Movie List 2008

broderic on December 28, 2008

I always compile this list before the end of the year. While looking over my posts of the movies I saw in the theatre, I was surprised that I had a lot of 2 stars even from the ones that were “good.” (I’m looking at you Dark Knight.) I’m also surprised that I saw very few movies. A rough estimate is about 60 this year whereas last year was probably around . I still a few reviews to post, but those films are just average or below. So here’s my list of 4+ star films.

Click the link to read my review. Post your own list.

I’ve also noticed that my list is getting shorter. Either I am becoming a better judge of movies or I am becoming more finicky.

Scenes from the last Saturday of 2008

broderic on December 27, 2008

“Hey! The Great Escape just started.”

“Steve McQueen can’t make it over the big German gap!”

Just start baby. Please start. Yosh!

“Anyone know any manga with cat girls?”

“Cat girls? Not my taste. Good luck.”

Hmmm. Yozakura Quartet.

Worst lamb gyro ever.

“Mmmm. Pralines and cream milk shake.”

“Yuck. Pralines and cream milk shake.”

Anime? Miyazawa!

Four Christmases

broderic on December 27, 2008

The poster for Four Christmases features the stars, Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, bound up in ribbon. You wish that you were bound up yourself to help avoid seeing this movie.

It’s about a couple, living in sin, not married, because they can do what Sally said, “Make love on the kitchen floor,” whenever they want. What they want is to avoid their relatives for Christmas by jetting out to Fiji. Unfortunately, not all goes according to plan. They end up having to go to all their parents’ house to visit for the day.

The parents are each divorced, which means that the couple doesn’t want to get married because they’ll just end up as their parents. Of course, with Christmas they get a warm welcome and realize perhaps being just a couple isn’t so worth it. The movie re-establishes traditional family values of marriage and kids as the end all be all of a loving relationship. Who cares? You knew that was coming. The stories were never funny enough. There was plenty of star power. In fact I was pleasantly surprised to see the boy named Sue show up as a reunion for the Swingers dudes.

Eh! I just didn’t find this funny or worth it at all.

2 of 5 stars.

Link of the Day [12.27.08]

broderic on December 27, 2008

Okay. Here’s one of the things I got for Christmas. It’s the IJN Haruna from Hasegawa in 1/700 scale. It’s a full hull model which I don’t have any experience at doing. The last full hull model I attempted was my brother’s Bismark and that burned down in flames.

She’s a very interesting ship. She’s sister to the Kongo, whose name lives on in the JMSDF Kongo DDG-173, a modern day Aegis guided missile destroyer. This is another class of ships I want to build.

http://www.battlesforguadalcanal.com/ships/haruna/haruna.html