walrus | 
11 12th, 2008| 
I have been putting off writing a review for Pineapple Express, the latest brotastic buddy comedy to issue forth from Judd Apatow and company. The reason for this is two-fold: One, I am lazy and Two, I was not too sure whether I liked it.
Oct
10
About five minutes into watching Bangkok Dangerous I started getting a little worried. The film, while far from being good, was not the travesty I was expecting, nor did it seem as terrible as critics had made it out to be. Mentally I started rehearsing what I was going to write: “It takes a strong man to admit he was wrong…”
Fortunately (for me) the apology was soon forgotten. After about 30 minutes Bangkok Dangerous revealed itself to be a dire mess of a film. A true travesty of film-making. And then it got worse, a lot worse…
SPOILER ALERT: The rest of this review contains numerous spoilers, including the events from the conclusion of the film.
Sep
26
I liked the original Hellboy. It was a somewhat messy but overall taught comic book adaptation, big on thrills and spectacle and short on story and exposition. It was not the perfect movie, and many have argued that is was not even all that good, but for the most part it was thoroughly enjoyable.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army trades in most of the charm of the original and instead offers up a bloated mess of a film. The spectacle is still there, but the filmmakers have decided to saddle it with so much exposition and frankly awful story elements that, ultimately, the film collapses under the burden.
Sep
21
In Bruges has been advertised as a black-comedy crime caper set in the Belgian medieval town of Bruges. That is what the trailer and promotional material led me to believe. They lied.
To a degree In Bruges defies easy classification, but I will attempt one anyway: In Bruges is a dark tragic drama (with comedic undertones) that deals with what happens when two hit men are forced to reconcile what they do for a living and the consequences thereof while hiding out in the quaint medieval town of Bruges.