The great thing about Japanese TV is that when a Hollywood sequel is released in theaters, every previous movie is shown on TV. In the last few weeks, we got to enjoy all three of the previous Terminator movies.
So by the time I got to watch Terminator Salvation, I was able to get a [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘film’
July 11, 2009
Terminator Salvation
June 7, 2009
Angels and Demons: Decrypting Dan Brown’s Formula
Underwhelming But Entertaining
I recently watched Angels and Demons, the film adaptation of Dan Brown’s novel. Like The Da Vinci Code, I was a bit underwhelmed, but only because I had thoroughly enjoyed the novels. And invariably, what your imagination invokes from words is a much more personally compelling endeavor than what someone else [...]
September 3, 2008
The Dark Knight
Dark. Dark. Dark. Dark Knight is a study of the evil in everyone. The center of the story is the Joker. I searched in vain for anything resembling Heath Ledger, the actor who played the Joker, and found only a soul in shambles, a horror show of lost humanity.
Batman in comparison is [...]
August 4, 2008
The Spiderwick Chronicles
On the plane ride over the Pacific there were no individual TV screens. This made me not watch 3 movies, play video games, and stay up for the whole flight. I didn’t even read anything or write. I closed my eyes and slept. That was new. It also helped that [...]
July 19, 2008
Apocalypto
Apocalypto is the story of a young Mayan tribesman, Jaguar Paw, whose village is destroyed and the villagers killed or taken captive by a party of fierce raiders led by the intimidating Zero Wolf and taunted by the cruel, menacing Middle Eye. Because of a recent plague and drought we discover that the men [...]
