One of my old schoolmates is a huge fan of Jack Black (or at least it seems so), and he almost went into shock yesterday, when I told him I didn’t like Black. After all, the last movie I’d seen where Black had the lead role was “School of Rock“, and that’s a pile of [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Arrogant Infidelity
(EDIT: Please excuse the crappy pseudo-quality of this “review”; I just finished reading “V for Vendetta”, and my mind hasn’t recovered properly yet.)
It would appear that Christmas is “romantic-comedy-time” as well as family time, for in the last week, I’ve seen more romantic comedies than I usually do in three or four months.
The last one [...]
Fun Actually
Watched “Love Actually” — one of my favourite romantic comedies — last night, and it was as swell as always.
Not much to say about it, really, except that the cast is awesome, the stories are almost all cute as buttons (whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean; I don’t think I’m able to even imagine [...]
The hardest working man in showbiz will work no more
R.I.P. James Joseph Brown, Jr.
Three Necessities
Just finished watching “Three Kings” — the movie that first changed me from a weapon-loving child to a more sober, pacifistically inclined kid. Of course, it wasn’t the only factor in my little transformation (because even though I may be an impressionable person, I’m not exactly in the habit of having my life changed by [...]
“Faster Than A Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel”
I read this quick little introduction to the history of graphic novels on Thursday, and I gotta say it was quite good. Naturally, I’m not too versed in the history of these things myself, but the book didn’t seem to disagree with what little I knew from earlier.
First there was a couple of chapters dealing [...]
Serendipitiditidity
Last Sunday, when riding a city bus on my way back from the cinema (where I’d seen “Children of Men” ), I suddenly felt the urge to watch “Serendipity” — a romantic comedy from with Kate Beckinsale and John Cusak.
“Serendipity” supposedly means “a lucky coincidence”, or some such (it also looks as if it’s a [...]
Showing/telling issues? — BS3×6 Band Candy
(At least I think it’s episode 6…)
I have previously commented on how much better season one of ”Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is, compared to the way I remember it. The same is true for season two, which may have a majority (I’m open for arguments against this, though) episodes with relatively weak plots, but overall [...]
Random stuff
Alright, I’ve time and time again said that this is supposed to be a rip-off of Loki’s Sensible Nonsense, so here we go — my first real “links of the week“-like post:
This made me want to read the Hobbit again.
A screenshot of my “comics” folder; it gives a good indication of what webcomics [...]
Funny…
I just got the urge to vacuum the inside of my computer.
Art
Last week or so, I wrote a list of my favourite movies, and one of the movies on the list was “Hero“. I hadn’t seen it in at least a year or two when I put it there, and so I decided to watch it tonight, just to see if it really did deserve the [...]
Wayne’s World
Perhaps one of the silliest movies I’ve ever seen. It’s not a hillarious movie, but it still manages to be entertaining, with some satirical elements here, and some seemingly demented stuff over there.
It has great sentimental value for me, though, so I give it a 5.5/10, to illustrate it’s positive mediocrity. If I’d never seen [...]
12.11.06 — A procrastinator’s tale
In a couple of days, I have the last exam this term, and so I should be repeating stuf for it, so that I’ll stand a better chance of getting at least a C or something. However, I got a real procrastinator’s cramp today, and haven’t been able to do a single conctructive thing.
First off, [...]
This is what I call Science Fiction!
Just came back from watching “Children of Men” in the movies, and it was bloody awesome.
The filmatographic elements were all perfect. The camerawork, done with an unsteady handheld, gave the film a more realistic atmosphere (during one scene, “blood” sprays across the lense, kinda like in “Saving Private Ryan”, except that I don’t think it [...]
The sounds of December
Here’s the content of the “homemade” CD I’m listening to in December:
1. The Doors - The Soft Parade
If I’m ever gonna try any drugs, this is the song I’ll be listening to while high. It’s surreal, and it’s great.
2. Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower
My personal Dylan favourite. Ambigious lyrics, wistful atmosphere.
3. The Buzzcocks [...]
Starship Details
Okay you boys and girls, it’s time for a movie review again, and this time I’ve watched an old favourite of mine — “Starship Troopers“.
I remember first watching this on VHS when I was 13 or 14 years old. I loved it to pieces, and I seem to remember that I watched it again and [...]
It’s mine! My own! My precious!
Yesterday, I finally got my hands on The White Stripes’ cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”. And it’s so fucking amazing; I’m gonna listen to it and try to sing along until my throat starts bleeding.
The great hunt — AS4×2 Ground State
Angel’s up and about again, and after having dealt with his mischievous son he turns to the issue he spent second most time hallucinating about when he was submerged in the salty waves: Cordelia. We get to see another awesome Wesley scene, where he shows that he can run a tighter ship than Angel, and [...]
“God, I am *so* bored” — AS4×1 Deep Down
This is possibly my favourite episode. I mean, Fred and Gunn has that cute parenting routine going on; Wesley is finally beginning to be Wesley, the cold, yet emphatic intellectual, with steel control over everything around him; Lilah has one of her best moments, as she goes over (or just below) Linwood’s head; and Angel [...]
I pity Gunn, Fred and Groo… — AS3×22 Tomorrow
Man, the Bufyverse sure has a lot of depressive season finales. Or at least depressing cliffhangers. In a way, it’s just natural to deal with the repercussions of the climax in the beginning of the next season, seeing as doing this in in the same season could be a little, well, anti-climatic.
Anyway, like I said [...]
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