owen_shock
Joined Apr 2010
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I recently viewed Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels, and thought it was a cinematic masterpiece. I watched Dead Man Running yesterday, when I saw that the two had a similar plot line. I wasn't expecting Dead Man Running to be as good of a movie as Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels, but I also wasn't expecting it to be almost as bad of a movie as Dave Eddy's Pocket Ninjas. The dialogue is rather lame, the twist is cliché and expected, and everything feels hand-me- down and second hand. Brenda Blethyn had a beautiful performance as Tammer Hassan's mother, which although was superb, didn't quite make up for 50 Cent's less than acceptable acting. Dead Man Running and Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels have the same situation with me as Corner Gas and Dan For Mayor. The Corner Gas/Dan For Mayor conundrum means that I enjoyed Corner Gas, but don't enjoy Dan For Mayor, although I want to. Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels is hands-down one of my all-time favourite movies, and Dead Man Running is hands-down one of my all-time least favourite movies. I really want to like Dead Man Running, but the dialogue, second-hand feeling, and clichés didn't do it for me. I give Dead Man Running a three of of ten.
Every week when I'm flipping through the channels I see the same old cryptozoologic show, where the hosts and hostesses don't seem to care about what they are researching, and hardly even try for evidence. This is not the case with Destination Truth. Destination Truth is a great show, following cryptozoologists across the world as they look for evidence of many undetermined species, in other words, cryptids. Every week I bear witness to some bone chilling evidence, (although mostly there isn't quite enough to prove the existence of the cryptid) and the hardy, trying work of the hosts and hostesses. Destination Truth is a terrific show, and I would recommend it to any fans of the genre. I feel like I really do know Josh Gates, and that I'm tagging along with him during his globe trekking adventures to search for cryptids worldwide.
