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Get Smart. Why, oh why, do writers think it's cool to ruin a perfectly good action movie with an incompetent main character? (Maybe ruin is a strong word, but still?) It looks fun; I actually kind of want to see it, but mostly for The Rock putting staples in people's foreheads.

Street Kings. Would probably be interesting -- and hello, it's me, I like cop flicks, especially when we've got questions of dubious morality and ethics going -- if the main character was played by anyone but Keanu Reeves. Mark Wahlberg. Joe Flanigan. Leonardo DiCaprio. Brad Pitt, for God's sake. Oooh. Ben Browder.

Boarding Gate. Isn't it funny how the trailer and the summary have, like, nothing to do with each other? Yeah.

The Happening. Well, it's M. Night Shyamalan, so. I rather like it. I mean, I'm kind of bored with the whole, "Oh my God, we actually did this to ourselves!" thing, but I mean, still. Shyamalan.

The Forbidden Kingdom. Dude, awesome. Awesome balls of awesome. Kung fu! Fish out of water! Ancient China! Jackie Chan and Jet Li! I don't care how cheesy it is, it can't be that bad.

Diary of the Dead. You know, I rather like it. I'm not a zombie person, but I rather like this, the style of it.

The Ruins. Whee, ancient temple, ancient evil, poor, poor tourists! Also looks fairly awesome. I mean, cheesy as all get out, but kind of awesome. Note to self: Indiana Jones and/or Lara Croft and/or Daniel Jackson are useful people to have with you when you go amateur archaeologist-ing.

The Hottie and the Nottie. This is so stupid, I think every brain cell in my body spontaneously withered and died. Help! Clear! Two words: Paris. Hilton.

Prom Night. You know what? I kind of like it. And, you know, hope my prom night doesn't end up like this, but then again, we don't go to a hotel, we go up to CWU, which, okay, haunted, but not that building. Anyway, high school seniors! And terror!

Postal. *snickers*

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Date: 2008-02-29 04:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mybestexcuse.livejournal.com
Get Smart. Why, oh why, do writers think it's cool to ruin a perfectly good action movie with an incompetent main character? (Maybe ruin is a strong word, but still?) It looks fun; I actually kind of want to see it, but mostly for The Rock putting staples in people's foreheads.

It's a remake of a TV show where the bumbling hero is sort of the whole premise.

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Date: 2008-03-01 01:24 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com
I just don't see the attraction with the bumbling hero in the first place. I mean, I know, literarily speaking, it's because the audience can connect with the hero or whatever, but it holds no attraction for me.

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Date: 2008-02-29 05:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] afteriwake.livejournal.com
Um...I don't know if you ever watched the original Get Smart TV series, but that was kind of the whole point behind the series: Maxwell Smart is incompetent and yet he always prevails. Usually thanks to Agent 99.

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Date: 2008-03-01 01:25 am (UTC)
ext_2135: narnia: home sweet home (soraki) (Default)
From: [identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com
I have not seen the original TV series, no. I just have a thing against incompetent heroes. What's wrong with having competent heroes, for God's sake?

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Date: 2008-02-29 06:35 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Brad Pitt? You gotta be kidding me.

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Date: 2008-03-01 01:24 am (UTC)
ext_2135: narnia: home sweet home (soraki) (Default)
From: [identity profile] bedlamsbard.livejournal.com
Well, he can show emotion, unlike Keanu Reeves.

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