Bloggystyle -- The Greatest

Generally I go to see movies in the theaters about as often as renowned film critic Gene Siskel.

But I set some sort of personal record because I've seen 2 movies in theaters in like a 7 day period. Granted there were extenuating circumstances in each case.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

I saw this one mostly because I didn't have to pay a cent to see it, and I wasn't doing anything else. If the clique's not around and the only professional sporting event on television includes the Milwaukee Brewers, it's the "Pitts," bad pun very much intended.

Anyway, I hadn't heard anything about this movie except for the previews, but the plot was quite predictable. The dialogue was witty enough to keep me from falling asleep, and the action scenes were average enough.

The movie is 2 hours long or so, which was a good 20 minutes too much. No Homo Juelz Santana, the movie had way too little Vince Vaughn, and it would have had a whole lot more potential if we had restricted access so that mommy and daddy would have had to accompany 16 year olds.


Anyway the movie's going about as well as I expected until the last 15 minutes, which is the most outlandish, unbelievable sequence I think I have ever seen, even for an action movie.

Batman Begins


I've never been a fan of comics, or any of the well known superheroes. Not only that, but the Batman TV show was far and away the most overtly teh ghey television program of all time. God only knows what was going on in the Batmobile. And we know where the Ambiguously Gay Duo came from. No homo to this entire paragraph, if not this whole review.

Anyway I can't keep track of all the Batman movies, and I'm not even sure what the motivation was for making this movie. Since it's called Batman Begins, it starts with the origins of Bruce Wayne (what a gay name, nh) becoming Batman.

Maybe I'm not the best judge of a Batman film. It's not that I didn't like it, because it was pretty good. But it certainly was not the 83rd best movie of all time, as it currently rates on IMDB.

The acting was acceptable for this type of movie. The action scenes and cinematics were good, the plot was decent. The love interest angle was pretty much discombobulated, though that might have something to do with the fact that this film was clearly setting up a sequel.

The problem with rating this an 8.4 out of 10 (like 25,000 people on IMDB) is that this movie was basically the same as the first Spiderman. In fact, if anyone can point out any differences, I'd be interested to see them. At least this movie didn't have Kirsten Dunce or Tobey Maguire (an even gayer name than Bruce Wayne), not that Katie Holmes or the Michael Keaton wannabe are all that special.

This movie is important in that it probably signals the end of normalcy for Ms. Holmes. Joey from Dawson's Creek was her usual self in this shit, and this is probably the last chance to see her as a normal human being before the Scientology takes hold.