Sunday, December 28, 2008

Movies I've seen and other stuff

Slumdog Millionaire - I thought it was pretty good. Danny Boyle is definitely a talented dude. I still like his horror movies better than his other stuff but that might have something to do with my own personal preferences. I guess I'm just more interested in zombies and restarting the sun with and atomic bomb than I am in heroin or India. Anyway It's good, go see it. I've also been trying to figure out what country this film is from. Popular opinion seems to think it's Indian but it definitely isn't. Danny Boyle is English and, while I'm not completely sure about this, I think it was at least partially funded by hollywood. What that would make it, I have no idea.

The Punisher: War Zone- This film is dumb but I loved it. It never tries to be something that its not. There is no stupid superhero technology or profound moral questions to be found here. It's just a bunch of bad guys being killed in a variety of brutally awesome ways. One guy even gets thrown into a glass breaking machine. Beyond that though It's got a fairly demonstrative color design with a super saturated palate that I thought was fairly refreshing in an era of Sin City clones. I don't want to over analyze the film, so I'll put this as simply as possible: extreme violence and extreme color go extremely well together. The other thing that I'd like to say about the film is that it's definitely aware of its own stupidity. I think that's why it worked for me. I wish someone could explain this concept to Zach Snyder because he clearly doesn't get it.

High Sierra- It's a Raul Walsh film in which Bogart plays a gangster who is constantly followed by a cute dog with a death curse. What's not to like?

Heres the other stuff section. When I loged into Facebook today, I saw this Ad. Is that dude shaving his nipple? Does Facebook think I have hairy nipples? Why is he using a woman's razor? I'm here to confirm that I never use women's razors and my chest has only an average amount of hair... maybe even less. I'd also like to confirm that Facebook is a lot like SkyNet. It must be destroyed before it becomes self-aware and destroys all or humanity. I also want to say that the trailer for the new terminator movie looks awesome, as des the trailer for the new Star Trek movie. Hopefully they both wont completely suck.

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