Wednesday, October 23, 2002

"THIS IS THE REASON BALD HEADED MEN ARE UPTIGHT" Just saw xXx. I'm trying not to be too hard, after all it is a movie aimed squarely at the Nu-Metal pre-teen market but still... favourite moments have to be the scene of our bald hero peering at a brick wall with a pair of binoculars or perhaps the excellent sequence where he blew up a large pile of potatoes. Bit of a failed opportunity though - for a moment there it looked like they'd based the hero on MTV's Jackass but then he gets altogether too extreme-sporty. Wouldn't it have made for a better movie if the bad guys were being pursued throughout by a semi-naked fool in an out of control shopping trolley? I also appreciated the way that the scriptwriter liked the word 'submarine' in his story but never bothered to look up what one actually was - here's a clue - the Gerry Anderson creation at the end of the movie was supposed to go under the water... Oh well. He'd still make a good Kojak. Mike is blogging to: nothing

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