jibber jabber 

after a certain amount of time in a relationship, you get to explore how much you can get away with. in this case, i dragged the girlfriend off to see this movie. needless to say i won’t be able to con her again so easily. apparently the ending is a ripoff of buffy the vampire slayer’s season 2 finale. sure. right.

as for me, it was ok. on par with parts 1 and 2 but not exceptional. more dialogue and character exposition than i was expecting. i think what threw me the most though was how “canadian” it looked. i definitely recognized a lot of the set locations and that distracted me a lot.

also didn’t like the way they portrayed all the random mutants. tatoos, piercing and black leather automatically means evil mutants. yeah right. how about a little variety? and of course even though they’re mutants, there’s still all the nameless henchman that get obliterated before the big boss. should make a seamless transition to a video game. sheesh.

i’m gonna have to say, wait for the dvd.

went to go see the davinci code today. what’s amazing is that i went in with fairly low expectations and guess what. it was worse than i thought. the book was good, i enjoyed it immensely and blew through it in one afternoon but the movie…gag.

what sucked about it? tom hanks. their reveal of ian mckellan’s character’s duplicity. what else sucked about it? how do you show on film, somebody’s puzzle solving mental processes. well the way Ron Howard chose to do it was to film Hanks’ eyeballs going back and forth. ooooohhh, what exposition. sheesh. the only good thing? audrey tatou. she’s such a cutie. loved her in amelie and she holds her own here.

but the movie itself…i mean the whole fun of the book for me was trying to solve the puzzles. you can’t do that in film. it doesn’t work. it ends up being a jumbled mess. i knew what the story was and what the puzzles were so i should have had a firm grasp of what’s going on right? well the movie was so messed up i got confused watching it. bah.

i think i’m going to have to cleanse my palate and go watch District B-13. now that looks like some good fun.

yeah…so…i was bored…what can i say. its actually not a bad movie. i must say the only reason i did see it is because i’m a fan of the director’s (JJ Abrams) other work such as Lost and Alias. once you get past the huge logic and plot holes and if you can manage to do an on the fly greenscreen in your head and replace tom cruise with…ummm…anybody else, the movie is quite enjoyable. nice stunts, good pacing, good cinematography. phillip seymour hoffman is great as usual, although underused.

on a side note, don’t you love it in techno/action thrillers how there’s always an endless supply of gadgets available anywhere in the world on a moment’s notice. guess hollywood has never heard of backorders or shipping delays. pffft. for once i’d like to see the bad guys win because the good guys screwed up their amazon order and their whiz bang GSRRR-9200ZR rocket launcher got delayed.

so yeah, if its raining and somebody else is paying go see it and turn your brain off for two hours.

saw it over the weekend. loved it. funny characters, funny story. a little predictable but fun seeing how they handled it. didn’t really find it too preachy either which i was kind of expecting given the story line. it was also nice that the voices sounded like the characters’ not the famous actors that voiced it. like its hard to not associate Mike Myers with Shrek, but RJ was just RJ, not Bruce Willis. go see it.

btw. we went to see it at the newly renovated Rio theater. highly recommended. not a multiplex, brand new seats, friendly staff, non-stick floor, just a nice all-round vibe. cheap too only $8! only complaint is that its not stadium seating.