Last night Kish and I were watching TV and saw the preview for the next Adam Sandler movie, That’s My Boy. The preview made the movie look like the worst movie in the world — which is about par for the course for Adam Sandler movie previews. They’re uniformly awful, and when the latest Adam [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Movies’
The Worst Previews In The World
Posted in Humor, Movies, tagged Adam Sandler, France, Happy Gilmore, Humor, Jerry Lewis, Movie Previews, Movies, That's My Boy on May 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A Quick Billion Dollars For The Avengers
Posted in America, Movies, World, tagged America, Escapist Movies, Europe, Iron Man, Movies, Scarlett Johansson, Summer Movies, The Avengers, The Hulk, World on May 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s obvious that The Avengers has struck a chord with me, and with movie audiences generally. Only three weeks after its release, it has racked up an impressive $1 billion in box-office receipts. Imagine — $1 billion. Even by today’s standards, that is a huge amount of money. What is it about this movie that [...]
Kasey The Escape Artist
Posted in Dogs, Family, Humor, Kasey, Movies, tagged Dogs, Family, Harry Houdini, Humor, Kasey, Movies, Steve McQueen, The Great Escape on May 13, 2012 | 2 Comments »
We’ve discovered that Kasey is the Harry Houdini of dogs. We keep Penny and Kasey in crates overnight because I’m not keen on sleeping with dogs. Kasey, however, has figured out how to get out of one of the crates. This morning when I came down to take the dogs for our walk she was [...]
Avengers Assemble!
Posted in Movies, tagged Captain America, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Loki, Movies, Superheroes, The Avengers, The Blck Widow, The Hulk, Thor on May 5, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Last night Kish and I decided to go see The Avengers. She hated it, I loved it. And, based on the reaction of the packed theater that watched the movie with us, I’d say the majority shared my reaction. Let’s not kid ourselves. Movies about superheroes probably aren’t going to be intellectually challenging. You’re not [...]
Into The Scary i-Real World Of The Future
Posted in America, Humor, Movies, tagged America, Car Shows, cars, Humor, i-Real, Laziness, Movies, Toyota, WALL-E on May 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
If you like motor vehicles (and what red-blooded American doesn’t?) you probably take a greedy peek now and then at the concept cars the automakers unveil at the annual auto shows. The Beijing auto show just ended — that’s right, Detroit, the Beijing auto show — and it featured the standard weird cars and high-heeling [...]
The Avengers Tear Up Cleveland (Cont.)
Posted in Movies, Ohio, tagged Cleveland, Iron Man, Movies, Ohio, Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, The Avengers, Thor on May 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The Avengers movie opens this weekend. As I reported last summer, it was filmed, in part, in Cleveland, so I’m hoping it does well. This trailer makes the movie look like must-viewing. Samuel L. Jackson in an eye patch? Awesome. Robert Downey, Jr. reprising Iron Man, and getting into the obligatory, caused-by-a-mutual misunderstanding fight with [...]
Why Can’t Life Be Like Beach Blanket Bingo?
Posted in Humor, Movies, tagged Annette Funicello, Beach Blanket Bingo, Frankie Avalon, Humor, Moondoggy, Movies, Twisting on April 27, 2012 | 6 Comments »
It was a long, grueling day at the office today. As I walked to my car afterward, the sun hanging low in the sky, I noticed a bunch of swimsuit-wearing young people throw down blankets and start twisting furiously, while Frankie and Annette gave each other a split-second, soulless, sexless kiss, a chorus sang of [...]
The National World War II Museum
Posted in America, Movies, Travel, World, tagged America, Beyond All Boundaries, Higgins Boats, Movies, Museums, National World War II Museum, New Orleans, Travel, World on April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
New Orleans is home to the National World War II Museum. It’s an effort to remember and recognize the significance of a war that increasingly is being forgotten, with the passage of time and the passing of those who fought in history’s greatest conflict. The annual meeting I’m attending had a dinner at the Museum. [...]
Khaaaan!
Posted in Movies, tagged James T. Kirk, Khan, Movies, Star Trek, Star Trek sequel, William Shatner on April 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’m waiting for the new Star Trek movie. It’s apparently being filmed, but the producer and director are keeping everything tightly under wraps — the better to surprise us when the movie is finally released, they say. So, I’ll have to wait a while to see the new Star Trek 2 — whatever it might [...]
Time For Some Stoogemania!
Posted in Humor, Movies, tagged Curly, Humor, Larry, Moe, Movies, The Three Stooges Movie, Three Stooges on March 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Now that the Buckeyes have made it to the Sweet Sixteen, it’s time to focus for a minute on other important topics — like the fact that a Three Stooges movie is being released this spring. What do you think the chances are that I can get a refined person like Kish to go watch [...]
The First Ultimate Fighter
Posted in Movies, tagged King Kong, Movies, UFC, Ultimate Fighting, Willis O'Brien on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’m kegling in the firm bowling tournament tonight, and to get primed for the brutal, intense competition I decided to watch one of the great film fights of all time — King Kong versus a Tyrannosaurus Rex, as depicted in the original King Kong. Released in 1933 — almost 80 years ago — the movie [...]
The Arnold At The Arnold
Posted in Art, Columbus, Humor, Movies, Photography, tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Sports Festival, Art, Columbus, Humor, Movies, Photography, Public Art, Statues, The Terminator on March 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Columbus has a new statue, and it’s a whopper. Yesterday — with the Arnold Sports Festival in full swing — the City dedicated this colossal rendering of Arnold Schwarzenegger. It’s located outside the Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, where many of the Arnold events are held, just across the river from downtown Columbus. The statue is a [...]
Lessons Of The Lunar Nazis
Posted in Books, Movies, TV, World, tagged Books, Fatherland, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Inglourious Basterds, Iron Sky, Movies, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Star Trek, TV, World, World War II on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The hottest ticket at this year’s Berlin Film Festival is a self-proclaimed “B Movie” called Iron Sky. Its consciously over-the-top plot features Nazis trying to conquer Earth from a swastika-shaped base on the far side of the moon. I doubt Iron Sky will ever make it to our local multiplex cinema, but the movie’s popularity [...]
Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Posted in America, Movies, tagged 9/11, America, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close, John Goodman, Max von Sydow, Movies, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Viola Davis on January 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I wasn’t sure I was ready to see Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close. Even though 10 years have passed, 9/11 still is a very raw and difficult memory. The film is about a New York City family’s response to a 9/11 loss that leaves a gaping void in their lives — but it is about [...]
Contraband
Posted in Movies, tagged Contraband, Giovanni Ribisi, Heist Movies, Mark Wahlberg, Movies on January 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last night Kish and I wanted to see a movie. I felt like an action movie, so we went to see Contraband. Contraband is about smuggling. Mark Wahlberg plays Chris Farraday, formerly the world’s greatest smuggler but now trying to go legit. His plans for a law-abiding life go awry when his inept brother-in-law has [...]
