Cave Paintings

Being a fan of Jack Black, I decided to grab a copy of Nacho Libre. I figured, Jack Black doing a spanish accent, how could I go wrong.

Jack plays a simple friar who cooks for mostly the orphans in the church where he lives. Nacho Libre is actual Jack’s alter ego as he becomes a famous Luchador (wrestler). I use “famous” instead of “good” because he only wins one match at the end. He recruits a local villager, Esqueleto, to join him in his quest after Esqueleto steals the nacho chips left for him to take to the orphans. And of course, there is a love interest in the form of Sister Encarnación, a new nun.

The movie is slow in the beginning, and has very little dialog throughout the whole thing. This isn’t to say the movie was bad, to the contrary I enjoyed it, just be prepared. But the love story was weak. It really didn’t go anywhere, even at the end, it just seemed like they were friends, which I thought was a total cop-out, nun or no nun. But there were a lot of funny parts, like when Jack’s accent would just randomly drop out, or when he would go into a tenacious-D song. And all the other wrestlers were interesting characters as well, like these little troll looking guys that were crazy.

Overall, I liked the movie and would watch it again, but not over and over.

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Sharon hooked me up with a word press plugin that should eliminate the spam in comments, so I turned them back on. I will post an update to this article in a couple weeks and let you know.

For the moment, comments have been blocked on this blog, mostly due to the fact that I got over 1200 spam comments in less than a week. I will setup better filters soon, and if someone has a wordpress plugin they would recomend, shoot me an email: missing-link(at)evolutionar-e(dot)com.

Since this blog has been lacking a bit in updated content, guest blogger Heather has graciously provided a review of Martin Scorsese’s new film, the Departed:

Having lived in Boston for 4 years, the accents were very well done. That’s not a feat for Matt Damon being from there, but Leo Dicaprio sucks at accents and pulled it off – the preview to Blood Diamonds just before the show, his next flick, reminded me how bad he was, but he sucked at it in Gangs of New York, in my opinion. It was also nice to see places around Boston and know exactly where they were. On the bad side, it was one of the longest movies I’ve seen. I usually don’t like going to the theater because of cell phones and laser pointers, but also because long movies like this really make you aware of your bladder! As for plot, it left you guessing as to how it would resolve itself and multilayered. The final image is unbelieveably cheesy – is that Scorcese’s calling card? Favorite line: “Is there a difference between honesty and the truth?” It got me thinking. Lot’s of people shot in the head, lots of blood, and not enough sex to balance it out. If you’re using the 5 star system like netflix (1 - hate it, 2 - didn’t like, 3 – like it, 4 – really like it, 5 – love it) it’s a 3 almost 4.

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About a month ago, I was strolling through Best Buy and came across a DVD set of a show that was cancelled a couple years ago called Dead Like Me. I remembered the premise being a show about following around a bunch of people who take souls. Sounded intersting so I gave it a chance, and picked up both seasons.

My initial idea of what the plot is was close, it is a show about following around a group of people who take souls, because they are all grim reapers, but the show was more than that. The soul taking and after life is more or less the background of the episode, the real story was about the main character Georgia (called george) and how she is dealing with the fact that not only is she dead, but that when she was alive, she really didn’t live. Now with a semi-second chance, George begins to really experience all that life has to offer, while occasionaly taking the souls of people who seem to always die in gruesome, yet strangely funny kinds of ways. She is supported by other reapers, all with their own distinct problems and her “boss” Rube, perfectly played by Mandy Patinkin.

With it’s dark humor and clever dialogue, Dead Like Me won me over quickly. George’s attitude throoughout the entire series was hillarious, she is definately the perfect grim reaper. And even though the show only has two seasons, it does have one of the best series finales I’ve ever seen. After it was over, you felt like it actually had an end.

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