Suspenseful, awesome acting, and leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Perfect Stranger - 2 paws up
Suspenseful, awesome acting, and leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth.
Monday, August 20, 2007
An Inconvenient Truth ... I am freaked
I came away part incredulous at what was rpesented and part in fear that I was going to wake up tomorrow to find half the world submerged under melted ice from the poles.
As you watch the movie, you keep thinking to yourself over and over again, how a rational human being, after seeing all this proof laid out in front of them, still can't seem to care.
The documentary provides sceintific basis for why CO2 emissions and rising temperatures are corelated and how this raise in temperature os nowhere within the normal temperature changes the earth usually goes through. How this increase is actually causing a change in the natural ecological balance and causing species to go extinct. And, this is the saddest thing I heard, how polar bears are drowning because they are swimming further and further without finding ice to be able to live on.
I am not sure if these changes will occur in the next 20 yrs, or 50 or even a 100. Why are we arguing that? The fact that these changes will occur as a result of our actions should be enough to make us sit up, take notice and change our actions. Why are we driving Hummers that are so inefficient it blows my mind? Why are the developed nations not looking at alternate sources of energy more energetically? Why are we ignoring this? Is it because we won't be alive for it? Maybe our kids won't be either. But just imagine if that's what our parents' grandparents had thought. We might not be alive today if that had happened.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
"I'm having an old friend for dinner ..."
We recently watched Hannibal Rising and finding out that Jeff had not seen any of the Hannibal movies, I had to get them from the start. So, we watched Silence of the Lambs and then Hannibal.
I am amazed by the acting of Sir Anthony Hopkins. He is impeccable as Dr. Hannibal Lecter. You almost feel sad for him, knowing his background. You cannot help but feel that his victims' fates were well deserved. I mean, in Hannibal, both Ranaldo Pazzi and Paul Krendler are characters that you almost want to cheer the deaths of; one for greediness and stupidity; the other for just being a downright sexist jerk.
I will also never in my life forget the last scene of that movie where Dr. Lecter very carefully lifts Krendler's crown (his physical crown, not something he wore as a King). He then slices a piece of his brain carefully off, sautes it and then feeds it to Krendler. I do remember I had no trouble watching the scene when I saw the movie 5 years ago. I had to avert my eyes this time when the knife neared Krendler's frontal lobes.
Just as a sidenote, I like Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling. Julianne Moore just doesn't play a poor white girl growing up in Virginia as well as Foster did.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
The small portion menu at TGI Friday's
Jeff got the Jack Daniels chicken alfredo. This was rEALLY good. I didn't finish my plate but I cleaned his off.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Spiderman 3: 2 paws up
Please be aware that this might contain spoilers.
I think I enjoyed the 3rd Spiderman movie better than the previous 2. The characters were finally blown out to their full potential, except for maybe Mary Jane's. Peter Parker gets to be a little nasty, a lot mean and somewhat hateful after he gets the black suit. There was an element of humor still with Tobey trying to act like the big bad wolf. He just doesn't look the part.
On the other, Harry Osburn actually becomes a likeable character by the end of the movie. I also liked that this movie flushed out Peter and Harry's friendship, showed the downs and then the up towards the end, here Harry realises his father was wrong and decides to help Peter save MJ. I think killing him at the end was an unwanted meloncholy.
The Sandman, played byThomas Haden Church, was another villain that you could not completely hate. Especially after you find out he loves his little daughter who's dying and everythign he's done, he's done it for her. It doesn't condone his actions but it still brings a tear to your eye, especially at the end when he just flies away in a gentle swirl of sand.
Topher Grace, in my humble opinion, did an entirely too good job of being the true villain, Venom. You could feel the anger and hatred emanating from him as you watched him on screen. Gone was the sweet natured kid from That 70's Show. In his place, was a nasty, cheating man who you just couldn't find any reason to like.
Overall, a definite must-see movie of this summer.