Archive for the 'Movies' Category

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 [...]

Bad Movies: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

January 7, 2008, 9:55 pm

As the inaugural movie on my new Playstation 3, I could have chosen Close Encounters of the Third Kind (the only movie I really wanted on Blu-Ray), or Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, or even Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. But no, instead, I had to watch Fantastic Four: Rise [...]

Things I Can’t Wait For: Justice League: The New Frontier

December 2, 2007, 8:41 pm

I’m wary, but I think the Justice League: The New Frontier looks like it might be good. It’s trying to distill a fairly complex comic mini-series into a 90 minute movie, and that usually doesn’t work too well. Also, the direct-to-video DC Comic movies have been hit or miss, with mostly misses recently.

The voice talent [...]

Bad Movies: Transformers

November 25, 2007, 10:05 pm

Hailed as the popcorn flick of the summer of 2007, Transformers is a really bad movie with great special effects. So I guess that’s what passes for popcorn flick these days: overproduced, underwritten, crappy movies. I know, I shouldn’t be surprised. I watched this travesty over the Thanksgiving weekend. Quite appropriate, since it was a [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

November 22, 2007, 10:48 am

Not Safe for Work. But Funny. Well, gross, at least.