Melting Pot

Ok, been out of it for a while now... Without going into the details of my disappearing from both my blogs and the virtual felt (see unexisting posts on Towers of Checks :P), let's just say I'm a guy in love and well, chick >>>> pretty much everything these days :P...

But still, I've been watching (or "watching" :o)) movies a bit, but didn't post anything about them in here... Will do now in a somewhat telegraphic style...

First of, and I'm still hoping to catch it again on the silver screen; then I'll write a real piece: WATCHMEN
Great adaptation imo. What's been modified was done with class and cinema in mind, which is perfect. Most probably a quote around 3.5~4.0. To be continued...

Then there was:
BORDELINE
Isabelle Blais ftw! Et Jean-Hughes (Anglade), qui m'a rappelé Killing Zoe avec ce rôle, pour aucune bonne raison semble-t-il (still trying to figure that one as a matter of fact)... ~4.5.

CONTRE TOUTE ESPERANCE
Hmmm un solide mélo, porté par ses acteurs, un peu comme c'est souvent le cas avec la cinématographie québécoise. Décent effort. ~5.2

SEX DRIVE - UNCENSORED
God that was dumb... American Pie meets Road Trip, without the savvy or the irony... Meh. Seth Green as a whimsical Hamish was a nice touch though. ~5.5

QUANTUM OF SOLACE
That new Bond is... weird, definitely. Doesn't even shag Olga... Seriously, wtf?!?! Still, the physical take they put on this revised 007 is somewhat nice, even though I do miss Q's gadgets. ~5.5

RELIGULOUS
Pretty funny, but not as deep as I would have liked... Still interesting to see an open-minded atheist confronting fundamentalists... That fscking Creationist Museum still tilts the shit out of me... Guess the fscking Flinstones were right on the money... lol! ~4.3

And I started Firefly, the series. Whoa! Space Western FTFW!!!!!

I think that covers everything... If not, well, too bad :P...

Watchmen Movie...

He [Alan Moore, ftr] probably won't be kicking himself for making that decision. Zack Snyder's adaptation is faithful to a fault, but it's true to the letter rather than the spirit of the book, collapsing the latter's dense, multi-layered storytelling into a relatively conventional - if bleak - Hollywood narrative.

Interesting quick piece from the New Scientist.

Zoe Bell For The Win!! And That Brubaker Is Not Too Shabby Either

Ed Brubaker's Angel Of Death freely available here. Each episode is about 7~10 minutes, and pretty darn well done.