Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category
Dear Blockbuster, this is why you’re going bankrupt
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Movies, Open Letter
Last weekend, I went to one of your bigger stores in the area to rent Tron. You didn’t have Tron, not on Blu-Ray or DVD. One of your helpful employees checked, and none of your stores in the area had it, either. A cult hit with a major sequel coming out in just a few [...]
Unforgiven sucks. There, I said it.
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Movies
Once upon a time, I held fast to the notion that I didn’t like movie westerns. I don’t know why, I just assumed I didn’t. I’d seen Tombstone, which sort of counts, but I didn’t love it as much as my friends. I mean, it has Val Kilmer dying of tuberculosis and Kurt Russel sporting a [...]
The movies-by-mail dilemma
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Movies
I sincerely need help with this problem, and I hope reaching out to the depths of the internets can help me. We’re talking a Sophie’s Choice-caliber problem here, people: I am currently signed up for both major movies-by-mail programs, and I need to cancel one. I’ve been a Blockbuster Total Access subscriber for a couple [...]
I, Robot, Tecate, and the art of product placement
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Movies, Rants
Let’s get this out of the way: the film version of I, Robot with Will Smith is a terrible, terrible movie. It actually serves as an example of everything that can be wrong with a movie: straying too far from the original source material, lazy and cliched writing, terrible acting, poor special effects, and inappropriate [...]
Guess I’m going to have to buy Aliens again…
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Gadgets, Movies
Black Friday last week was kind to me, as I was able to acquire a Sony BDP-S350 Blu-Ray player greatly discounted. I was quite unimpressed with my first shopping experience at Conn’s, however, which is like an electronics store staffed entirely with the pathetic salesmen from Glengarry Glenn Ross. A trip to Fry’s netted me [...]
An unnecessary distinction (also, porno)
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Misc., Movies
I heard a political ad on the radio this morning that was touting the efforts of a particular state senator’s efforts to protect the people from “child sex predators.” I was unaware that there were different categories of child predator, necessitating the distinction. Perhaps part of our financial crisis is due to child lending predators, [...]
The Geek Trifecta
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Movies, TV
A recent trip to Blockbuster resulted in my obtaining the above pictured DVDs: Serenity, Futurama: Bender’s Big Score, and Battlestar Galactica: Razor. If there were a Geiger-counter-like device that could detect levels of geektitude, the table where I took this photo would break the needle. I’ve actually seen Serenity a few times before — even more than once [...]