Books and Movies for this first month of Da Nu Year.

I've been reading comics. Finished the DC 2nd Volume of their Batman Showcase featuring more of Batman from the 60's era. It was OK but not as good as the first one and I think I'll hold off on further Bat Showcases till they reach the 70's, which is my fav era.

I'm more than halfway through the 1st DC Showcase of The Unknown Soldier. This is a lot like the Commando comics we used to read, but restricted to US operations in Europe and the Pacific. TUS is this quasi-mythical character with a background that he lost his face in a grenade attack that killed his brother and now he wants to dedicate his whole life to destroying the Axis. He's a master of disguise and keeps wearing various getups on his missions. This is pretty damn cool with a nice gritty illustration style. Good fun.

ravenus wrote:

I'm more than halfway through the 1st DC Showcase of The Unknown Soldier. This is a lot like the Commando comics we used to read, but restricted to US operations in Europe and the Pacific. TUS is this quasi-mythical character with a background that he lost his face in a grenade attack that killed his brother and now he wants to dedicate his whole life to destroying the Axis. He's a master of disguise and keeps wearing various getups on his missions. This is pretty damn cool with a nice gritty illustration style. Good fun.
Yeah! This one is totally kickass!

I'm patiently waiting for the next issues of American Virgin, DMZ, and the heralded Y: The Last Man (which will be concluded in the next few days). I decided to drop reading Felon, cause, well, it blew.
I think I'll read some old Spawn issues. The Neil Geiman issue is just FANTASTIC!

Saw Death Sentence and it's no 'Death Wish'. Quite boring and extremely predictable. The bad guys who have tattoos crawling uptil their necks bring no depth to their characters, hence tend to be damn cliched; it's like they envisioned the whole set to be an enema saloon when the director yells 'Action!' Speaking about the action, they aren't anything you haven't seen before. SKIP.

And where are the boxes when you quote something? Why does it all look suspended in mid-air with the use of some strained out magic spells.

Saw No Country For Old Men by the Coen brothers and I'm gonna have to call bullshit on this movie. Its one of the most humorless, vacuos and pointless movies I have ever seen and quite easily the worst I have seen by the brothers. God, the next time I see Tommy Lee Jones staring into space delivering a melancholic monologue, I swear I'm gonna puke.

With three hours to kill in Ratnagiri, me and the bhalla saw Zinda Hoon Main. It essentially seemed to be a conscious and deliberate attempt to destroy I Am Legend. I've a feeling Bradbury's nightmarish vision of the future in Farhenheit 451 is coming to fruition in a different way — with people who revel in illiteracy destryoing works of fiction while adapting them for the screen. This version of the story was shitty and sketchy to the extreme — Bhalla rather charitably suggested that they probably read the blurb and not the entire book, but I've a feeling they adapted it from the ashes of what was left after they burnt every copy of the book they could get their hands on.
Anyway I'm hoping the same studio finances my cinematic adaptation of the Catcher in the Rye in which I promise at least as many outrageous deviations from the plot. But then considering how terrible Catcher is, I might unwittingly improve it. *-(

Damn, I'm more than half-ways through downloading No Country... after all the good word I heard about it. Anyway I'm also getting Testament of Dr. Mabuse so it might improve my average.

Anyway I saw more Insects docu's from the Life in The Undergrowth series and I'm totally amazed at the kind of footage they got. Fucking hell, spiders that work in packs of hundreds and share their prey! Centipedes that eat bats for lunch! And thankfully, unlike Planet Earth, this is a still sprightly David Attenborough who actually participates in the location shoots.

ravenus wrote:

Anyway I saw more Insects docu's from the Life in The Undergrowth series and I'm totally amazed at the kind of footage they got. Fucking hell, spiders that work in packs of hundreds and share their prey! Centipedes that eat bats for lunch! And thankfully, unlike Planet Earth, this is a still sprightly David Attenborough who actually participates in the location shoots.
Do you have a torrent for that?

Damn, about No Country. I saw the first seven minutes of it earlier today and it looked awesomely promising. I'll check it out and report back.

Hope you like it da. Bardem is pretty good in the film and there are a couple of good tension filled set pieces but for me, they have been done much better by the coens themselves in films like Blood Simple and Fargo. To me, the biggest downer was the lack of any funny bone whatsoever.

CrypticMyth wrote:
ravenus wrote:
Anyway I saw more Insects docu's from the Life in The Undergrowth series
Do you have a torrent for that?
Nope, it was a blind-buy 2-DVD set. As a rule, doing a google search with "torrent" and "name of movie/program" generally works for me.

^^Ok. I usually bank on DC++ but none of the hubs I'm on had this.

Kikuchiyo wrote:
Hope you like it da. Bardem is pretty good in the film and there are a couple of good tension filled set pieces but for me, they have been done much better by the coens themselves in films like Blood Simple and Fargo. To me, the biggest downer was the lack of any funny bone whatsoever.

...and I got my bony brown ass thoroughly kicked by the brothers. Amazing movie. Only Miller's Crossing edges past this one as far their movies go.

yeah it's one terrific movie. most of the scenes are so beautifully shot and the violent scenes are so well placed.

Saw 3:10 to Yuma which was pretty entertaining and a really fine homage to the old westerns in it's use of location and gritty characters. It does take major leaps in logic to make both it's principal stars come out shining by the end. But it's well acted and well executed and really good fun.