I've been really, really wanting to take a day off for awhile. Not doing any music, online marketing, cleaning, errands, nothing. And so today I took it.
And I saw two movies, neither of which was the one I originally intended to see.
First: DOA (Dead Or Alive). Do not see this if you are expecting a deep, dark introspection of the human soul. It's a movie about a video game. A fighting game. With gorgeous women in bikinis. Who occasionally play volleyball. Why, yes, they do. And, yes, they do.
It's over-the-top, there are some people in it who so badly want to be in a remake of Enter The Dragon... but I enjoyed the hell out of it. And Kevin Nash was great in his, what, five-minute part. For what it tries to do -- admittedly very little -- I think it works fine.
And a couple of the ladies are really yummy.
Shrek The Third was a lot of fun as well -- not as laugh-out-loud as the first or even the second, but it had some excellent moments and a couple of musical bits that you will just gape at the audacity of. Like many of the trilogies as of late, there is no explanation of backstory -- if you haven't seen the first two films, you will be dumped in the middle of a really weird movie. If you have, all is well and very obvious.
Still haven't got to Spider-Man 3 yet. Or Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Although Ain't It Cool reports (along with a scathing review which is, bluntly, one of the whiniest fanboy pieces I've read in a long time) that Marvel expects FF2 to be such a hit that they're already developing a spin-off Surfer movie... supposedly written by J. Michael Straczynski. If JMS does it, I bet you a Zingerman's corned-beef-and-swiss sandwich that he goes right to the source material: the late 60s Stan Lee/John Buscema series that rocked the comics world so hard.
So... what are your weekend movie plans? Please keep the spoilers to a minimum.
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