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Sideways, Urban Legends 3: Bloody Mary

Sideways, a story on two middle-aged men traveling in the California wine country, has gathered lots of praise. And why not? It's certainly not a bad movie. Especially if you're a wine snob, you'll enjoy this one for sure.

The main characters are great. Paul Giamatti particularly does good work depicting Miles, a depressed wine snob and failed author. It's easy to feel sorry for Miles, he's such a sympathetic character. Which is exactly what Jack isn't - he's a really despicable guy. Once again they've made a good choice on actors: Thomas Haden Church, also known as Ned from the TV-series Ned & Stacey is just the guy for the role. He's nasty!

The movie's quite nice, if a bit long. Two hours is often a bit too much, and I wouldn't have minded this one being a bit shorter, too. The end is great, though. For wine-lovers, Sideways is a good choice and I'd say it's worth watching anyway.

Urban Legends 3: Bloody Mary was a piece of ... well, turkey, turkey gone bad. Expectations weren't high, but the previous Urban Legends movies were at least decent teen slasher movies. This wasn't.

The urban legend theme, which worked well in the previous movies, was really forced this time. Not good. Also, after seeing Ring and Grudge, the movie makers had to add a long-haired dead female monster in this one, too - it's a bit of a mix between those movies, and not even half as good as either of them. Forget about this one, it's not good even for laughs.

26.09.2005 klo 10:55 | Be the first to comment | TrackBack (0)

365 Tomorrows

Here's something pretty nifty: 365 Tomorrows is a project that publishes a new speculative fiction short story every day for a year. It started August 1st, so there'll be new stories coming until July 31st next year.

I just finished reading through the archives and I must say there's some pretty inspired stuff. Of course not all of them are brilliant or noteworthy, but there were few quite good ones in the mix. Go, read through them and see if you'll find them - I'm not giving any pointers so you can find your own favourites.

Using the RSS feed is a good way to keep updated on the new stuff. The RSS feed has the complete stories, so you don't even have to visit the site. Good work!

12.09.2005 klo 12:18 | Be the first to comment | TrackBack (0)

White Noise

Last night we watched White Noise. It's a horror flick, focusing on EVP, Electronic Voice Phenomena. The voices are, of course, the voices of the dead, trying to communicate to the living through electronic devices.

The idea was decent and the movie wasn't bad, about three star quality or so. Unfortunately, the end sucked. It's like they had simply failed to come up with a decent ending to the fairly interesting plot. Too bad, because the movie was decent. Well, it's still worth watching if you find the theme intriguing.

5.09.2005 klo 07:54 | Be the first to comment | TrackBack (0)