Finally got around to watching Super.

That was...unexpected. I really ended up feeling about the same about it as I felt about Kickass. Has it's moments, Ellen Paige plays the character very well, but I just can't get behind the raw brutality. Just was not happy to watch it. And, because I wasn't connecting with that aspect of it, I was never able to allow enough suspension of disbelief to get over the glaring fact that he was driving around in a completely conspicuous car with completely conspicuous license plate. I guess, considering there was a line about it, it was on purpose? Maybe if I'd been enjoying everything I'd find it funny. But to me it just seemed sloppy.

I liked the bunnies.

Saw a French action/thriller over the weekend call Point Blank. I had never heard of it before Sunday morning but it was a good local review and 100% at Rotten Tomatoes so I decided to go in cold (didn't even know it was in French until the movie started).

Tight, constant ratcheting of the action without ever veering too far into the superhuman (not omniscient villains and no hypercompetent protagonist) and it all plays out in an almost realistic way.

So, I don't know how widely this is playing but I recommend it if you're ok with subtitles and definitely keep an eye out for it on DVD/Streaming.

Somehow, I expect that iSm will not approve:

http://www.badassdigest.com/2011/08/...rn-of-the-jedi

Yeah, I'm may pass on the BluRays anyway, because old quadruple-chin Georgie has messed with the movies yet again. I think it's rather funny though, that he'd pick the most derided element* of his terrible and mega-derided prequel trilogy to insert into Return of the Jedi, already the most messed-up revisionized film of the much-beloved original Trilogy that he seems determined to bring down to his prequel quality level by whatever means necessary.


I may purchase the O.T. blu-ray to see some visual quality improvements in Star Wars, but simply as a curiosity. Though it looks pretty bad, I'll watch the 2004 DVD recreation of the 1977 Star Wars as my definitive version till the day I die (though, of course, there are many non-original elements in that version as well). Le sigh. I don't wish many people dead, but I won't cry a tear when Georgie eventually chokes on that chicken bone.






* or perhaps tied with Jar-Jar Binks, though I wouldn't be surprised to now see him cavorting on Cloud City somewhere.

The original trilogy may be beloved, but Return of the Jedi is a lazy, awful movie. You can't really make it worse. Differently bad, maybe. Unfaithful to the original badness. But not worse.

Eh, I think RotJ is a pretty lazy movie myself, but (imo) you can definitely make it worse, and that's been done.

Music is one of the inimitable things about a movie that are intrinsic to its quality, but so tricky. Just as a lead performance can make or break a film, so can a film score. Changing the music in Jabba's Palace and for the grand finale of the film were no small changes. After those botch jobs, no amount digital Ewok blinks or stupidly dubbed idiocies will make much of a difference to me. Ruination has already occurred - imho.

Now all I need is a time machine, so I can watch either my VHS or laserdisc of the original film. Otherwise, I will never watch Return of the Jedi again - but yeah, that's no great loss, I freely admit.

Let me know if you want to borrow my VCR.

There are "original versions" of the whole OT on DVD - as preserved/restored by fans. But I'm still not really interested in watching Jedi again anytime soon in any version.

Pfft, I was an idiot to buy a set of those once. Played once, then fell apart. Crappy cheapass burn job. Bah.