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Nip/Tuck- S3E2

Movies, TV

What a fucked up episode. I consider this one more of a transitional episode as this episode was more about Matt. Yeah, he’s all fucked up in the head, and he looks even more like Michael Jackson with that long hair. But at least he shaved it off. But now he knows the truth about Ava (nice guest spot for Famke) and he may, in fact, be a real fan of trannys now. But make no mistake! He’s not gay. I was suprised they let “pussy” through unedited and holy cow at Julia’s mother smoking with Matt (on screen). And then again with Julia!

I thought it was an average episode overall, but next week looks to be awesome with the continuation on Christians blooming 3 way relationship.

I also got to watch Robots which was a fun movie. Made by the studio that did Ice Age, Robots is a simple movie about the robot Rodney Cooperbottom leaving home to make a difference in the world as an inventor. He heads to Robot City to meet his idol and try and work with him. But, evil is afoot and Rodney and his new friends the Rusty’s team up to save the day. An excellent voice cast (the dude that played Kenny in Half Baked plays Lug!) and some really terrific animation. The look of the movie really stands out with some terrific and consistant art design. A ton of work was put into the character and world creation and it really shows. Good way to waste an hour twenty.

Next up: Lords of Dogtown.

Crash

Movies

Crash came out on DVD about a week ago and I watched it this weekend. Excellent movie. It’s a drama about race and prejudice that I think handled things very well. The story follows about 6 groups of people and their lives all intersect. They don’t know each other but we watch there lives cross paths and how they effect each other. A great cast with Don Cheatle, Sandra Bullock, Ludacris, Ryan Phillipee, just to name a few. It’s about an hour and 45 so it’s the perfect length. Exceptional acting, directing and editing keeps things moving and always interesting. Check it out if you get the chance.

I recommend

Movies

Watching Layer Cake and Oldboy. Both came out on dvd in the past 2 weeks. LC is an english crime story. The main character is a high class drug runner and has a plan: sell enough to retire and get the hell out. On his last job, the shit hits the fan. Oldboy is a Korean revenge movie. The main character is suddenly obducted and held prisoner for 15 years….and then released. He has 5 days to figure it out. There’s a pretty wild twist (that I predicted) that was actually pretty good. It’s subbed for the purists out there and a pretty good english dub if you don’t like reading. I recommend both movies.

Speaking of movies, the Ong Bak DVD transfer freaking sucks. They didn’t spend anytime cleaning it up, scenes are dark as hell or too bright and/or washed out looking. Rushed out with next to no care which is a shame.

And if anyone is curious, the image above is of a Korn concert somewhere in Germany I think.