Aleph Ersatz

Amazing film, simpy brilliant.  I <strong>must</strong> read the book now!

If you like the Die Hard movies, Live Free or Die Hard is definentally worth seeing.  It’s good old John McClane saving the world and cracking smart ass jokes along the way, as usual.  Although this time he gets a geek pro hacker sidekick he gets to draw along for the ride.

Good fun.

On monday I took the whole fam-damily to the movies to see the monstorous advertising campaign that is: Shrek 3.  I had well prepared myself by watching Shrek 2, with my good friends Coke and Bacardi.  I really liked the first Shrek and thought it was great, but knowing most trilogies spawned by sales figures, I wasn’t expecting much.  Baring that, I have to admin that Shrek 2 was quite good, not quite as good as the first, but definentally a quality family movie none-the-less.

With the second movie freshly in my mind, I partook in the viewing of the third movie, with my neck craned up as the front row was the only place where we could get four steats side-by-side.  Now despite the bad viewing angle, I still managed to watch and enjoy the movie.  However, it is pretty much the same as the second movie, except with a different plot.  The jokes are pretty much similar, the apex is similar, the points about believing in yourself are similar.  (Despite the fact that Shrek refuses to be King because he doesn’t believe he can.  Smart ogre?  Hypocrite?)

I will give Dreamworks props for the most creative use of a Led Zeppelin song in a movie I’ve seen thusfar.  But I will  also wave my parental finger of shame at them for throwing a Hooters reference into a family movie.

Overall it was a good movie, but just another Shrek movie.  A good movie to rent or *cough* borrow (via the internet) at some point, bot not worth the $9+ movie ticket price by any means.  Unless, of course, you are babysitting children, then I would call it 2 hours well spent.