I work with second- and third-grade kids on the weekend and one of them decided to draw my portrait today.
In case you couldn’t tell, I’m the one on the far right.

I had a chance to check out Tyler, the Creator’s latest effort: Goblin. I love the production value on it, but some of the songs tend to run a bit long.

It did bother me that there was an Asian racial slur in it but I can deal. On the overall, there was no way that the album could have met the hype but it’s definitely one of my favorites from 2011 thus far.

Some of the Mugshot crew and I went to check out SuckerPunch last night. It was awesome and awesomely bad at the same time.

To be perfectly fair, the movie wasn’t as bad as what some people have said. The storyline wasn’t as straight-forward as it could have been. And the CGI effects were up-to-par (when it comes to Zack Snyder creations). And it’s abundantly clear that the movie is single-handedly keeping the domestic eyelash extension industry afloat.

…BUT… The movie set a new standard for lack of character development. You never get a sense of why characters are in the situations that they are in. Aside from the general “escape” plan, the storyline does not offer the opportunity for salvation for most characters.

Halfway through the movie, I was convinced that the script was written by a focus group of 13-year-old boys. Steampunk? Orcs? Dragons?

The characters get dropped into situations without any sense of rhyme, reason, or logic, and the deus ex machina used ad nauseum is “imagination”.

Which brings me to my last point. As somebody who is older than 15, this movie was very average. But if I saw this when I was a high school freshman, I would be absolutely blown away. SuckerPunch would have the “nostalgia” factor that a lot of crappy movies that I saw in high school have come to adopt.

In short, see this on IMAX because the movie is not that great without the full benefit of effects. Otherwise, just skip it.

As a side note, I never would have expected Jena Malone (the protagonist from “Saved“) to star in an action flick.

A+ if this was a director’s demo reel.

B- as a major studio production.