So I saw two new movies last weekend, both sequels -- Ocean's 12, and Blade Trinity. And while both movies were okay, neither were anything to rush out and tell all of your friends about, either. I can't even motivate myself to write a review of either movie, they were that middle-of-the-road. Which sadly tends to be the case with sequels. You'd think it would be easier to figure out what was good about the original movie, and make it better, and what was wrong with the original movie, and eliminate that as much as possible, to end up with a bigger, better, cooler, much more enjoyable film. But instead all we see is a rehashing of the previous movie, only with less originality. But this is hardly a new complaint from the movie-going public, so we'll move on to more pleasant topics.
Yesterday, as I'm sure you all know, saw the DVD release of the most important movie of all time (IMHO), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Extended Edition! This is what movies are all about!! I haven't actually watched it yet (I'm waiting for the weekend so I can watch all 3 extended editions in a massive marathon), but considering how phenomenal the theatrical release was, adding 50 minutes is only going to make it that much more spectacular. The other classic film to come out yesterday was the 40th anniversary edition of Mary Poppins, and so I find myself today repeatedly singing supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (or however that's spelled), much to the annoyance of most of my coworkers.
Well, I think that's all for the moment. I'm thinking my next post will be an extended rant about the plethora of remakes that Hollywood has been dumping on us recently (but that's going to take up way to much time and space to go into here). So until then!
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