We already know Peter Jackson, oops, sorry, SIR Peter Jackson can make amazing movies. We know he can make surreal films as well. We also know that he can make exciting movies with great scenery shots, great action shots and funny bits.
Who doesn't like The Frighteners, Heavenly Creatures, Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong.
Well, I have to say he has done it again. District 9 is a very well shot, well written and exciting story about hatred vs empathy interspersed with sci-fi action.
I do not want to spoil anything about this film as I highly reccommend it so let's say this:
It's in documentary style in the beginning, then we get to have a third person omniscient point of view.
The action is fast and thrilling and keeps coming at you with bits of the story unfolding as it goes along to keep you interested and thrilled.
I say see this film.
4 out of 5 stars
30 December 2009
Only Fools and Horses
TV Review
I have been watching lately the old BBC TV Series Only Fools and Horses, starring David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst. This is a TOP NOTCH comedy. The writer, the only writer from start to finish, John Sullivan does a BRILLIANT job of writing the funny and mixing it flawlessly with the serious and sometimes tragic.
The series is about the exploits of Derek "Del-Boy" Trotter and his kid brother, Rodney who live with their Grandfather on a Housing Estate in Peckham, England. Del-Boy is a trader, who finds things that have "fallen off trucks" etc to sell in the market. They have ups and downs and mostly are skint but the hilarious activities and hijinks are most entertaining.
From Del's VERY BAD French phrases; "Poppouri!" "Fromage Frai!" "Bonjour (when saying goodbye)" and so many more, said with great sincerity are so funny I find myself using them with Steve. One of the best is his "no way Pedro!" Steve has used that one for yonks!
Every one of the shows is good. We have just finished Season 5 and there are 9 seasons, although some of the seasons to come are not FULL seasons but just specials.
These are VERY enjoyable and quite funny. I am actualy laughing out loud for most of these shows. I find myself singing the song as well while I am at work...
"put a pony in your pocket, I'll get the suitcase from the van..."
There is only ONE other tv show whose theme song I like better, and that is Doctor Who.
(Of course, I do find myself singing the Love Boats theme song, but that is more of a painful habit than love.)
As the seasons go on, Uncle Albert comes to live with the Trotter boys. He is also funny, telling his tales of the sea and all the ships he served on that sunk! LOL! But he NEVER talks about his time in the service, except all the time!
The supporting players are very well drawn as well. Trigger is amusing as Del's mate who continuously calls Rodney DAVE. Denzel is funny, played by Paul Barber from the Full Monty. Bosey and Marlene are the "better off" married couple who are unable to have a baby so they have a Great Dane. The Season 5 first episode brings along a young pregnant woman who wants to give up her baby for adoption. Del sees $$$ signs (well Pound signs) and when he goes to visit Bosey and Marlene, I have NEVER laughed so hard as the scene with Rodney "playing" with Dukey! LOL! I am giggling now thinking about it.
There are MANY MANY gems in this series.
I strongly reccommend seeing it. Available on Netflix.
5 out of 5 stars
I have been watching lately the old BBC TV Series Only Fools and Horses, starring David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst. This is a TOP NOTCH comedy. The writer, the only writer from start to finish, John Sullivan does a BRILLIANT job of writing the funny and mixing it flawlessly with the serious and sometimes tragic.
The series is about the exploits of Derek "Del-Boy" Trotter and his kid brother, Rodney who live with their Grandfather on a Housing Estate in Peckham, England. Del-Boy is a trader, who finds things that have "fallen off trucks" etc to sell in the market. They have ups and downs and mostly are skint but the hilarious activities and hijinks are most entertaining.
From Del's VERY BAD French phrases; "Poppouri!" "Fromage Frai!" "Bonjour (when saying goodbye)" and so many more, said with great sincerity are so funny I find myself using them with Steve. One of the best is his "no way Pedro!" Steve has used that one for yonks!
Every one of the shows is good. We have just finished Season 5 and there are 9 seasons, although some of the seasons to come are not FULL seasons but just specials.
These are VERY enjoyable and quite funny. I am actualy laughing out loud for most of these shows. I find myself singing the song as well while I am at work...
"put a pony in your pocket, I'll get the suitcase from the van..."
There is only ONE other tv show whose theme song I like better, and that is Doctor Who.
(Of course, I do find myself singing the Love Boats theme song, but that is more of a painful habit than love.)
As the seasons go on, Uncle Albert comes to live with the Trotter boys. He is also funny, telling his tales of the sea and all the ships he served on that sunk! LOL! But he NEVER talks about his time in the service, except all the time!
The supporting players are very well drawn as well. Trigger is amusing as Del's mate who continuously calls Rodney DAVE. Denzel is funny, played by Paul Barber from the Full Monty. Bosey and Marlene are the "better off" married couple who are unable to have a baby so they have a Great Dane. The Season 5 first episode brings along a young pregnant woman who wants to give up her baby for adoption. Del sees $$$ signs (well Pound signs) and when he goes to visit Bosey and Marlene, I have NEVER laughed so hard as the scene with Rodney "playing" with Dukey! LOL! I am giggling now thinking about it.
There are MANY MANY gems in this series.
I strongly reccommend seeing it. Available on Netflix.
5 out of 5 stars
Terminator Salvation
Come with me, if you want to be entertained but still have some questions about time travel that seem to be ignored.
Or how about, I'll be back?
Terminator Salvation is the 4th installment in the lucrative franchise. Rated PG-13 this is the first Terminator movie that doesn't have the rough language of the previous 3 and it is obvious. No spurting blood shots or F-Bombs. Now, I know I complained about the blood in Inglorious Basterds, but this movie, however, SHOULD have SOME blood.
Now, being an avid user of the F-Word (and I am not talking about Gordon Ramsey here) I appriciate it's usage in an action movie. I feel that the PG-13 rating has turned a possible gritty action film into a lukewarm trip through the future of Valium.
Sam Worthington is getting a lot of attention lately. I hear he is really good in Avatar, I will let you know what I think after tomorrow, since that is when I am going to see it. I watched him in Rogue, a little action film from Austrailia and he was ok.
He was ok in Terminator as well. Well, maybe a little more than ok. He was OK. LOL! He isn't a top actor in my book but I did like him in this movie.
Christian Bale I love. However, his version of John Conor is just meh! I think my favourite John Conor is Edward Furlong. I didn't really like Nick Stalh's version. Christian Bale kinda comes at the role from a big-headed place. "My mommy told me I am the leader of the resistance so I am super important and even if these people don't get it, I'm going to act like it anyway."
YAWN.
SPOILER ALERT FROM THIS POINT ON!!!!!!
I was not impressed nor moved by the woman who is fighting alongside John Conor to erradicate all the Terminators but falls in love with one. "I see a man" PA-LEEZE. Is it that hard to get laid in the appocalyptic future?
Steve had a realy problem with the whiteness of the peoples teeth. I noticed it, but wasn't too bothered. I understand that Hollywood likes to be realistic but not with pretty ladies. Whatever!
I did not like the way that Sky Net learned about Kyle Reese. I felt that that was a fatal flaw in the script.
What script writers and Hollywood Producers need to remember, even tho a franchise has MASSIVE $$$$ LEGS, the fans still pay attention to the storyline. (Unless of course, you are a Transformers fan! Then all you want is loud music and PG-13 tits.)
Kyle goes back in time because John Conor sends him. Kyle and Linda Hamilton have sex and she gets pregnant with John Conor. OOOHHHHHH time travel!
We never even see John put Kyle in the "return to 1984" machine.
That I felt was a terrible miss. I DO NOT want to see another Terminator film. Couldn't we have sent Reese back in time then destroyed Sky Net?
Sigh.
However, all that being said, Anton Yelchin did a VERY GOOD job of being the young Kyle Reese. I could see him being Reese as a teen.
ALSO, big kudos to the writers for Christian Bale's line "I'll be back" when Ron Howards daughter asked what to tell his men when they discover he's gone.
Now, Bale... I like this actor. Unfortunately he is still in Batman mode while filming this movie. There are too many Batman-esque whispers and looks.
I know that Bale has LOADS more in that acting bag of his than this. He was AMAZING in Velvet Goldmine and BRILLIANT in The Machinist, so I know he is able to DO IT.
Terminator Salvation was entertaining enough but it was like eating a bowl of rice, it filled me up but an hour later I wanted another film.
2 stars out of 5
Or how about, I'll be back?
Terminator Salvation is the 4th installment in the lucrative franchise. Rated PG-13 this is the first Terminator movie that doesn't have the rough language of the previous 3 and it is obvious. No spurting blood shots or F-Bombs. Now, I know I complained about the blood in Inglorious Basterds, but this movie, however, SHOULD have SOME blood.
Now, being an avid user of the F-Word (and I am not talking about Gordon Ramsey here) I appriciate it's usage in an action movie. I feel that the PG-13 rating has turned a possible gritty action film into a lukewarm trip through the future of Valium.
Sam Worthington is getting a lot of attention lately. I hear he is really good in Avatar, I will let you know what I think after tomorrow, since that is when I am going to see it. I watched him in Rogue, a little action film from Austrailia and he was ok.
He was ok in Terminator as well. Well, maybe a little more than ok. He was OK. LOL! He isn't a top actor in my book but I did like him in this movie.
Christian Bale I love. However, his version of John Conor is just meh! I think my favourite John Conor is Edward Furlong. I didn't really like Nick Stalh's version. Christian Bale kinda comes at the role from a big-headed place. "My mommy told me I am the leader of the resistance so I am super important and even if these people don't get it, I'm going to act like it anyway."
YAWN.
SPOILER ALERT FROM THIS POINT ON!!!!!!
I was not impressed nor moved by the woman who is fighting alongside John Conor to erradicate all the Terminators but falls in love with one. "I see a man" PA-LEEZE. Is it that hard to get laid in the appocalyptic future?
Steve had a realy problem with the whiteness of the peoples teeth. I noticed it, but wasn't too bothered. I understand that Hollywood likes to be realistic but not with pretty ladies. Whatever!
I did not like the way that Sky Net learned about Kyle Reese. I felt that that was a fatal flaw in the script.
What script writers and Hollywood Producers need to remember, even tho a franchise has MASSIVE $$$$ LEGS, the fans still pay attention to the storyline. (Unless of course, you are a Transformers fan! Then all you want is loud music and PG-13 tits.)
Kyle goes back in time because John Conor sends him. Kyle and Linda Hamilton have sex and she gets pregnant with John Conor. OOOHHHHHH time travel!
We never even see John put Kyle in the "return to 1984" machine.
That I felt was a terrible miss. I DO NOT want to see another Terminator film. Couldn't we have sent Reese back in time then destroyed Sky Net?
Sigh.
However, all that being said, Anton Yelchin did a VERY GOOD job of being the young Kyle Reese. I could see him being Reese as a teen.
ALSO, big kudos to the writers for Christian Bale's line "I'll be back" when Ron Howards daughter asked what to tell his men when they discover he's gone.
Now, Bale... I like this actor. Unfortunately he is still in Batman mode while filming this movie. There are too many Batman-esque whispers and looks.
I know that Bale has LOADS more in that acting bag of his than this. He was AMAZING in Velvet Goldmine and BRILLIANT in The Machinist, so I know he is able to DO IT.
Terminator Salvation was entertaining enough but it was like eating a bowl of rice, it filled me up but an hour later I wanted another film.
2 stars out of 5
25 December 2009
Inglorious Basterds - OH Quentin, tsk tsk tsk
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse (thank goodness! We caught 3 of them this fall!!!)
Steve and I had just settled in to watch Inglorious Basterds on DVD. Hmmm, How to begin, how about at the beginning.....
(the beginning, the beginning.... swirly colors on the screen and Cartman repeating beginning over and over to take us back in time...)
It was 1994, I was watching Starz or HBO or something and on came this movie, Reservior Dogs. I watched, glued to the screen, the sights were rapturous and so fresh. I had never seen anything like this ever before. I was enthralled. Who made this movie????? Quentin Tarantino, who is this man? I had never heard of him. Then low and behold, another movie from this man, Pulp Fiction, was out in the theaters that October. The one bit of trivia about this movie that tickles me is something that doesn't even really concern the film itself. I set out to see this film, playing at the little 3 screen in town. The same 3 screen that I now currently manage! Oooohhh, it is a small world after... well, you know the saying.
SO! I sit down in Theater 1 of my lovely Cinemas 123 (located at 10701 New Georges Creek Road SW in Frostburg, www.rctheatres.com) and my eyes and ears and HELL all my senses are treated to a cinematic miracle. A movie, made by adults, about adults, and most importantly FOR ADULTS!!!! Pulp Fiction was violent, funny, inventive, new, fresh, bold and most of all had elements of the lives that we all knew.
We watched Reservoir Dogs and marveled at the time line jumping and most of all at the Diner conversation that made us all talk around the water cooler. "HEY! We talk like that ALL THE TIME!!!!" Most importantly, the conversation was filmed very well. You can still hear fanboys reciting it.
Then along came Samuel L. Jackson and a big blast from our past, Vinnie Barbarino, Tony Manero, Danny Zuko, oh John Travolta, reimaging his career and starting again much to our delight and I might add, starting again REALLY REALLY WELL! There these two actors were, sitting in a car and talking about McDonalds in Amsterdam. Royale with Cheese.
As the movie progressed, we saw a completely fractured time line in the story, we see one character die (I won't spoil anything here, just in case) and then he is alive in another scene.
We also see LOADS of stars acting together in what came to be one of my favourite movies of all time.
At this point, I became a HUGE Tarantino fan.
LOVED From Dusk Til Dawn! True Romance was amazing. His segment in Four Rooms was awesome, what a cinematic throwback while still being fresh and new!!!
Jackie Brown, eeehhhhh not so much for me. I really didn't like it. I adored Robert Forster but just didn't like the movie.
Then along came the epic KILL BILL. By this point in time I was Managing the Cinemas 123 and we were booked Kill Bill Vol 1. It was amazing. Very Japaneese Cinema but with a crazy American-Old West slant. (although I have to say that I prefer Stephen Chow's films now, liking his version of Chinese-Old West style!)
I was able to watch Kill Bill over and over again, sneaking peeks throughout the evening as the shows were being played.
Kill Bill Vol 2 I didn't like so much, but the scene with Elle's other eye was awesome!
Quentin's directorial bit in Sin City was pretty good but the interviews that I was seeing and hearing with him were swelling that already swollen head of his.
Then came Grindhouse.
I will pause here, as we just have to take a pause before we undertake THIS movie.
Sigh.
I will say this, it was a really good idea. I loved the "trailers" and Planet Terror was AMAZING!!!! (Robert Rodriguez is a good director that has a grip in the real world!)
Death Proof... let's take a look at the actual story. It's ok, but fairly boring and quite sensational actually. AND by sensational I mean this definition courtesy of Webster's Dictionary:
2 : arousing or tending to arouse (as by lurid details) a quick, intense, and usually superficial interest, curiosity, or emotional reaction
THEN Quentin goes on to, shall we say, fall back on the ol' standby:
A CONVERSATION ABOUT MOVIES AND POP CULTURE BY A GROUP OF PEOPLE SITTING AROUND!
Oh Boy! How exciting! NOT!!! This has been done, and done well, by this very director, so let's skip it please!!!!
DOn't even get me started on the cast.
OH GOD!!! Vanessa Ferlito, where did THIS CHICK come from? She was not only awful, but she was so distracting with that nose of hers! I am not trying to be mean, if this is a birth defect or whatnot, she is not too blame, however, on her IMDB page it says NOTHING about it. So I have to admit that I CANNOT watch her without being COMPLETELY distracted by that nostril!!!!
AND listening to these cackling hens rabbit on about music and movies makes me want to become Amish!
It was painful to sit there. No wonder Death Proof came first in the film. No one would have sat through it otherwise!
Now, another thing I have failed to mention that runs through ALL of Tarantinos films is his fetish for womens feet.
And I am not talking about cute, little, smooth, lovely feet like Amy Adams or Keira Knightly or whomever, I am talking about honking big feet like Uma Thurmans or Diane Krugers.
Please, Q, look at feet in the privacy of your own home, and stop forcing us to see what you like.
(pardon me while I retch a little.)
This of course brings us to Inglorious Basterds.
I knew it was going to be OUT THERE! But I just didn't expect it to be SOOOOOO FARRRR OUT THERE!!!
I felt like I was on a Deep Space excursion, it was THAT FAR OUT THERE!
Let's list things, since Q loves that kind of shit!
1. The pop up titles of names next to all the Nazi bad guys that he doesn't want to take a moment to introduce us to. THis is also a fault of Guy Ritchie and I do hope these two STOP DOING IT!!!!
2. The Music. I pause again since this item could fill a whole blog on it's own. We loved the music used in Pulp Fiction - CHRIST I BOUGHT THE CD!!!! BUT, using a spanish influenced sound in a Nazi movie that takes place in France..... omg....
3. The verbage. Q! DUDE!!! It's 1944 in your flick, man! Stop with the pop cultural references!!! "Two hits. I hit you, you hit the ground." PA-LEEZE!!!!
4. Big ugly feet. Let's keep shoes on all your actresses from now on, Dude!!
Diane Kruger has her shoes off during a "doctor" scene and then she has to have her shoe placed upon her foot in some sort of Cinderella/acusational scene. I think that scene gave me stomach pains! GAH! THEN, it did not escape my attention Q that Mélanie Laurent was not wearing shoes in the projection booth.
5. STOP HAVING YOUR CHARACTERS TALK ABOUT FILMS!!!!! For F's sake there was a cinematic conversation involving a Nazi and a Jew in front of a Cinema!!!!! I am shaking my head, by the way!
6. Blood! We loved, even if we squirmed, the blood in Reservoir Dogs and in Pulp Fiction we even laughed when you blew the head off Mad TV's UPS guy. In Kill Bill we said OMG!!!! when the blood spurted out like a Kurosawa film but with Inglorious Basterds were are not treated to something amusing nor interesting. We are subjected to a violent onslaught that we did not ask to witness.
7. This is most important, Quentin. If you are going to use ACTUAL HISTORICAL FIGURES, whether they be good or bad, or COMPLETELY EVIL in the case of Hitler, please please please, do not rewrite history. It makes your film idiotic.
I have to say, that Inglorious Basterds was SO BAD that I am taking Pulp Fiction off my all time favourites list in protest.
SKIP THIS FILM!!!!!
ZERO stars out of 5!!!!
Steve and I had just settled in to watch Inglorious Basterds on DVD. Hmmm, How to begin, how about at the beginning.....
(the beginning, the beginning.... swirly colors on the screen and Cartman repeating beginning over and over to take us back in time...)
It was 1994, I was watching Starz or HBO or something and on came this movie, Reservior Dogs. I watched, glued to the screen, the sights were rapturous and so fresh. I had never seen anything like this ever before. I was enthralled. Who made this movie????? Quentin Tarantino, who is this man? I had never heard of him. Then low and behold, another movie from this man, Pulp Fiction, was out in the theaters that October. The one bit of trivia about this movie that tickles me is something that doesn't even really concern the film itself. I set out to see this film, playing at the little 3 screen in town. The same 3 screen that I now currently manage! Oooohhh, it is a small world after... well, you know the saying.
SO! I sit down in Theater 1 of my lovely Cinemas 123 (located at 10701 New Georges Creek Road SW in Frostburg, www.rctheatres.com) and my eyes and ears and HELL all my senses are treated to a cinematic miracle. A movie, made by adults, about adults, and most importantly FOR ADULTS!!!! Pulp Fiction was violent, funny, inventive, new, fresh, bold and most of all had elements of the lives that we all knew.
We watched Reservoir Dogs and marveled at the time line jumping and most of all at the Diner conversation that made us all talk around the water cooler. "HEY! We talk like that ALL THE TIME!!!!" Most importantly, the conversation was filmed very well. You can still hear fanboys reciting it.
Then along came Samuel L. Jackson and a big blast from our past, Vinnie Barbarino, Tony Manero, Danny Zuko, oh John Travolta, reimaging his career and starting again much to our delight and I might add, starting again REALLY REALLY WELL! There these two actors were, sitting in a car and talking about McDonalds in Amsterdam. Royale with Cheese.
As the movie progressed, we saw a completely fractured time line in the story, we see one character die (I won't spoil anything here, just in case) and then he is alive in another scene.
We also see LOADS of stars acting together in what came to be one of my favourite movies of all time.
At this point, I became a HUGE Tarantino fan.
LOVED From Dusk Til Dawn! True Romance was amazing. His segment in Four Rooms was awesome, what a cinematic throwback while still being fresh and new!!!
Jackie Brown, eeehhhhh not so much for me. I really didn't like it. I adored Robert Forster but just didn't like the movie.
Then along came the epic KILL BILL. By this point in time I was Managing the Cinemas 123 and we were booked Kill Bill Vol 1. It was amazing. Very Japaneese Cinema but with a crazy American-Old West slant. (although I have to say that I prefer Stephen Chow's films now, liking his version of Chinese-Old West style!)
I was able to watch Kill Bill over and over again, sneaking peeks throughout the evening as the shows were being played.
Kill Bill Vol 2 I didn't like so much, but the scene with Elle's other eye was awesome!
Quentin's directorial bit in Sin City was pretty good but the interviews that I was seeing and hearing with him were swelling that already swollen head of his.
Then came Grindhouse.
I will pause here, as we just have to take a pause before we undertake THIS movie.
Sigh.
I will say this, it was a really good idea. I loved the "trailers" and Planet Terror was AMAZING!!!! (Robert Rodriguez is a good director that has a grip in the real world!)
Death Proof... let's take a look at the actual story. It's ok, but fairly boring and quite sensational actually. AND by sensational I mean this definition courtesy of Webster's Dictionary:
2 : arousing or tending to arouse (as by lurid details) a quick, intense, and usually superficial interest, curiosity, or emotional reaction
THEN Quentin goes on to, shall we say, fall back on the ol' standby:
A CONVERSATION ABOUT MOVIES AND POP CULTURE BY A GROUP OF PEOPLE SITTING AROUND!
Oh Boy! How exciting! NOT!!! This has been done, and done well, by this very director, so let's skip it please!!!!
DOn't even get me started on the cast.
OH GOD!!! Vanessa Ferlito, where did THIS CHICK come from? She was not only awful, but she was so distracting with that nose of hers! I am not trying to be mean, if this is a birth defect or whatnot, she is not too blame, however, on her IMDB page it says NOTHING about it. So I have to admit that I CANNOT watch her without being COMPLETELY distracted by that nostril!!!!
AND listening to these cackling hens rabbit on about music and movies makes me want to become Amish!
It was painful to sit there. No wonder Death Proof came first in the film. No one would have sat through it otherwise!
Now, another thing I have failed to mention that runs through ALL of Tarantinos films is his fetish for womens feet.
And I am not talking about cute, little, smooth, lovely feet like Amy Adams or Keira Knightly or whomever, I am talking about honking big feet like Uma Thurmans or Diane Krugers.
Please, Q, look at feet in the privacy of your own home, and stop forcing us to see what you like.
(pardon me while I retch a little.)
This of course brings us to Inglorious Basterds.
I knew it was going to be OUT THERE! But I just didn't expect it to be SOOOOOO FARRRR OUT THERE!!!
I felt like I was on a Deep Space excursion, it was THAT FAR OUT THERE!
Let's list things, since Q loves that kind of shit!
1. The pop up titles of names next to all the Nazi bad guys that he doesn't want to take a moment to introduce us to. THis is also a fault of Guy Ritchie and I do hope these two STOP DOING IT!!!!
2. The Music. I pause again since this item could fill a whole blog on it's own. We loved the music used in Pulp Fiction - CHRIST I BOUGHT THE CD!!!! BUT, using a spanish influenced sound in a Nazi movie that takes place in France..... omg....
3. The verbage. Q! DUDE!!! It's 1944 in your flick, man! Stop with the pop cultural references!!! "Two hits. I hit you, you hit the ground." PA-LEEZE!!!!
4. Big ugly feet. Let's keep shoes on all your actresses from now on, Dude!!
Diane Kruger has her shoes off during a "doctor" scene and then she has to have her shoe placed upon her foot in some sort of Cinderella/acusational scene. I think that scene gave me stomach pains! GAH! THEN, it did not escape my attention Q that Mélanie Laurent was not wearing shoes in the projection booth.
5. STOP HAVING YOUR CHARACTERS TALK ABOUT FILMS!!!!! For F's sake there was a cinematic conversation involving a Nazi and a Jew in front of a Cinema!!!!! I am shaking my head, by the way!
6. Blood! We loved, even if we squirmed, the blood in Reservoir Dogs and in Pulp Fiction we even laughed when you blew the head off Mad TV's UPS guy. In Kill Bill we said OMG!!!! when the blood spurted out like a Kurosawa film but with Inglorious Basterds were are not treated to something amusing nor interesting. We are subjected to a violent onslaught that we did not ask to witness.
7. This is most important, Quentin. If you are going to use ACTUAL HISTORICAL FIGURES, whether they be good or bad, or COMPLETELY EVIL in the case of Hitler, please please please, do not rewrite history. It makes your film idiotic.
I have to say, that Inglorious Basterds was SO BAD that I am taking Pulp Fiction off my all time favourites list in protest.
SKIP THIS FILM!!!!!
ZERO stars out of 5!!!!
21 December 2009
Julie and Julia - Movie Review
Okay, so it's just a DVD review but still....
I heard that Amy Adams part in this flick was crap and overdone. Well, I am here to say that THAT is crap. We happen to love Amy Adams. I thought she was fun in this film. Meryl Streep of course was wonderful as Julia Child. I adore Julia Child and she did a GREAT job. I did think the idea was cute and I enjoyed this film the entire time. I especially liked the ending. It wasn't trite or full of crap like most of the endings that you will find on movies like this.
I recommend viewing this film.
***(three stars out of 5)
I heard that Amy Adams part in this flick was crap and overdone. Well, I am here to say that THAT is crap. We happen to love Amy Adams. I thought she was fun in this film. Meryl Streep of course was wonderful as Julia Child. I adore Julia Child and she did a GREAT job. I did think the idea was cute and I enjoyed this film the entire time. I especially liked the ending. It wasn't trite or full of crap like most of the endings that you will find on movies like this.
I recommend viewing this film.
***(three stars out of 5)
10 December 2009
Jingle Bells jingle bells....
It's Christmastime in Frostburg! WOOOOOOOOOO!
It's the wonderful time of the year, when lights go up and sparkle and shine and wrapping paper is crinkling as the smells of Almond cookies are in the air.
Time for "You'll shoot your eye out!" and Love Actually and loads of other Christmas themed movies. Ahhhhhh, I love this time of year.
Now, unfortunately, this year sucks for presents as I have had more money problems this year than the year I filed bankrupcy. Ugh. Whatever.
I have taken measures to assure this will never happen again just today! Yay for a Christmas Club account. (Yay for having my own checking account.)
So, off to work shortly, which is WAY AWESOME looking, thanks to Johnny and Jordan and the GREAT decorations they put up. The Box Office looks FABULOUS!!!!
Thanks as well to 105 fm WDYK, for all the great Christmas music, 24-7! LOVE IT!
Of course, living in Frostburg is cool this time of year, especially this year, since it's snowed twice now and at this very moment is snowing! YAY!!!!!
Happy Holidays to everyone.
May your Chanukah be nice, starting tomorrow night and Blessed Be to all my Wiccan friends on Yule and Merry Christmas to my family!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!
It's the wonderful time of the year, when lights go up and sparkle and shine and wrapping paper is crinkling as the smells of Almond cookies are in the air.
Time for "You'll shoot your eye out!" and Love Actually and loads of other Christmas themed movies. Ahhhhhh, I love this time of year.
Now, unfortunately, this year sucks for presents as I have had more money problems this year than the year I filed bankrupcy. Ugh. Whatever.
I have taken measures to assure this will never happen again just today! Yay for a Christmas Club account. (Yay for having my own checking account.)
So, off to work shortly, which is WAY AWESOME looking, thanks to Johnny and Jordan and the GREAT decorations they put up. The Box Office looks FABULOUS!!!!
Thanks as well to 105 fm WDYK, for all the great Christmas music, 24-7! LOVE IT!
Of course, living in Frostburg is cool this time of year, especially this year, since it's snowed twice now and at this very moment is snowing! YAY!!!!!
Happy Holidays to everyone.
May your Chanukah be nice, starting tomorrow night and Blessed Be to all my Wiccan friends on Yule and Merry Christmas to my family!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!
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