I caught the Kill Bill movies this week. I got them at the library on the weekend and watched them.
It was a pretty good movie. Tarantino has a unique style and Kill Bill is as good as anything else he has done. I've seen some of his other films and I liked them too. For a double movie the story was good it held my attention all through. The soundtrack added a lot to the film.
I think that's just about it for catching up on movies from the past I'd meant to watch. It was a pretty good project the last few weeks working through them. If I see any more I should try to watch them sooner.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Monday, November 01, 2010
KFC double down
The KFC double down is now finally in Canada. I had one over the weekend. It was pretty tasty. The chicken was a bit spicier than I expected. It was pretty filling.
[x] would get it again
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I caught a tv show over the weekend. I watched an episode of desperate housewives.
[ ] would watch again
I watched it somewhat regularly for about a season maybe back around 2004. I recognized the 4 original principals. There were some new characters. I was a bit surprised the show is still pretty consistent to its original form after all these years.
The weekend episode though, I didn't see it through to the end. I turned it off after around 40 minutes. It was painful to watch. It just seemed like "a very special housewives", jump the shark style. They explored one character's elderly mom is realized to have dementia, that was of course emotional.
They did explore the issue of the sexless contemporary marriage quite well in the other JTS subplot. It was presumably an allegory on contemporary married life. A woman had married a man while he was in jail. On his apparent unexpected release the husband was after his wife to act like, well, his wife. Alas wifey had a different view of it and felt it was her entitlement to refuse, while continuing to live off his paycheques of course.
After wasting time and money on expensive modern Dr Phil/Oprah style counselling "wife" continues to refuse action. Husband quickly cuts his losses and throws her out in an uplifting scene. Good riddance to her! I hope that doesn't give anyone any ideas.
[x] would get it again
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I caught a tv show over the weekend. I watched an episode of desperate housewives.
[ ] would watch again
I watched it somewhat regularly for about a season maybe back around 2004. I recognized the 4 original principals. There were some new characters. I was a bit surprised the show is still pretty consistent to its original form after all these years.
The weekend episode though, I didn't see it through to the end. I turned it off after around 40 minutes. It was painful to watch. It just seemed like "a very special housewives", jump the shark style. They explored one character's elderly mom is realized to have dementia, that was of course emotional.
They did explore the issue of the sexless contemporary marriage quite well in the other JTS subplot. It was presumably an allegory on contemporary married life. A woman had married a man while he was in jail. On his apparent unexpected release the husband was after his wife to act like, well, his wife. Alas wifey had a different view of it and felt it was her entitlement to refuse, while continuing to live off his paycheques of course.
After wasting time and money on expensive modern Dr Phil/Oprah style counselling "wife" continues to refuse action. Husband quickly cuts his losses and throws her out in an uplifting scene. Good riddance to her! I hope that doesn't give anyone any ideas.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
planet of the apes
I caught another movie lately from my old list. I got Planet of the Apes from the library. This was the 2001 Tim Burton release with Mark Wahlberg.
It was a good movie. Very entertaining and thought provoking. Those apes are pretty smart. Chrichton explored this too in the excellent book Congo.
I almost didn't get to watch it. It was a 1 week rental and I had to stay up a bit watching it while working through some laundry at home. But I'm glad I did see it. I think the only movies left on my list now are Kill Bill I-II and Apocalypse Now 2000.
It was a good movie. Very entertaining and thought provoking. Those apes are pretty smart. Chrichton explored this too in the excellent book Congo.
I almost didn't get to watch it. It was a 1 week rental and I had to stay up a bit watching it while working through some laundry at home. But I'm glad I did see it. I think the only movies left on my list now are Kill Bill I-II and Apocalypse Now 2000.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Constantine
I caught the movie Constantine this week. I picked it up at the local library.
It was a good movie. The special effects were really good. This would have been a great theatre movie the visuals were very compelling in this film. The scenes in Hell were very believable and scary.
I'd wanted to see it ever since it came out. I used to joke that the cover art was like at work. One guy keeping it going while battling the demons.
heh heh. I enjoyed the movie I'm glad I saw it. I found the movie a bit hard to follow at times.
It was a good movie. The special effects were really good. This would have been a great theatre movie the visuals were very compelling in this film. The scenes in Hell were very believable and scary.
I'd wanted to see it ever since it came out. I used to joke that the cover art was like at work. One guy keeping it going while battling the demons.
heh heh. I enjoyed the movie I'm glad I saw it. I found the movie a bit hard to follow at times.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
kick Canada day
Canada can't land in UAE.
No seat on UN security council.
The UAE thing was pretty bad. This wasn't minor officials being inconvenienced. It was the minister of defence and the Chief of Defence Staff. Let's consider casualties in Afghanistan. UAE: not one loss. And now they want to use their base as a bargaining chip in commercial negotiations. Disgraceful!
Prime Minister Harper needs to respond decisively to this. Some high heat, chin music next inning is in order.
The UN security council is meh. We gutted our armed forces under Trudeau in the 70s to free up money for socialism. Like western Europe we offloaded our defense responsibilities to America. So Canada doesn't really deserve to be on the security council anyway.
No seat on UN security council.
The UAE thing was pretty bad. This wasn't minor officials being inconvenienced. It was the minister of defence and the Chief of Defence Staff. Let's consider casualties in Afghanistan. UAE: not one loss. And now they want to use their base as a bargaining chip in commercial negotiations. Disgraceful!
Prime Minister Harper needs to respond decisively to this. Some high heat, chin music next inning is in order.
The UN security council is meh. We gutted our armed forces under Trudeau in the 70s to free up money for socialism. Like western Europe we offloaded our defense responsibilities to America. So Canada doesn't really deserve to be on the security council anyway.
Friday, October 08, 2010
Bad Santa
Last weekend I was at the library with my kids. While passing the DVD section I happened to notice the Bad Santa movie. I picked it up and watched it this week - when the kids weren't around it was rated R.
I didn't know much about it except that I'd wanted to see it in the theatre those years ago. It's a dark comedy. The story of a con man mall Santa and his midget assistant who case out the stores they work in each Christmas season while planning to rob the store and crack the safe. The Santa character is a messy drunk and rude to the kids.
The movie was funny in parts with some crude and slapstick humour. Especially the scene when Santa comes to work drunk, falls over the display, then punches out the paper mache reindeer in a fit of paranoia.
The ending was pretty well done and I'm glad I saw it. I don't think I'd got a movie for myself at the library before. There are a few more movies like this one I wanted to see in the theatre but didn't for whatever reason so maybe I'll take out 1-2 a month or so and go through them.
The to-see list includes Constantine, Planet of the Apes, The Abyss, Kill Bill, Iron Man. Probably a few more I'll think of or remember if I start looking.
I didn't know much about it except that I'd wanted to see it in the theatre those years ago. It's a dark comedy. The story of a con man mall Santa and his midget assistant who case out the stores they work in each Christmas season while planning to rob the store and crack the safe. The Santa character is a messy drunk and rude to the kids.
The movie was funny in parts with some crude and slapstick humour. Especially the scene when Santa comes to work drunk, falls over the display, then punches out the paper mache reindeer in a fit of paranoia.
The ending was pretty well done and I'm glad I saw it. I don't think I'd got a movie for myself at the library before. There are a few more movies like this one I wanted to see in the theatre but didn't for whatever reason so maybe I'll take out 1-2 a month or so and go through them.
The to-see list includes Constantine, Planet of the Apes, The Abyss, Kill Bill, Iron Man. Probably a few more I'll think of or remember if I start looking.
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