13 June, 2009

Juno’s Music: A Bad Reaction

A play-by-play of my path to nausea.
Changing channels.  Coming across last 20 minutes of the movie “Juno.” Listening to the almost endless string of folksey-cutesy-singer-songwriter-children’s-music-lyric-ey-sing-songey songs.
Throwing up in my mouth.
The antidotes? The Pixies or a pistol, stat.

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June 13th, 2009 | Saw It | , , | 3 comments
25 March, 2009

Jumping The Shark

It’s Not Just For Fonzi Anymore
For those that don’t know, “Jumping the Shark” is a reference to a late episode of the 70’s show “Happy Days” in which Fonzi jumps over a shark pen on water skis.  It’s come to mean those turning points in a show where viewership is down, writers are out of [...]

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March 25th, 2009 | Thought It | , , , , , , | 8 comments
29 July, 2008

On Tuesday, I’m Underwhelmed By Batman

The Dark Knight: Overrated (Excepting Heath Ledger)
Caught the new Batman movie this afternoon with my son. Despite liking the hell out of Batman Begins, I found The Dark Knight pretty underwhelming.  The action was ok I suppose, but the fight scenes were edited so tightly as to be kind of hard to follow.  Christian Bale was [...]

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July 29th, 2008 | Saw It | , | 3 comments
28 July, 2008

On Monday, I Hate Oliver Stone

What do you think you are, a Kennedy? You’re a Bush.
No, you’re a douche. Or Oliver Stone is anyway. I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I believe if you’ve seen one of his films, you’ve seen every heavy-handed, stupidly obvious, ham-fisted way to make a point ever committed to celluloid, but since [...]

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July 28th, 2008 | Saw It | | 8 comments
12 June, 2008

Original Horror, Finally. “The Signal” Crushes.

I am and have been a horror film fan for a long time. The first film that scared the hell out of me was Halloween, which I saw in the theater when it was first released in 1978. It was my first film of that genre (that’d be the creepy-mass-murderer-that-won’t-die genre); there hadn’t [...]

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June 12th, 2008 | Saw It | , | 5 comments
30 May, 2008

Sex And The City Movie Virtual Review

I have not seen the Sex And The City movie (which I keep thinking is Sex IN The City). I will not see the Sex And The City movie. But that’s not going to stop me from writing a review as if I had.
We take our seats. The theater is full, mostly women [...]

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May 30th, 2008 | Saw It | , | 13 comments
23 May, 2008

How Tough Is James Caan?

I’ll tell you how tough.  Last night I caught a bit of the original version of Rollerball on television.  If you haven’t seen it, Rollerball was one of those movies that came along in the seventies that tried to make incisive observations and predictions about society and violence.  There was a raft of them in [...]

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May 23rd, 2008 | Saw It | | 2 comments