Lads Night Out
After Rachel went to bed last Saturday, Ethan and I took the opportunity to go on a bender and soon found ourselves at (fellow ex-pat) Bob's BBQ. Turns out the boy is something of a lady-killer. By applying little more than his usual nonchalent charm, he was universally declared the best baby ever. Not news to me, of course, but it's always nice to have independent confirmation. Also nice to get out of the house every now and again. That said, we've become a little more liberated lately as it turns out that there are few places Ethan prefers to be than strapped to my chest and mosied gently around town. Well, I say around town, but really I mean as far as Hollywood Video and back.
It's been quite a while since seen quite so many films in such a short period of time. I have to say, they really don't make them like they used to.
I have also been wondering at what age the age-restrictions start taking effect. I think it fairly safe to say that he has been untroubled by the slew of R-rated pulp nonsense that has been inflicted on his tender mind thus far, but I suppose there has to come a point where it's out with Bruce Willis and in with Buzz Lightyear. In the meantime we've watched all these films so you don't have to. The rating system is 1-5 oz of bottled formula.
Both Transporter films - mindless action movies don't get any slicker than this. Surprisingly watchable and almost instantaneuosly forgettable. 4oz. Ultraviolet - it looks really good. And that is absolutely the only positive thing I have to say about it. 1oz. Aeon Flux - much like the preceding (ex-supermodel plays an acrobatic assassin in futuristic dystopia); plus two ounces by virtue of having some sense of narrative; minus one ounce by virtue of co-starring Johnny Lee Miller. 2oz. Why We Fight - thought-provoking documentary on the US miltitary-industrial complex. Like every other American documentary of the last few years it seems to lack thrust and closure, but worth seeing nonetheless. 4oz. The High Cost of Low Price - slightly less thought provoking documentary on Walmart's business practices, with the same faults as the former. 3oz. Natural City - Korean sci-fi, full of interesting blade-runner-esque ideas but the characters were rather unconvincing. 3oz. I wonder if I'll ever find another Korean film as good as Oldboy? Ethan would definitely have voted that 5oz, if only he could have seen it from Rachel's womb. Lastly, 16 Blocks is a surprisingly gripping shlock thriller wherein the aforementioned Willis plays a burned-out cop determined to protect a witness to internal police corruption against the best attempts of his colleagues; only marred by the fact that I had to turn on the subtitles to understand anything that co-star Mos Def said. 4oz.
Almost the much requested photo of father and son, only cropped.
More entertaining than any film with Johnny Lee Miller.
It's been quite a while since seen quite so many films in such a short period of time. I have to say, they really don't make them like they used to.
I have also been wondering at what age the age-restrictions start taking effect. I think it fairly safe to say that he has been untroubled by the slew of R-rated pulp nonsense that has been inflicted on his tender mind thus far, but I suppose there has to come a point where it's out with Bruce Willis and in with Buzz Lightyear. In the meantime we've watched all these films so you don't have to. The rating system is 1-5 oz of bottled formula.
Both Transporter films - mindless action movies don't get any slicker than this. Surprisingly watchable and almost instantaneuosly forgettable. 4oz. Ultraviolet - it looks really good. And that is absolutely the only positive thing I have to say about it. 1oz. Aeon Flux - much like the preceding (ex-supermodel plays an acrobatic assassin in futuristic dystopia); plus two ounces by virtue of having some sense of narrative; minus one ounce by virtue of co-starring Johnny Lee Miller. 2oz. Why We Fight - thought-provoking documentary on the US miltitary-industrial complex. Like every other American documentary of the last few years it seems to lack thrust and closure, but worth seeing nonetheless. 4oz. The High Cost of Low Price - slightly less thought provoking documentary on Walmart's business practices, with the same faults as the former. 3oz. Natural City - Korean sci-fi, full of interesting blade-runner-esque ideas but the characters were rather unconvincing. 3oz. I wonder if I'll ever find another Korean film as good as Oldboy? Ethan would definitely have voted that 5oz, if only he could have seen it from Rachel's womb. Lastly, 16 Blocks is a surprisingly gripping shlock thriller wherein the aforementioned Willis plays a burned-out cop determined to protect a witness to internal police corruption against the best attempts of his colleagues; only marred by the fact that I had to turn on the subtitles to understand anything that co-star Mos Def said. 4oz.
Almost the much requested photo of father and son, only cropped.
More entertaining than any film with Johnny Lee Miller.
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