to be a universally desirable, impossibly competent, completely awesome, always successful superspy who knows how to do ( Read more... )

Does anyone else think that This Means War is a terrible idea for a movie?  I admit I haven't seen it, but I can think of no way the film could redeem its premise.  Two guys fight over a woman that they're both dating?  (And who doesn't know that they know each other.)  No, wait, I lied.  There is one way and only one way: she reasonably is fucking ( Read more... )

You know the saying that once you've seen something, you can't ever unsee it?  Well, I've seen the lack of women in adventure movies, and I can't unsee it.

Tintin was fun, once I got past the slightly uncanny valley animation.  I still think a slightly more cartoony style would've been better, since, even once I stopped being a little off put by it ( Read more... )

The movie Unstoppable hit the library shelves yesterday, so I checked out a "rapidview" (3 day borrow) of it, since I was kind of curious about it.  I don't generally watch disaster movies, even though I watch shows that involve dramatic recreations of real disasters - it's one of those odd inconsistencies, I know.  However, this movie was inspired ( Read more... )

So, last time I was at the regular grocery store, I snagged a copy of How to Train Your Dragon.  This meant I had to go through an actual checkout line, since the DVD had a theft protection device on it and the self-checks don't exactly come with removers for those.  Sadly, this left me open for the following fail:

The bagger asked me if I was ( Read more... )

From Kadymae.

Go to Wikipedia (as the most convenient resource), and copy the list of movies that were released in the year when you were 12 years old. Mark in italics the movies that you've seen. (Not necessarily that year.) Mark in bold the movies that you own on video, DVD, Blu-Ray or whatever.

If you're not sure if you've seen a movie, you ( Read more... )

I have wildly mixed feelings about this movie.  On the one hand, it was entertaining and there were several bits that made me laugh out loud.  On the other hand, there were two things that kind of put me off wanting to see it again, however much I enjoyed myself at the time.

First off, my god but action movies are full of men.  (Full of white people ( Read more... )

Rave review, I know.  But the new Sherlock Holmes movie...didn't suck.  I'm not sure it was exactly Sherlock Holmes, but it was a hell of a lot closer than I thought it would be and was actually fairly entertaining.  I didn't spend the movie playing "spot the plot hole" or muttering to myself about stupidity.  I'd have to see it again to know if it ( Read more... )

It should have been better than it was, somehow, but it wasn't bad.  I enjoyed it, but I feel like I should have liked it more than I did.  I'm not quite sure what was missing.

( Review (with spoilers) continues... )

Okay, maybe it's because I'm out sick, but this movie - which had the potential to be very cool - doesn't make any bloody sense!  It's not exactly my typical movie of choice, but it sounded interesting, so, after eyeing it for months at work, I finally checked it out last week and got around to watching it today (while I'm home sick -_-).  And now ( Read more... )