OK, so Thor was on here, I think instalments have been mentioned above.
As they say, if you don't have anything nice to say... 'Nuff said. Cooking up a sambal goreng in the meantime didn't come with too many regrets
Then btw, quite some time ago,
[quote=MacII]Jackson's King Kong[/quote]
I spoke none too favorably of this one (and reseeing it since hasn't improved my opinion of it), and have indeed been wondering why on earth Jackson would have wanted to make this.
Turns out though that, according to Wikipedia at least, it had been a childhood inspiration to and dream of him (and first attempting to recreate it at age 12, apparently!),* so, yes, one can see that, no doubt.
So all may be forgiven. Now just don't do it again
* There's this documentary on Jackson & pals' early work, featuring great footage on how they produced all that with no means nor money whatsoever, it's pretty hilarious, not to mention inspiring. Saw it on a BBC feature night once; I suppose it may be this, Good Taste Made Bad Taste, but can't be sure. I think what I saw touched on its follow-up, Braindead, as well. Both great movies, needless to say
I watched the recent Hercules flick. It was awful. The lead looked disinterested, the characters were hardly developed, the sets looked very sit-com like and poorly managed, the dialogue was downright poor and cringeworthy, the visual effects themselves were second grade, and the script was positively awful. But hey, they gave the audience what they wanted, with slow-mo action scenes of big men grappling each other.
And it distorted history. I mean, it's fine and dandy since it's Hollywood, but they took it to a new low that beat 300. When Hercules shouted "Testudo formation!" and his hoplites proceeded to do so, I burst out laughing for 5 minutes.
Lone Survivor was good. It won't rank at the top of my war movie list, but it probably had the most realistic and visceral firefight that I've ever seen. Brutal. I felt every bullet and piece of flying shrapnel.
Anchorman 2 was ok, but not nearlly as good as the first. I'll give the film makers credit though, they went for it. I mean, they went really far out there. Not Tim and Eric out there, but pretty close.
