tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post4467466152180902880..comments2024-03-29T11:29:58.276+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: the Bonefish Grill and "Looper": two reviewsKevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-35118695352093585962012-11-04T23:49:36.394+09:002012-11-04T23:49:36.394+09:00While I enjoyed the film, I found it extremely dif...While I enjoyed the film, I found it extremely difficult to watch because even with extreme global warming, I just can't picture sugar cane ever growing in Kansas as the tropical grass has just a very small foothold in the U.S. (Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and Hawaii). It not only can't survive harsh winters, but needs a lot of water to be productive. <br /><br />The high point of the movie was the young boy played by Pierce Gagnon. A truly remarkable young actor and the director definitely knows how to find them, but I guess you wouldn't know that since you haven't seen <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cVzHeJ0Z3I" rel="nofollow">Brick.</a> Joseph Gordon-Levitt owes a lot of his success Rian Johnson as he was still mostly considered a TV actor ("Dark Shadows" remake and "3rd Rock") up until "Brick" made him a bona fide film actor as well. <br /><br />If you get a chance, check out the final season's episodes of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvyCMYs5Ctw&feature=related" rel="nofollow">One Tree Hill</a> featuring this great young actor. Rian is telling the truth when he says Pierce will be even a bigger star than his good buddy Joseph. John from Daejeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08431973044799010218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-56076231419734222512012-10-08T07:19:25.781+09:002012-10-08T07:19:25.781+09:00I would have picked Sade's "Smooth Operat...I would have picked Sade's "Smooth Operator."<br /><br />As for my review of "Looper": I don't think I gave away anything major in my review. Feel free to read it, unless you'd rather not prejudice your own viewing of the flick. As for a rating: thumbs up. It was a smart film, and it may have done the right thing by <i>not</i> overtly concentrating on the paradoxes of time travel.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-90905322269234709962012-10-07T17:16:37.858+09:002012-10-07T17:16:37.858+09:00"The staff were all smooth, well-trained oper..."The staff were all smooth, well-trained operators."<br /><br />Thank you. Now I will have Michael Jackson stuck in my head for the rest of the evening (well, a song of his, at least, not MJ himself).<br /><br />I skipped the Looper review part of the post because I didn't want any spoilers--I plan to go see it sometime soon. Just give a thumbs down or a thumbs up (or a thumbs sideways, if appropriate).<br /><br />Hmm... why do we say "thumbs down" or "thumbs up" when we're usually only talking about one thumb?Charleshttp://www.liminality.orgnoreply@blogger.com