Subtle Bluntness

Here’s some things I’ve done lately:
Rest.
Go through a mini-quarter-life crisis/turn 29.
Think up 10 possible new faces for The Expendables 2.
See Dinner For Schmucks.
See The Sorceror’s Apprentice.
Correspond quite a bit with the more-successful, less-bearded version of me.  (It’s very strange to meet your Google shield.)
Spend most of the summer working with a Mac computer.  Realize that [...]

Well, Twilight is back and so am I, having forced myself to head to the theaters and disembowel one of the most successful movie franchises of all time yet again.  Sometimes, hate can be fun, and there’s little hate more fun than Twilight-based hate.  Thanks to the cliched characters, terrible (and predictable) dialogue, and of [...]

We’re deep in the heart of the busiest season of my Den of Geek year:  summer blockbuster time!  It’s like sloe gin time, but without the associated KISS song.  Anyway, I’ll be seeing pretty much every movie that comes out in June, and summarily (eventually) linking to my reviews here.  So yeah, without further stalling [...]

Well, that was an unexpected hiatus.
Hello, I’m Ron.  This is my blog.  Do you remember who I am?  No?  Well, that’s okay.
I didn’t deliberately set out to just not post in my blog for like three weeks.  These kinds of things just happen when you self-host your blog, have to change your password more often [...]

I saw and reviewed Date Night the other night for Den of Geek, and I have to say something about Tina Fey.  While I go back and forth on just how funny I think she is, there’s one thing about her I can’t deny.  She’s adorable.  With glasses or without (but definitely with) her glasses, [...]

It’s hard to review a comedy.  I mean, I can eyeball a horror movie or a sci-fi thriller or an action flick and say, “Yes, this is good,” or “No, this isn’t good,” pretty easily, even if it’s not my particular taste.  There’s nothing tougher to review than a comedy.  What I find funny, you [...]

Well, I got a chance to go check out Repo Men, the latest in a long line of sci-fi action thrillers with a better concept than execution.  I mean, the idea of a future where artificial organs can be repossessed when you don’t pay your bills isn’t a far-out concept.  We’re pretty close to that [...]

So I saw Cop Out, and I’m in the minority since I actually enjoyed the movie.  For me, it works as a direct homage to those 80’s buddy cop movies, before they got all worn out by overuse.  Most people apparently didn’t dig it, but I liked it and apparently the audience did too, since [...]

So, I’ve resigned myself to the fact that there’s going to be a big-screen World of Warcraft movie.  There’s no sense fighting it.  It’s not in developmental hell, Sam Raimi is producing it as we speak, and Robert “Saving Private Ryan” Rodat is hard at work on the script.  Just accept it; this thing is [...]

So, Pierre Morel is really making a play to break out of Luc Besson’s shadow, at least in terms of directorial skill.  I mean, he’s still working in Camp Besson, but he’s at least in charge of the productions, rather than just the cinematographer.  District B13 was awesome, Taken was way awesome, and the verdict [...]