Obligatory Post

broderic on January 7, 2008

This is gratuitious just to keep the streak alive. Nothing much to say. Perhaps soon my review of Atonement, the Pulp Fiction for the geriatric set, non-linear time.

Revival Theatre

broderic on January 4, 2008

The Charles Theatre offers you a chance to catch some really good films. They’re doing a revival on Hitchcock. Twenty-five films from here to June.

The question becomes should I watch the ones I haven’t seen or watch the ones I have on the big screen?

I know for a fact that I want to catch Grace Kelly and Ingrid Bergman on 35mm so I don’t want to miss Notorious or Rear Window. The rest? We’ll see.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

broderic on January 4, 2008

Walk Hard: Dewey CoxOriginally, I would not have wanted to watch this flick. They posted the first ten minutes of it online. I watched it and came away bored. How can we think this mock biopic is any good when the last spoof movies, Date Movie and Epic Movie, have killed the genre? Can the current golden boy of comedy, Judd Apatow, continue his run of comic films? The answer is no and no. So, I wonder why I went to see the movie anyway.Dewey Cox is ably played by Reilly. He makes the perfect clueless singer. The movie's one sheet of him spoofing the iconic Jim Morrison portrait is the best thing from this movie. The songs are fun also.Walk Hard follows the conventions of the biopic. The early struggles of the young Dewey Cox trying to live up to his dead brother's image and to be a better man than his dad thinks he is. The film moves onto the early career success with a naïve Dewey Cox meeting the King in the film's funniest moment. Rock'N'Roll always included sex and drugs, and it is in finding the drugs to go with the music does the film become a little more funny. Dewey meets The Beatles in India. Jack Black as Paul, Paul Rudd as John, Justin Long as George Harrison, and Jason Shwartzman as Ringo are hilarious. The second best cameo of the film. Jenna Fischer enters the scene after Dewey Cox delivers a cocaine fueled, hardcore version of Walk Hard and promptly adds the sex to the mix. She plays the June Carter Cash role to give Dewey the soulmate he's meant to have. The film then portrays the middling, pathetic side of his fame and it veers off into a bad, boring movie.I've always though Apatow's movies are 30 minutes too long. He seems to want to put a lot in the films he does. Surprisingly, this film ran about 90 minutes. It still felt too long.2 of 5 stars.

He could go all the way

broderic on January 4, 2008

For over 20 years, the Bucs couldn’t return a kickoff for a touchdown. Hell, that dude from Chicago has done it more than the Bucs. They finally got off the shnide this year! Hilarious. Although it looks like they get away with a hold, but no harm no foul. Touchdown!

They’re playing the NY Giants this weekend in the first round of the playoffs. Most likely a loss considering the Giants have played like monster killers when they lost to the Patriots and the Bucs played like wimps losing their last two games. If they make it out of this round. They’ll get beaten up by whomever they play next. Yet, with this historic touchdown return who cares.

Commenting

broderic on January 4, 2008

Looking over my recent posts, there’s some comments from the usual suspects. I would like to see some others.

So from now on, I’ll try to participate in the discussion in any of my posts. I just posted some replies. Maybe some discussion may spring up? It’s part of my trying to be a better blogger this year. I’ll also try to add some decent comments at your site as well.

I figure that we can make this an open thread.

2008 Day 2

broderic on January 3, 2008

Second day of the new year and I go back to work. It still sucks as much as anything, but hopefully this short week makes the weekend come faster.

Here’s a nice little ditty. You’ll recognize it as the opening song to Fucking Åmål. This is the best I can do to find it. I like it. For a Swedish band. Enjoy.

Whatever happened to YouTube links instead of imbeds?