Burnt reading material.

Like any good Coen Bothers movie you have to go into with a suspended belief in reality, or a intense belief in reality, depending on how you view life. Their latest cinematic adventure, Burn After Reading was in a word . . . aCoenBrothersmovie. You just have to hold on and go for the ride. While this movie was more humorous than their last film, it was still oddly disturbing. Not in the violence, language, or other things that might disturb you kind of way, no it is the very possibility that it could be true. I know skeptics will tell me to stop imagining things, but I watched the X-Files . . . Favorite points of the movie: Brad Pitt's character, he almost made me shoot Sprite out of my nose. J.K. Simmons character, who did make me shoot Sprite out of my nose. And call me nuts, but it's good see see John Malkovich in a movie again. . .with an axe.

One Hell of a Movie.

Even thought I thought I was going to have to catch this one on DVD because I failed to see it two months ago, miracle of miracles it came to my town. Hellboy II: The Golden Army was a great show that I thoroughly enjoyed. I just might go see it again here one of these nights just so I can catch about half the dialogue that I missed while I was laughing, even when I should not have been. There's just something about a drunken Hellboy and Abe singing that makes me laugh, call me moronic that way. I guess at this point I just want to see the next installment, but I'll probably be waiting a while for that one. . .

Your A.D. here.

Well I guess the best thing to say about the film Babylon A.D. was that the effects were cool, other than that . . . It wasn't really a bad movie, it just could have been a little better as far as I'm concerned. And yeah, the add placement started to get a little annoying, especially on the jet. If that's what the future holds for us all, Coke needs to be put down right here and now. And apparently global warming is bad, I didn't know this until I saw this movie. Thank goodness I did, or I'd have missed out on the issue. Thanks Vin.

Clone happens.

Tonight I sat in on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which was basically a big screen version of the animated show. I didn't think it was that bad, it could have been better, but then I think that of the cartoon too. Sam Jackson actually did his own voice for it, so that was a plus. Overall, the best parts were the clones and the droids getting shot to hell. If I had to find a gripe about the show, it would be no General Grievous. C'mon he could have been as arbitrarily thrown in as Padme was. Oh well, maybe next time.

Movies that sneak up on you.

Every once in a while you just happen to run across one of those movies you know very little about, save for maybe the title of the movie. Curiosity wins out and you watch said movies with a fresh perspective on what you see. Tonight I watched a movie called In Bruges, and I feel like I've found buried treasure. This movie is a dark (and I emphasize dark) comedy. I know the greater population of the world will not find this movie funny, but I did. Granted there were some really crappy things that happened in the movie and made you fee like pond scum, but at the same time there were moments where I laughed so hard I almost passed out. What is the movie about? A couple of hit men hiding out after a job gone wrong, very wrong, and you find out just how wrong. . .and wackiness ensues.

Ode to stoners.

Ask anyone that knows me, I'm not much of a comedy movie fan. Oh yeah I have some favorite comedies, but on the whole I don't watch the genre much. However, when it comes to comedies per se I have two weaknesses, Kevin Smith movies and pothead movies. Granted those are one in the same in a couple of cases, but the movie de jour for this evening had nothing to do with Kevin Smith, sadly, so that leaves pothead movies, or Pineapple Express in this case. Funny movie, I laughed way too hard, and now I'm paying for it (damn lungs). The one thing this movie stired in me, was not to partake of the reefer, but to watch Freaks and Geeks again. James Franco and Seth Rogan togther again, it brought a nostaglic tear to my eye. Good job guys.

Are you my Mummy?

Despite all the reasons that I should have disliked it, I couldn't help but enjoy the latest film in the Mummy franchise, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Granted it wasn't deep or thought provoking, but it was just plain old movie fun, which is what I look for in a Mummy movie anyway. My favorite thing in the movie were the yetis, I need to find one of them to watch my back when the monkey apocalypse begins. I hope they keep these movies going though, as long as they stay away from anything involving the Scorpion King.