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April 29, 2006 by averjoe
I saw the movie United 93 today. It is about the hijacking and the events on airline United 93 during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It is a pretty straightforward dramatization of the event with very little embellishment. In this regard it is not an absolutely spectacular movie, but it does cover the events in a succinct and dramatic fashion It puts the audience directly in the midst of the incident. You are actually their listening in and witnessing the events of that day (in general) an...
March 20, 2006 by averjoe
I saw the movie “V for Vendetta” yesterday. The movie concerns an Orwellian like state that arise in Great Britain due to the war on terrorist and terrorist attacks. The story is one of conspiracy, liberation and vengeance. It is quite a mix. The screenplay is by the Wachowski brothers and like there past work it is full of philosophical and political dilemmas. V who was the victim of some government sponsored medical research gone wrong (and which assisted in the rise of the police sta...
March 6, 2006 by averjoe
I watched the Oscars last night. I must give Jon Stewart credit for keeping the jokes and humorous bits coming. Usually after the host does the opening there is very little humor left or expressed in the program. It was different this time. Jon Stewart who is the host of the funniest talk show that is based on the Tonight Show format showed some of his talent last night. It amazes me that a person with his talent cannot find a home on regular broadcast television with its larger than b...
February 1, 2006 by averjoe
It was around Christmas time of 2004 and the T.V. was playing in the background when all of the sudden I hear a constant piercing shriek and rumbling wail without end coming from the television. What could it be? Was it a horror picture? Were people under attack? No, it was the Oprah Winfrey Christmas show. From the point Oprah gave out the first gift to the end of the program she could not utter one word without being drowned out by the screaming of the audience. There was no announcing what...
January 23, 2006 by averjoe
I watched the movie “Pitch Black”on DVD the other day. I went to the theater to see this movie when it came out and was impressed then and on seeing it again I am more impressed. It is a good movie. The story is about a cargo ship that crash lands on this hostile environment three-sun world that is on its way to entering a total eclipse that the planet goes into every twenty-two years. Coming out of the catacombs and caverns during this eclipse are hundreds of thousands of huge winged bat ...
January 15, 2006 by averjoe
I am not one of those people who engage in celebrity worship (for the most part). I even find it difficult to remember the names of actors (or any other of the key positions in film-making). Only once in my life have I ever written a movie star. Mind you it is highly unlikely that big time stars will ever read a letter or email you send. They have public relation firms handling their mail and screening their mail. They probably receive too much fan mail or emails to read each letter. I ...
January 11, 2006 by averjoe
I mentioned on my last blog entry that the movie “Brokeback Mountain” about two gay cowboy sheepherders would not be that popular with the masses in the US. I am surprised that it is not even being shown at the theaters in the county I reside in which has a pretty dense population and a good mixture of urban, suburban and rural communities. It also has many megaplexes with there 12 to 20 movie screens. Yet not one of them wants to exhibit “Brokeback Mountain”, not even in one of those...
January 4, 2006 by averjoe
Another year is here. As usual the media went crazy with all kinds of list and what not. Everybody has a list of some sort. MTV and the VH channels are filled with meaningless list. List like the 100 worst songs (by whose standards?) or 50 worst music videos. I quickly ignore most of the worst this or best that being propagated on MTV, VH1 or any of those channels. I further ignore most top this or that list on the news networks, or other channels like TV guide, E, Bravo, or any of the ot...
December 13, 2005 by averjoe
Christmas Day is almost here. I must admit the day has lost its luster since adulthood. I guess because there is no week off from school or mucho toys under the Christmas tree waiting for me. I also now feel the day has become too commercialized. Businesses relentlessly try to push their wares on us. And is it may imagination or what that kids are getting greedier for ever more expensive and ever more stuff. It is ridiculous. Although I am an agnostic I feel the meaning of Christmas ha...
November 22, 2005 by averjoe
When an American says he listens to Spanish music he’s usually not only referring to music from Spain. So when I posted some of my taste in music I mentioned Spanish music, which means all types of Latino (includes Portuguese) music. Maybe to be more precise I should say music from Mexico, South America, many Caribbean Islands and Spain. Or maybe I should be even more specific and say I like music like Spanish pop, mariachi, salsa and tango. Also I failed to mention that I like rap ...
July 3, 2005 by averjoe
As Independence Day approaches I was trying to think of a movie relatively recently made that could give a flavor of the Revolutionary War. The movie that came to mind was “The Patriot” (2000). Now there were a lot of critics who derided this movie for its falsification of the historical characters and events portrayed in the film. For instance they argued that they made the southern militia leader played by Mel Gibson too sympathetic a character (covering up all the characteristics that ...
June 29, 2005 by averjoe
I saw the “War of The Worlds” today. The movie was pretty good although not perfect. It may be unnecessary to tell what the story is about since anyone who has read H.G. Wells’s short story by the very same name knows the basic plot of the movie. Spielberg does not follow Wells version in a verbatim like fashion just like the 1953 version didn’t and couldn’t. Wells wrote his story in the late 1890s so things cannot be exactly the same. It is amazing how this story of Martians attacking...
May 22, 2005 by averjoe
I saw “Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith It is the episode that ties into the original “Star Wars” movie. The movie starts in the mist of battle in space above the capital planet (home to the multi world senate and Jedi temple) in which the Jedi knight master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his student Anakin Skywalker are attempting to rescue the leader of the Republic Palpatine who has been captured by the Separatist. After his rescue, Palpatine who is really a Sith known as Darth Sidiou...
May 15, 2005 by averjoe
I mentioned some old science fiction titles worth seeing on my last blog. Probably all of the titles can be downloaded for free if you use peer-to-peer software like Kazaa. However even the price of recently released movies on DVD are relatively cheap. You might be able to find some at the dollar store or at a drugstore for three or six dollars. The average price of recently released movies on DVD is about seven dollars and fifty cents. Recently released popular titles or critically ac...
May 8, 2005 by averjoe
It has been a long time since my last entry to this blog but there really have been a lot of demands on my time and when there weren’t demands on my time I didn’t feel like writing. A lot has happened since my last posting and some of these things I will eventually write about and post to this blog or another blog. That reminds me that I still may drop one of the sites I blog on. I presently post on two sites. I am thinking about only using one site. The topics that I feel are ‘heav...