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. New [...]
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 have [...]
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 were [...]
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 most [...]
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 sing particularly [...]
onefinemess | January 24, 2009
So we got this from netflix and watched it last night.
I wasn’t like, excited to see it or anything, but I did actually want to see it.
First off – in case you don’t know (which you probably do) – it’s based on a HORRIBLY mean spirited comic that would never make it to the silver [...]
onefinemess | December 22, 2008
or so it seems?
It took me about a week to watch it – I took a break at the Joker-in-jail scene because it was getting to be too much.
Sure, the acting, the special effects, the scenery, props, casting (except for someone with a really old face) was great. But the story? Meh. I had to [...]
onefinemess | August 12, 2008
People are protesting the movie Tropic Thunder! But not for what you think!
This was a step past absurdity for me. (Summary: people are offended at the word “retard” in a movie, and that movies SATIRICAL portrayal of Hollywood’s attempt to Orally Oscarize itself via actors portraying retards in movies).
Money quote:
The studio arranged screenings around the [...]
onefinemess | August 3, 2008
Both were pretty formulaic, but the second was somewhat surprising in its exact subject matter. Pleasantly so.
SemiPro is showcasing Wil Ferrel’s declining career. There’s really only so many times you can play the same character without just doing Anchorman 2 (which might actually be good!). That being said, there were some funny parts. I’ve already [...]
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