While visiting I was visiting my friends in Kansas City recently, they were good enough to make a few recommendations on entertainment for me. I have sampled them all; allow me to review in descending order of my own preference: The Bard’s Tale:I found a copy of the PS2 version at an Amazon.com subsidiary. This …
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Cloverfield
Cloverfield was a brilliantly concieved and executed project. It was certainly a more worthy heir to the Gojira mantle than the recent Matthew Broderick fiasco. I will warn that the intention of the movie is that it is entirely shot on a camcorder, and there is a LOT of running; my friends and I all …
Saturday Before Christmas
Oddly, not much is happening today. I’m really looking forward to having some time off before I start my triple drills (regular, OCS, Kosovo training…). I watched I am Legend two days ago. It was far and away Will Smith’s best acting, EVER–but despite that, and despite the fact that it was the highest-budget movie …
The Buzz on "Cloverfield"
I read some reviews of the Cloverfield clips which have been released so far. A lot of people seem negative, because they are afraid that Abrams is trying to make his “giant monster movie” into a 9/11 analogy. It should be noted, however, that the original “giant monster movie”, Gojira, was actually an analogy for …
Merry Christmas!!
Remember, remember the 8th of December…Sorry, it just popped into my head. I didn’t even like that movie. Well, it’s been quite a week in the news. Nine people were shot to death in ANOTHER “gun-free zone”–this time while Christmas shopping at a mall in Nebraska. You know, this really seems like an issue that …
Movie Madness
Well, happy birthday to me. Last night I watched two movies: Seeker: The Dark is Rising (at the cinema), and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. I’ll reveal the older movie first. Rise of the Silver Surfer was not as bad as I had been led to believe. The Army personnel were not in …
The Golden Compass
Apparently, a group called “The Catholic League” is leading a protest against a movie due out in December, called The Golden Compass. This movie is based on the first book in a trilogy called His Dark Materials by British author Philip Pullman. The protest is due to the League’s idea that the movie will encourage …
Redacted
I am officially boycotting Brian de Palma–not that I was a big fan of his before. Other people might consider doing the same thing. Mr. de Palma is in the process of releasing his new movie, “Redacted,” crafted specifically to hurt the U. S. war on terror. It consists of several stories of military members …
The Bionic Woman
I have said it before, and I will doubtless say it again: Hollywood is officially out of ideas. NBC is remaking–for the love of God–NOT the novel Cyborg, which was actually kind of cool; NOT the TV interpretation “The Six Million Dollar Man,” which was at least as legit as 70’s TV got; but the …
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