The Book of Eli

Went and saw this yesterday.

Overall, a pretty good flick… with an ending that makes you need to re-watch the entire movie.  The entire movie hinges on the power of faith, but without being too preachy.

Inglorious Basterds

I watched Inglorious Basterds this evening (after football).  It’s a great film.  As usual, you have to stomach the cringe-worthy bloody scenes, but it was an entertaining and well-done film. 

Double Feature

Last night was a double feature movie night for Wendy and me. 

First we watched 500 Days of Summer.  I really enjoyed this movie.  Good characters.  Interesting film making.  Highly entertaining. 

Then we watched The Hangover.  It’s a good, classic, raunchy guy flick.  Also highly entertaining, but it didn’t live up to the hype I had heard about it. 

Avatar

I went to see Avatar this afternoon.  I’d give it a five out of ten.  The special effects were phenomenal and the various critters were interesting, but the plot was a very standard sci-fi fallback and the characters were rather shallow.  The whole “evil humans must kill pure indigenous people to get minerals/gold/water/resources and indigenous folks who are in communion with nature fight back on uneven battlefield yadda yadda yadda” has been done a thousand times.  I was waiting for some new twist on it that never came.  Avatar is worth a watch, but it’s far from anything unique - except, as I said, for the special effects. 

On the brighter side, I did see the trailer for the remake of Clash of the Titans - one of my all time favorite movies.  Let’s hope the remake stays true to the claymation special effects of the original. 

Yellowbeard

I’m celebrating the end of the year by watching Yellowbeard.  Still on the mend. 

Jed on Film

Went and saw Zombieland today.

I give it two snaps in a circle.  It’s not very long and there’s no grand plot, but it’s pure campy zombie-killin’ fun.

Public Service Announcement

I had a chance to see The Hangover this weekend.  If you don’t see another comedy in the theater this year, this is the one to see.  Absolutely hilarious!

And Now for Something Completely Different…

Favorite Python scene.  Go.

In the Name of the Father - Bono

BTW, they have this movie on Hulu at the moment.  I highly recommend it. 

It Insists Upon Itself

I saw this linked over at Ace of Spades HQ, and I had to laugh.  I swear I’ve had this exact conversation about 10 times.

Peter Griffin is my hero.

Brawndo

Who knew you could actually buy Brawndo?

For those who haven’t seen Idiocracy, go rent it.  It’s got electrolytes.

Kentucky Fried Movie

From one of my favorite classics:

Primer

OK.  I just watched the movie Primer.  It’s about two guys, Aaron and Abe, who accidentally build a time machine. 

So naturally, as with any time travel movie, it can become very difficult to keep things straight.  The word “confusing” does not do this movie justice.

Wanna see exactly how confusing? 

spoiler below the fold

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Monty Python

For absolutely no reason, my favorite Python scene.

Rambo Review

I went and saw Rambo this evening.  It was, as expected, very gory.  Lots of gunplay and gratuitous violence.  All of the scenes that I linked in this post did make it into the film.  There was a lot of cheering in the theater every time an arm, leg, or head got blown off.  Thumbs up!

One negative, though.  It was short.  This is the second week in a row I’ve been to a movie that was disappointingly short—Cloverfield clocked in at 84 minutes, and Rambo at 93 minutes.