I see that the people over at Rotten Tomatoes have compiled a list of the worst reviewed movies so far this millennium.
I was pretty worried about how many of these I’d have seen–I’ve seen some pretty dodgy things this decade–but apparently I have only seen four of the 100 on the list.
Here are my excuses [...]
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One of the reasons I often find things I like in the Guardian is because where else would you find someone like Mark Weisbrot (the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and economics PhD) writing a review of something like Michael Moore’s new film, Capitalism: A Love Story.
Regardless of what you think [...]
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Holiday Monday has kept me too busy to properly blog, so you get a bit of a tab-closing list instead.
I’m not sure that it covers anything new, but the piece from More Intelligent Life (the quarterly from the Economist) about authors and drinking was a fun read anyway.
I’ve seen some stories about tough people in [...]
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I’ve been following the video posts from the shooting of Scott Pilgrim vs The World, the movie that’s being adapted from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s series of Scott Pilgrim comics. Partly this is because I dig the comics, and it seems like the filmmakers are having a wonderful time adapting them, and partly it’s because Mal [...]
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So, for reasons perhaps best described as “masochistic”, I’m watching a DVD of The Spirit right now. I kind of knew it was going to be bad, but this… this is a whole other thing.
Considering this as an attempt to adapt Eisner’s work, and speaking as someone who owns & has read the entire Eisner Spirit oeuvre (in the DC Archives editions) this is an abomination upon the face of the Earth.
Considering this as just an action movie, and not thinking about it as an adaptation of anything, it’s still a terrible, terrible movie. (And I liked Sin City, except for Clive’s voice overs).
The phrase “directorially self-indulgent” pops to mind.
Lots of cute women, though.
(1 Comments)Like real-time strategy games? Like science fiction? How about a real-time strategy game where you (and your units) can time travel. Imagine sending future units back to fight alongside themselves against an enemy in the past… you thought keeping track of your units and tech tree was a headache, wait for the fourth dimension. Maybe [...]
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most of it is such a carbon copy of the book that some of what alan’s saying gets across by accident. it’s kind of like someone with no sense of humour retelling a joke he heard once. some lines are taken out of context and you remember them from the book so you KNOW they’re [...]
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I require another 72 hours between now and Tuesday morning, please. Baring that, let me make a very quick post and get back to the salt mines.
On the weekend I had a chance to watch All Hat, the adaptation of Brad Smith’s “modern day Ontario western“. I generally like Smith, and I liked the book, [...]
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I believe that it is not hyperbole to say that the existence, even in conceptual form, of the Chompr is the final clear sign that Western society has slipped completely into decadence. First of all, if you can’t hold a sandwich in your hand, you shouldn’t be trying to eat it. Second of all, you [...]
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I wrote this up for another online venue, but I might as well put it (lightly edited) here. The idea was to recommend five movies that you think are “good” and that people are less likely to have seen. I chose these:
From the Heist/Caper/RomCom Of The Old School pile, I’d choose O’Toole and Hepburn in [...]
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I’m not sure who the five most smoldering women in cinema history are, but I’m sure that Bacall in To Have And Have Not is one of them.
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So, I thought the barbecue sauce guy was weird, but he has possibly been surpassed by the eggbeater bandit.
New Walter Jon Williams books are automatic buys in this house (as you know if you’ve been reading for a while), and now he’s not just selling me his books, he’s putting anime on my Ziplist.
I may [...]
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You know, I don’t think I ever really realized just how creepy the whole button-eyes thing in Coraline is until just now.
I whipped that up with the tool at the page for the forthcoming Coraline movie. Sarah’s going to love that pic when she sees it. (I bought Coraline for myself when it came out, [...]
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Boy, that was a good movie. Peter O’Toole and Joseph Bologna are so good, that I can forget how much I want to punch Cousin Larry every time he’s on the screen.
(0 Comments)I’m watching My Favourite Year. How is it that I have never seen this before? I’ve even seen the one where O’Toole turns into electric death Jesus.
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