People who think his films are pretentious hogwash should stay away. I liked it a lot though. 

I will never be able to understand how people can think this about his films.   Life Aquatic is my favorite, but they're all good.  Only one I was a bit disappointed in was Darjeeling Limited, but that's partly because I spent a lot of time in India and felt he could have done more to take advantage of the quirks of that culture.  So I'd say I had high expectations, but it was still good. 

Okay, liked Prometheus quite a bit for what it was.  A few issues here and there but overall it gave me what I was looking for and then some.  A lot/tons of homages to various sci-fi masters,  franchises and movies.  I'll need to check out the internetz to see if there's anything I missed.  If you are expecting jigsaw puzzle perfect and virgin anal you should stay home and wait for the blu-ray or streaming.  Btw, this movie begs for Blu-ray and HD/THX.  It's freaking gorgeous.


Liked Abe Lincoln Vamp slayer too.  I had some issues w/ how the movie shifted gears between acts but pretty nifty idea.  There were a few things that could have been better for sure but good stuff w/ enough substance to make you think and feel a little at times.  Not enough movies do that anymore.


Rock of Ages was a pretty unmitigated disaster.  Saving grace was the music which was unfortunately too busy being massacred by Julian Hough and the rest of the karaoke cast.  The occasional original tracks were a relief similar to finally reaching the porcelain gods to drop a load.

I just watched London River on netflix instant.  I loved it.  A simple, quality movie like you don't see to often.  No tricks or hooks or shortcuts, just a well written script, solid vision, good acting.  Made me think about the fact that a good movie can be made about anything. 

I loved the tension and question they build as you experience wondering about the missing people with their parents.  It has a real draw and holding power to it for how slow it is paced.  It also had a good feel, wasn't really a downer at all despite the fairly dark subject matter it remained kind of light. 

I saw Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method over the weekend -- a film about the relationships between Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein. I really wanted to like this movie, but it fell flat. A lot of the character development and significant plot points were just glossed over, while less-important scenes seemed to drag. The pacing suffered as a result, not to mention the extremely anti-climatic conclusion. I hoped it would get deep into how some of the core beliefs of Jung and Freud came about, but it only provided a very superficial glance at their ideas. Honestly, I don't know what the point of this movie was.

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btw Ted was funny.