Broog: Alien Film Critic

Submitted by dgeiser13 on Sun, 01/04/2004 - 10:17
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Alien film critic, Broog, has a weblog in which he reviews the cinematic offerings of we puny humans. He's only written a few reviews so far but he seems to have good taste in his movie selections and he's pretty darn funny to boot.

jim01/05/2004

Oh man, there's some great stuff in there. Consider this excerpt from its review of The Specialist:

[snip plot summary] By now it should be obvious even to you that this is a French Film Noir from around 1955. Purely in order to annoy Broog, however, the movie was made in 1994, and while it features the past-mistress of sexual frisson Sharon Stone, her opposite number is the somewhat surprising Sylvester Stallone. Made in its proper timeframe, this would be a classic of the thriller genre. Dislocated and colourised, it is a forgotten expense in a ledger at Warner Brothers.

... or this opening paragraph to its Return of the King review:

The mighty cinematic edifice which is the human Jackson’s rendering of Tolkien’s classic novel grinds to its imperial conclusion in the third film, "Lord of the Rings: The Fat Jolly Hobbit Saves Middle Earth And Everyone Is Nice To His Whiny Friend". The movie follows the exploits of Sam as he hauls his limp and apparently pointless companion across the dark desolation of Mordor, struggling against hunger, despair, orcs, giant spiders, Gollum, and what must surely be an overpowering desire to slap Frodo until he resembles a hubcap.

I'm hooked, I just subscribed. Thanks for the link!

dgeiser1301/05/2004

Jim, I'm glad you liked it. :-)

One side question, how did you "subscribe"? Is that via an RSS feed? If so, how did you find the feed?

jim01/05/2004

Hmm, I *thought* I'd tracked down an RDF file at rss/index.rdf. But it seems to be for a "sarteinfo" blog. Puzzling and disappointing.