Archive for the 'movies and anime' Category

Batman Begins

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Batman Begins. Went to see it with adam, tw and manick. Pretty solid. Good action, good story. Consensus is that it felt a little overly aggressively edited for runtime. I tend to agree … the flow wasn’t quite ideal, but overall it was pretty good. Dunno what to say other than that. I think it [...]

Ong Bak

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

Crazy Awesomeness. Non-Kung-fu fighting (Muay-Thai is so … different than what we usually see). Some of the awesomest villains ever created. And the hate-filled football-kick to the chest. Yeah, Ong Bak is a really freaking great stereotype-martial-arts movie. Forgettable plot (about getting back the head of the village’s Ong Bak Buddha statue, to save the [...]

star wars

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

As a movie, it was solid. I think I have a few major issues with it though. For starters, the dialogue was terrible. I mean … like … mindbogglingly mediocre. I don’t think there was a single memorable line in it, other than things that were memorably poor. For another, The acting was weak, across [...]

Hotel Rwanda

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Wow.

Hitchhiker’s Guide

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

Went to see Hitchhiker’s Guide with Jason and Ryan today. It’s been a while since I read the books, but the movie was funny. Not as hilariously funny as the books were, and not funny in the same sort of way. Some gags were trimmed entirely, or trimmed to the point that they weren’t gags [...]