Sands vs. Crappy DVD

In the spirit of watching Aliens, I thought I'd give this new Aliens vs. Predator movie a looksee. Due to a crappy DVD I didn't get to see the entire thing, but I saw enough to once again ask myself, why are there humans in these movies??? Aliens . . .check, Predators . . .check, they fight . . .check, now lets lame up the movie with a bunch of characters that we could care less about so that the movie lasts for ninety minutes. Genius, pure genius.

Long before X-Files wised us up.

The movies reviewed here will not always be rencent ones, some of them might even be older than I am, but we'll burn that bridge when we build it. Last night I fell asleep watching Aliens, then watched the rest of it when I woke up. It goes without saying that Aliens is my favorite out of the Alien series, proably thanks to Cammeron's involvement in the film, and the fact that it wasn't just a lot of the "Ooo look at the scary alien," footage. And as interesting (or not) as the character of Ripley is, she's only one of the interesting characters in this movie, who deliver up some of the best one liners a movie could have. "Stay frosty." "Game over man, game over!" "They mostly come at night, mostly." "Why don't we put her in charge!" "Look into my eye." And the ever classic "Whoopty-(F'ing)-do." So there you have it, my classic movie pick of the week. Aliens, go watch it.

I think I Mist something. . .

So last night Fenris and I sat down and watched The Mist. If I do say so myself, the first few moments of the movie were the coolest part, but only if you're familiar with The Dark Tower, if not, your loss. I want that painting! Or at least a reasonable print or copy of it. As for the rest of the movie, uh . . .yeah kind of a hard one to say something cohesive about. There's mist, some people get trapped in a grocery type store, a lot of people get stupid (or should I say stupider) and I think Cthulhu might have put in an apperance, or a least one of his tentacles ______ <-insert dirty joke there. I ask myself why Thomas Jane passed on the Punisher sequel to make this movie, but I'm sure he had his reasons. Maybe he was tired of stabbing professional wrestlers and wanted to take a crack at Cthulhu. More power to him.

Singing about the blood.

Well I watched Sweeney Todd the other day and a few words come to mind, silly, bizarre, slightly bloody, and cool as hell. I don't know why I liked it as much I did, it still puzzles me, but for some reason I just got into it and didn't want it to end. Cannibalism, singing, barbers, and watching that Borat guy get his throat cut, yeah that's a good time.