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Review: Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
Posted by Mark | Filed under Movies, Reviews
What a wretched, steaming pile of poo this movie was. Two thumbs all the way down. The wacky, over-the-top stupidity of the script turned what should have been a fun night at the movies into a constant groan fest as things went from bad to worse to crap. I’d been warned off the film by […]
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Cloverfield
Posted by Mark | Filed under Elsewhere, Movies, Reviews
Like others in this thread, I didn’t care for the camera shake. It wasn’t bad enough to make me leave the theater but it definitely made me queasy. As for the storyline to the movie.… meh. While most of the characters had a good line or two; I didn’t them. Any of them. In fact, […]
Borne Ultimatum
Posted by Mark | Filed under Elsewhere, Movies
First movie had little to no shaky cam. Second movie had enough to annoy me and trigger my wife’s motion sickness. I guess I’ll be renting the third movie some day when the wife’s not around then. Thanks for the warning Les! In response to SEB 30 Second Movie Reviews: “The Borne Ultimatum.” by Les.
The Dark Is Rising
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Movies
The Dark Is Rising sequence is a set of 5 books1 written by Susan Cooper between 1965 and 1977. It is without question my favorite series of books from when I was younger and it is also now being made into a movie. More acurately, the second book in the series is being made into […]
Recent Movie Rentals
Posted by Mark | Filed under Movies, Reviews
Stranger Than Fiction, directed by: Marc Forster Mark’s Rating: 5 out of 5 When I originally saw the ads and trailers for this movie, I knew I would want to rent it1. I figured it would be a couple of hours of silliness and that would be it. I never expected that I’d want to add […]
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