movie diary

"The Grudge"
Saw the japanese one 2 years ago. Could barely follow the story, wasn't scary.
On a reccomendation we rented the US remake, which still took place in Japan and looks like used the same sets. It was better mostly because I successfully followed the story and could tell characters apart from each other, which may sound racist, but I didn't understand 'Jo-Un' mostly because I thought every single female in the entire movie was the same character.

"Super Mario Brothers"
Its still terrible. But, I think theres more than 90 seconds of cool footage I can take to make a fake trailer."

"Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back" / "Mallrats"
With Clerks 2 around the corner, some of us are getting excited to see some characters we haven't seen in about 5 years. With that said, these two flick have not aged well. "Mallrats" is especially sophmoric and poorly put together, but I'll give credit for making a star out of Jason Lee. "Strike Back" is a fans-ony affair if I've ever seen one, though being knee deep in the Kevin Smith lore upon its release, I didn't really see it that way. Oh well. if Clerks 2 gets laughs the first time around thats OK by me.