Thursday, December 20, 2007 Rant Archive
Hello and happy holidays to all you ranters out there. My name is Jennifer Larson, and I am a freelance writer. That’s actually my part-time job; my full-time job is as a college student at California State Northridge, where I am pursuing my degree in Communication Studies. After living in Cancun, Mexico for six years and traveling the world, thanks to a job with the airlines, for the next ten years, I decided I better get cracking on becoming a responsible adult, so off to school I went. My passion in life is watching TV. I’ve been fascinated with it ever since I saw my first episode of The Electric Company. That being said, let’s get to my best of/worst of list.
Let’s get to the main point right away: STEEP is one of the most exciting, heart-in-your-throat, films your likely to see. Ever. It is a documentary about extreme skiing, about people so obsessed with a sport that taking a lift to the top of a double black diamond run is not enough. They physically climb mountains so they can schuss where no one has ever schussed before. They live life on the edge – figuratively and literally (as skiers know). And because this is a documentary, there are no computer-generated special effects.
The first trailer for
HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY hit the web
today, right on the heels of some great new pics from the film, which hit the web earlier this
week. After viewing the trailer, I can tell you that director Guillermo Del Toro has set a new bar for himself brining the fantastic (and terrifying) creatures of the underworld to life for the sequel. Looks like HELLBOY II is going to give us everything we liked about the original and then some. Sweet.
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Quite frankly why I (and I presume at least some of you) approached THE SIMPSONS MOVIE with a touch of trepidation. After more than 400 episodes, over 200 hours, was there anything left to say? And, if there was, was it worth stretching it out to 87 minutes? Finally there is the question posed by Homer Simpson himself: what knucklehead would pay to get into see something that they get ever week at home?
This is a movie I actually enjoy, but the people I watched it with absolutely disagree with me and think I am an idiot. For the record I do not disagree with them at all, but I cannot help but be amused with this neo-noir film. It’s set in a Southern California high school. Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a high school junior, gets a frantic call from his ex-girlfriend flipping out at him, and then she mysteriously fades away. Eventually, she tracks him down and she says that she wants him to let her go because she’s gotten in too deep.
It turns out that Dan (Kevin McKidd) And Livia (Moon Bloodgood) may have some company in their time-travels. In tonight’s episode of JOURNEYMAN, Dan meets up with another time-traveler, whom he agrees to help reunite with a past love. Now this actually threw me for a loop, after watching Monday night’s episode. If you remember, a psychic told Dan that he was born on an extremely mystical and spiritual day, and that only one other date in history packed such a wallop
Some sequels are inevitable, due to money or, very rarely, story requirements. In the case of THE GODFATHER, the original made such a splash that a sequel was approved before filming on the first installment wrapped. Fortunately, Mario Puzo’s novel was so rich that making a sequel made sense story-wise, and so Francis Ford Coppola and Puzo managed to do the unlikely: whip up a second installment in the Corleone saga that was just as good as the first.