Get Smart review

OK, call me a sucker but I love The Rock. The first movie that he is listed under his own name is Get Smart and that is the movie that I went to see on Sunday evening (well it was more like afternoon as it started at 17:00, but I digress).  My incredible bias towards anything that involves Dwayne Johnson tends to overpower my otherwise rational mind (I paid too see Doom in cinema for fuck’s sake!) but even I was confused whether this was a comedy or an action film. Just as there is in my mind a positive bias towards The Rock, there is a negative one towards Steve Carell (and towards his friend Will Ferrell for that matter). I have nothing against him in more serene or dramatic roles but his overacting in the comedies is just distracting. Therefore the movie in question is not particularly funny, while the action is not over-the-top enough to be a great action film. It tries to be True Lies but with extra comedy and comes up short. (The Rock is still probably the greatest thing in it.) Some of the set pieces are nice but lack the “wow” factor, while it is very hard for me to accept Anne Hathaway going one-on-one with The Great Khali. Overall this film feels underdeveloped and over-reliant on Carell. Which is a bummer as there is a fun movie hidden somewhere inside.

On a separate note, I would like to mention an interview with Robert Downy Jr. in which he states his opinion of The Dark Knight.

I’m BAAAAAAACK!

Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned… It’s been over quite some time since my last confession/blog…

Is what I would have said if I:

1. Were a Christian (this did sound utterly Catholic)
2. did consider my not-blogging a sin (mind you, I sin plenty in other areas, but it still does not warrant a conversion )

Ok, let’s go over a few things that I’ve experienced over the last few months. Football-wise nothing good happened (with the exception of Zenit winning the UEFA cup). Job-wise…. well… considering that I am at work right now writing this…. it is probably not that satisfying. I bought a car – a 2005 Hyundai Elantra. It’s not much and the fuel consumption is horrible (or is it just my driving?) but it’s a car.

Now, to the three rants that I have:

1. Can people please stop praising “The Dark Knight”?! For fuck’s sake, it is not the greatest movie ever made! Stop giving it extra stars just because Heath Ledger is dead! He was a good actor and this was a good performance, but there is a limit how much of an influence this should be! The first Nolan Batmanwas praised for being focused on the Batman rather than the villains.  In this one it is the opposite – Batman is kind of an afterthought, but this is apparently a better movie according to the same critics. What a load of bollocks! I did like the second film a bit more than the first one (the editing was much less nauseating) but I did not really enjoy either of them.
2. I was on holiday in France for a few days and I found myself in FNAC in Nice city centre reading manga in French. Not only are there more title published in French than in English, there are some titles that even the scanlators haven’t gotten to. Also, unlike their American counterparts, the French publishers actually acquire the rights to some adult manga and not just shounen stuff. Why the fuck is that? I know the the French have this entire culture in regard to what they call BD that publishes quite a lot of works for the adults, but surely such audience can be found in the English-speaking countries as well?! Have the Americans ever heard of the “product diversification”? Morons.
3. I am tired of constantly being screwed on prices of electronics.  I’ve been wanting to buy a MacBook Pro or an iMac for quite some time now, but the prices in Israel are twice of what they are in the US. This summer I also decided to buy a DSLR (I was thinking of Nikon D80). In the US with the lens that I want it would cost me less than $1400. In Nice It was closer to EUR1600 while in Israel the price is app. $1900. If there is a chance (I know there isn’t but still) that somebody from the aforementioned companies who has some influence over worldwide prices is reading this I just want to say one thing: Stop being such a useless cunt and help us poor consumers! Tell you fuckin’ distributors to stop ripping us off!!!

Anyway… I am back and I will rant and vent and probably whine more in the future.