Archive for the 'Movies' Category

What I’ve Been Watching

April 26, 2008, 9:12 pm

I’ve been watching a lot of movies lately, some good, some not so good. None really deserve a whole post, but here’s some mini-reviews.

The Good
The Bourne Ultimatum: Wow, a trilogy of movies that’s good from the first to the third. You don’t see that often enough. This is an action move done right.

Justice League: New [...]

Zombie Easter: 2008

March 21, 2008, 8:25 pm

Another year, another Zombie Easter. For background, you can see what I did in 2007 (a bad Zombie Easter year), and in 2006 (a much better year). Each year, I celebrate the most famous zombie of all: Jesus. This year, I’ll be doing the following:

Watching Resident Evil in HD. Zombies and Milla! I know it [...]

The HD-DVD Versus Blu-Ray War

February 17, 2008, 8:38 pm

Yeah yeah yeah, Blu-Ray has likely won. It doesn’t matter to me, too much, since I have a PS3 and a HD-DVD player. It’s not like my Star Trek and Heroes season sets will suddenly stop working, and I’ll still be able to watch Serenity and Forbidden Planet in HD whenever I want. And I [...]

Bad Movies: Sunshine

February 10, 2008, 2:35 pm

Sunshine is another of the "Must Save the World" epics, in the same vein as The Core, When Worlds Collide, and Armageddon. This time, a crew of astronauts must, I kid you not, restart the sun. Let me give you a little time to digest the silliness of that. Spoilers Ho!

If you can’t find silliness [...]

Boba Fett: WTF?

January 15, 2008, 10:23 pm

I see that Boba Fett is going to be a major character in a new TV series. All I can say is “Why?” What’s the big attraction of this character? Let’s take a look at his life.

Starts out as a whiny kid
Big moment in life: seeing his dad beheaded (I always wanted his dad’s head [...]