I bet this movie will be very good! Daniel Day Lewis is an amazing actor, and I’m sorry to see somebody as distinctive as Tommy Lee Jones or even Hal Holbrook in it as well to pull me out of my suspension of disbelief. I will no doubt be hauling Son and Daughter Number Ones to the theater to watch this with me!
Posts Tagged ‘Movies’
Lincoln
September 18, 2012Doomsday
February 21, 2009I read about the movie Doomsday on a post-apocalypse project blog recently, and stuck it in the Netflix queue. It was, as expected, mostly mindless fun, but still fun. Imagine Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior meets 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, with a sprinkling of Escape From New York, Conan the Barbarian and Silence of the Lambs thrown in. How could it be bad? If only they could have squeezed in Aliens and Big Trouble in Little China…but there’s always the sequel, I suppose!
Rhino!
February 12, 2009Outlander
December 19, 2008Now this movie sounds fun– Vikings vs. Aliens. There are some decent looking trailers here.
More Godzilla Art
December 15, 2008
This time it’s my son, who has recreated the cover of Godzilla 2000. We haven’t watched it yet, and he’s been begging me the last couple of days to watch Rodan, but I imagine we’ll get around to it before too long.
A very good recreation from my son! Notice how he added a little BOC to spice it up.
Godzilla vs. Dr. Serizawa
December 15, 2008
My daughter drew this for me today– the dramatic finale of Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Dr. Serizawa has just detonated the Oxygen Destroyer to kill Godzilla and save humanity, then cut his own lifeline, sacrificing himself so that all knowledge of the terrible device would die with him and never be used as a weapon. Plus, his wife can now honorably marry the man she really loves.
He looks much happier about his situation here!
Oh No, There Goes Tokyo…
December 13, 2008My oldest boy has strep and my girl has a cold, so I tried to think of something fun I could do for them as they are quarantined at home. Having been playing MPoc with the boy a bit recently, we camped out a safe distance apart on the couches and I popped in Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
The boy laughed when I pointed out the “units” of tanks defending against the “monster” Godzilla’s first attack on Tokyo, but it was the girl who went totally nuts. She’s such a delightfully obsessive little geek girl, and just sat there enthralled and peppering me with questions throughout the entire film. Of course, as obsessed as she is now, she’ll have no interest in it in a week– NOTHING AT ALL like her old man!! They both argued back and forth about whether or not Godzilla would die, since they knew there were lots of sequels. In the end, I finished by playing them Ifukube’s Godzilla Theme, BOC’s Godzilla and the Godzilla Genealogy bop. She ran and grabbed her iPod and begged to have them on there, which I did, along with a little Fu Manchu. I sense an upcoming family gift…
The World Turned Upside Down
July 20, 2008What kind of world is it that we live in when we are so blessed with choice that it has become impossible to determine the best comic book superhero movie? Because, let me tell you, the Dark Knight is awesome. It completely gives Iron Man a run for its money. Heath Ledger was the best Joker ever– no laughing gas, no stupidity, just sheer broken insanity– but he couldn’t have carried the movie, and the awesome performance by all the other major actors here really make for a quality movie. I think I would pick Iron Man as my favorite, although I’m not sure it’s fair to compare– the Dark Knight is a very dark movie, in terms of world view and morality, whereas Iron Man is much more traditional.
Return of the Jedi
May 19, 2008The kids finished the original Star Wars trilogy this weekend. Both really enjoyed it, but my daughter has quickly turned into a full-on Star Wars geek. She immediately went out and created her own visual dictionary with pictures of all the main characters. I mentioned the Thrawn Trilogy, and the Solo twins, and she whipped up an illustrated short story about Luke’s daughter Ashley Skywalker fighting the Emperor’s son. She’s already half-way through Heir to the Empire. This has gone too far! I’ve got to sit her down and make her watch Star Trek (the original series).
The Empire Strikes Back
May 12, 2008I rented TESB over the weekend. I had plans to, anyway, to make sure the kids found out Darth Vader was Luke’s father by watching the movie, but it was also a good way to give the kids something to think about other than Bear’s death. They really enjoyed it, my 8 year old daughter especially. As Darth Vader asked Luke to join him to rule the galaxy, she was yelling, “No! Say no! Say no!” And when Darth Vader said he was Luke’s father, she just sat there for a minute, then said, “He’s lying.”
Little Lead Heroes 