Wildlife Sighting

I gotta say, that looks damn good.

3, 2, 1, Go, Boom

This is a lot more entertaining than you'd expect for an interview between a wrestler and an action director.
Possibly the most amusing trailer of the year. Doubt that reflects on the explosions-aplenty final product, but still fun.

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Rebel Yell

I know, I know, I've been away.
I'm working at a different gig for March so posting going to be light to non-existent.
But let me make it up to you with this.
See it for yourself here.

FUN CANCER AND CONVERSATIONALISTS (One Week and Pontypool)

Just a quick note to say if you're not up for Giant Naked Blue Men there's a number of other good movies in theatres.

I already raved about Pontypool. It's open now. Cerebral horror flick. The best kind.

Also in theatres is One Week staring Joshua Jackson. I wanted to mention this, because the movie is fighting an uphill battle.

Yes, it's a movie about a guy with terminal cancer. Yes he gets on his motorbike and rides West, across Canada.

But here's the thing...
It's good.
Wry, surprising and not as sentimental as you think.
Josh does a nice job and the narration by Campbell Scott is really what sells it.

Give it a second chance, i think you'll be surprised.

Eyes Wide Shut (The Watchmen movie)

Oy.
How's that for a review?

Ahem.

Well, since I'm working at Q this month I wont be doing my regular movie column.

But you can tune in this Saturday on The World This Weekend on CBC for thoughts on Watchmen, superhero cinema and future of spandex on screen.

Now, the hour is late, so let me leave you with a few brief thoughts on the film.

Too literal. Full Frontal. Too slow (motion.) Action? Sure. Pathos? Not so much.

Not every book makes a great movie and not ever comic works on the big screen. Terry Gilliam had the rights to the Watchmen once. He gave them up, because he realized what made it work as a comic book wouldn't survive the translation.

It is one thing to see Rorschach mumble and mutter on the page. But hearing him rant about commies and whores on the big screen, in a growl that would give Christian Bale a run for his money...well, film is not that forgiving. Especially when it seems the director has a near-religious reverence for the source material.

The orignal Watchmen was a slow march to a cliff, a wry look at the men and women under the mask, told by comic book fans tired of writing funny books.

The movie is a love letter to the original, where director Zack Snyder drowns any depth with his own fetish for slow motion shots and shattering femurs.

The book is all there on the screen, except it's not.



Well I had predicted this. Although, the past couple weeks as the day approached, I allowed myself to hope that I was wrong. I wasn't.

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Another dance video to enjoy. Mmmm retro arcadey.