Really? I thought it was really disappointing. It didn't play to JGL's strengths (other than his quads...), the stuntwork was weird and obvious, there were no character arcs, and the resolution of the primary conflict was anti-climactic as all get out.

Basically, if you don't like bicycle chases, there isn't that much other than that.

Watching FX. How is it the movie "Knowing" got made?

Really?

Indeed! It totally played to his strength of being adorable! But, I am a biker so the bike stuff was fun for me. Although, if I saw someone doing the things he did in real life it would make me have to yell at them!

Basically, if you don't like bicycle chases, there isn't that much other than that.

Preeeetty much! I mean, I see what you're saying, but I had a good time.

Watching FX. How is it the movie "Knowing" got made?

Dude, just wait till the last twenty minutes or so. It's amazing(ly bad).

I just watched Taken and, huh, it was actually really good! Liam Neeson sure does kill a lot of people.

I'm not saying the bike stuff isn't fun--just that the plot itself is kinda weak. Was Manny supposed to be such a douche that they couldn't say "Hey, you have a marker for thousands of dollars that a friend of the chick you're macking needs to bring her son to the US" Would he really not help out? I know he had a massive competition thing going on with Wiley, but I don't feel they established he was that heartless a prick.

I don't know much about the psychology of a gambling addiction, but, yeah, the bad guy was pretty OTT for the short period the movie covers.

Once someone had called the dispatcher and told him to switch the address--couldn't they switch it back again? Like, the woman who put the order in the first time? Or one fo the riders explain what there's some nefarious shit going down, and it need to get to the original address?

And was he really taken down by people riding by and shoving him? And everyone would show up just to shove him?

I don't think Wiley was particularly adorable. He was just there. They didn't spend time on character development, or anything--it was pretty much "JGL's playing him, he's cool, alright?" And I'd cheerfully wing him with a car door for cycling like that around my car. That shit's not cute.

I couldn't help but think about Kat at the ER and the Critical Mass corpse they wanted to put in the elevator with her--that was a guy riding a fixie with no brakes too.

P-C,

That's the part of the movie I saw! The last 20 minutes. I did not understand what the point of that movie was.

Ahahahaha. The point is to make me actually laugh out loud at a ridiculous plot twist, which is pretty rare. But I really do have to give the movie props for following through on the whole end-of-the-world thing.

I have not turned the channel, and "Ghost Rider" is on now. I have never seen this movie. This is the weirdest fucking movie. I'm maybe halfway through I am not sure this movie has much internal logic.

They seem to have left out some important information.

And, Cage is now just a caricature. There isn't any acting.

Then with Sam Elliott showing up, I suddenly wish this movie could be mashed up with Roadhouse. I think that would be fucking awesome.

You know, the number of elves in the LotR movies with blond hair and black eyebrows was pretty ridiculous, IMO; but now I'm beginning to think Peter Jackson is just screwing with us. [link]

(Image of Lee Pace as Thranduil from The Hobbit)

Why wouldn't he make Legolas and his father look alike?