I recently renewed my Netflix account after having it on hold for a number of months, and have thus watched a fair number of movies in the past few weeks. A few thoughts on each:
Night of the Living Dead
The game Left 4 Dead was actually the reason I watched this movie; I bought the game [...]
Movies
Russians, science fiction, and zombies
Movie Update: Bourne Supremacy and The Kite Runner
If you’ve not seen Bourne Supremacy, you might want to skip the bit on it; there are a few spoilers.
Bourne Supremacy
After really liking Bourne Identity, I was quite looking forward to this. I ended up not liking Supremacy nearly as much, though, partly because I felt as if I’d been misled. The blurb for Supremacy [...]
Catching up on missed movies
I signed up for Netflix last week so I can start catching up on the dozens (and dozens) of movies I’ve wanted to watch but never got around to; I’ve always been pretty awful about watching movies as they come out. I signed up partly due to school. In my Middle Eastern Film class, we [...]
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
I’m not a big movie buff. When people ask me if I’ve seen such and such movie that recently came out, probably 98% of the time, my answer is something like “What was the title? No, I’ve never even heard of it.” I don’t really follow what’s been released lately, and I certainly don’t go [...]
The Dark Knight – Not As Good As I Expected
As a slightly late birthday present, my older nephew (don’t ask) took me out for dinner and a movie. We watched The Dark Knight. I’d been looking forward to seeing it, as everyone and their dog has been telling me how great it was; I wish they hadn’t, because I was ultimately let down a [...]
