onefinemess | July 14, 2011
Let’s just get this out of the way first: I didn’t hate it. I don’t feel like I wasted $6. Yes, I saw it at the cheap theater. The normal ones are like $10.50 at night. Ugh. So, a better question would be – was it worth $10.50? The answer there is “maybe”. It really [...]
onefinemess | June 10, 2011
Of course there will be spoilers. So. I wasn’t sure what to expect going into this movie, so I didn’t really expect anything. What I wound up was fairly pleased. The movie had lots of flaws (that I’ll get to) BUT it was very well made. The best of the X-Men movies so far, just [...]
onefinemess | November 23, 2010
At least I think it’s 7.1. 8.1? 6.1? 7 sounds best, so that wins. Let me just start by saying I’ve enjoyed the movies. They are good fantasy/screen candy fun. Now that that is out of the way… WTF IS UP WITH THE MAGIC SYSTEM THERE? Seriously people. Life or death here. LIFE OR DEATH. [...]
onefinemess | April 26, 2010
OK, so it was actually Ninja Assassin that I/we watched last night. And it was everything that I exactly expected except a) way bloodier and b) they were missing the flashback scene where the protagonist learns (or hears about, or sees or whatever) the badass ability that lets him comeback from almost certain death and [...]
onefinemess | October 13, 2009
During which I address a bunch of disparate topics with quite parate rambles: The season has slipped back into obnoxious up here in the Portland of the West (I’m not talking to you Portland, Maine!). Freezing wind (not literally, yet), cold nights, and RAIN. RAIN. Yes, someday we will move and leave you far behind. [...]
onefinemess | May 18, 2009
Caveat: I enjoyed the movie, toxicly, dangerously, stupidly, rotundly horrid as the script was. How? Because people punched each other. With super powers. So, let’s get this out of the way – this is one of the worst scripts I can remember seeing visualized: scenes make no sense in connections to other scenes, characters [...]
onefinemess | April 16, 2009
Oh Kevin Smith. *shakes head* You set out to make a mainstream movie (but with lots of cussing!) and you did. This movie was utterly predictable (except that I wouldn’t have been surprised if he had slept with the porn starlet), in all the most standard of ways. There were many scenes that I thought [...]
onefinemess | April 1, 2009
The movie, of course. The book still manages to be a timeless classic that doesn’t get bogged down in the religious allegories it’s steeped in. (Aside: Can you imagine if this book were written by today’s Christian writers? Wow. No, it’s best if you don’t think about it.)
onefinemess | February 24, 2009
Other than a Darwin Award of course. Nothing personal against Heath Ledger, he’s a great actor and all, but his Joker portrayal was in no way Oscar worthy. Not that “Oscar worthy” directly correlates to quality, but I’m going to pretend it does for a few minutes even though it’s doubtful it means anything when [...]
onefinemess | February 18, 2009
are apparently getting extra work. So Jen was watching Mama Mia last night, and I couldn’t help but notice that both Meryl’s characters friends…were shrewish hags. OH OK, not horribly, but they were plain as shit. I mean, really. You’d be hard pressed to find more average looking women than those two. And they can’t [...]
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