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©2005 Jason Cross
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 Saturday, August 10, 2002 |
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I can't believe people are still confused by the Widescreen vs Fullscreen (aka pan-and-scan) formats. Bigger ain't necessarily better when it means having the sides cut off people!
Fortunately, some people still keep an open mind and are willing to change their view... ;) |
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Today I caught a matinee of xXx, aka XXX, aka Triple-X, aka that new Vin Diesel movie. The movie was developed to be sort of the Bond of the younger generation - a younger secret agent who is flawed and into extreme sports-type things like dirt biking and cliff-jumping.
It was pretty good, a fun ride, with lots of action pieces. I liked the Xander Cage character, as he had a sort of sense of humor through the whole thing, and am interested to see how the franchise evolves (XXX2 is already a sure thing). I also liked the way that X didn't kill people unless necessary, instead using knock-out darts part of the time. Bond is so blase about killing.
There was a preview for The Transporter in front of XXX, which is the new Luc Besson movie. It has the guy who played Turkish in Snatch in it (that reminds me - Phil, don't forget to bring back my Snatch DVD when you come back next week) and looks pretty cool. I loved Besson's work in Leon: The Professional and The Fifth Element, so this should be interesting. |
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Last night I went to see the movie Signs. Was it good, you ask? Eh, I'm not sure.
Don't read this entry if you don't want to see some details having to do with the ending of the movie.
You see, I really like parts of the movie. REALLY like parts of it. But at the same time I REALLY dislike parts of the movie as well.
M. Night Shyamalan can sure make a creepy as hell movie, this proves. And I like thew concept of a movie centered around people on the periphery of an alien phenomena and not right in the center of it like in most movies (*cough* ID4 *cough*), but at the same time its handling of the plot, heavy-handedness of the theme and ending, and its real lack of reasoning behind the aliens motives, make it leave a bad taste in my mouth.
I mean, come on, aliens travel all this way "just to start a ruckus?" to steal from what Will Smith's character said in ID4. And not only that, but WATER hurts them, and they seemed to have missed that fact until too late, despite, oh, the commonness of water on Earth.
I wish Night would make a sequal to Unbreakable. I would love to see that. |
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