Posts Tagged ‘ review ’

Disturbia (2007)

Got home after driving around under the high afternoon sun, and spent the afternoon dozing off with movies on TV. First up was teeny-bopper thriller Disturbia. It was perfectly mindless and exciting enough for how tired i was. The premise of being imprisoned in your own house is interesting, but it probably could have been [ READ MORE ]

Iron Man 2 (2010)

The best part of Iron Man 2 was the trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception. You can see explosions and futuristic gadgets any night of the week on broadcast television, or Hulu, or YouTube, etc. When i go to the theater, i want to escape and be presented with a vision. Nolan delivers. Unfortunately, after that [ READ MORE ]

Julie & Julia (2009)

  • February 6th, 2010
  • Posted in on DVD

Some of the worst trailers for never-heard-of chick-flicks on this disc. …And they just keep coming. …And finally the menu, and pressing play. This is starting just like Beauty & The Beast — Disney-sounding “French” accordion score, with people speaking french, nuns walking in the town square. Streep’s Child impression just makes you smile. Butter! [ READ MORE ]

24 Season 8 Premiere

After only 2 minutes a new car was hot-wired, which is not possible, and has never been possible with modern cars since before season one of 24. The street footage was way blown-out — how did they screw up so many shots that badly? Everyone’s using blatantly Sprint-branded phones. An overhead drone surveillance photo became [ READ MORE ]

We Were Soldiers (2002)

  • January 6th, 2010
  • Posted in on DVD

With countless copies of the DVD around the house, i’m finally sitting down to watch We Were Soldiers. I’m kinda live-blogging this as it plays. This movie is pretty much all musical montage. Noticing a trend in war movies: the leader that makes bad calls right off the top then the lower-ranking soldier steps up [ READ MORE ]

The Years