Well, not that it isn't old news, and not that everyone hasn't seen it already, but the new Iron Man 2 trailer looks so cool that I had to put it up. If you aren't digging the briefcase at the end, then I lose all hope for you. More importantly, we get a better feel for what's going on, and, other than simply to load up on coolness, why we're watching. And, we get a look at the rest of the … [Read more...]
Scarlett Johansson is really hot. There was a point at which I was very seriously considering letting my review rest right there. There isn't anything else that's really worthy of note about The Spirit, except in the negative, and the film is so bad it hardly seemed worth bothering. Not only that, it's bad (oddly) in such a dull way that it doesn't even lend itself to the … [Read more...]
It's not that we get lost in translation, it's that 'we' get lost in translation. There’s a problem with life and relationships, and basically it is that they are in a certain sense opposed to each other. Life is in some sense (and some may even find it to be the goal of life) about moving from particulars to the general. That’s pretty much what we do in life, and (even if it isn’t … [Read more...]
