http://jordanhoffman.com I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:03:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A frightening fantasy film about a horrible, lawless, far off land called Mexico. What? It's real. Oy vey! It's movies like this that will guilt me into giving up my seat to every tired looking immigrant I see on the subway. http://jordanhoffman.com/2009/11/16/sin-nombre-2009-cary-joji-fukunaga-a/ Northlanders 17 is one of my favorite one-shot comics of all time. It's actually the one that got me all into Northlanders in the first place. It has no plot - simply a description of two Vikings in the middle of an honor fight to the death. The detailed ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2009/11/15/northlanders-17-20/ I am just as surprised as you are to learn that Fringe comics are good. I would say that this 6 issue arc is actually more fun than many of the episodes. It is, at heart, a prequel, with a young Walter Bishop meeting and working with a young William Bell. ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2009/11/15/fringe-comics-1-6/ It really holds up. And is incredibly offensive to women, Dwarfs, woodland animals. . .you name it! http://jordanhoffman.com/2009/11/15/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-1937-david-hand-et-al-a/ Meh. No new ideas. The holodeck is not a new idea. Nor is downloaded, post-human immortality. And the CGI looks pretty shoddy. I hope the series improves on the pilot DVD. http://jordanhoffman.com/2009/11/15/caprica-2009-jeremy-reiner-c/ In the build-up to 2012 I could no longer live with myself knowing I'd never seen Deep Impact. It isn't bad - well, yeah, I guess it is a little bad - but it gets points for trying. The problem, and I believe filmmakers (other than Emmerich) are starting to realize this, ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2009/11/14/deep-impact-1998-mimi-leder-b/ http://jordanhoffman.com/2009/11/14/2012-2009-roland-emmerich-c/ Everyone loves this movie but me. Imagine The Big Sleep but ten times more confusing but one tenth as charming. Plot, plot, plot gets shoved in your face - then everything gets explained, but then re-explained for real. The end. And no Humphrey Bogart. In fact, no characters at all to ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2009/11/09/tell-no-one-2008-guillaume-canet-c/ Even by the standards of bad, cast of a thousand stars disaster pics this is a joke. Odd is that Neame made so many great films - even a descent cast of a thousand stars disaster pic! (Juggernaut.) Well, Henry Fonda, Martin Landau, Natalie Wood, Sean Connery, Karl Malden and others face ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2009/11/09/meteor-1979-ronald-neame-c/ The early shorts are great for a historical perspective but, alas, they are a bit of a bore. Things don't get cookin' til 1989's Knick Knack (the one with the SnoGlobe.) Even though I've never seen Cars, I found myself greatly enjoying the Cars-short Mater and the Ghost Light, but that may ... http://jordanhoffman.com/2009/11/08/pixar-short-films-collection-vol-1-2007-john-lassiter-et-al-b/