Not Really 3 Movies
Sep. 5th, 2014 04:18 pmI haven't done one of these in a while. Which explains why so many movies. Caught Million Dollar Arm in the theaters way back at the start of Summer. Cute, formulaic Disney movie. John Hamm is charming even when being a jack-ass. And I like that they go looking for Indian cricket players to try and convert to baseball and get a pair of more general track and field types...
Also from the actual theater was the recent Dwayne Johnson Hercules. Which reminded me more than a bit of his Scorpion King movie. Together they make me wonder, if like Vin Diesel, Johnson also has an Awesome D&D Campaign I Really Want to Tell Everyone About...
Inside Llewyn Davis was wonderfully made, has some great folk music, great acting all round and a lead character I wanted to see die in an alley. Fucking cat abandoner...
Blue is the Warmest Color is probably the first lesbian-centric romantic, coming-of-age movie that really earned its NC-17 rating. I mean those were some seriously graphic and lengthy sex scenes. Also looooooong movie...
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 wasn't as cute or charming as the original. Still plenty of cuteness and food gags and charm. Just not as much. Also an actual villain rather than a more Person vs. Enviroment theme...
Earnest and Celestine is an adorabley sweet movie about a bear who wants to be a musician and not a lawyer and a mouse who wants to be an artist and not a lackey of the rodent dental industry. And how they become best friends forever and ever...
Finally we've got the Lego Movie. Which was not quite as Totally, Perfectlly Awesome as it was hyped. But it comes dang close...
Also from the actual theater was the recent Dwayne Johnson Hercules. Which reminded me more than a bit of his Scorpion King movie. Together they make me wonder, if like Vin Diesel, Johnson also has an Awesome D&D Campaign I Really Want to Tell Everyone About...
Inside Llewyn Davis was wonderfully made, has some great folk music, great acting all round and a lead character I wanted to see die in an alley. Fucking cat abandoner...
Blue is the Warmest Color is probably the first lesbian-centric romantic, coming-of-age movie that really earned its NC-17 rating. I mean those were some seriously graphic and lengthy sex scenes. Also looooooong movie...
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 wasn't as cute or charming as the original. Still plenty of cuteness and food gags and charm. Just not as much. Also an actual villain rather than a more Person vs. Enviroment theme...
Earnest and Celestine is an adorabley sweet movie about a bear who wants to be a musician and not a lawyer and a mouse who wants to be an artist and not a lackey of the rodent dental industry. And how they become best friends forever and ever...
Finally we've got the Lego Movie. Which was not quite as Totally, Perfectlly Awesome as it was hyped. But it comes dang close...
3 + 3 Movies
Mar. 25th, 2014 10:13 pmI kind of feel like I shouldn't be counting Springbreakers or Don Jon as watched movies. Since I didn't get very far into either. I didn't even get to the spree crime bit of the former. It was just sooooooo dull watching three college ladies try to find the money to party thru Spring Break. Gave up well before James Franco shows up. And as for the latter, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a really good actor. So good that I truly hated his porn-addicted bro very quickly. And so tapped out right around the movie date with ScarJo...
Cockneys Vs. Zombies didn't really bring anything terribly new to the zombie survival genre. A group of Eastenders trying to rob a bank to save their grandfather's retirement home from demolition. Which gets interupted by the sudden zombie infestation. Very suddenly. I mean they go out the door, cops all over the street. Rush back into the back, spend about a minute grabbing some hostages and go out and street is all post-zombie attack. Still a fun movie. I mean someone drop kicks a zombie baby...
I spent part of 42 trying to figure what the most southern MLB team would have been then. Did Atlanta have a team then? I'm pretty certain it was well before Florida or Texas had a major franchise. Anyway, great acting all around though I'm betting Robinson's recruitment wasn't as high intentioned as shown...
Monsters University is a..nice..enough prequel sequel. Its nowhere near as touching as Monsters Inc. I did like Nate Fillion's smug BMOC bad guy. And there were lots of visually interesting monsters. But still was a fairly cookie cutter college underdog movie...
And finally we've got White House Down, one of the better Die Hard at Blank type movies. Much better than the last two actual Die Hard movies definitely. This is the one with Jamie Foxx as NotObama and Channing Tatum as NotJohn McLaine. I don't know when Tatum learned to loosen up his acting, but its a decided improvement over some of previous work...
Cockneys Vs. Zombies didn't really bring anything terribly new to the zombie survival genre. A group of Eastenders trying to rob a bank to save their grandfather's retirement home from demolition. Which gets interupted by the sudden zombie infestation. Very suddenly. I mean they go out the door, cops all over the street. Rush back into the back, spend about a minute grabbing some hostages and go out and street is all post-zombie attack. Still a fun movie. I mean someone drop kicks a zombie baby...
I spent part of 42 trying to figure what the most southern MLB team would have been then. Did Atlanta have a team then? I'm pretty certain it was well before Florida or Texas had a major franchise. Anyway, great acting all around though I'm betting Robinson's recruitment wasn't as high intentioned as shown...
Monsters University is a..nice..enough prequel sequel. Its nowhere near as touching as Monsters Inc. I did like Nate Fillion's smug BMOC bad guy. And there were lots of visually interesting monsters. But still was a fairly cookie cutter college underdog movie...
And finally we've got White House Down, one of the better Die Hard at Blank type movies. Much better than the last two actual Die Hard movies definitely. This is the one with Jamie Foxx as NotObama and Channing Tatum as NotJohn McLaine. I don't know when Tatum learned to loosen up his acting, but its a decided improvement over some of previous work...
Friday Night Lights: Season 1
Apr. 23rd, 2013 04:46 pmMan, that was a lot of drama stuffed into one season. Sex, Drugs, Bad Rock & Roll! Footballs! More Sex! Infidelity! Adapting to being paralyzed. Alcoholism. Bad parenting. Good parenting! More sex! Plus some more of the Footballs, where its the BIGGEST MOST IMPORTANT GAME EVER! Again!
Friday Night Lights: Coach Gary Gaines: Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It's not about winning. It's about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didnt let them down because you told them the truth. And that truth is you did everything you could. There wasnt one more thing you could've done. Can you live in that moment as best you can, with clear eyes, and love in your heart, with joy in your heart? If you can do that gentleman - you're perfect!
the Woman in Black: Vengeance ghosts are jerks. Even to that nice Harry Potter boy.
October Sky: Dream big, win big. With rockets. Vwoooosh!
the Woman in Black: Vengeance ghosts are jerks. Even to that nice Harry Potter boy.
October Sky: Dream big, win big. With rockets. Vwoooosh!
3 Quick Movie Reactions
Aug. 22nd, 2012 03:55 pmThe Warrior's Way: I have a feeling all the leaping ninjas and flying knives and bullets and stuff would have given me a massive headache in 3d. In regular vision they're kind of neat. Stupid but neat. Like the rest of the movie about a ninja assassin who moves to a broken down town in the Old West populated by out of work carnival folk...
Everything Must Go: Am I the only one who thinks Will Ferrel's character commits suicide right after the movie ends? I don't think I am...
Goon: The final fight, which is several minutes of Liv Schieber and Sean William Scott just beating the fucking hell out of each other is the best. Just the bloody, violent best...
Everything Must Go: Am I the only one who thinks Will Ferrel's character commits suicide right after the movie ends? I don't think I am...
Goon: The final fight, which is several minutes of Liv Schieber and Sean William Scott just beating the fucking hell out of each other is the best. Just the bloody, violent best...
I'm not much of a sports enthusiast, but I do like baseball movies. Because they generally manage to extract out all the dullness of watching the sport and to just a few montage sequences and high spots. And while Moneyball has those, its mostly about how the Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics used statistical analysis to send his low-budget franchise on a twenty-game winning streak that took them into the playoffs. Brad Pitt does a stellar job as Beane, plus Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the A's head coach and Jonah Hill is great as the Yale economics grad who pushes the different way of building a baseball team...
The Fighter
Jul. 31st, 2011 08:33 pmI was kinda expecting that the whole Mikey's family is a giant stone around his neck to be more subtle. But nope they were all pretty terrible with the incompetent managing and the selfishness and the crazy. Lot of great acting all around though...
The Winning Season
Jun. 19th, 2011 04:40 pmSurly, drunken washed-out Bill (Sam Rockwell) is hired to coach a seemingly hopeless high school girl's basketball team. Leading to..oh wait. This is just the Bad News Bears again isn't it? Enh, its got Sam Rockwell and that alone makes it worth a watch...
The Damned United
Jul. 5th, 2010 11:43 amThe more I see of Michael Sheen the more I like him. Though I'm having a hard time thinking of a sports movie where the players are in shown in such a bad light versus the management. I was a bit disappointed that the final denouement was done using news footage and recap captioning rather than finishing with the actors. Not just Sheen as Brian Clough but Timothy Spall and Colm Meany as well. And the movie is very much more a character study rather than a regular sports story...
Televised Athletes
Oct. 25th, 2009 08:45 pmAmazing Race: Damn, Globetrotters. That was just stone cold evil...
Sunday Night Football: Dear![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
grrm and other Giants Fans
Neener
Neener
Neener
:P
Sunday Night Football: Dear
grrm and other Giants FansNeener
Neener
Neener
:P
Director Barrymore brings the ancient and honorable sport of roller derby to the big screen. Thrill to Ellen Page as the true-born skate-gladiator Bliss aka Babe Ruthless. Be amazed at the third hand wonders of down-town Austin. Ok, mostly its cute and funny and quirky. Plus attractive women spend time pummeling each other...
Can't stop thinking about it
Aug. 5th, 2009 05:06 amThat stupid vampire baseball Writer's Block is stuck in my head. Now I'm wondering more about the concept. First just ignore the call-back to the damn Twillight books. Think the early season episode of The Simpsons where Mr. Burns hires an entire team of ringers for his softball team to win a bet. Now replace that with vampires. So you've got two vampire baseball fans who maintain teams. And one decides to fill his with pro-players...
Now I'm thinking what all-time greats are still alive. Because once someone is turned into a vamp two things matter. One, performance enhancers like steroids or the like should either be expelled or just not have any effect at all. And second no matter how old they were BEFORE going vamp, now they're a young, strapping undead athlete. So why bother with whoever the big names are now when I can have Jackie Robinson with all his skills AND the strength to bench a buick...
So people who actually know anything about sports, what nine (or however many a full bench is) still living baseball legends would you bring in as undead ringers to win your bet?
Now I'm thinking what all-time greats are still alive. Because once someone is turned into a vamp two things matter. One, performance enhancers like steroids or the like should either be expelled or just not have any effect at all. And second no matter how old they were BEFORE going vamp, now they're a young, strapping undead athlete. So why bother with whoever the big names are now when I can have Jackie Robinson with all his skills AND the strength to bench a buick...
So people who actually know anything about sports, what nine (or however many a full bench is) still living baseball legends would you bring in as undead ringers to win your bet?
Writer's Block: Fantasy Sports
Aug. 4th, 2009 04:49 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I would recruit Jesus, Superman and a giant squid. I'm pretty sure all of those are on some team. I wouldn't even bother turning them into vampires...
I would recruit Jesus, Superman and a giant squid. I'm pretty sure all of those are on some team. I wouldn't even bother turning them into vampires...
We're all doomed aren't we?
Jan. 19th, 2009 05:40 am*continues scrolling thru newsfeeds*
"Cardinals and Steelers go to Super Bowl"
Well thats nic..What? The Cardinals are going to be PLAYING at the Super Bowl? I'm pretty sure thats Sign #5. The End Times are upon us. Which is annoying because now I have to buy a shotgun. Those things are fucking EXPENSIVE...
Maybe its only if they win that the Gates of Hell crack open and the Dead walk again?
"Cardinals and Steelers go to Super Bowl"
Well thats nic..What? The Cardinals are going to be PLAYING at the Super Bowl? I'm pretty sure thats Sign #5. The End Times are upon us. Which is annoying because now I have to buy a shotgun. Those things are fucking EXPENSIVE...
Maybe its only if they win that the Gates of Hell crack open and the Dead walk again?
