but...he's gay!

Revolving Madness

So last night I saw the movie Revolver with Jason Statham and Ray Liota. A pretty good movie if you like watching insane acid-trip-like movies. Honestly I did enjoy it even if it did confuse the hell out of me most of the time. I think it's one of those movies where the more you watch it, the more sense it makes. Plus, how often do you find a movie where Jason Statham has semi-long hair and a 70s porn mustache? Not very often I'll tell you that right now. This movie is a total mind fuck and I recommend it to people who would like to see a cross between Barton Fink, Ocean's 11 and The Sopranos. Also let us not forget that Andre 3000, a member of the band Outkast did a pretty good job in this movie as well. I give it a well-earned 8/10.

Game Crash

I just got home from seeing the movie Gamer. It wasn't all it was cracked up to be. It's obviously a movie targeted at male gamers. It basically involves two games, Society (which is incredibly similar to Second Life) and Slayers (like a real version of Call of Duty 4). Now I like Gerard Butler and Ludacris but this movie really wasn't great. Sure, the action was cool and I did enjoy the nudity but other than that the plot seemed flimsy and not very original. It's like some hollywood screenwriter took all gamers for murder-loving sexual deviants. Given there are some of those out there but that doesn't mean we should all be generalized like that. Also it seemed even more gender biased when you notice that they didn't show one female gamer and the one female character of the game dies shortly after we're introduced to her. So, in summary, this movie isn't really worth seeing in theaters, and not really worth renting either. It gets a 3/10.

Nicholson and Freeman Score some Buckets

I just got done from sitting down and watching a 2007 movie called The Bucket List. It stars Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman playing two guys who meet in a hospital, both of them with cancer. They make a list of things to do before they die. HBO labeled it as a comedy and, while I agree there are a few funny bits in it, I think it would be better described as a drama. The movie was very human, I could see this sort of thing happening, if it hasn't already. Both Nicholson and Freeman were both fantastic in the movie and I give it a well earned 10/10. If you don't at the very least feel sad at the end of the movie, you have no heart.