In conclusion, more films about divorced alcoholic police officers who break all the rules and beat people up are needed. Please get on that right away, Hollywood types.

Thanks in advance...

I continue to think Last Action Hero was severely underrated. Loved that flick.

Try to view the movie for what it is then write, don,t just get your incredibly unfocused ridiculous and completely ass-raping view of a movie with a catch phrase of "Mr. Massawyrm Sees MR. BROOKS And Says it Mr. Sucks!!" then go on about how good the movie plays out then bash it because you weren't able to follow a story because you can't put a puzzle togheter.

If you say it's bad, then it must be good.

nothing will top when he said Gandhi was a violent prick and the war in Iraq was going great.

my take on it? somehow Animal Structure was involved in a horrible Taco Bell drive thru accident where he was all mangled and stuck in his car for hours. during this time, his head was LITERALLY stuck partially up his ass. all he had to eat for hours on end was the Taco Bell burritos he had just recieved before the accident. unfortunately, before he could be rescued, they passed completely through his system, and he was forced to expell them through his anus. due to the unfortunate position he was in, this caused part of his brain to actually be filled with burning taco diarrhea. in yet another horrible coincidence, the part of the brain affected was the opinion and reason center, in the right frontal lobe.

poor guy. he is literally a "shit for brains"

reviewer says something I disgree with = reviewer is wrong about everything.

you're more than entitled to your opinion, even as it dervies from a severe logical deficiency...but judging by your screen name choice, you aren't really here to do much more than complain, are ya? mm? mm? mm....

Ok, I thought that was funny.

I have to admit to loving A PERFECT WORLD. I thought it was a very nice follow up to UNFORGIVEN. I loved its quiet, unstoppable logic, and I enjoyed watching Costner play against type.

But OPEN RANGE, well, like I said, that gunfight at the end... I remember seeing it in the theatre, and the first gunshot was so loud, it jolted me. And it's pretty realistically violent. Love the way he swings his gun into the guy who's holding Annette Benning hostage. Like he means to punch him with the gunshot. Great stuff. I hope people who haven't seen will check it out. And did we mention Robert Duvall does his share of ass-kicking? Hell yeah!

I'm not upgrading for several reasons, and the main one is the shitty look of all these HD / BR covers. I hate it that they take up valuable space on the cover of my favorite movies to make sure I know it's a BR disk, or an HD DVD. I know, goddamnit, I fuckin' bought it. The covers just look like crap. Just look at the cover of Robin Hood in this article. Gorgeous, original poster, and that ugly as hell red HD-DVD advertisement. What a blemish. I'm a collector. I also buy the cover, and I hate it when Hollywood changes it from the theatrical release, like the STAR WARS DVDs.

I'm inclined to think BR is the best of the two based on the simple fact that it has a lot more capacity to store information, and in the end, it's all about ones and zeros. The more you can store, the more you can do. Period, end of argument. That the films look different on either format is a matter of encoding, and that too, is being worked out. That's the underbelly of this technology. While we're talking about which format is best, they're figuring out how to best encode their flicks. And once they've figured it out, they'll all do it the same way, and then, it won't matter what format you buy it on, because it will be 6 of one, and half a dozen of the other.

BR may also be the only format that will be able to survive, once Hollywood decides 1080 is low def, and that's going to happen pretty soon (next 5 years, guaranteed). Think about it: the Genesis digital cameras are the first step to getting digital filmmaking to catch up with the amount of detail you can get on celluloid film (Lucas used them, Gibson did, too on Apocalypto – did you notice they weren't shot on film?). I don't think for a second that digital cameras will not surpass celluloid film in definition and clarity, it's only a matter of time. History teaches us that technology will surpass itself, and I don't think my grandchildren will know what film is, unless I teach them (and you better believe I'll be taking them down to my dark room to show them how you develop film in the dark, and print gorgeous pictures under a green or red light (your choice – I have both, to adapt to my mood), it's one of the great art forms.

As for Porn, it's been said on this talkback already: they're not going to decide anything, because they don't sell all that many units, be it HD, DVD, or VHS.It's not the business they're in, anymore. The future of porn is already history: it's the net. Porn practically invented video on demand. They certainly have popularized it, and they're going to keep making a killing like that. Also, the porn studios are on their way out, whether they like it or not (I fucking love it – let the girls get all the money – they do all the hard lifting, for fuck's sake). As porn stars become mainstream, we can see how it becomes acceptable to be in porn. And amateur porn scenes are starting to look professional. This will keep getting better. Pretty soon, porn won't be about fake titted Jenna Jameson types, it will be about your own neighbor. Hallelujah!

Anyway, ultimately, I think HD or all kind, is an intermediary step. Once Video On Demand becomes the norm (see Apple TV as the first consumer friendly proof that it will, and many, many, many, will follow), only collectors will buy hard copies of movies. That's you and me, folks. But by the time that is reality, BR and HD DVD will be history, because they'll have a format that can store three times as much information on its media... and really, it's all a good thing. The whole ULTIMATE MATRIX on one disk: it's a moment away.

I therefore side with everyone here: get what you want, and have a good time. Like Rip Torn said in MEN IN BLACK, "I'm gonna have to buy the White Album, again." Yup, and we'll be happy to do it. 'Tis the way of the consumer world.

"logical deficiency" is ambiguous, sure, but I intended both meanings. (you buying that?)

I don't love Massa's reviews, and I've disagreed with him a lot, but the idea of some sort of specificity of mistaken reviewing is a little hard for me to swallow. POTC3 (which I haven't seen) is really a much different monster than this film, is it not? Massa liked that film, but the most he said about the writing was that it was "densely plotted" or something like that. he didn't say it was brilliantly written at all, just that it was very fun and enjoyable.

a movie like Mr. Brooks is a thriller, so all it has to do is thrill. i.e. not be so cliched and formulaic that it bores the viewer to death, as it did with Masswyrm.

so it isn't really his attitue about writing that you have trouble with, in my opinion, since he never really mentioned the writing in his original review. it's the fact that he liked a movie you obviously didn't, and now you think his opinion is invalid. which is a fair point. he liked a film, you hated it, you don't want to listen to him anymore. that's FINE, and certainly your right. but it does sound curiously like my original post, doesn't it?