The Gravy Pot

This is the kind of movie summer movies ought to be chock full of. I've heard an awful lot about how bad "IM2" was.  Not personally from actual people, but online in reviews and what-have-you.  I loved "IM2".  It portrayed RJD's Tony Stark as an egotistical, way-too-proud-of-himself megalomaniac that would probably beset him had he actually done the things he did in the first "Iron Man".  He's one of the smartest, richest, most clever people on earth.  How else would you expect a guy to turn out?  That movie's main villain, Whiplash, played just fine by Mickey Rourke, along with Justin Hammer (played furiously good by Sam Rockwell), fit the bill for a followup for me.  The icing on that cake was in the form of Scarlett Johanssen's Black Widow.  The main annoyance of that movie for me was the shameless AC/DC plugs throughout.  I'm a traditionalist when it comes to movies for the most part.  I like a good score as opposed to a po...

Welcome to what will become a nice little review spot to accompany Ragnar Station , with The Gravy Pot being where all things good and lumpy will be taken to task by yours truly.  I've been thinking of doing this for a long time now, but the itch to get it going just became unbearable and here I am now. I'll be giving my opinion on anything that I have an opinion about, which is a far array of things from movies to TV shows, food to drink, music to webpages, you name it.  There aren't really any rules on what to talk about.  The thing here to remember is that it's just an opinion and not anything personal. At the end of every thing to talk about that I pick at will be a rating system of two simple sides:  Good Gravy and Lumpy Gravy.  Like the late great Siskel and Ebert's thumbs up/thumbs down symbols, it's black and white in its recommendation.  I either endorse it or I don't.  But I will elaborate on whether my recommend...

We've seen a few movies over the last little while that I'd like to talk about, in theatres, one on DVD.  We saw "Watchmen" in regular theaters and IMAX, "Coraline" in digital 3D, and "The Wrestler" on disc.   Seeing "The Wrestler" in theatres was tough to do, because it just wasn't there long.  It's a small budget movie, from auteur director Darren Aronofsky, and I was especially interested to see his work because he's doing the "RoboCop" reboot next.  "Robo", at least the first film, is one of my favorite all time movies.  I doubt it can be made as good as Paul Verhoeven's version, where he had his own stamp on satire and dialogue with ultra-violence blended in so seamlessly.   Mickey Rourke's Randy 'the Ram' Robinson is a mirroring of his own life, I don't know if it was intentional on the writer's part or not.  Rourke's had a tough life after some modest success i...