Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Saturday, November 20, 2004
Timmy's Wish
A hilarious, blasphemous, twisted look at the answering of prayers: AtomFilms - Timmy's Wish
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
How 'Dungeons' changed the world
"I didn't play Dungeons & Dragons all those years without learning a little something about courage. D&D article
Saved! and not the by the bell.....
We watched "Saved!" last night at Casa de Hatch. This movie surprised me immensely by:
The movie was pretty darn funny, and I would recommend it to anyone who isn't still on a hunger-strike over Creed's switch-over to mainstream "secular" rock.
- 1) not being the vitriolic anti-Christian film it was purported to be in the media
- 2) demonstrating that McKauley Culkin still has that magic that endeared him to us all back in the 1980's.
The movie was pretty darn funny, and I would recommend it to anyone who isn't still on a hunger-strike over Creed's switch-over to mainstream "secular" rock.
Monday, November 15, 2004
Unconditional Love
Ferlie and I watched Unconditional Love, snuggled on our couch, the only way to watch a chick-flick (assuming you weren't, as was this unfortunate writer, able to get out of it).
This movie definitely had some potential in the "feel-good" "chick-flick" genre, but the editing and direction combined for a ham-fisted mess, and most sit-coms have better writing. A cute idea, an excellent cast, and a total waste of time.
Rupert Everett, Kathy Bates, and Dan Akroyd were all well-cast, and handled the roles given them as well as humanly possible. The casting of Johnathon Pryce as the Sinatra/Elvis/Englebert Humperdink character might've worked with a better script, but as it was, it seemed either a moronic turn or a failed attempt at humor by way of mockery. The scenes with Julie Andrews breaking into song to calm riotous crowds were quite funny, and Meredith Eaton was a lot of fun as sex-crazed, hard-as-nails-but-with-a-heart-of-gold midget (the writers incorrectly labeled her a dwarf).
Misanglothropes will also find plenty of Britishness at which to point their condescending laughter.
I'm glad i "netflixed" it instead of having to live with the memory of handing over cash for this poor-quality entertainment.
This movie definitely had some potential in the "feel-good" "chick-flick" genre, but the editing and direction combined for a ham-fisted mess, and most sit-coms have better writing. A cute idea, an excellent cast, and a total waste of time.
Rupert Everett, Kathy Bates, and Dan Akroyd were all well-cast, and handled the roles given them as well as humanly possible. The casting of Johnathon Pryce as the Sinatra/Elvis/Englebert Humperdink character might've worked with a better script, but as it was, it seemed either a moronic turn or a failed attempt at humor by way of mockery. The scenes with Julie Andrews breaking into song to calm riotous crowds were quite funny, and Meredith Eaton was a lot of fun as sex-crazed, hard-as-nails-but-with-a-heart-of-gold midget (the writers incorrectly labeled her a dwarf).
Misanglothropes will also find plenty of Britishness at which to point their condescending laughter.
I'm glad i "netflixed" it instead of having to live with the memory of handing over cash for this poor-quality entertainment.