Notice it’s been 666 days since Katrina made landfall and the levees broke? In our upside-down world, perhaps this is the day things start to look up for New Orleans. Or when Keanu Reeves falls out of the sky and buys a house in the French Quarter.
Speaking of movies, here are some I’ve experienced lately:
1. Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Some Disney-esque fluff for the kiddies, but mostly worth the price of admission. Much darker and funnier than 1 and 2 combined. Tests patience in spots (to the point where you want all characters double-triple-quadruple-crossed and killed). Jack the monkey, not the pirate, steals the show.
2. The Machinist Two hours of my life that I will regretfully never get back. The otherwise respectable Christian Bale lost copious amounts of weight for nothing, and should have advised the movie’s makers to wield a machete on the entire middle half of the tedious screenplay.
3. Barnyard Four words – Bulls don’t have udders. The entire state of Wisconsin should boycott this movie.
4. Babylon 5: The Lost Tales – Voices in the Dark Hey, Athenae, check this out! Movie coming soon – trailer here. Not enough no Mira Furlan and too much Peter Woodward from initial observations, but swoon, I say, swoon!
No Mira Furlan at all – she wasn’t asked to be in the project.
Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins and Peter Woodward are the only actors previously associated with Babylon 5/Crusade who are in “The Lost Tales”.
No Mira Furlan?! I’m crushed. There’d better be some decent Centauri-Narn action then.
The udder thing has been driving me crazy as well. Thankfully the kids have moved on and don’t want to watch it everyday now. It somehow got deleted from the DVR. How’d that happen?