rating: **** out of 5
quick shot: continuing the revenge story of the bride from kill bill volume i.
what i liked about the film: slightly different tone from the first movie. i like the dialog an interaction between bill and the bride towards the end of the movie.
what i didn’t like: the audience members who didn’t realize movie’s contain dialog. yeah, this volume is more talk-y then the first but give me a break…it’s tarantino!
rating: ***1/2 out of 5
quick shot: smartly written tina fey comedy. a cut above your average teenager movie.
what i liked about the movie: the way it treated most kids with some intelligence. i also liked that the adults weren’t totally oblivious either. smart script all around.
what i didn’t like: the movie bogged down a third of the way through, though it picked up in the end.
rating: *** out of 5
quick shot: men at sea battling a faceless (for most of the movie) enemy, and amongst themselves. you can feel the isolation at sea, and the camaraderie the crew feels. russell crowe leads by example and charisma.
what i liked about the movie: the chemistry between crowe, bettany (who plays the ship’s doctor) and crew was very good. the chase and battle scenes were excellent.
what i didn’t like: the movie felt a little lengthy. i think it could have lost about 15 to 20 minutes and still been effective.
speakers on! - [cool flash animation find] courtesy of lotte.
rating: **1/2 out of 5
quick shot: jack and diane try to find love at there age! overall good story of may-december romance and how it works for both genders. the writing is good, though gives up in the last ten minutes of the film.
what i liked about the movie: jack and diane have good chemistry in the film. i like the fact that they bared more than their emotions in the film.
what i didn’t like: keanu is as wooden as ever. again, the ending is predictable but satisfying i suppose.
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rating: **** out of 5
quick shot: a tale of bloody revenge tarantino style. loved the bloody brutality mixed in with the animation and poppin’ tarantino dialog.
what i liked about the movie: the bloody mess. the fight scene with the cray 88’s was cool.
what i didn’t like: that i didn’t see this movie in the theater. thank g. for dvd, but still would have been nice to see it on the screen.
i’ve been wavering on whether to take the plunge to go to satellite tv. cable has been good to me for so long, having it here in california since 1992. but lately i’ve been looking at the cable bill, which has grown from $43/month to now a whopping $80/month since 1997 with only minor channel upgrades. so when fina and lotte went with satellite and relayed a good experience, plus with farrah’s family being on satellite for about five years, i thought i was time to take the plunge.
the experience started off really well. i called saturday to order this dish, which would be installed a week after the coming monday. i received a call just a couple of hours later saying, “hey we can come out today if you’d like to install it.” fantastic. ninety minutes later the cable boxes were out and satellite was installed.
i must say the picture is clearer and the movement between channels is much quicker than digital cable. i also got the tivo unit for the bedroom (called directivo) since the tivo saori and doug gave us wasn’t ‘as compatible’ with satellite as cable. the cool thing about the directivo is that you either (1) watch one show while taping another or (2) tape two shows at the same time (but having to watch one of them if you want to watch the tele). cool huh?
so the advantages are so far are:
downsides
so far the good outweighs the bad. talk to me during the raining season to see how the dish fares. in the meantime i think it is a wise investment.
pics posted from my b-day weekend. some are missing (on purposes of course ;) other pics are viewable on fina’s gallery at
just got back from yosemite, where farrah and i spent about three days. i’ll have a few pictures to post from the digital camera later this week. we only took a few film pictures for some reason.
never heard of it before, but i guess moblogs are the next big thing [cnet article] a moblog is a mobile blog (i guess) in which you can post pictures taken by your mobile phone. then you share the pics and comment as you like in a blog.
might want to check out [textamerica] for an example.
watch [uniform] a short film with jerry seinfeld and superman. the film requires macromedia’s flash.
i’m a batman person myself, but this little bit is slightly funny.
