Giles ,'Chosen'
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This one is a modern fairytale:
Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalized, Chuck roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took his soul back. The devil, who appreciates irony, couldn't stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every second Wednesday of the month.
Every single person I have ever met is now in receipt of the facts. Oh dear God.
Chuck Norris forced me to change my tag line. And I thanked him for declining to roundhouse kick me in the head.
That whole thing is a tagline waiting to happen.
By the time I got to
Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.
I emailed it to everyone I know who likes funny things.
Aeon Flux is unspeakably bad. That is all.
One review said that it might be fun for people who like bad movies, and for people who are capable of checking their brain at the door. I was thinking of seeing it on a matinee.
Oh I wish, because I love bad movies. Bad sci-fi especially. This one is not so-bad-its-good. It's just bad. The script is bad. The plot is bad. Even the action scenes are bad. The costumes and production design are okay, if you've never seen Logan's Run.
There are three pages of expositional text before the opening credits. Then there is another ten minutes of voice-over narration with more exposition -- the kind that only gets added after the studio has recut the film so many times that adding voiceover narration at the beginning is the only way they can remember what movie they're recutting.
It's baaaaaaaaaaad.
I think it looks good. But I also found the Charlie's Angels movies to be enormously entertaining. So I don't know whether or not I'll actually see it.
But I did watch 13 Going on 30 last night. That was even worse than I expected.
But I also found the Charlie's Angels movies to be enormously entertaining.
So did I. That's the kind of bad movie I can get behind.
I don't think anyone involved with Aeon Flux was having even a shred of fun making it. Several scenes towards the end of the film involve characters impassionedly telling other characters "This has to end!" And DH and I looked at each other as if to say "She's saying what we're all thinking!"