I am hard pressed to find a dumber movie than "Premium Rush". In JGL' other notable films, he comes off as a smart guy's smart guy, but he evens out his image in the most hackneyed film to hit the screen this decade.
I won't waste your time or min with a full review with spoilers, but if you believe that a bike messenger can hit 50 mph in NYC, with a police bike officer chasing him with no calls for back up, then you probably enjoy other mindless BS like Gone in 60 secs, or any Vin Diesel movie. An idiotic plot that could all be solved with a single phone call to the cops goes on for 100 minutes. I watched at 2x speed for the final 40, so I only wasted 80 minutes by my calculations. If you understood my math, stay away from this turd!
Sep 14, 2013
Jinji Kohan Cooks Up Another Winner with 'Orange.."
There have been a lot of great ensemble casts over the years, from the Sopranos, to Deadwood to Frasier and Weeds. One season in, and the cast they've assembled for 'Orange Is The New Black"
might be the most talented of them all. The show, about a WASP-ish 30 year-old girl who gets sentenced to prsion for being a drug mule, gives the audience a look at female prison life that clearly side-steps all the expected stereotypes, and delivers incredibly well-rounded characters, far more fleshed-out than those on her previous show, "Weeds." Since we, the audience, are all wonderful people, we can try to look down on these ladies, but through the use of well-timed flashbacks, we learn why each inmate is there, and it makes us see that we're all just one bad decision away from joining them.
The lead character is both beguiling and bewildering. Taylor Schilling plays Piper Chapman, who is in the slam for 15 months, and I figure Kohan will have her do something,....... ill-advised, if the show runs more than 3 seasons, as I suspect it will. How else will she stay? The show is so good, I hope she murders someone!
Orange Is the New Black Info On IMDB
might be the most talented of them all. The show, about a WASP-ish 30 year-old girl who gets sentenced to prsion for being a drug mule, gives the audience a look at female prison life that clearly side-steps all the expected stereotypes, and delivers incredibly well-rounded characters, far more fleshed-out than those on her previous show, "Weeds." Since we, the audience, are all wonderful people, we can try to look down on these ladies, but through the use of well-timed flashbacks, we learn why each inmate is there, and it makes us see that we're all just one bad decision away from joining them.
The lead character is both beguiling and bewildering. Taylor Schilling plays Piper Chapman, who is in the slam for 15 months, and I figure Kohan will have her do something,....... ill-advised, if the show runs more than 3 seasons, as I suspect it will. How else will she stay? The show is so good, I hope she murders someone!
Breaking Bad's Final Eps Are Epic
Breaking Bad. If you haven't seen the show by now, I guess there's not much else that will convince you that you don't like well written, edge of your seat drama. It's free for viewing on Netflix, so it can't be a money issue... Are you afraid of the time committment? Yo, the first season is only 6 episodes! You'll be wishing that the last season had 60.
The most recent episode (SPOILERS AHEAD, SKIP TO THE PARAGRAPH FOLLOWING THIS)
with the desert gun battle between Walt and Hank easily ranks with anything in the multiplex for cinematography, but because this is between characters we all know so well, and have an investment in, the battle is jaw-dropping, and the simple cut to black RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIGHT? Talk about your cliff-hanger. I still find myself rooting for Walt, despite where he's gone, because I sense that he knows he's gone too far, and is trying to just exit the Earth as quetly as he joined it, but it is not to be...
It is followed up each week by the pale-in-comparison 'Low Winter Sun' which I'm trying to get into, to ease my inevitable withdrawal from Breaking Bad that I will feel in 3 weeks. AMC is in trouble, as LWS is not getting traction, and Mad Men and this are wrapping up. They shuffled the well-done Hell On Wheels to the Saturday night graveyard, for tactical reasons unknown to me. It should be the follow-up show behind BB... And now rumors that "Better Call Saul" is a go from AMC gives us all hope that the well-hidden humor in Breaking Bad gets its chance to blossom. Bill Odenkirk says he'd do it in a heartbeat, and that is the saving grace for all of us come 10:01 Sunday night October 11.... It'll be an epic finale. Vince Gilligan says he cried after writing the finale.......
The most recent episode (SPOILERS AHEAD, SKIP TO THE PARAGRAPH FOLLOWING THIS)
with the desert gun battle between Walt and Hank easily ranks with anything in the multiplex for cinematography, but because this is between characters we all know so well, and have an investment in, the battle is jaw-dropping, and the simple cut to black RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIGHT? Talk about your cliff-hanger. I still find myself rooting for Walt, despite where he's gone, because I sense that he knows he's gone too far, and is trying to just exit the Earth as quetly as he joined it, but it is not to be...It is followed up each week by the pale-in-comparison 'Low Winter Sun' which I'm trying to get into, to ease my inevitable withdrawal from Breaking Bad that I will feel in 3 weeks. AMC is in trouble, as LWS is not getting traction, and Mad Men and this are wrapping up. They shuffled the well-done Hell On Wheels to the Saturday night graveyard, for tactical reasons unknown to me. It should be the follow-up show behind BB... And now rumors that "Better Call Saul" is a go from AMC gives us all hope that the well-hidden humor in Breaking Bad gets its chance to blossom. Bill Odenkirk says he'd do it in a heartbeat, and that is the saving grace for all of us come 10:01 Sunday night October 11.... It'll be an epic finale. Vince Gilligan says he cried after writing the finale.......
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