Metal Reviews

Pacific Rim was everything that you would want it to be. del Toro utilizes all the tropes perfectly to make a better Bay film than Bay does himself. The political content (politicians are shitty bureaucrats and military will save us) was there duh, but the socioeconomic layer (the giant monsters ravage and pollute the environment) made each battle with the monsters more dire and awesome. Plus del Toro's propensity to pull the trigger and leave the viewer hanging left open the possibility for shit to go wrong at any minute. Yeah, it's mass culture rubbish, but it's the best possible form of it. It was sooo good.

didn't see Pacific Rim but heard it's awesome. want to.

just saw 500 Days of Summer. liked it a lot.

I watched West Side Story a couple days ago. Wasn't really feeling it... Anita was the only singer who sounded talented enough to be in a musical.

I have been introducing my son to horror movies... So far this week we've watched nightmare on elm street Halloween and tremors... He is digging them.. He was able to fall asleep afterwards no problem... My wife on the other hand , not so much!

Tried watching Tremors with the girlfriend over the weekend and she wasn't having it.

Halloween 2 was on tv earlier. Pretty poor compared to the first, nowhere near as creepy. Reminds me I have a fair few of these Michael/Freddy/Jason slashers to catch up on, though...

Yeah, Halloween I has held up pretty well (from this non-horror fan's perspective), Halloween III (the one with no Mike Myers) is just hilariously awful.

They all suck after the first. But 6, The Curse of Michael Myers, is good. Just a straight up slasher, but probably has the best old school feel of the lot. It also has a young Paul Rudd as the lead character who has a pretty epic final scene.

saw American Beauty for the first time last night, loved it. Kevin Spacey was incredible. Mena Suvari looked way hotter than in American Pie, although she was portraying completely different characters.

we were going to see Gravity in the cinema, but it turned out they only had it dubbed in French... fucking gay. who the fuck wants to see a dubbed movie? pretty much nothing targeted at people over the age of 6 is dubbed in Portugal... ever heard of subtitles?

Triage - "misery porn"

Just back from Gravity. Pretty amazing, especially in Imax and 3d.

That might be a relationship breaker.

Part 6 is also my favorite sequel of the franchise but most everyone says it is one of the worst.

Eh. Tremors was always something I watched growing up but never loved. Evil Dead, though... she'd be out on the street.

Black Swan was on tv this evening, too, good film.

Just saw the documentary The Act Of Killing which is a profoundly disturbing and heavy documentary about the mass killings in Indonesia done by paramilitary groups and gangsters in the mid 60's. It was chilling to see how these executioners nonchalantly talking about how they killed and what manner they did it as if it nothing. The level of corruption on display was just mind boggling and everybody seemed to be corrupt. The ending was very powerful and i was left with so many different feelings and emotions. It's a movie about evil and the evil things that these men do and what it does to their mind and how they justify the things that they have done. Highly recommended!

The Butler - John Cusack as Nixon is a thing to behold. And not a good thing...

Seeing Robin Williams cast as Eisenhower was almost physically painful. I like Robin Williams...but as Ike?

Topsy Turvy - Insight into the creative process of musicals/theatre via Gilbert and Sullivan. Peaked early imo but good.

The Trip - Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon argue, imitate other actors, eat food, recite poetry, see scenery. Occasionally hilarious, drama kinda came out of nowhere (Steve Coogan standing around at dusk w/ piano. FEELINGS.). it was ok

john cusack as a president sounds awkward

It was. He basically pretended to be drunk. Williams as Eisenhower was bad too, although the JFK and LBJ guys weren't bad, and Alan Rickman was nearly passable as Reagan...

The film of The Trip (which I assume you saw) is a cut-down version of a tv series, incidentally, of six half-hour episodes. There's going to be another series next year where they go around Italy.