I am too lazy to sort
Long live pinball!
I’m not sure that Jersey Jack will save pinball, but I’m sure that he’ll have gun trying. That game looks spectacular, and I bet the storyline works wonders. I can imagine unlocking the Lion’s heart or the Scarecrow’s brain then falling into a multi-ball frenzy. It’s gotta to be fun. I so want to play this.
Will it still be a quarter?
Django Unchained is Quenton Tarantino’s spaghetti western. In a similar vien as Sergio Leone’s “Man with no name” trilogy, it follows bounty hunters, or as the English translation called them bounty killers. One bounty killer frees the slave, Django, and they go looking for more bounties. After they collect their bounty, they go after Django’s wife in Candieland.
I feel that this one is not as good as Inglorious Basterds. It was not as thrilling. Yet, in some scenes it would get good.
Overall, I don’t think this matches Leone’s spaghetti westerns. It’s just something different.
3 of 5 stars
The Impossible is a true story of a family’s survival of the Southeast Asian Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004. The family scattered from the tsunami have to handle the havoc afterwards. That’s when the mother, seriously injured, had to undergo surgery while her kid sits and waits.
This film had the best CG effects I’ve ever seen. I could not believe that they were not in a tsunami. It was good and horrific.
3 of 5 stars.
“The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.”
Christopher Tolkien, see today’s link
I’m glad to hear that JRR Tolkien was striving to make The Silmarillion his masterpiece. Unfortunately, his death derailed that dream, but his son, Christopher, fulfilled it. But now Tolkien is remembered as the dude who wrote the stories for Peter Jackson’s films. At least his son knows what the real deal is.
Did I watch a lot of movies in the theatre last year? Yes.
Here’s my best of the 12 months of 2012 as determined by the stars given at review time. It’s only the four (and five if any) star reviews. I doubt they hold up today. They’ll probably change as I realize how stupid I was or how forgiving I was. Most likely, I should revisit them in several years time to make a change.
Nah.
Skyfall (4)
Argo (4)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (4)
The Avengers (4)
The Artist (4)
What’s yours?
You know I’ve had problems with Judd Apatow in regards to the length of his movies. They always feel 45 minutes too long. This Is 40 is no exception. You sit there and watch, the plot sort of rambles on and on about married white people’s problems, and you say, “This is a long movie.” IMDb lists the run time at 134 minutes, 2 hours and 14 minutes. Again, I say that comedies should be about 100 to 115 minutes long — laugh hard, laugh for a short time, then get out. Judd Apatow likes to go on and on. Shorten it, good sir, and you just may have something.
This Is 40 focuses on a married couple whose two birthdays occur in December. The wife believes she’s still a young bird. The husband is still a kid but with kids; acting like a kid acting like an adult. They have adult problems: difficult kids, difficult parents, marriage issues, money issues. Everything white people have. Also, most other people. This is forty for real.
The plot meanders quite a bit. Felt a little bit like a french nouvelle vague. One scene to another connected by the slightest thread of following this couple through their birthdays. Sprinkled in is handling the kids, and the parents, and the jobs. It’s just too real. Now there were chuckles to be had, but no guffaws. It’s a serious comedic meditation of getting older. I think we’re not ready for that just yet.
I already know about 40. Mine is different. Would it be the same with a wife and kids? It may be more hilarious.
3 of 5 stars.
Here we are in Nassau.
Very nice.
Not much going on, because it was New Year’s Day. The island was closed. At least we had conch fritters.
Party time! Excellent!
The air was cold but the water wasn’t. Honestly. It only felt cold but was fine not like Delaware in early June.
Great final day of the year at the beach.
