Archive for the 'Movies' Category

The Good Shepherd (2006)

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Don’t see it. Dreadful. It visually fairly well done, but it’s depressing anti-hero stuff. Definitely earned it’s R rating. And the editing… good heavens. When I picked it up, I thought it would be a fun, CIA thriller spy-type thing, but the choice to use secretive terms throughout and the way it bounced around the timeline [...]

A line from “The Quiet Man”

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

In solemn warning: “Two women in the house, and one of them a red-head.” Indeed.

Kong was cool

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Helen and I got a rare movie date, and went to see King Kong. One of us wanted to; the other kindly agreed. We both left impressed. Very well done. Stunning visually. Sometimes a bit much on the modern gooey/buggy creepiness for me, but that’s just the way things are done nowadays for some reason, [...]