MeyerBros

i’m serious. it’s not even subtle a little bit. the voice of farm-boy jesus’ real alien father says “you walk among the mortals but you are not one of them. because of their capacity for good, i have sent them my only son” - and people discuss whether they need this super-jesus-savior, and then he gets crucified by (and this is the good part) kevin spacey and parker posey. cyclops is there, but he just gets jealous of jesus, who happens to be stalking his wife and listening in on all their conversations with his super-jesus powers. then cyclops flies a plane and saves jesus from his first death, and jesus has a little baby sequel with big blue jesus-sequel eyes and flies off into the night like tinkerbell or santa-clause saying “i’ll always be around”. and i believe him. he’ll always be around stalking poor married women and watching and listening to their every move and conversation and having little sequel babies that will grow into big sequel blockbusters with super-sequel jesus powers to stalk more women on bigger and bigger home entertainment systems. oh i just can’t wait for that third coming.

my reviews of “snakes on a plane”, “a man without a country” by kurt vonnegut jr., and a South Bend Tribune review of “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea” as performed at New World Arts.
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excuse: it had john cusack and billy bob thornton. not that that means much anymore, but it was worth a shot.

result: fargo without the good.

tag line: never trust someone else to do a coen brother’s job.

it does seem like there is a consistent slide in quality films coming out of the movie industry. especially, perhaps, in the writing. and they wonder why sales are dropping off in the theatres…

so i saw Syriana the other night (i should note that i watched most of the movie by myself, because aparently it wasn’t good enough to keep the attention of hannah and kelly for more than 45 minutes). i thought it was a decent movie, but way too complicated to really understand without rewinding a few times. i have to admit that i actually watched 3/4 of the movie, read the wikipedia synopsis, and then finished the movie. i had most of the plotlines and characters correct, but there were a few things i definitely would not have caught without reading the synopsis, even after watching the entire movie. perhaps the characters are a bit stereotyped (especially how all Arabs are presented as puppets of the US). oh, and it criticizes the US, which is why columnist Charles Krauthammer says “Osama bin Laden could not have scripted this film with more conviction.” well, i’d like to see him try anyway.

i would review this movie, because i did watch it, but the ninja beat me to it and said everything worth saying.

and then said some more things - but go check it out.

(hint: not a great movie)