Posts tagged “movies”
My boyfriend thinks he's my "exception." He is not.
Saw Eragon, pretty visuals, terrible plot. Also, heading to Tobago and Trinidad for two weeks, back for New Year's Eve. Catch you then!
Saw The Host, a Korean monster movie with a refreshingly unsentimental take on the genre. Great creature, oddly political plot, and a realistic portrayal of how people would actually respond to a giant monster. More black humor than schmaltz. Worth seeing.
Five months of hype vindicated: Snakes on a Plane is gloriously, unapologetically awesome. Samuel L. Jackson, snakes, a plane, B-movie clichés cranked to 11. Go see it.
Snakes on a Plane opens today! I can't see it until tomorrow, but I'm excited nonetheless. Snakes on a Plaaaaaaaaaane!
The *Snakes on a Plane* music video is here, complete with an original song literally about snakes on a plane and a Samuel L. Jackson cameo. This meme shows no signs of stopping.
The Snakes on a Plane meme spawned a board game called Cobras in the Cockpit, where you play as the snakes. The "based on a fictional movie" disclaimer is doing a lot of legal heavy lifting there.
Samuel L. Jackson predicts Snakes on a Plane wins Best Movie at the MTV Awards. Who am I to disagree? He's Samuel L. Jackson. I am nobody.
X3 opens Friday and I'm seeing it opening day at Vue Leicester Square, evening showing. 8 tickets booked for the 7:30pm show. Text me or comment if you want in.
Snakes on a Plane is five months from release and already a cult phenomenon. The trailer is everything I hoped for, including Samuel L. Jackson loading a gun mid-sentence. It's going to be magnificent.
Brokeback Mountain was well-acted and believable but ultimately boring. I think I just don't care about ordinary people in fiction. Give me science fiction. Real or fake, mundane people and their mundane problems don't interest me, and I make no apologies for that.
Inflation-adjusted, Cleopatra (1963) cost more than King Kong. And Kong isn't even the priciest recent film -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire cost $308m, more than all three Lord of the Rings combined. None of which diminishes my desire to see the giant monkey movie.
Narnia on screen is the book made gloriously real. Tilda Swinton steals everything as the Winter Queen, the visuals are spectacular, and the child actors hold their own. Disney sanitizes the battle, but fans and newcomers alike will love it. Go see it.
I got to attend a special pre-premiere screening of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and it's brilliant. Radcliffe finally delivers, the CGI is seamless, and unlike its predecessors, this one has genuinely grown up. Go see it. Then see it again.
Saw Crash tonight. Great film with a lot to say about race in America, or really just one thing said many ways. Also: hoping my iPod gets fixed before my New York flight, annoyed by sudden heat, and convincing myself peanut M&Ms count as dinner.
Deep, dark, angry -- everything a Batman movie should be. Less pretty than Burton's vision but far more believable and a hell of a lot of fun. Schumacher's disasters are already a fading memory. Four stars out of five.
Saw Star Wars. It's good. Very good. Slow start, then serious ass-whupping. Go see it. Also, apparently I'm Cheer Bear.
Picked up a movie meme baton and ran with it. Recent highlights: *The Jacket* and *Summer Storm* (gay German rowing teams, what could go wrong?). Five formative films range from *And The Band Played On* to *Gattaca*. Passing it on to Dan and Dom.
Looking for people to see Revenge of the Sith with me. Reviews are good and I suspect it's worth multiple viewings. Who's in?
Hollywood's shit-dial is cranked to 11 this summer with terrible team sports movies and a Lindsay Lohan Herbie reboot. At least Fantastic Four looks promising.
The Episode III trailer just blew my mind. Excuse me while I change my boxers.
I saw Closer and found it predictable and emotionally inert, despite great acting from Natalie Portman. It got me wondering: am I a film philistine who misses subtext the way others miss meaning in music? And worse, am I doing the same thing in real life?
Stunning visuals and Angelina Jolie in an eye patch, but it never surprised me the way I hoped it would. I'd over-hyped it to myself. Too ill with London's communal cold to say more.
Visually stunning but hard to take seriously. Everyone's so full of honour they just kind of... stand there and die. Also, no purple scene, which feels like a missed opportunity.
Lovely weekend with friends down from Warwick: Popstarz (possibly spiked drink), Empire Records fan edition (actually improved by the extra footage), Kill Bill Vol. 2, a barbecue, banter, Twister on my new duvet cover, and Smallville. Good times.
I get all my movie news from Apple's trailer site. Trailer editing is an unsung art form, and judging by how entertaining even the obvious bombs are, my attention span may be shot. Here are my five-words-or-less reviews of upcoming releases, based solely on their trailers.
Saw Return of the King. It was incredible. Go. Now.
Picking apart Matrix Revolutions plot holes and symbolism: the Zion slip, Smith controlling flesh, Neo's software nature, and what that golden matrix really means. Also wondering if other coders visualize their code the way I do.
Memepool led me to Sam the goat, who dies repeatedly. Also: go see Lord of the Rings, then check out the Orlando Bloom fan site. Bring a drool bucket.
A page criticizing Titanic misses all the real flaws and instead argues Rose should have chosen the evil rich fiancé because Jack was poor and Leo looks like a girl. They even get basic plot facts wrong. The actual bad parts go completely unnoticed.
I got a submission accepted on SlashDot, which combined with my Dilbert newsletter appearance makes me basically a media mogul. Also saw Bridget Jones's Diary -- good movie, but read the book first. Plus some minor blog navigation tweaks.
