Archive for the 'Reviews' 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Third Kryptonian, Superman #668-670

November 12, 2007, 6:32 pm

I’ve been recovering from an accident, so haven’t been able to really do much (despite what you see in the comics, broken ribs really hurt: Batman shrugs them off, then uses his grappling hook to swing away; I kinda just pop painkillers and try not to move).

I haven’t been able to get comics as regularly [...]