Grindhouse

Let's see: I love Quentin Tarantino's movies. I love that he combines badass, testosterone-pumping action with foul-mouth shittalking that sounds like Shakespeare if Shakespeare was a Blaxsploitation character with tourettes and chick characters who managed to be interesting to both the males (read hot) and females (read will fuck up a dude) in the audience.

And y'know, I really dig Roberto Rodriguez, even though he was directly responsible for that week in 1999 that I considered selling my body to science. Sin City is, in my opinion, the best comic book movie ever made. Forget 300: I have four words for you — Mickey Rourke as Marv. Really, adaptations just don't get any better than that. And I've always respected Rodriguez for telling the Hollywood machine to go fuck itself and building himself a studio in Austin, Tx, to make his movie the way he wanted to make them.

That said, I'm really not sure that I'm up for Grindhouse - if this review from AintItCool.com is anything to go by, I'm at least one Y chromosome, if not two, short of the required amount to enjoy this movie.

10 Opinions

1) The Illusionist was a better movie about magic and stage magicians than The Prestige.

2) Even if The Prestige didn't give away the ending 2/3rds of the way through the movie, it would still be a half-hour too long and far too obvious.

3) I like George and Izzie together on Grey's Anatomy. Then again, I've been expecting them to get together since the pilot episode.

4) I think jumping Veronica Mars four or five years into the future to her experiences as a rookie FBI agent is a brilliant idea and exactly what Rob Thomas should have done at the end of the second season.

5) Jason Dohring is a lovely actor but Logan is a spoilt, self-absorbed wastrel - getting smacked around by your dad does not excuse being an asshole, no matter how big and soulful your brown eyes are.

6) Sin City is a better adaptation of a Frank Miller comic than 300.

7) Beowulf and Grendel is a better bad Gerard Butler movie than 300.

8) 300 is a bad movie - yes, $161,706,146 in ticket sales can be wrong - see Revenge of the Sith.

9) Battlestar Galactica has serious problems turning out a coherent full season of episodes and season three is the weakest yet, last two episodes included.

10) Batman could totally take Buffy.

Three More Opinions

1) The season finale of Battlestar Galactica was better than the series finale of Rome, which suffered from trying to fit the climax of a major storyline (the Wars of the Second Triumvirate) and all the assorted character bits into a single hour.

2) "All Along the Watchtower" was an assinine choice for the season finale of BSG. Admittedly, Bear McCreary already broke down the illusion that BSG was about an un-Earthly civilization when he introduced the Adama Family Squabble Ullieann Pipe Chorus but Dylan? That was lame, Ron.

3) I was reading Heather Havrilesky's review of "Rome" on Salon - can someone please tell me when ignorance became some sort of virtue? "Who knew"? Fuck off - the creation of the Roman Empire is hardly some obscure footnote in world history and, frankly Heather, you don't sound cute when you write you were surprised by what happened to the historical characters used in the series, you sound like a cave-dwelling moron. I didn't realize being a TV critic necessitated never actually having read a book. Fool.

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On an unrelated topic, why are you staying up until 1:30 reading bad BSG fic? Nine months, baby, you should pace yourself. Seriously bad fanfic. Seriously, seriously bad - we're talking Mary Sue shit, here. And you realize you're talking to yourself in your LJ, right? And it's out-of-character bad Mary Sue fic. Seriously, this is like, the black tar heroin of fic - the first hit might not be so bad but then you're rolling around on the floor doing a Hendrix and it's adios muchachos... I need Aliens on DVD. Not that that has anything to do with anything but Colonial Marines. Get it? Damn... now I want Aliens/BSG x-over fic. Aliens vs. Cylons... damn, talk about some disappointed facehuggers... hmmm. Not as good, of course, as Cybermen versus Daleks. Nothing is as good as Cybermen versus Daleks. Daleks pwn!....