Avatar.  I said no I won't see it, it's too popular.  I won't see it, the director sucks.  No, I won't see it, it's just smurfs with guns dropped into Fern Gully.

Then I saw it.

And...I liked it.  Yeah.  Now it is James Cameron so it was a bit heavy-handed at times but that's nothing compared to the female characters and the visual ride.  Somebody ( Read more... )

In Stephen Colbert's standard way, I feel the need to give a Tip of the Hat and Wag of the Finger to some folks.

First A+ of the night goes to Mexico City for being the first Latin-American country to approve same-sex marriage!

Next, an F to the Senate for furthering its decent into white-heteronormative-upperclass-male madness by increasing the ( Read more... )

So I just had the biggest IMDB-gasm I've had in a LONG time.  I just saw the movie Troy for the first time since I was going through my Orlando Bloom phase (aka about seven years ago).  Now I'm in a bit of a Diane Kruger phase I figured I give the film another go.

To my...impressed horror I think would be a good way to put it, there is practically ( Read more... )

I noticed the amount of good movies began to decrease right around the year 2004. Why. WHY. EDIT:// Actually upon further reflection, 2008 had some goodies ( Read more... )