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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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