
Doctor Who blogging: “Dark Water”
None of this episode makes any damn sense at all.
film criticism by maryann johanson | handcrafted since 1997
None of this episode makes any damn sense at all.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if women protagonists had the opportunity to keep jumping back in time until they could get their lives just the way they want them? Ah, but that would require a movie with a female protagonist…
Really? Time-travel as a comedic dodge for manipulating women into thinking that you’re not a complete idiot?
I assumed once I’d read Niffenegger’s first book, The Time Traveler’s Wife that she was a Doctor Who fan and that her novel was inspired by the show. But I think this cements it.
Of all the washed-up washed-out over-the-hill too-old-for-this-shit action-hero movies we’ve had thrown at us this year — The A-Team, The Losers, The Expendables — Red is by far the most amusing, the most clever, the most tongue-in-cheek, the most fun (and I say that as someone who mostly liked those other movies).
Here are the thoughts I jotted down, pretty much in order as they occurred to me as I watched…
Now there’s a scenario for horror: Quentin Tarantino nipping at your heels: 1. The Final Destination: $15.295 million (2nd week; drops 44%) 2. Inglourious Basterds: $14.950 million (3rd week; drops 23%) 3. All About Steve: $14.1 million (NEW) 4. Gamer: $11.2 million (NEW) 5. District 9: $9.1 million (4th week; drops 11%) actual numbers, not … more…
It opened even better on the right side of the Atlantic than it did on the left side: 1. The Final Destination: £3.6 million (NEW) 2. Inglourious Basterds: £1.3 million (2nd week; drops 65%) 3. Funny People: £1 million (NEW) 4. The Time Traveler’s Wife: £.69 million (3rd week; drops 25%) 5. Aliens in the … more…
It’s Quentin Taratino’s biggest opening ever in Britain, too: 1. Inglourious Basterds: £3.6 million (NEW) 2. The Time Traveler’s Wife: £.92 million (2nd week; drops 35%) 3. G-Force: £.65 million (4th week; drops 30%) 4. Aliens in the Attic: £.64 million (2nd week; drops 51%) 5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: £.598 million (actual … more…
Bidness is boomin’ for the Nazi killers: 1. Inglourious Basterds: $38.1 million (NEW) 2. District 9: $18.2 million (2nd week; drops 51%) 3. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: $12.2 million (3rd week; drops 45%) 4. The Time Traveler’s Wife: $9.7 million (2nd week; drops 42%) 5. Julie & Julia: $8.8 million (3rd week; drops … more…