MUNICH

Well, every now and then Steven Spielberg makes something that really makes you stop and think about what you're doing with your life. At least, he has that effect on me (on occasion).

MUNICH.. well, i'm not sure it's one of those films for me, but damn it's certainly a step in the right direction after the atrocities he and Tom Cruise had unleashed upon the world in recent times. Don't get me started...

Anyways, you should see this movie - it's SOLID. Interesting story, great set/costume design, really solid acting, deep drama. There's a little bit of hamming it up and some silliness towards the end, but for the most part I just wanted to watch it again.

And I will. Soon.

It brought me back a little to the good-old-days when people made movies that were well crafted - the kind of flawless execution that spoke of artisans, not fly-by-nighters...

The Grudge 2

OK, i can accept that the little ghost boy from the Grudge 1 is now err.. in death.. exhibiting his ultimate boyness by doing such things as "playing" with the people his murdered mom's soul has killed. You know, such antics as swinging the bodies that now hang from the rafters as if they are one of those toys we used to play with .. the tennis ball onna stick thing...

Overall, I felt this movie was more like an episode of Scary Movie than it was the sequel to the relatively scary movie that inspired the Buffy The Vampire ripoff later on. If you could get past the HORRRRRRRIBLE acting (and let's face it, you know that when see notice acting in another is bad then it must be REALLY bad to the natives) then you might just see the movie through till its end...

for the laughs, of course!

Snakes On A Plane

DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE. Seriously. Now, i'm a fan of Samuel Jackson - he's great at being that guy that he always is.

But this isn't a movie that simply treats you like you need a vacation from any semblance of cohesive thought (like MI3, for example) - this is a movie that takes your money, and then asks you to give Eric Cartman's Theory of Interorectal Digestion a try (this is where you shove food up your ass, digest it in reverse, and then poop out your mouth).

The premise? Some guy sees some bad-guy murder some guy. Then Jackson comes in and saves the guy getting killed by the guy because the bad-guy was able to track him down after he saw him kill the guy. They get on a plane to LA. The bad-guy has put snakes on the plane. Through some scientific trickery, the snakes are let loose and put into a killing frenzy due to excessive exposure to female snake pheromones.

Now, I haven't made an action-movie (in fact, i've never made a movie save for some short crap.. well, one of which was action-ish but.. i digress) so i'm not exactly speaking from a position of power here - but having been subjected to 2 hours of these Snakes On A Plane in this Snakes On A Plane movie, i'd like to send out the following message to the film-makers:

FUCK YOU.

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