…very viewing—or at least as often as possible for the same content. Pricing Lastly there’s the issue of cost. After a couple weeks of use one thing became clear. This service is not inexpensive. Take, as an example, the 1985 movie Young Sherlock Holmes. I can buy the HDX version on Vudu for a mere $17.99. What? I can buy the DVD for $4 online or $8.39 at Walmart. In what world does it make sense to pay $18 for the digital-only version of th
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problem starts when a movie appears to get universal praise. Friends and I have now become extremely skeptical when this happens. It previously happened with film critic Roger Ebert. Friends and I found that movies he rated 3 1/2 stars, more often than not, struck us as very enjoyable or even great movies. Yet time and again when he’d rate a movie 4 stars most often we’d find very little to like about it. We’d leave the theater
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…f its greatest need. He failed us in a way that cannot be pushed aside with political spin. Anyone who sees this movie cannot, in good faith, deny this reality. It took our leader more than an hour after the attacks began and 15 minutes after the last plane (United 93) crashed, to issue a response. It’s hard to imagine any of the last three Presidents not responding to this tragedy far sooner. This is the age of nearly-instant communication
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…h more realistic and believable but it’s still got a way to go. The Matrix is still #7 and new-geek rules the day with movies like Avatar at #17, Inception at #12 and all three of The Lord of the Rings movies in the top 10. Fight Club was an interesting movie but it certainly isn’t the fifth-best movie of all-time. While I personally don’t get the appeal of Casablanca, it comes in here at #74 behind such “heavyweights̶
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My wife was busy with a work function tonight so I decided to make it a boys night out with my 10 year-old son. Friday marked the opening night of Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. My son likes the characters and anything even remotely cartoon-like and I’ve found past snippets of this pair to be fairly entertaining. Adding to the choice is that, at the time, the movie was rated a 95 on Rotten Tomatoes. I’ve had some rea
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We saw No Country For Old Men tonight while it’s in limited release. The movie showed to a packed house. It’s from the Coen Brothers and stars Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and an unknown actor (Javier Bardem) playing the main role of the psychopath. There’s also some great character work from Woody Harrelson and Tess Harper. The movie was quite an experience. The acting is Oscar-worthy from start to finish. For most of the movi
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…dn’t know what to expect, but I had a great time anyway because I’m comfortable with the type of juvenile humor of Smith and Mewes that involves a lot of pot and anatomy jokes that are probably right in line with the minds of 13-year-old boys. The evening included a centerpiece screening of the animated Jay & Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie as well as an episode of Kevin Smith’s Cartoon Lagoon beforehand and podcast — sometimes called
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…the end of the month for, WALL-E. What we did choose to see was a film I hadn’t even heard of prior to yesterday called Bigger, Stronger, Faster*. It sounded interesting for a couple of reasons. First, it was running at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes which is the only time I’ve seen that happen after at least 25 reviews (it had 33). I was curious to see if our problems with movies rated in the 90′s would hold up with movies holding a p
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We saw the latest Pixar-Disney movie, WALL-E, this weekend. I caught it along with ten other family members and friends. This is a movie, as I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been waiting on for a long time. A friend of mine over at THQ—a game publisher that had the rights to create all the games based on their movies—had mentioned the wonder of this film way back. He was when exposed to it long before the last Pixar movie, Ratatouille, ca
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…ants since ‘Nam.” Don’t ask me why that was so funny. You’ll have to see it for yourself in the movie. In context it was hilarious. If there were any issues to complain about it would be the following: 1) Judd Apatow has to stop pretending that all the geeks have scores of hot women who secretly desire them. This seems to happen in all his efforts. I know it happened for him but that’s the exception and not the rule.
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