Monday, November 17, 2008

T.V. Show reviews?

I recently had a request do start putting reviews for T.V. Show reviews and thought I'd put the question out there. If I started reviewing current shows and past shows as requested would you read them. I wouldn't want to review episodes because I don't want to take a chance of spoiling things if the episode hasn't been seen yet but I would do in to the premise of the over all show. Also if I start reviewing shows should this be a separate blog or on here mixed in with everything else. I do watch a wide variety of programs, although I don't watch 2 of the most popular shows on now. Hero's started when I was already watching something else from another channel when it started, same thing for Chuck. I do have season 1 of both shows in my netflix queue at the moment but if you saw my list you would know it may be years before I get there. Other then that I watch a lot of things everyone does with a few news (Daily Show, Colbert Report), and a lot of things on BBC, and the Discovery channels.
I look forward to your input.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Role Models

Well nothing original, OK story, decent acting. So why do I love this movie. This film has a laugh every 30 seconds while your mouth is gaping open because you just can't believe they just did something. One thing that was however kind of fresh and different was the character of Wheeler "Seann William Scott". I've never seen it where they can take a reckless, selfish, playboy and end up making him the one with rational thought. If I didn't already have so many films to see I would go and see this one again just for specific laughs. This is not a family film and if you saw the previews they really just let you know what it was all about. There are no twists, no turns, and it's predictable. However the journey to get to the end is great and well worth the price of admission. I give this film an A+.

http://www.rolemodelsmovie.com/
U.S. site

http://www.sturdywings.org/
Sturdy Wings

The Dark Knight

Loved it. Storyline was great, acting was fantastic, action was really good, and the pacing of the movie was perfect. There was truly no part of this film where I felt like it was going slow, or anything wasn't needed. Before I had seen this film I heard some people say that the only reason Heath Ledger might get a nomination or award is because he had passed away, I now think anyone saying that hasn't seen this film. There is truly no point in this movie where he is anything other then the Joker. Christian Bale does possibly my favourite acting job from him ever in this. While in Batman Begins you saw the twisted feelings of Bruce Wayne, in this movie they run much deeper. Gary Oldman and Aaron Eckhart are nothing less then perfect. I also really liked the acting from Maggie Gyllenhaal in this, I have heard from other people while they didn't like her acting, they still preferred her to Katie Holmes. All personal opinion there.
When seeing this film there was a man in the row in front of me with 3 young children, all 3 children were crying or covering their faces during some scenes. I feel the need to make this very clear. This is not a film for children. There are scenes with Two Face showing close ups of his face, and many violent aspects to this.
Because there are some continuity errors I really should give a slightly lower grade to this film but because they were so small and I love this film so much I can't give it anything but an A+.

http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/dvd/
U.S. site

http://www.ccfabg.org/
Batman related

http://www.clowntravelagency.com/
Joker related

http://www.gothampolice.com/
Gotham Police

http://www.gpdmcu.com/
Gotham Police Major Crimes Unit

http://www.ibelieveinharveydent.com/
Harvey Dent related

http://www.whysoserious.com/
just a cool site about the Joker

Friday, November 7, 2008

Batman Begins

Loved this movie. When it comes to Batman movies this might be one of my favourite ever. I have to say I still love the Michael Keaton Batman's but this brought something different, something darker more like what I think Batman is really suppose to be like. Including back story for characters (especially superheros) really seems to make the viewer feel as if they are part of the whole movie experience. In this film we not only get back story on Bruce Wayne but just about everyone around him too. The acting in this film is really very good with Christian Bale doing one of the best performances of his career so far. I did have one small problem with this film and it was the voice change of Bruce Wayne to Batman. I can understand that in some ways it is just another part of his disguise but I felt if that were the case there would be no need for it when he was alone with Alfred. While this is not a film I would take very young children to it is one that just about everyone in the family could enjoy. Over all this is a great film and I give this an A.
My review for Dark Knight should be posted Monday night. Have a great weekend all.

http://www2.warnerbros.com/batmanbegins/index.html
U.S. site

http://www.warnerbros.co.uk/batmanbegins/
U.K. site

http://www2.warnerbros.com/batmanbegins/index.html
French site