Some more movie/DVD reviews
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Wow! After the first few minutes I was not sure I would be able to
watch this movie. It is very violent. Off with their heads, limbs,
scalp! But it's quite good. The look, the costumes, the actors,
the weapons, the music, the scenery - all good. There is no real
plot. It is all about revenge. And Uma Thurman's character is not going
to stop until everyone is checked off her list.
Tarantino is a very interesting person. He pays homage to (ie., steals from)
many genres
but makes them his own. He is a fanboy and he uses his influence to
create/incite other fanboys and fangirls. I will always be grateful
to him for bringing one of my favorite movies Chungking Express
to the US. And now I want to rent some old 1970s Shaw Brothers Hong Kong
action films. And I can't wait to see Kill Bill Vol. 2
April 8, 2004
Postponed and Canceled
I hit the 10,000 mile mark on my car and took it in for its
first scheduled maintenance. I was thinking that no one really
stares and stops me so much any more. Every now and then
someone might slow down and sit just to the side and back
of me before passing on the beltway but people no longer talk to
me at stop lights. Well just when I thought that those days were over
a woman came running up to me one morning this week after I parked
and asked how I liked my car. She had test driven one but had decided
to get a larger VW Passat. She was still very enthusiastic.
Bad News:
My anticipated encounter with ShahRukh Khan has been postponed until the end of the month. Another good TV show, Wonderfalls, has been canceled.
Some more movie/DVD reviews
Mystery Men
I recently lent a friend my DVD of the movie Snatch, one of my
favorite movies. She brought it back and it was obvious that she did
not feel it was the most fantastic, funny, clever movie that I thought
it was. I was a little hurt. I was reminded of this when I set out to write
this reveiw of Mystery Men, which several family members encouraged
me to watch. No one said it was the best movie ever but I was still
skeptical when I rented it but I had a open mind. Well it was ok.
I felt that it was a kids movie pretending to be an adult movie. I did not
find it clever nor did the characters seem interesting. The vain superhero
played by Greg Kinnear was the only character that had any depth or clever lines
and he only appears at the beginning. I have liked superhero
stories. Ask me how many times I have seen the first episode
of The Tick. And I have liked
most of these actors in other movies. So this one did not work for me
but I hope that the Mystery Men promoters continue to recommend
movies to me. I know our tastes overlap. We all like Sex & the City, although I don't think we all agree how boring and how wrong for Carrie
Aidan was.
April 4, 2004
Wish me luck
I pay Apple $100 a year to let me have a web site and
an email address. It's called a .mac account. As a member
I get special offers for discounted hardware,
free software, games, etc, many of which I've taken
advantage of. Well, recently I got email announcing a
contest where I could win a new 40G iPod. All I have
to do is send in a movie less than 5 minutes long that was
made with the Apple video editing software, iMovie, which
comes free with Apple computers. I thought, hey, I have made
movies. I can enter. All my little trailers are less than 5
minutes long. Judging is based on originality and
creativity (25%), quality and craftmanship (25%), and overall appeal
(50%). Despite the fact that none of my movies excels in any
of these categories I decided to enter the