September is the time of great action movies
I’m looking forward to September, which oddly enough has two action movies coming out that I’m really looking forward to. The first is Crank, because I am a big fan of the cinematic oeuvre of Jason Statham. I adore the Transporter movies, so there is no way that I’m not going to be there opening [...]
Miami Vice
I had really low expectations for this movie, and I still ended up being disappointed. For an action movie it seemed curiously dull and flat. I don’t expect much from a Miami Vice movie, but I would have thought that there would at least be a car chase leading to a speedboat chase or a [...]
Heroes on a half-shell
It is a little odd, seeing people resurrect the toys and TV shows of my youth. I dunno about the Transformers movie, but the trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was cute. Now I’m waiting for a Jem and the Holograms movie… Blogging will be light for the next few days, because I’m going out [...]
Superman Returns
I liked this very much. It did feel like a Richard Donner movie with better special effects. I thought Brandon Routh was appropriately Christopher Reevey.
X-Men: The Last Stand
This movie bummed me out. I know that there’s a difference between movie X-Men and comic book X-men in terms of characterization and continuity, but WAY too much stuff happened that seemed totally out of character. Also, it was really anti-woman to an astonishing degree. I mean, if Halle Berry’s Storm is the strongest female [...]
Poseidon
I’m not really recommending this movie, unless you are sick of packing, all your dvds are in boxes, you’ve already seen MI:3 and don’t want to see the spelling bee movie, you’re stuck in a torrential rainstorm, and you are not averse to watching movies of the Kurt Russell escaping from things genre. But it [...]
The Promise
The Promise was beautifully filmed and operatically overwrought. I can’t say much for the plot, but you know that you’re seeing a pretty good action movie when the villian fights with razor-tipped fans as his main weapon. It is a nice movie to see if you enjoy a lot of billowing silk and wirework in [...]
MI:3
I was glad that they surrounded Tom Cruise with such a large supporting cast, because it distracted me from the fact that I was watching a movie with Tom Cruise in it. The start of the movie felt very much like an episode of Alias. I was happy to see that Greg Grunberg showed up [...]
Troubling Movies
I find the idea of Dallas the Movie rather disturbing. When I saw the trailer for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, for the first few seconds I was wondering if it was a lame Hollywood adaptation of Initial D, either the manga or the movie. But when I realized that the hero of [...]
V for Vendetta
I don’t think I’ve ever had a more mixed reaction to a movie. I feel as if I’ve gone to see a wacky exhibit of installation art where someone made a sculpture of lovely diamonds embedded in a giant pile of rhinocerous excrement. Although I might want to appreciate the lovely diamonds, I’m distracted by [...]
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