Got an AppleTV the other day. Pretty impressed with it on the whole. In the process of ripping a good portion of my TV series from DVD to an AppleTV compatible format. Will probably rip most or all of the TV stuff over time, except for the stuff lacking subtitles.
Far as the iTunes movie and [...]
Watched Iron Man the other day.
Short review: good, not great. Needed more time for the bad guy to flesh the role out and really just needed more time for Iron Man being Iron Man. Otherwise, no glaring flaws. The movie is well made and comes off well. Just feels a little flat with the ultimate [...]
Just finished Charlie Wilson’s War. It is a very well made movie that does a very good job of describing the how and why of Charlie Wilson and his involvement in Afghanistan. Definitely worth a watch. If nothing else, you’ll learn a bit about the history and the political gamesmanship that went on, and maybe [...]
Ok. Sweeney Todd was pretty unimpressive. Gave up on watching it about halfway into the movie. The basic plot is fine, Tim Burton’s visual style is awesome, but the actors cannot sing well enough. And for a musical, that is pretty damning.
I feel about Sweeney Todd much the same as I do about Chicago. I [...]
Anyone who knows me well or has mentioned Troy in my presence has heard me say, “Troy is this generation’s Spartacus.”
I do mean that. They are both movies striving heroically to be epic, to be a great classic, like Ben-Hur or Braveheart. And they both miss being truly epic movies by bare fractions. They [...]