Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: Knight and Day

Thursday, January 03, 2013

Knight and Day

At The Cinema

I am so embarrassed, but ...

~cheap thrills~

We watched Knight and Day last night (cable) and, erm...— Oh what the heck!— we enjoyed the hell out of it. In fact, it was maybe the most fun thing we've watched in months. No language, lots of mayhem and killing, but of the James Bond variety-no real gore.

Cruise and Cameron Diaz appeared on Top Gear together to promote this movie, and were actually quite engaging. Yes, I think Tom Cruise is a jerk, but you take your wins where you find them these days. Rotten Tomatoes gave Knight and Day 3 Stars, and so will I. But it gets 5 stars for keeping you glued. to it.

Rodger the Real King of France 1/03/2013 09:52:00 PM 7 Comments

"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. "
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Anonymous said...: I saw it, myself. IIRC, my own thoughts of it at the time was that it was a "good little mid-list movie that they (the marketers) are trying to promote like a blockbuster," which it wasn't.

Hollywood actually has a lot of watchable movies in the midlists, so I don't say that to denigrate it in any way. Just that it's one of those movies that probably would have been loved a lot more if it hadn't been overhyped.

(incidentally, I had to cycle through six different capcha images before both the word and the picture were readable. The new capcha set is pretty bad); 1/3/13, 10:19 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: I don't watch ANY TV commercial, or pay attention to new movies, so this was just a stumble upon flick.
for me.

captcha is entirely run by Blogger (Google). The only control I have is to turn it on or off. I had it turned off for more than a year, but of a sudden I was getting swamped by Chinese (by the sound of their fractured lingo) spammers. I mean like 50-60 a day. Had to go back to captcha. Sorry.; 1/3/13, 11:22 PM
Anonymous said...: No worries on the capcha: they say puzzles keep the brain working!; 1/4/13, 8:02 AM
Anonymous said...: I'm no great Cruz fan either, but you simply must go see Jack Reacher. It's the only film I've seen with an even semi-realistic portrayal of sniping. Some of the lines that Reacher speaks had to have been written by TRKoF. It's an excellent screen adaptation of a wonderful pro-American book. I'm surprised they ever got Cruz to agree to play the part it's so shamelessly pro military and pro American.
Cheers!

Armageddon Rex; 1/4/13, 1:25 PM
I-RIGHT-I said...: "I'm no great Cruz fan either, but you simply must go see Jack Reacher"

The books are entertaining and you grow to like Reacher a lot. I've read two in the past few weeks including One Shot. I don't think anyone that's read one of those books will sit still for two hours watching cruise try to act like a man, especially that kind of man.

Also I'm told they took the first part of the book out of the movie because of all the killing. That was the set up and without it the movie must suck out loud. It will be on tv in a few weeks. Read the book instead.; 1/4/13, 3:47 PM
Anonymous said...: Cruz may be a jerk but, since he does not talk about Terrestrial politics and I do not watch TV, I have not been exposed to enough of his ideas so that they prevent me from suspending disbelief while enjoying one of his movies. I find Diaz's big mouth, politically speaking, more problematic.

Freddie Sykes; 1/4/13, 4:19 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey, we just found one on NetFlix that is pretty hysterical in all sorts of weird ways. "Iron Sky". Made by Australians, Germans, Finn's and not sure who else. In 1944 some Germans escaped to build a base on the moon. Now it's 2016 and Madam President is running for re-election (she's a hunter from Alaska.)

Fairly apolitical, but very very funny. In a weird way.; 1/4/13, 7:49 PM

Thursday, January 03, 2013

Knight and Day

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