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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Immortals (2011) rating: 6/10

Shirtless Henry Cavill and Kellan Lutz -- nice abs -- cavort through this Greek (but really, I think, more Roman-like) gods and men and titans supernatural action flick.  Visuals are great.  Directed by an Indian fellow, I believe.  Is he possibly gay?  I ask because of the amount of male nipple shown versus any female flesh.  In any case, male casting was excellent.  The story barely holds together though.

Watching the DVD extras is actually helpful to understand what happens.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

The Debt (2010) rating: 7/10

Each character has two actors playing their roles.  One for 30 years ago.  The other for today.  They decided not to use makeup (making young actors look preternaturally old).  Probably a good choice because I ended up only liking two of the character+actor combinations from different times.  Mirren is great as the old Mossad lady.  How is it that she looks so, um, stereotypically, Jewish here?  And Sam Worthington is sometimes stunning as one of the young Mossad agents.  His older counterpart, played by CiarĂ¡n Hinds (Julius Caesar from Rome mini-series), is like Worthington fallen down some horrific cliff, which I suppose is always within the realm of possibility in 30 years, but would be one of those "God! What happened to him?" cases.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

San Diego Museums, overall rating: 4/10

Museum of Photographic Arts: wildly overrated in tour books, small, uninteresting

Timken Museum of Art: can't complain too much about free, but small, has a few very slightly above average paintings, weird old building

San Diego Museum of Art: better than above (not saying much); medium sized with some good paintings

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and La Jolla: rotating exhibitions; downtown was better with very interesting Isaac Julien and Ai Wei Wei pieces (downtown rating: 6/10)