Posts Tagged as ‘movies’

July 18, 2008

The Dark Knight: Thoughts

This my review of The Dark Knight. There are some MINOR spoilers in this review, but nothing that would destroy someone’s experience if they have not seen it yet.  Consider yourself warned, however, if you’re a purist.  Save you’re bitching, because I don’t want to hear it.

Overall, the movie is wonderful.  I went in with [...]

July 5, 2008

ABC Family Brings Us Harry Potter

Courtesy of Sean Dreilinger.
In honor of this 4th of July weekend, the folks over at ABC Family decided to celebrate by showing all of the Harry Potter movies in a big wacky magical marathon.
Nothing like celebrating our country’s independence by showing how the Brits got back at us with the whole Harry Potter craze.  We [...]

July 2, 2008

Brett Farve, MacBooks & James Bond

Apparently Brett Farve is “seriously” considering coming out of retirement for one last season.  I’ve always appreciated the man’s obvious “love of the game”, but this is getting a bit ridiculous.  I’m not completely surprised by this, but the man needs to make up his mind.  How many more farewell games, montages, and tributes are [...]

June 30, 2008

Movie Disclaimers

You know how in movie credits there is a set of legal statements to the effect of how if any part of the movie resembles you or your life, it’s completely coincidental?  For some movies, I completely get that.  They’re generic and have plot points based in real life.  People have been dumped, cheated on, [...]

June 19, 2008

“He Dies?!” or “Liz Is Stupid”

Courtesy of Aggtastic.
There is an episode of Friends where it is revealed that Phoebe had never seen the end of Old Yeller. Her mom didn’t want her to be scarred by the death of the lovable dog, so they would cut off the movie and tell her that was the end. “And they all [...]