Category Archives: Movies

Captain, My Captain

*snerk* I saw Flightplan today and while it was exactly what I expected, it was so nice seeing Bean up there looking so frickin’ hot. I love his short hair and I wish he’d keep it so.

The trailers were all terrible–well, Casanova looked decent– but the ad for Season 2 LOST was great. Sawyer on the big screen? *guh*

Cineplex Fun

After making my offer for Golf Course House, I caught a movie Friday night.

If you’ve read my thoughts on The Brothers Grimm, it may do you well to know that I would watch it again before sitting through The Exorcism of Emily Rose again. The Exorcism of Emily Rose plays like a Lifetime Movie Network production–a bad one at that. Ugh.

Not So Grimm

I just had a wonderful day with and ! We had lunch at Macadoo’s, which is one of my favorite local places. We shopped for quite a while, and I was able to pick up the 16-Month calendar of LOTR, the small version of the same calendar, a Shelob, Frodo, and Sam set (even though I already have a Shelob, Frodo, and a Sam..heh), a bunch of stuff for Hobbit, magazines, etc. The we hit Big Lots only to find incredibly great Halloween Village buildings. After buying several of them each (mine alone were $120.00 and I’ll post pics of my village closer to Halloween), we saw a movie.

Oh dear gawd. The Brothers Grimm was by far the worst movie I’ve ever sat through in a theater. OK, maybe it’s tied with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. POA had a reasons to earn my hatred, though, and I’ve stated them all before. TBG was just bad. Really bad. From the script, to the score, to the acting…it was just bad. Matt Damon and Heath Ledger do well enough with their roles, but their roles are stupid. There is no cohesiveness to the storyline and whoever edited this movie should never work in film again. Ben, Jesse, and I have determined that it would have made a LOT more sense if the film hadn’t been chopped up so badly. This is a Gilliam film (he of the “Chris Columbus ruined the first two HP movies” rant. HA! The irony!) and he tries way to hard to recreate TAoBM, but just can’t do it. He doesn’t even come close.

This movie isn’t even a “but” movie. Van Helsing was bad, but fun. Troy was bad, but pretty. Even Sean Bean couldn’t have saved this movie. It’s.that.bad. Do yourself a favor and just skip it altogether.