Category Archives: Movies
Two Ends of the Animated Spectrum: The Avatar and the Frog
Over the last two weekends, I did something I hardly ever do nowadays. I went to the movies.
I don’t have kids, and generally I have time to go. For me, not going to the theater is all about the quality of the experience. Netflix and a reasonably nice TV trumps a crappy quality version of [...]
Pi: Faith in Chaos, but I like Bananna Cream, Better
Got the movie Pi: Faith in Chaos from Netflix over the weekend, because once in a while I like to watch a movie that stretches my brain beyond the three dimensions it usually thinks in. It’s by acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky, whose The Fountain I also checked out just recently. The movies are not for [...]
Will Ferrell Takes A Dump On My Childhood – Land of the Lost
Why, oh why are they making a movie of Land of the Lost with Will Ferrell being a total ass?
The TV series was probably just about my favorite show of all time. Dinosaurs. Time travel. Dimensional hopping. Deep science fiction. Crystals. Ape people. Fantasy. Sleestak that scared the crap out of me, for crying out [...]
Star Trek for the Next Generation (My Review, Minor Spoiler)
I really liked the new Star Trek movie. I had actually written the whole franchise off a few years ago, after Enterprise once again disappointed me with how unlike the original series it was, and even how dark and adolescent it was.
I had some trepidation about the new movie. First off, though I think JJ [...]