That Took Too Much Effort
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 No Comments
I’ve seen the story before, I’d say, at least 3 times. Person A commits an accidental crime. Out of guilt, s/he tries to find the victim (or close relative of), but instead of confessing to the crime, they befriend said wounded without ever admitting to being the culprit. And thus begins a twisted relationship. The [...]
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 No Comments
There’s nothing you should be expecting from This Means War. The story was your garden-variety action/comedy/romance, with primitive themes and logical nonsense aplenty. But, for some reason, I was able to look beneath that crummy outer layer, which was a thick one mind you, and jut enjoy the humorous chemistry between the characters, and the [...]
Tags: amiable, cliche, crummy, garden variety, this means war
Friday, February 17, 2012 No Comments
There were five timelines in Anonymous. Five! And though, in reality, only two were used heavily, the film kept throwing me back forth between these two epochs to the point that I became disoriented, and rapidly lost interest in the characters. Not that the film did a good job in creating that bond otherwise, but [...]
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 No Comments
I don’t think I’m alone when I say that I wish I could fly. It was a childhood fantasy that I would still love to see realized. Just imagine! And for that, Chronicle was enjoyable. It tickled that bone in me that wants supernatural abilities, that wants the power of flight. And though it wasn’t [...]
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 No Comments
There is no way I can justify or defend the utter inanity that is Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. It’s pure nonsense, filled with plot holes that double as excuses to insert the use of gadgetry or stunts just to make the whole production seem more “Ooh” and “Aah”-worthy. It does have its slight saving [...]
Tags: action-packed, Avatar, IMAX, inane, loud, mission impossible
Monday, February 6, 2012 No Comments
Being an original screenplay, Margin Call definitely required deep research in the world of mortgage-backed securities, and a lot of it was done, which can be verified by how little I understood of it. To be honest, I don’t know much about this stuff, but the writer certainly did. For that, the film deserves a [...]
Thursday, February 2, 2012 No Comments
From the producers of Incendies, the superb foreign language film from 2010, comes Monsieur Lazhar, a story brimming with horrifically baleful themes, told in a delicately dramatic and charmingly humorous fashion. Following a man who loses his family in a building fire, who becomes a teacher of a class whose previous teacher committed suicide, this [...]
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 No Comments
I don’t have much to say about Colombiana. It’s bad. That’s really all there is to it. The story, what there was of one, was boring and cliché, the dialogue was just dumb, and the action was bland. They tried to make Zoë Saldana the female Jason Statham, but if I want to see a Statham-esque [...]
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 No Comments
Being contractually obligated by companies to say/not say and do/not do certain things did hinder Morgan Spurlock from really digging deep into the murky waters of advertising. There’s so much about it I’d still like to know, and so much I dislike about it that I wish was explored. But, for a documentary about advertising, [...]
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 No Comments
There’s nothing like a new phone with all the bells and whistles to make a tech lover happy. Especially when it works. And while the Samsung Focus isn’t exactly new by today’s standards (it is already a year old, after all), and it certainly does work. Except when it doesn’t… but that’s not exactly a [...]
Tags: rogers, samsung focus, smartphone, windows phone 7
