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Definition Unnecessary
I cannot get this song out of my head nor can I stop watching Alessandra Torressani. She more than makes up for the singing. Maybe not so safe for the younglings…
Binge and Purge
Lately the lions share of my time has been focused on some freelance work of rebuilding a corporate website. Now that the project is mostly completed, I spent a weekend in a quasi-coma and feel mostly ready to face the world again. I feel like I’ve missed out on a lot. Generally I’m a lot more active in keeping up with a couple of forums I visit with regularity, and certainly my beta accounts have suffered negligence. Due to my seclusion, the wife and I have gotten a little behind on our movie merriment. Though it seems most of our watching comes in a glut of self-induced double or triple features. On the one hand it makes for easy contrasting between films; on the other it makes it a near impossibility to absorb much of what you’ve seen. This might not be the detriment that it might seem. I don’t think that any amount of analysis would have helped me appreciate The Informant. However, I find Zombieland all the more memorable because the other films were so forgettable. Read the rest of this entry »
Micro Reviews
I should have used the time during the DC snowpocalypse to catch up on writing. Obviously, I didn’t. I had started a draft of reviews on a round of rentals I had recently partaken in, but it seems WP ate my homework. I just haven’t had the willpower to rewrite it. So let’s see if I can remember my impressions. Read the rest of this entry »
TerMEHnator Salvation
I want to start by saying that I really expected very little from this film. Reading some form of review after the theatrical release was almost unavoidable, and at best the reviews were uncomplimentary. Supposedly I had seen all there was to see of the major action sequences through the trailers, therefore seeing it on the screen didn’t seem as important to me. Herein lies the problem with reviews, putting too much stock in another persons opinions can lead to regret. Expectations are a tricky thing and I believe there were almost unrealistically high hopes for Salvation. It seems to me now that the reviews were based more on what the reviewer wanted from the film rather than what was presented. Though perhaps by generating a negative expectation I could enjoy the movie for what it was. Read the rest of this entry »
Inglorious Basterds – Meh
Over the holidays I got to spend a little time catching up on recent releases. We don’t get to the theater too often for one reason or another. At $10 a ticket I have to deem the movie worthy of seeing on the big screen. Usually big special effects are my primary requirement which scratches just about anything other than an action flick. Sorry, but a close up of George Clooney is just as dreamy on my tv as it is on a 30 foot screen. I digress. I had been looking forward to seeing Inglorious Basterds since saw the first trailer. My intention was to see it on the big screen, it looked like quite a spectacle. I love war movies for the hero element that so often permeates the genre. The stories of ordinary men doing extraordinary things for the sake of some ideal greater than themselves, what can I say, I’m a sucker for the noble ideal. From the trailers I was expecting something akin to Kelly’s Heroes meets The Dirty Dozen meets Band of Brothers. Sadly, I expected too much. Read the rest of this entry »
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