RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER
Going to take the kiddies to see this one on Saturday or Sunday. I’m wondering how the movie handles the world-devouring Galactus that I remember from my childhood of thumbing through Marvel comic books.
It occurred to me that Stan Lee ( along with the late sci-fi writer, Philip K. Dick, another example)may go down as one of the great, unintentionally prolific, screenplay writers.
BEWARE THE MAN IN BLACK
Took the kids to see Spiderman III which had great potential and some high points but frittered it’s energies away on too many villains, jumbled plotlines and a multitude of character vignettes crammed in to an overly long film. The drift toward campy humor, while amusing, indicatesdthe series needs to take a good, long, rest before it starts to resemble “Predator vs. Alien” or “ROCKY IX: THE PROSTATE SURGERY”.
Even the young Son of Zenpundit, who lives, eats, breathes and sleeps all things Spider-Man, had enough by about the first hour and a half.
LONG LIVE THE KING
Outstanding performance by Forrest Whittaker in his interpretation of the devious, charming, sociopathic, brutally murderous General Idi Amin Dada’s descent into paranoia and state terror.
2007: YEAR OF THE GUY MOVIE
First, Frank Miller’s 300 was a smash hit over the fierce objections of the chick-flick Left. Now, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse is coming.
300
My review of Frank Miller’s 300 – ” Then we will fight in the shade” – is posted at Chicago Boyz.
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