Oblivion

Moon + Coma + The Matrix + The Borg + Terminator and the Hal 9000 thrown in for good measure.








Tom Cruise being every action hero he's been, except not Minority Report.  This movie builds over the first hour and 12 minutes, desolate scenery, character building, world building, and you think, "Wow, this is gonna be amazing", and then it's not.   I'm a big fan of sci-fi and action and I am more than willing to forgive giant holes and nods to other movies and actors phoning it in, but this was such a direct rip off of Moon with Time Machine and The Matrix jumbled in that it actually pissed me off.  The last 45 minutes of the movie was a big rush to blow things up and then they pulled one of those M. Night "surprise!" deux ex machina dick moves and I ended up  screaming at the screen and cursing the director, who as it happens, was also the writer, go figure.  Seriously, this could have been a great sci-fi movie even with the ripping off of the other movies, but Hollywood needs to stop giving these guys carte blanche and they need to start putting money into training editors who edit scripts and the film itself.  They need to stop letting these guys operate in either the vacuum or the echo chamber.  It's like the author's of successful series who decide that they don't need an editor any more for publishing and every precious word or idea is a perfect flower.  It's not.  It's ego.  And they need to check it at the gate and give us good writing again.

P.S. I Love You

Poor man's Julia Roberts surrounded by fake Irish accents.


or


To Gillian on her 37th Birthday remake with roles reversed








This could have been a cute little tear-jerker flick but there is absolutely NO chemistry between Swank and any of the cast except Bates who plays her mom.  This is coming from someone who likes bad romantic dramedies.  I actually turned is off halfway thru because facebook was more entertaining.

Sinister

Ethan Hawke playing himself letting his demons ruin another marriage.


or


Idea from a dinner napkin, never fleshed out...

Bitten

So Jay of "Jay and Silent Bob" gets a job as a paramedic and rescues a junkie who turns into a vampire.  

Feh.

Coffee Review - Grove Square

I use this mostly as a movie review site, but on occasion other things are reviewed, like the GOP.  Today I was to talk about coffee.

I like coffee in just about any incarnation.  The smell of it reminds me of my dad and growing up in the bay area, and the sun in the kitchen where my german shepherd used to sleep.

I'll drink drip, percolated, pressed, diner, specialty.  Doesn't matter.

Last year my husband decided that my brewing 12 cups in the percolator was "wasting" coffee (Uh, HELLO iced coffee) so he started looking at the one shot devices. We borrowed his mother's Phillips pod brewer.  The thing never stopped smelling like melted plastic and hot electronic elements.

I researched other brewers and we got a Keurig at BJs Club for $139.99.  It came with a selection of coffees to try as well as a little device to pack your own coffee and brew.

So, I was in W*****t two days ago and picked up a box of coffee because we were running low.  They had a brand I hadn't seen before, Grove Square, it was $2 cheaper than our usual Gloria Jeans or Green Mountain, so I figured we'd give it a shot.

Ever drink Taster's Choice Instant?  Yup, you guessed it, 50 cents per cup for instant coffee to be brewed in my "instant" coffee maker.  

I am not amused.

True Bloodsuckers

Typical syfy fare. Bonus fake Brits and Aussies tossed it to make the vampires seem "older".

Unhitched

Lost his mojo and there is no one to help him get it back except Seth Green doing a bad Liverpool accent.

The Green Hornet

The Green Hornet

A "Knocked Up" "Pineapple Express" makes you feel sorry for  the sidekick.