Onefinemess

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Transformers 3/Dark of the Moon

| 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 [...]

thoughts on X-Men First class

| 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 [...]

thoughts on Harry Potter 7.1

| 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. [...]

zombie ninja!

| 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 [...]

Things wrong with the X-Men Origins: Wolverine script

| 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 [...]

Zack and Miri make a very average movie

| 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 [...]

Prince Caspian was dumb

| 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.)

movie review: Wanted

| 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 [...]

so I’m the only one not blown away by the new Batman

| 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 [...]

SemiPro & Be Kind, Rewind

| 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 [...]