Just saw Spectre with the gf and it didn't make much of an impression on me. The opening shot (done in one long take) is impressive, and Sam Mendes' visual sensibility is still present in much of the film, but the set pieces, much more similar to traditional Bond fare than the previous Craig films, were lackluster and poorly edited for the most part. The plot twist involving Christophe Waltz' character is depressingly Star Trek Into Darkness-esque, and it must be said that I would really like to see Waltz give a different kind of performance from the ones he gave in Inglourious Basterds and Django. Between this film and Skyfall, we now have two consecutive Bond movies whose principal task is to justify the idea that we still need Bond movies; to me, this level of defensiveness suggests that maybe, we don't.

I haven't watched the 3rd Rambo movie. Watch it and review it for me!

Watching the 3 Star Wars prequels again, not sure why. Lord, these things are just annoyingly bad.

I loved this one too.  I love how aliens have asian too.. It's nice.

Story was great.

The posters were fantastic. The movies was shite

Without em we wouldn't have gotten both Clone Wars series or Republic Commando.

I consider that a fair trade off.

This one here was rather fun. Cheesy and low-budget, sure. But it was very entertaining. Better than the Star Wars prequels, for sure.

I just reopened my Netflix account, and for some reason I always start watching the most stupid and disgusting shit first, stuff that I would never watch if it wasn't just a click away. Last night I watched something called Little Deaths, which included three individual little stories. I won't say anything myself, but quote a post on the IMDB boards about the third segment:

I just watched A Trip to the Moon, a legendary French silent film from 1902. It's available in two versions: The original black and white version, and a hand-colored version that was badly damaged but largely restored in 2010. It might seem 'hokey' today, but it's useful to remember that the film's representation of space flight was over-the-top and deliberately anti-scientific by design (i.e. "The moon really is made of cheese!"). The newer version features an electronic soundtrack by the French electronic duo Air, and the juxtaposition of the more modernized music with the grainy film is striking yet strangely hypnotic. Georges Méliès was not known for clever use of the camera; it stays in a fixed position while the action plays out against a painted background; nowadays, the effect is like nothing so much as watching a point-and-click adventure on screen.



The film has been viewed as a satirical look at colonization in a manner not too different from Starship Troopers, with the explorers intruding upon an alien society known as the Selenites, killing quite a few of them, and taking one back with them for exhibition in a zoo. Even the moon itself, with that famous image of it being struck in the eye, seems to get the worst of the explorers' bumbling efforts. I'd recommend seeing both versions (probably the black and white one first, as it has some narration that helps you discern what's going on in those grainy black and white images).