Never Not A Nerd

The plot summary that Warner Bros. has released makes it seem like a story about an unimportant man walking through a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but Denzel Washington is in it so it can’t be THAT dumb. The trailer makes it seem like everyone’s fighting over the bible.  I was going to say the plot may sound dumb but at least it looks cool, but I can’t even lie to myself like that.  It looks ridiculous, in the fight scenes the trailer shows it looks like everyone fights very slowly.  That doesn’t mean I don’t want to see it, it’s just going to be one of those movies that requires you to not nitpick.

The second trailer this week is for Army of Two: The 40th Day.  The first game was kind of terrible, but supposedly this one is going to be way better.  One of the multiplayer modes is locked for the first month unless you pre-order the game, which is a sure way to gain hatred towards release. This one looks like a rental.

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Autobiographical webcomics are bountiful on the web.  Still, there are a few here and there that manage to stick out.  For me, Allan is one of those comics.  It follows author Allan Wood, a young man who chronicles his life day by day in his drawings.  By all accounts, Allan is just a nice kid who made a webcomic and is struggling to figure out what else he wishes to do.  Every now and then his personal stories show a lot about who he is, how he lives, and what funny things can happen to some people.

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Ah Sherlock Holmes, the latest film from Silver Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment. Well, the first thing to say about it is that it’s not quite as bad the trailer wants you to believe. Yes, this is a drastically different take on the famous British literature ensemble, but it is not a vision that is necessarily too awful. This basically means director Guy Ritchie and producer Joel Silver didn’t totally molest, embarrass, and violate the property like hmm, let’s say… Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg with the Transformers franchise. All and all this film will entertain anyone looking for a “buddy-cop” comedy affair at their local theater. Essentially Sherlock Holmes is the British version of the Rush Hour movies with Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan only the writing is far better and everything is set in the period of the industrial revolution. Of course there is no swearing or repetitious racial stereotyping like Rush Hour, but the overall feeling of “bromance” between Downey Jr.’s Holmes and Jude Law’s Dr. Watson is pretty convincing and rather entertaining. The main aspect of the film which teeters it on the edge of good and bad is the plot and what a ridiculous plot it is. About an hour into the film, one could believe that they might be watching a film where Sherlock Holmes may confess himself to be the first Ghostbuster, who’s art would be carried on in the 1980′s by Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd in the battle against the Stay-Puff Marshmallow monstrosity. However, the writers of the film at least explain all the supernatural hubbub in the last five minutes during a strange sword fight. Isn’t big budget movie making just cute?

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