Wow. Ancient.
Does your walker fit in the trunk of that sporty Mazda you picked up?
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Wow. Ancient.
Does your walker fit in the trunk of that sporty Mazda you picked up?
Right next to the dead hooker.
yes. i forgot that bit.
The Fighter 6/10 - Christian Bale saves this movie from being pretty shitty. Micky Ward is not that interesting. It's his brother, Dicky, and his incredibly white-trash family that carry the movie. The boxing scenes are not very exciting and some of it looks incredibly fake. Some of it is well done, but the big finale was very anti-climactic to me. They really tried to spruce up Ward's career, to make it seem like he was much more successful than he really was.
That's pretty much how I felt about it too.
DuckThor Evil
Legend
Saw it recently too, what a waste of time that movie was.
The Other Guys 7/10 - Wife and I laughed our butts off watching this movie, and neither of us are Will Ferrell fans.
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
Legend
Yeah, was a bit silly and didn't know what it was trying to be and where it was trying to go.
I think there were too many twists, where you can't figure out who is the baddie and who is the goodie. I think you lose the audience when they don't know which side the characters are on and it keeps changing throughout the movie.
And I'll say it. . .she doesn't do a single thing for me. In fact, I think she's butt-ugly with those fish lips on her face.
If you want to see a great movie with some good boxing, watch, "The Boxer," which stars Daniel Day-Lewis. Barry McGuigan was the boxing consultant and trained Day-Lewis.
I just finished watching the Dollhouse season 2, minus the Epitaph - we've saved ourselves from watching those until the end, more or less by accident. I don't know that I'll bother to, as it is a tired post-apocalyptic storyline. Understandable, with some good acting, and born from interesting contractual entanglements, but unnecessary nonetheless.
Anyway, while not great, the series does pick up half way and has some strong episodes. Definitely not Whedon's finest, but we've enjoyed watching it. At some point it is nice to have some Whedon back. He'll have to stop using the same actors though if he ever wants to make something good again, because part of the impact of his series came from actors you quickly started to see only in that universe. Now it takes longer and longer to wipe their previous Whedon role from your memory.
Anyway, while not great, the series does pick up half way and has some strong episodes. Definitely not Whedon's finest, but we've enjoyed watching it. At some point it is nice to have some Whedon back. He'll have to stop using the same actors though if he ever wants to make something good again, because part of the impact of his series came from actors you quickly started to see only in that universe. Now it takes longer and longer to wipe their previous Whedon role from your memory.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
Haha, yeah. Easily the worst movie I've seen this year. No wait, sorry not even close that award goes to the incredibly bad...
Skyline. I think the first movie I'd ever rate as a 0/10. Absolutely horrible. There isn't a single redeeming feature to this steaming pile of shite.
On the other hand. I just saw a really good movie that surprised the hell out of me.
The A-Team. 9/10. I went into this expecting a 4/10 or 5/10 considering all the other bad movies that were made from 60s/70s/80s TV series the past few years. But it was genuinely funny in the spirit of the A-Team TV series. I knocked off 1 point because I don't think the person they got to play BA really fits, then again it's hard to find someonoe that can pull off Mr. T.
Regards,
SB
Haha, yeah. Easily the worst movie I've seen this year. No wait, sorry not even close that award goes to the incredibly bad...
Skyline. I think the first movie I'd ever rate as a 0/10. Absolutely horrible. There isn't a single redeeming feature to this steaming pile of shite.
On the other hand. I just saw a really good movie that surprised the hell out of me.
The A-Team. 9/10. I went into this expecting a 4/10 or 5/10 considering all the other bad movies that were made from 60s/70s/80s TV series the past few years. But it was genuinely funny in the spirit of the A-Team TV series. I knocked off 1 point because I don't think the person they got to play BA really fits, then again it's hard to find someonoe that can pull off Mr. T.
Regards,
SB
Now I will watch your reviews more carefully since I largely agree. A-Team got panned, but it actually did a pretty darn good job IMO.
The best part about Salt:
When Angelina Jolie was disguised as a male military officer to infiltrate a secret base underneath the White House. It was like Pat, from the "It's Pat," sketches on SNL was in a covert operation. That was the most incredibly androgynous disguise ever. You could still see the shape of her breasts squished under the coat.
WhiningKhan
Regular
So even in this this case, the best part turned out to be
her breasts...
In agreement with others, I too thought it to be one silly movie. It didn't manage to be a female Bourne that I thought it was trying to be.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
Or the
fact that the president was still alive at the end and could have easily backed up her story that the guy she killed was the Sovient agent that killed everyone else in the room... But no, she was the one to blame for all that. Including that "loyal" CIA Agent.
There were so many holes and inconsistencies throughout that movie. I'm just glad I didn't have to pay for the rental. Watched it at a friends place.
Regards,
SB
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
Legend
Or theRegards,fact that the president was still alive at the end and could have easily backed up her story that the guy she killed was the Sovient agent that killed everyone else in the room... But no, she was the one to blame for all that. Including that "loyal" CIA Agent.
SB
IIRC he president gets killed when he won't launch the nukes. There's only Salt and the other double agent left afterwards, and she kills him. That's why there's no one to back up her story.
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
Legend
RED - 7/10. More entertaining and evenly paced than Expendables. Much of that score is due to Hellen Mirren, John Malkovich and Brian Cox (who manages to steal every scene).
Megamind - 8/10. Really good, much better paced and funnier than Dispicable Me, great subdued performance from Will Ferrell (I wasn't sure it was even him till I read the credits - normally he's overacting out the wazoo). Somewhat predictable, but great animation all around, especially on the city and backgrounds. It probably helped that I recently read the novel of "Soon I Will Be Invincible".
Megamind - 8/10. Really good, much better paced and funnier than Dispicable Me, great subdued performance from Will Ferrell (I wasn't sure it was even him till I read the credits - normally he's overacting out the wazoo). Somewhat predictable, but great animation all around, especially on the city and backgrounds. It probably helped that I recently read the novel of "Soon I Will Be Invincible".
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