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Transformers 2 reviews

I’m having lots more fun reading reviews of Transformers 2 than I possibly could by watching the damn thing.

And then there’s the “id” part, which is the part where stuff blows up real good, and huge machines smash each

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Whatever Superman is trying to do with his hips here, it’s not working.

Far be it from me to deny the cheese factor in the early Superman movies, or in the street dancing scenes that were so popular in the ’80s.

However, I feel confident in saying that only in a Bollywood film…

Mercy movies?

Of all the recent werewolf/vampire/etc. series, Patricia Briggs’s is the last one I would have picked to be optioned for movies, since it’s perhaps the least fluffy.

I’m just having trouble picturing this. Peanut gallery, what say you?

Iron Man (no spoilers)

Mike summed it up: Best superhero movie yet filmed.

Don’t forget to stay until after the credits.

squee.

Screen review roundup

Big screen first:

Definitely, Maybe — I like Ryan Reynolds quite a bit, but he fell a little flat for me in this, and I’m not sure if he was really bad or if he just didn’t have much to…

Oscar music

Once! I tuned in too late to see the song performed, but just in time to see it win. I just sent the DVD back to Netflix. The mini-review I left said something like, “Ho-hum plot and dialogue, transcendent…

Quick reviews

Found Iron Kissed on the shelf at B&N today, a week early, and promptly devoured it. This series just keeps getting better — as far as I’m concerned, it sits at the top of the urban fantasy/paranormal romance heap.…

quickly….

So I haven’t posted much lately. Sorry about that. Here’s a quick roundup of what’s going on….

Michael finished his fall classes last week, did OK in both, and starts a minimester tomorrow, unless he can talk his advisor into…

August Rush

Wow.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

For the first twenty minutes or so, I thought this was going to be a brilliant movie. The cinematography was incredible, the James brothers were interestingly broody, the train robbery was clicking right along…

… and then. the. movie.

slowed.…

This is a movie about guns and the carrots who love them.

So we went to see Shoot ‘Em Up tonight.

Wow.

Here’s a transcript of our conversation afterward:

MICHAEL: Wow.
ME: blinky
[time passes]
ME: Wow.
MICHAEL: blinky
ME: headshake
MICHAEL: Wow.

It’s amazing. All the…

Quick reviews

3:10 to Yuma: Wow. Russell Crowe and Christian Bale are outstanding, and so is the plot. (It’s Elmore Leonard, being great the way he does.) Gretchen Mol is still made of cardboard, and I continue to wonder why people keep…

Stardust

Utterly delightful. Different from the graphic novel in many ways, but delightful.

It turns out that most people I know who’ve read the book at all have read the versions published without the illustrations. People: you have been cheated out…

Need more internet

Did I really write “end of scene” last night as a reason for stopping? That was not the end of the scene. This is the end of the scene.

New words: 896
Reason for stopping: I fall over now.

Spider-Man 3: 3 times the WTF?

OMG.

That was….

OMG.

That was horrible.

WTF?

The only thing I can figure is that about 20 or 30 minutes in, there was a shark. I didn’t see it, but I know it was there. Spidey, oblivious idiot that…