7 posts tagged “movies”
We're watching Easy Rider and there is a scene were they stop at this hippie commune where they share everything and plant their own crops and all this other crap.
I can't really remember what point I was going to make now; there is so much pot smoking in this movie I can almost smell the aroma of it coming out of the television.
This is now my favorite Jack Nicholson performance.
Speaking of Jack Nicholson, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining was an atrocity.
Last night we saw the Australian premiere of In Bruges at the Sydney Film Festival. While the trailers that we saw back in the States made it look like more of a straight up action-comedy, it is really more of a darkly comic drama.
It was quite good; even better than expected. I was about to despair of it ever being released in Australia until a couple weeks ago when Jen found that it was showing at the film festival.
In short, In Bruges is a fantastic flick. You should see it.
I'm The Denzel Washington In Training Day Of Booking Plane Tickets Online
Listen up, bitch-ass fools. When it comes to booking airline tickets on the Internet, King Kong ain't got shit on me. I'm the baddest motherfucker in the land, and I don't take no for an answer. I didn't go to no Airplane Ticket Booking Academy, and it's a good thing I didn't, because the shit you learn there will get you killed in this world. This is the real world, and I don't play by its rules. I play by my rules. And my rule is that there are no rules....
We watched "Die Hard 4.0" (or "Live Free Or Die Hard" as it was called back in the States) tonight. It is the least plausible of the "Die Hard" series, which is saying a lot. Timothy Olyphant, as cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel, does not live up to the previous villains in the series, mainly Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) and Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons). He lacks the charisma that those two had, and he also lacks the menace that the film wants his character to have.
The best thing about the movie was Kevin Smith as a Star Wars-obsessed über-hacker called The Warlock who lives in his mom's basement.
Overall though, while the action sequences are fun, and Bruce Willis's one-liners are amusing, this one just doesn't have the re-watch-ability of the preceding "Die Hard".
What movie can you quote by heart?
Submitted by clamhead.
Probably L.A. Confidential. It's one of my top five favorites. I've read the book, and seen the movie countless times, and I could probably recite a good bit of the dialog from memory.
Well, I haven't done any blogging for quit some time, but here I am. I have a LiveJournal, which I haven't updated in ages, and probably won't be updating any time soon. There's also my MySPace profile, and my "official" web site, www.robruff.net.
If anyone is interested, I'm currently reading James Ellroy's "The Big Nowhere", the second book in his L.A. Quartet. I'm really looking forward to seeing The Black Dahlia when it opens next month, and L.A. Confidential is one of my top 5 favorite movies.
Ok, that's enough for now. Good night.
