Sorry...

This blog is on indefinate hiatus due to life.

I'm Back (But not in Black)

Haven't posted in a while, but I think I'm going to try to start blogging again. I've watched quite a few movies lately and I'll just try to summarize some of them quickly.

Sin City - Awesome, with a dash of Goretastic
Fight Club - Smart portrayal of modern society
The Legend of the Drunken Master - Jackie Chan is legendary, so is this movie
Reservoir Dogs - Tarantino-ish. More approachable than Pulp Fiction, but not as good.
Megamind - Fun. A lot of fun.

I'm gonna see Harry Potter sometime this week. I kind of feel like writing some sort of piece on what I like about Harry Potter, and what it means to me.

That's all for now

Alex Thor

Ghostbusters (1984)

Don't you just love how awful 80's trailers are? I mean, if this trailer was all I had to go on, I probably wouldn't have been incredibly interested in this movie. But, because I was lucky enough to be born well after the movies release date, I had the benefit of hindsight, and all the powers of pop culture on my side to tell me that Ghostbusters was awesome long before I saw the movie. But, in case you live under a rock in northern Ontario, let me tell you exactly how awesome Ghostbusters is.

Who Ya Gonna Call?

So, my first 'official' Thursday review may be a little late. Here's a poem I wrote to tide you over.

If there's something strange

And it don't look good

Who Ya Gonna Call?

Ghostbusters!

Alex Thor

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

From Dusk Till Dawn stars Quentin Tarantino as an actor. That’s interesting because in a movie that starts out with two bank robbers trying to reach Mexico while threatening and killing massive numbers of people and throwing out lines of memorable dialogue almost as often as they throw off lead rounds of death, you’d think Tarantino must be directing. At least, you would until the vampires show up.

Matrix Overload

Anyone who's read my review of The Matrix knows that I think it's a pretty awesome sci-fi/post apocalyptic/martial arts piece. However, even I have to confess there are some small problems with the plot, just like in most sci-fi movies. However Peter B. Lloyd has written a massive piece on the subject, pointing out many supposed plot 'errors' and then exposing them as in fact, just larger parts of the genius of the matrix. A lot of the errors are things that make perfect sense to me, like "how can a socket in your head control your senses? How can it be inserted without killing you?" I mean, something like that is sci-fi standard. If you feel the need to ask that question, then you probably shouldn't be watching this movie. Even so, the answers are very well researched and make you think so go check it out!

http://www.kurzweilai.net/glitches-in-the-matrix-and-how-to-fix-them

Top Ten Movies I Want To See Based on Trailers

Wow, that's an unwieldy title.
Okay, so here's what this is all about. Most of the time, the reason I see a movie is because an actor I like is in it, or I like the director, or someone cool told me it was awesome, etc. I don't usually just decide to see a movie based on a trailer. So I took a look at twenty some trailers of movies that I want to see (but haven't seen yet), and then made a list of the ten that I would choose to see based JUST on the trailer. Here we go in order: