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War, Inc. – my review
May 24th
I finally got around to watching this DVD last night. I’m a fan of John Cusack, but I’m glad I waited to rent (netflix) this rather than paying full price at a theater.
War, Inc is Grosse Pointe Blank years later with Idiocracy slathered on top. Not the stupid people part (though there was a fair amount of stupid people) but the advertising part. They should have just reused the name Martin Blank and his assistant Marcella and wrote it as a sequel.
Because it’s a movie about a (corporate) hit-man who is burnt out and he meets a woman and shit happens and they end up together. And Dan Aykroyd is in it, too.
Remember the fight scene in the school hallway in GPB? Almost exactly duplicated including the killing the other guy with a non-weapon part. There he used a pen and here he used an air-injecting wine bottle opener. At least I think that’s what it was. AND “the girl” comes in at the end and sees it and runs away, then he has to save her from the bad guys… almost a GPB retread.
And I hate watching fight scenes with John Cusack. It’s like watching a Giraffe do slow-motion karate… poorly. He’s so much better at dialogue and humor.
Final verdict: don’t bother.
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Star Trekkin!
May 7th
Not overly a fan of the original Star Trek but like anyone over the age of say, 30 I’ve seen an episode or 12. Enough that I understand about the general storyline and characters but not enough to know all the little geeky details. And I never could stand William Shatner.
I must say this new James Tiberious Kirk is much easier to handle. As is Spock. Yummy Spock. I want me some Spock.
*ahem*
No spoilers, but there are very few No Fucking Way moments for this average viewer. I’m sure more scientific people might find faults. Beautiful graphics, lots of shots of the Enterprise for the die-hards, and plenty of the old show’s catch phrases. And plenty of action.
I will say the guy (Ginnie calls him Ceasar from his old Xena role) playing Bones completely over hammed it. Almost cartoonish. Like he was doing a parady of Bones for some SNL skit. Every time they flashed on his goofy face it took me completely out of the movie.
We saw it at the Cine Capri, on Arizona’s largest screen, from about 5 rows back. Not the greatest thing when there’s a close-up of the characters’ dirty and bloody faces.
I still recommend everyone see it. It was a great movie.
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So Ginnie went with me to the movie. We met CJ and Dan, Steve, Heather, and Jack and Melanie for dinner before.
After the movie we were walking out the side door and there was a large crowd outside. I laughingly told Ginnie we should say really loud that the movie sucked, just for fun. A second later I’m tripping over something on the ground and to keep from sprawling face first on the pavement I do one of those weird flying flailing tumbles four whole steps before slamming right into her back. I’ll just bet the crowd was amused. I think I wrenched every muscle in my body but I didn’t hit the ground.
Oh, and as the Hummer parked next to us pulled out, I realized right on the other side of it was CJ’s car. How weird is that? This parking lot is HUGE and we’re parked two spaces apart. Freaky.
| Originally published at Spellwight. |
Eewwage
Dec 5th
Dear Child Car Seat Manufacturers,
I have recently discovered, as of this morning in fact, that you have missed a test phase of your child car seat cover design. May I suggest the following scenario next time you’re coming up with such a design:
Your designer must attempt to remove a child’s car seat cover that is saturated with breakfast puke without getting any on himself or the newly cleaned carpet. This should include curdled milk and whatever else said child had ingested that morning. Let’s also add the benefit of having the child trying to help the designer remove the cover. And the adult is not allowed to take their frustration out on the child. If possible, have the child be poopy at the same time as it just adds to the experience.
If you need someone to volunteer for this particular testing phase, count me out. I’ve already passed.
Happy to be of help,
Grammi Walker
