Category: Media
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How would you take this?
I regularly use Amazon’s “Recommendations” to drive my purchasing of movies and books. Today I log on and see that it seems to have updated my list; I guess they saw I wasn’t interested in certain things that were on there for a while so they put me through some different algorithm? Anyway, so I’m scrolling, scrolling and I come to Brokeback Mountain at…
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Movie: Hitch
I couldn’t wait for it to be over, but Caitlin insisted on seeing the end. With an R-rating it could have been really good a la Wedding Crashers, but instead it falls very short. The humor is weak, PG, and just plain too Will Smith’ish. I’ve never really liked the guy much… [b]3.6/10[/b] – Good idea, really poorly done
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Movie: Saw II
Not quite as good as the first one, but still a good mind f’r. The gruesome parts felt a bit forced whereas in the first one you were actually feeling the pain of the actors rather than just saying “ew.” Will there be a third? Who knows. I’m thinking there will be due to the open ending, but I’d hope not. They’re out of…
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S/He strikes again!
Remember this? Well, I just got this in my e-mail: So after an incident I had over the weekend, I decided to google the words “black woman, Land Rover, DC” and I came across your blog. All I have to say, is that I had just about the exact same incident happen to me last Friday night while in Adams Morgan. I was lucky…
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Movie: Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Both BJ and I had been told countless times from multiple that we had to see this. It looked campy, but I saw it on HBO and had nothing better to do so we watched it. I must say, I was wrong in my prejudgement. The movie is funny, has some crappy action scenes, Angelina is kinda hot, and overall it was an enjoyable…
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I had asparagus last night…
And today my pee smells funny. Why? Nobody is entirely sure.