Today marked several things, two of which I’ll mention: One, I ran farther than I’ve ever run before (at one time). I mentioned this last fall, but I’m training for another half marathon and today I ran 13.3 miles. Very exciting, for me, at least. Two, we went to see Doomsday at the theater today. …
Category Archives: Movies
Harry Potter 7 is to be Two Movies
I saw on the newswire that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be broken up into two movies. “It was born out of purely creative reasons,” producer David Heyman told the Times. “Unlike every other book, you cannot remove elements of this book.” I call bullshit. There’s no reason they can’t perform the surgery …
Sunshine
We finally got around to seeing the movie Sunshine”. In two words: It sucked. I wasted another two hours of my life on overblown trash. I’ve been looking forward to seeing this movie for 8 months and boy was I disappointed. The physics made no sense. The spaceship made no sense. The mission (even though …
Children of Men: The Movie!
This is such an old draft, I’m not sure why I never finished it. I watched this movie in October. Alert readers may recall that I read the P.D. James novel, Children of Men, last summer. I didn’t like it. See the link for why. Now, I’ve finally gotten around to watching the Movie that …
Lord of the Rings News
I know I’ve been ignoring all of my normal blog sites when I have to get news like this through AP. Tolkien Estate Sues New Line Cinema. My geek card just lost a corner, I think.
Cloverfield
Jenn and I saw Cloverfield last night. Rating, 4 stars (out of five). Firstly the things that bugged me: Buildings don’t lean against other buildings at the angles and heights that were shown in the movie. Also, if you’ve ever played the computer game “Half Life”, you’ll get some serious flashbacks while watching the film. …
I'm not an Oscar Guy
2007 is a celebrated year for the Ruhsam in our household. Why? Because I managed to see almost none of the Oscar-nominated films. You have to go all the way down to … wait! The nominations have been yanked as I looked at them. How amusing. I guess someone published the website too early. Anyway, …
"I Am Legend"
We saw “I Am Legend” last night. Of all the movies to see on Christmas Day, this wasn’t a good one to pick. Not because it wasn’t an excellent movie; Will Smith did a fabulous job of portraying a man alone in a city full of monsters that want to eat him. No, it was …
"The Breakup" a.k.a. "Crap"
Given our recent experience with movies (see “Shooter” a.k.a. “Crap”) it looks like I should start a new category for sucky movies called A.K.A. Crap. We watched The Breakup last night. The only redeeming quality was that we received it through NetFlix and we didn’t pay for the NetFlix subscription. One of these days, Vince …
"Shooter" a.k.a. "Crap"
Jenn and I watched the Mark Wahlberg movie Shooter last night. Overall rating: Suckage. We are glad that we didn’t pay full theater price to see this one. It was chock full of holes in the plot and the acting. The only good thing that can be said about the movie are the settings and …