The Lake House
I loved The Lake House. It's romantic and magical and beautifully filmed.
Parting Glances
Many years ago, I watched and read my way through an awful lot of Mona Ramsey's recs. And many of them were not so good. But I liked Parting Glances, and I wanted to see it again. It's still pretty good, although the actual picture quality is iffy. ( Spoilers/Review )
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
You might have loved the first one and forgotten by now how bad the second one is and thus think you want to see the third one. You would be wrong. This movie is bad. Bad, bad, bad.
( Spoilers/Review )
X-Men: The Last Stand
Unlike the rest of you, I knew this was bad from the start. ( Spoilers/Review )
I see basically two options to fix the X-Men movie franchise.
Option 1: Reboot. Seriously. Just start all over. Pretend the first three movies never happened and make a new X-Men movie. You can keep Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, but everyone else has to go, especially Halle Berry. This is not because I personally find Halle Berry to be not that attractive, but because her Storm is all wrong. She's way too warm and normal. Storm should be colder, distant, and much more otherworldly. She should feel things deeply but not really know how to express it.
Option 2: AU. Bring in Legion and bring on the Age of Apocalypse. That would make an awesome movie.
Tall, Dark & Dead
I loved Lyda Morehouse's AngeLINK series. It's one of my most highly recommended set of books. So when her new book, Tall, Dark & Dead (under the alias Tate Hallaway, which I assume she picked because it'll put her near Laurell K. Hamilton on the shelf if anyone files it under sci fi/fantasy instead of romance), came out, I picked up a copy. I found the book horribly disappointing. It's extremely thin on plot, which would be okay if there were more sex, but there isn't much of that either. Overall, you can just tell she's trying too hard. This week I read Karen Chance's Touch the Dark, which is just chock full of plot.
I loved The Lake House. It's romantic and magical and beautifully filmed.
Parting Glances
Many years ago, I watched and read my way through an awful lot of Mona Ramsey's recs. And many of them were not so good. But I liked Parting Glances, and I wanted to see it again. It's still pretty good, although the actual picture quality is iffy. ( Spoilers/Review )
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
You might have loved the first one and forgotten by now how bad the second one is and thus think you want to see the third one. You would be wrong. This movie is bad. Bad, bad, bad.
( Spoilers/Review )
X-Men: The Last Stand
Unlike the rest of you, I knew this was bad from the start. ( Spoilers/Review )
I see basically two options to fix the X-Men movie franchise.
Option 1: Reboot. Seriously. Just start all over. Pretend the first three movies never happened and make a new X-Men movie. You can keep Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, but everyone else has to go, especially Halle Berry. This is not because I personally find Halle Berry to be not that attractive, but because her Storm is all wrong. She's way too warm and normal. Storm should be colder, distant, and much more otherworldly. She should feel things deeply but not really know how to express it.
Option 2: AU. Bring in Legion and bring on the Age of Apocalypse. That would make an awesome movie.
Tall, Dark & Dead
I loved Lyda Morehouse's AngeLINK series. It's one of my most highly recommended set of books. So when her new book, Tall, Dark & Dead (under the alias Tate Hallaway, which I assume she picked because it'll put her near Laurell K. Hamilton on the shelf if anyone files it under sci fi/fantasy instead of romance), came out, I picked up a copy. I found the book horribly disappointing. It's extremely thin on plot, which would be okay if there were more sex, but there isn't much of that either. Overall, you can just tell she's trying too hard. This week I read Karen Chance's Touch the Dark, which is just chock full of plot.