Monday, December 08, 2008

Two Enjoyments Separated By a Disappointment

Saw the new Punisher on Friday.

I had read Ebert's review . And Pajiba's.

They were not wrong.

The Dark Knight was a hard PG-13. This movie probably hid behind that movie as much as possible. It gets away with all kinds of stuff. This is a very violent flick. Especially the sound. The sound guys must have had a field day on this one.

I want to talk about it more, but I don't want to ruin any of the 'gags' in the film.

There are some bad actors, there is a lot of bad dialogue, there is a lot of blood. A lot of blood. This is not a good film. But it made the entire audience laugh in shock. That has to count for something.

After the film, we ordered some poutine ribs.

There is a pizza place in town that offers poutine dry ribs.

What do you think that would be? I thought it would be dry ribs covered in gravy and cheese curds. Sounds delicious.

That is not what this pace does. Their idea of poutine ribs is ribs covered in sauce of your choice (barbeque, Thai, honey garlic, ranch, and so on) and then covered in pizza cheese. Pizza cheese is good on pizza, but pretty crap for poutine. It forms a hard shell of formerly melted cheese, making it hard to get to the non gravy covered ribs underneath.

We were all very disappointed.

And the first little bit of Forgetting Sarah Marshall was a bit disappointing, not as funny as we had hoped. But then it got funnier and stayed funny.

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