The Bourne Ultimatum
Somebody buy these people a tripod please! Ha ha! Kidding! (not kidding). A pretty ok movie, except that Julia Stiles didn’t have much to do, and the ending was like, “Didn’t we already see this?” How many times must a man have his shocking past brutally revealed to him before he maybe writes it down on a sticky note or something?
Marie Antoinette (2006)
I slept through part of this. Through most of it. I think I liked it though.
Flag Wars
Supposedly a documentary about gentrification, but it followed its subjects jaggedly, and things looked kind of sad for the gay gentrifiers by the end. They made themselves look bad. But the documentary didn’t really come to a head, and make a strong point like you’d like it to.
Extras, season 1
Ricky Gervais only has the one character, but it’s a good character! These six episodes were uneven, especially for American viewers who may not get all the cultural references – and I include myself among them – but the good parts were great. The Ben Stiller episode was funnier than entire movies Stiller’s starred in.
Steamboy
Technology is dangerous, you say? Children will save us? War is bad? MUST BE ANIME.
Sports Night
Aaron Sorkin’s first big foray into network television had glaring errors. The lines were precocious more than witty, and the actors didn’t deliver them like they meant them. And the “moral” of an episode was sometimes delivered as smoothly as He-Man passing out safety tips. I watched about a dozen episodes of season 1, and called it done.
Sidehackers (MST3K)
Another time when Joel and the ‘bots couldn’t heckle a terrible movie into something worth watching.
MST3K Shorts, vol 2
Funny.
Stardust
What a wonderful movie. Kept a lot of characters moving and vital, and had many fun ideas sprinkled throughout. Different than the comic, and you know what, that’s just fine.
Fantastic Four
Fantastically dumb. ("His organs are solid!")
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