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As promised.

V for Vendetta is an adaptation of the Alan Moore graphic novel of the same name. I have read the book. The themes are the same, but something has changed. The graphic novel is a rant against the Thatcher England. Think, fascism in the UK, and the Clash singing, “Clampdown.” That was the milleau that the comic was written in.

The movie is also a product of its times. Although, it was still set in London, it really is an indictment of the Bush adminisitration. Everything this corrupt White House spouts is reflected in the fascistic government of the film. The party line espoused by the media. The corrupt church. Torture of people. Demonizing gays. That’s all the Bush admin is about.

This movie was subversive. One man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter.

4 of 5 stars.

I have been a home owner for coming on three years now. So basically, I left home when I was 32. Matthew McConaughey’s character is still living at home in Failure To Launch at the age of “35.” Sarah Jessica Parker is supposed to lure him from that situation, but instead falls in love with him. Some things happen. Other things happen. He gets bitten by animals. And Zooey Deschanel steals the show.

I liked this film better than I expected to. It was the first time in a long while that Sarah Jessica Parker was not in a role that made her be an uptight shrew. She was decent.

They wrapped the romantic comedy around some nut job action that is similar to Something About Mary or Wedding Crashers. Unlike Wedding Crashers which started as comedy and ended in mush. Failure to Launch starts out mushy and ends in some hilarity.

3 of 5 stars.

Ultraviolet

I wish I could be as clever as the dude who wrote the two word review for Spinal Tap’s Shark Sandwich album. “Shit sandwich.” This was as lame as they come. For the first time in my life, I really wanted to get up and leave, and I wondered why no one else was doing the same.

I thought it was going to be the good type of bad that was Catwoman, but it was really a bad kind of bad. The type that makes you wonder, on this the night the Academy hands out its awards, if Hollywood is smoking some dooby.

Ultraviolet, ultra shit.

1 of 5 stars

I’m gearing up for the upcoming summer movie season. Consider these reviews spring training. Have you noticed that the summer movie season has started earlier and earlier each year? Look at what’s coming up in March. It doesn’t officially start until Memorial Day (or is it Labor Day) in May, but there are some potential blockbusters opening soon.

Firewall

Harrison Ford stars in a high tech thriller. This was an amalgamation of El Fugitivo and Air Force One. It sucked. Ford seems to be content in playing the harrassed man who has to save his family or himself. I thought it was going to be a hacker film, which would’ve saved it in my eyes, but it ended up being a thriller of un-epic proportions. Don’t watch this unless you catch it on Skinemax. Don’t order Skinemax, but wait until this shows up on TBS. Don’t Tivo it. You can catch it on broadcast TV, but only in small doses.

1 of 5 stars

Nightwatch

Nightwatch is another movie about vampires. They should’ve had some Lycans show up. Or at least some kick ass babes. They did, but I think we’ll have to wait for the sequel to see Olga kick some ass. Then it might be awesome. Perhaps the sequel is on bittorrent already.

3 of 5 stars

When I saw the first Underworld, I was slightly impressed. I don’t go for vampires. No fascination with them whatsoever. Yet, this war with werewolves was intriguing. If I had blogged the movie back then, my review would’ve been a solid 3 of 5 stars. Mediocre but watchable.

Well the sequel to Underworld had opened up last week and I had to watch it. I confess that I was anticipating it for the last month. Not only for Kate Beckinsale in tight leather, but to finish up the story. I was sorely disappointed. In fact, I think I was played for the fool.

This sequel starts off perhaps minutes after the last, but it is light years from the first. I can’t believe that this was the same setting as the last. It seems as if the writer and the director wanted to throw out everything good about the previous film and start anew. And where they started was at the core of Blood Rayne (I have not seen it, but I am sure it is just as crappy). It then flows into a mire of crap. The trilogy seemed condensed into a two-parter. Perhaps they knew with this stinker of a movie that they could not tell it all because they’ll all be fired by then. There was more chases, more Kate Beckinsale skin (a plus!!), and more vampires. After the defeat of the werewolves there was no more enemy except themselves. Vampire v. Vampire. As Butthead would’ve said, “This sucks, Beavis.” What happened?

Don’t make the third installment. I won’t watch it after being robbed.

2 of 5 stars. For the naked side of Kate Beckinsale.