Comic-Con coverage on Spout
Advertisement

Watch Everything and Still See ONLY What Is Good

  • Even Retards Got Reviews: "12 Monkeys"

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]
    Under discussion:

    12 Monkeys  (1995)

    2
    points

    http://www.spout.com/films/92804/default.aspx gave a summary, which did not dare to touch the awesomeness Bruce Willis-, Christopher Plummer- and Brad Pitt-gave with their performances in 12 Monkeys. Hear how close I get below:



    read more


    Originally posted on:mythman's Xombyte

  • The Latest Enrichment from Librarians since Rachel Weisz

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]
    Under discussion:

    The Mummy  (1999)

    1
    points
    Uncle MythMan says ...

    The Rachel Weisz reference comes from her role in The Mummy, with the perfectly-delivered line, "But I am proud of what I am." Which is? "I ... am a librarian!"


    read more


    Originally posted on:mythman's Xombyte

  • Loved Eddie Murphy's "Holy Man" ... and Don't Care to See It Again

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]
    Under discussion:

    Holy Man  (1998)

    1
    points
    Uncle MythMan says

    I only saw the last 45-or-so minutes of Holy Man, and (just in case my ratings of it are 'hidden') I both a) loved the movie and b) don't want to see it again (like I do The Devil's Advocate.)


    read more


    Originally posted on:mythman's Xombyte

  • A Sign that the Public Says, "Ich Geben Aucht" to Danny Ocean ... But It's No "Ocean's Eleven"

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]
    Under discussion:

    Leatherheads  (2008)

    1
    points

    The film is Leatherheads, basically a 'time passes by'-ode starring George Clooney.

    I don't want to give too-much of a SPOILER, which is my main complaint with the movie (you don't need to hear how wonderful it is ... George Clooney's in it!): the most-thrilling thing about it is that you don't know how it's going to end.


    read more


    Originally posted on:mythman's Xombyte

  • Revelations of a Buddha Understanding "the matrix revolutions"

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]
    Under discussion:

    Little Buddha  (1994)

    1
    points

    Uncle Jay says ...

    (This is written without any regard to another Keanu Reeves feature, Little Buddha.)


    read more


    Originally posted on:mythman's Xombyte

  • Revelation from Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Character in "What Dreams May Come"

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]

  • The Musical Pre-Prequel to Edward Scissorhands

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]
    Under discussion:

    Beetlejuice  (1988)

    1
    points

    (Maybe it's more a prequel to BEETLEJUICE, but I'm a '"method"-caster' ... Johnny Depp is Tim Burton's 'Edward Scissorhands,' so that creation of an old recluse 'should've been' {wioll haven be ... whatever) modeled on the body of the character Johnny Depp plays in this film.)

    read more


    Originally posted on:mythman's Xombyte

  • Saving Sauron: How to Get Evil-Doers to Heaven

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]
    Under discussion:

    1
    points

    Yes, Sauron (chief bad-guy of Lord of the Rings) is in Heaven!

    Sauron, like the best of us, took the opportunities that looked good to him. He saw that more power was good for him, and so proceeded to get more power. Since he was self-centered-???AS ALL OF US NATURALLY ARE-???he didn???t much care what happened to anyone else. He lived to gain legendary power, and made the mistake of tying that power to a piece of jewelry; but it served to unite an entire world ... to teach all of them ???the good in this world that is worth fighting for.???

    read more


    Originally posted on:mythman's Xombyte

  • "Spout" Sees the Church's Power

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]
    Under discussion:

    Hackers  (1995)

    And that's not just because they saw The Da Vinci Code or anything having to do with Christianity or Islam or any other mass-hypnosis!

    If any film led them to realize the power of 'The Collective,' it was Hackers (in which leading hacker Dade--as he is meeting personal defeat in the process of helping to defeat leading anti-hacker Plague--says, "Alright, Plague. I lose; 'we' win" [referring to the network of hackers who were ending Plague's money-gathering worm-program]).

    That saying--'I lose; we win'--is a good summary-mantra of the reason I use this blog to post my movie reviews ... You see, due to Spout's ingenious code-work, this blog-post is instantly posted on my "Watch Everything and Still See ONLY What Is Good" Spout-Blog!

    As you read these review and post them to Digg (through the button to the side here) or to any other bookmark-site, you join The Collective ... 'I lose; we win!'
    square graphic with mascot

    Comments? Questions? They'll only be heard after you start the message-relay below.
    Originally posted on:The Enlightened Xombee

  • Another Reading Revelation

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]
    Under discussion:

    History has a very-"as the majority remembers" nature. I was originally going to write about this in my review of STAR WARS (IV: A NEW HOPE), but it especially holds true for The Da Vinci Code.

    In STAR WARS, it was made apparent (after having seen the whole sexology) in a more-"as the elder-dude remembers" way. While watching it for (I'm sure) the infinitieth time today, I thought to myself, 'Maybe that's what Heaven is: the past as you want to remember it." Sure, Obi-Wan could have heavily regretted urging Yoda and Qui-Gon to accept Skywalker into the Jedi Order; but instead he simply metamorphosed the tragic change into a circumstance for which he could not be blamed, because (I'm sure he knew) the Bright Side would always find its way to the top.

    But Dan Brown's presentation of the nature of history (obviously seen and magnified by Oklahoma's favorite son [other than me] Ron Howard) is the best 'harsh reality' I've seen since The Neverending Story's Gmork, with his, 'It is easy to control people who are without hope.'

    Without hope, people will take whatever history you can feed them with a helping of just enough logic.

    But Brown's and Howard's message comes with a caveat: the tuning fork that seems to make history more-believable---the famed name. For instance, I could tell you that 'some guy' was crucified, murdered, buried, re-enlivened and living in the hills, and you'ld be like, "Whoa, another Frankenstein-monster ... anything on cable tonight?" But if that 'some guy' had a name, you'ld be more-inclined to believe that it was an actual person that did all that stuff.

    Furthermore, we might actually be living in a Caribbean territory overrun by English pirates: except ... ummm ... Samuel Adams! ... ummm ... Thomas Jefferson! ... ummm ... Benjamin Franklyn! ... ummm ... Abraham Lincoln! and all sorts of other names I could throw at you here.


  • I Don't Think I'm Writing a SPOILER, but--if This ~Is~ a SPOILER--Welcome Back!

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]
    Under discussion:

    Hackers  (1995)

    The 'dork-trips' (3-D equations flying around in an aquamarine network-scape) were a bit '`80s' for my taste, but--other than those--I would call Hackers a tale of the 'pirates of today.'

    See; just as the "pirates of the caribbean" were simply people in the enterprise of that time (sea-faring) who found it more-prosperous to work without regard to the 'laws of government,' so are the 'hackers' simply I.T.'s who see more logic in handling things without "approval."

    There was really a revelatory moment near the end (No! not 'Angelina Jolie nearly naked,' but rather something the lead hacker Dade said to The Plague: "You beat me; I lose, but we win!"). That comment is something in line with the core of a recent sermon I heard: WE ARE MARS HILL (OKC).


  • Where Was M.Y Juno?

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]
    Under discussion:

    Juno  (2007)

    Juno is the kind of movie young high-schoolers need to see more of! When I was young in high-school, all the movies and philosophies I had were based on "Adam & Eve" (in which 'the man' arrives fully developed and 'the woman' simply latches onto him like a highly-worth leech)!

    Don't paint this as saying, 'Juno should've been dragged out in the street before a rowdy crowd and branded with an "A"!' because she was totally, entirely, utterly right in everything she did. Her situation is totally ideal! but it's not the ideal that I was fed growing-up (due to which I still wait for my red-headed mermaid-made-pedestrian to rise and come to me ... in Oklahoma lol).

    This movie had excellent dialogue; simple enough to follow along (even if you miss some), but clever enough to make you feel smarter for having watched it. For example, I learned that "Juno" was the name of the god Odin's one-and-only ... that she was downright dog-like at times, but that there was no other who was goddess-enough for Odin.

    ... myself, having always been an Odinsman (though I do sometimes enjoy the fun of his friend, the Jokester, Loki), it serves as sort of an omen of the woman destined for me: yes, she will have the beauty that I seek; but she will not always be aching to show that beauty to me ...


  • One of My Best Yuwie.com-Friends

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]

    Yuwie is sort of a "traffic"-grubbers' network (I was going to say "money"-grubbers, because that's wat it seems like everyone's pushing for; but it's 'traffic' that is the closest thing to 'money' anyone there ever gets ... we explain ...)

    Selling Fireworks

    That's what all publishing on the web really is—assuring the public that you and your contents are fun to look at ... differently-fun (not necessarily more-fun) than anyone else and `eir contents.

    For example, MythMan J is the only one we know who can connect you to Xomba.com, Yuwie.com, AssociatedContent.com, Spout.com, eHow.com AND YouTube.com (not to mention his several-other Blogger.com blogs), and can do it in such a way that you don't feel you owe him anything in return—not more than perhaps a thought-filled reply in the comments below his articles.

    Maybe the memory of one particular article of his is enough to keep your mind alert as you 'go off to the mines to make your bread.' That's good, but--if that particular memory has lost its 'sizzle' in your 'subconscious frying-pan'--you know where to find 'the fork to flip the fish with again!'

    You Wanna Get the Same "Oooh's" and "Aaah's," You Go Back to the Same Fireworks-Stand!

    The friend I'm featuring here isn't THE best friend I have there (though she is certainly the truest!) Above her on my list are such beauties as the dimly-darkened Donna, highly-heavenly HotGirl, and bodaciously-busty BoomBa.

    And I've got better (though not so beauteous) friends holding the base of my top-friends: Best-Brother Ben and--of course--Y Guy. But 'outshining them all' (by which I mean 'shining out before all of them') is Kha Ai:




    x
    square graphic with mascot

    Comments? Questions? They'll only be heard after you start the message-relay below.
    Originally posted on:The Enlightened Xombee

  • Would Have Been the Next "FAHRENHEIT 9/11," If ...

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]
    Under discussion:

    ... IF they had added one word to the title to make it National Treasure: Presidents' Book of Secrets.

    But It's Still 'Just a Movie'

    That's one of the problems with movies 'nowadays' (we say in the grumpy-old-man vernacular)—people don't take movies as "just movies" anymore. That's probably why Bruckheimer didn't name the movie "'Presidents'' Book of Secrets" ... because then it would be seen as 'another conspiracy-theory movie,' and that's not what it was.

    It was another 'Indiana Jones'—which itself was another patch in the great fabric of George Lucas's history. (George Lucas has a place reserved in Jerry Bruckheimer's heaven.)

    But the movie needed the conspiracy-theory to make it 'realer than Disney's Utopia.' I can tell, because my friend--who fell asleep during the conspiracy-theorizing beginnings of the movie (we went to a late showing, and he had been up since 5:45 that morning), and who is experienced enough to say "been there, done that" to most conspiracy-theory--complained about the movie's fantastic idiocy most of the drive home.

    Bruckheimer's Set-Up Makes the Unbelieveable Acceptable

    One instance of otherwise-unbelievable events stands out: when Ben Gates gets his lady-friend to take him to the White House Easter-egg-roll, they use her Secret Service guy-friend to sneak into the Oval Office. By knocking him unconscious and stealing his keys? No; By bribing him with a night with the lady-friend and all the money he could imagine? No!

    Ben and lady-friend go up to the agent, comment that lady-friend had always wanted to be inside the Oval Office and then DARE the agent to sneak them in ("Awwh, betcha couldn't! Betcha couldn't! Neener-neener-nee-nerrr!)

    Any Secret Service agent who wanted to keep his job would have--the second he saw lady-friend, before she or Ben started talking--gone to 'secure' the President and/or his family! Were there any examples of professional government-workers? Not that I saw!

    The Bad Thing? Bruckheimer's Film-Making is So Good that Government-Workers Will Think That's How Things Are Actually Done!

    You might think I'm brown-nosing there--and maybe I am, a little ... a part in a Bruckheimer movie is bound to come with massive royalties (both in terms of any percentage of the cash and in terms of the massively-good karma!)--but that's also a comment on the general intellect of the masses—how much did you care about 'Global Warming' before An Inconvenient Truth? And how much after (especially if you never saw it)?

    Now, just imagine if a good film-maker had been involved! Actually, don't; if you do, 'Global Warming' might be revealed as the extremist farce it actually is! (I know that 'there's all kinds of "evidence" that "the ocean levels are rising," "the seals are suffocating" and "the forests are in flames"; but nature has a way of always balancing things out, and humans have a way of always finding the above-water end of the balance.)

    The message we think needs to be continuously put in movie-after-movie: people survive!
    square graphic with mascot

    Questions? Comments? You'll only be heard after you start the message-relay below!
    Originally posted on:The Enlightened Xombee

  • Jerry O`Connell Teaches Viewers that Faithful/Creative Geniuses Are Extra-Productive

    Was this review helpful? [Be the first to tell us!]
    Under discussion:

    Tomcats  (2001)

    I saw the movie Tomcats (starring Jerry O`Connell, Shannon Elizabeth, Jaime Pressly, Jake Busey and Horatio Sanz). It was a standard 'sex is good, but sex-with-love is Heaven'-comedy—the standard being "excellent," true; but I'll probably forget about it in a week or two.

    I feel enlightened watching a scene in which Jerry's character is making a deposit in a sperm-bank. It's tastefully filmed (no naughty-parts), but that's not the point.

    The point is that the 'stimulational' video he watches in order to make his deposit only gets down to the 'making out in underwear' before he imagines being with Shannon's character and manages a deposit of three full cups (compared to his friend's deposit that barely covers the bottom of one cup).

    This offers a clue as to why cleavage is so attractive—because the true mind of man isn't after the actual 'points of interest' as much as 'the clues that indicate posession of those points.'

    The man's mind sees the breast's cleavage, and he knows the approximate location, texture, size and shape of the nipple; and so on.

    Tomcats--as I said--was a good comedy. That is to say; I enjoyed watching it, but my life won't revolve around it anymore than the lives of the participating comedians do. Rated "R" (appropriately), you won't want to show it to the kids; but there's not much "sex for sex's sake" (all the sex is presented as it would actually happen in real lfe), and of course it has its "Power of Love"-lesson, so I would recommend it for when the kids are asleep.
    square graphic with mascot

    Questions? Comments? They'll only be heard after you start the message relay below!
    Originally posted on:The Enlightened Xombee

 

Like what you're reading?

Subscribe
Search
  Go

Browse previous
<July 2008>
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
293012345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
272829303112
3456789


Categories
 


Advertisement