Archive for February, 2009
February 26, 2009
What I Liked:
- As much as I gush over Michael Emerson (Ben) and Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), Terry Quinn is really the best actor on Lost and this episode was essentially his Emmy reel. There are two great kinds of Locke performances Quinn gives: confident Locke and wavering Locke and it’s been awhile since we’ve seen wavering Locke.
- We finally got to hear Charles Widmore’s version of the Linus vs. Widmore battle although neither are being completely honest. (Speaking of that, watch this video)
What I Didn’t Like:
- If it wasn’t for Quinn’s performance and a couple of shocks, this episode could have been filed under the “stuff we already knew”
- I get the feeling that this is the last we’ve seen of Walt which is good because the kid obviously stopped going to his acting lessons but does that mean the ‘Walt is special” questions are never going to be answered.
Lines of the Night:
- “I remember dying” – Locke
- “They’re not The Others to me; they’re my people.” – Charles Widmore
- “…There’s a war coming, John, and if you’re not back on the island when that happens, the wrong side is going to win.” – Widmore to Locke about why he is important
- “Your parents had a sense of humor when they named you.” – Widmore to Locke
- ”Have you ever stopped to consider that these delusions that you’re ’special’ aren’t real? That you’re a lonely old man who crashed on an Island?’ – Jack to Locke regarding Locke’s “specialness”
- “Your father says ‘Hello’” – Locke to Jack
- “He didn’t look dead to me.” – Locke to Jack regarding Christian
- “I’ll miss you John — I really will” – Ben to Locke’s body
- “Do you know him?” “He’s the man who killed me.” -Caesar and Locke regarding Ben
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February 25, 2009
From an interview in Wired Magazine:
I think that a lot of people, irrespective of whether they’d ever read a book like Watchmen, took it basically as a form of license. I think there were a surprising number of people out there who secretly longed to keep up with the adventures of Green Lantern but who felt they would have been socially ostracized if they had been seen reading a comic book in a public place. With the advent of books like Watchmen, I think these people were given license by the term graphic novel. Everybody knew that comics were for children and for intellectually subnormal people, whereas graphic novel sounds like a much more sophisticated proposition.
That sounds like the kind of thing a 30-year-old—or a 40-year-old, even—could be caught reading on the tube, upon the subway, without embarrassment. When I started work for DC Comics, I figured that my readership was probably somewhere between—they’d previously been 9 to 13 years old, and now they were around 13 to 18. The average age of the audience now for comics, and this has been the case since the late 1980s, probably is late thirties to early fifties—which tends to support the idea that these things are not being bought by children. They’re being bought in many cases by hopeless nostalgics or, putting the worst construction on it, perhaps cases of arrested development who are not prepared to let their childhoods go, no matter how trite the adventures of their various heroes and idols
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February 25, 2009
I’m always so amzed by how these stop-motion animations movies are made to the point that I’m distracted for the first 15-30 minutes in a “Wow” trance.
Having read and been a hug fan of the book, I’m glad they were able to keep a lot of the creepiness of the book but not so much so that it wouldn’t be watchable by a child (although the adult I went with jumped a couple of times).
This is definatelty my favorite adapation of a Neil Gaiman book.
Maybe Henry Selick can do Sandman.
Definitely watch it in 3D if you can because it looks beautiful (although I think this is the last week for 3D with that Jonas Brothers concert movie coming out. Why does THAT need to be in 3D?)
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February 24, 2009
Kill Count: 14 (+1)
Well, thank God this part of the story is over. Dubaku was never a worthy adversary for Bauer and Co. Now, it’s Candyman time!
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February 19, 2009
What I Liked:
- The gang is back together on the island!
- I was worried we’d spend another 2 episodes of Jack trying to re-convince the Oceanic Six to join him on the plane but nope. Everyone just mysteriously showed up
- The way the episodes have been structured this season, they work much better when they focus on the island folks OR the Oceanic Six as opposed to flashing back and forth
- Ms Hawking’s Dharma information dump since it seems this might be the last time we see her
- The sexy Zuleikha Robinson (Federal Marshall Illana who accompanied Sayid) has arrived. I kinda love her
What I Didn’t Like:
- I missed the island folks (I hope this is the last time I’ll ever have to say that)
- We still don’t know how going back to the island is going to save everyone else
- A part of me feels like this episode was a little rushed but I am glad that we’re already back to the island
- We didn’t find out how Sayid and Hurley ended up on the plane but hopefully that will be rectified
- I loved that Hurley was reading a Spanish version of “Y The Last Man.” Brian K. Vaughn is one of the writers now
- I’m worried about Penny
Lines of the Night:
- “I wish… you had believed me.” – Locke’s suicide note to Jack
- “You say the island’s not done with me? Well, I’m done with the island.” – Desmond to Ms. Hawking
- “Is he telling the truth?” “Probably not” – Jack and Ms. Hawking regarding Ben
- “These people, they are just using us. They are playing some kind of game and we are just the pieces. Whatever she tells you to do, ignore it.” – Desmond to Jack regarding Ms. Hawking
- “We’re on the same plane, it doesn’t mean we are together.”- Kate
- “How can you be reading?” “My mother taught me.” – Jack and Ben on Aijira Airlines Flight 316
- “You tell me Jack—you’re the one who got to stay after school with Ms. Hawking.” – Ben to Jack
- “And the other people on this plane, what’s going to happen to them?” “Who cares?” – Jack and Ben
- We’re not going to Guam, are we?”- Frank Lapidus
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February 18, 2009
BADASS!
Imagine if Jack Bauer was retired and Kim Bauer went to France and was kidnapped by Albanians into the sex trade.
Imagine what he would do to everyone who got in his way and was associated with them.
Now imagine that movie starred Liam Neeson in Rob Roy-mode (sans the compassion) and was rated R (I watched the French DVD not the PG-13 re-edited US version).
That’s Taken.
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February 17, 2009
I am Super Agent Aaron Pierce. You should thank your lucky stars I exist
Kill Count: 13 (0)
Pretty ho-hum episode with a few revelations and the return of the greatest Secret Service agent to ever walk the Earth
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February 17, 2009
If this is Joquain Phoenix’s last film role, it would be a damn shame.
This was a great movie filled with great performances expescially Phoenix and Isabella Rossellini. Phoenix play Leonard, a manic-depressive who starts the movie trying to commit suicide. He’s clearly struggling to get by in every aspect of his life. You don’t get the impression that Leonard was written a particular way and that Phoenix infused him with little twitches and mannerisms.
He finds himself torn between two women, the safe comfortable woman who loves him despite himself, Sandra (Vinessa Shaw) and the unavailble exciting typical not-good-for-you woman, Michelle (Gwenyth Paltrow). It’s a love triangle that everyone should be familar with in their own life: the person who wants you vs. the person you want but doesn’t want you back.
You feel bad for Sandra who just wants to be with Leonard but you can see how alive Michelle makes him feel. It’s a screwd up situation but completely relatable.
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February 16, 2009
The greatest ZogSports winter football team to never win the championship (or a playoff game)
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