Movies: March, April
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trinityvixenDespite being late to work and having been actually busy yesterday for, like, two whole hours!, I am soooo bored today. So, it's time to catch up on movies I've seen.
I think instead of breaking them down by the month, I'm going to do something useful and break it down it enjoyed/indifferent/wanted to stamp on the disc and set fire to the writers.
Had fun with these:
The Full Monty - To date, I am still prone to start dancing myself whenever "Hot Stuff" comes on the radio.
Kung Fu Panda - Much more fun than a movie with Jack Black saying "ski-doosh" ought to have been.
The Princess Diaries - Oh, it's silly, don't get me wrong, but not terrible.
Bottle Shock - Alan Rickman is fabulous; what else do you need to know?
Scott Pilgrim vs the World - It may be blasphemy to say as much, but I'm reading the comics now, and uh, the movie was better...
Shutter Island - Good thriller, but not exactly the feel-good movie of the year.
Mega Piranha - There was a scene where a guy on his back moved his feet like he was pedaling an invisible bicycle so he could kick away CGI mega piranhas, so what's not to like?
Heavenly Creatures - An infinitely better movie taking advantage of how creepy it is for someone as beautiful as Kate Winslet to be evil than The Reader.
Kick-Ass - I'd like to join the chorus of people wishing they could be Hit Girl when they grew up.
Resurrection - I expected this to be cheese, given that it was a thriller starring Christopher Lambert (who was supposed to be Creole?), but it was decent enough.
Walk All Over Me - I know it would be typecasting, but if Tricia Helfer were a dominatrix in every movie, would anyone really complain?
The Losers - Okay, so it played out as sort of a knock-off A-Team, but I liked it.
It Might Get Loud - Even to a music idiot like myself, this was fun stuff.
My indifference, let me show you it:
Twist of Faith - Very sad, very complicated documentary, but one that ultimately teaches us nothing about a thorny subject.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - I liked Robert Redford's terseness, but otherwise ::yawn:: another Western.
Cop Out - One character having me in fits does not rescue the whole movie, alas.
Silver Bullet - Even though it's adapted from one of the weaker Stephen King books, this could have been better.
Clash of the Titans - The whole movie should just have been Mads Mikkelsson growling at Atia of the Julii because they're the only actors in it.
Surrogates - Alarmingly interesting set up sadly not used to its fullest, most creepy extent.
Megashark vs Giant Octopus - This should have been awesomer, DAMN IT.
Bedtime Stories - It didn't out-and-out suck for an Adam Sandler movie, but it wasn't exactly brilliant either.
Blood and Chocolate - Still waiting for that penultimate, fascinatingly realized werewolf movie.
Logan's Run - Cool ideas and premise, but over all too long and too dry.
Kitchen Privileges - Rape victim homeowner doesn't know if downstairs tenant is actually serial killer--nor does the movie.
Away We Go - Some touching moments, but too forced by half.
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde - Sister Hyde should have been let out more, 's all I'm saying--rrrooowr, girl!
There are people who should die for these:
The OH in Ohio - I didn't need to see Danny DeVito give Parker Posey an orgasm.
Bottle Rocket - Wes Anderson's best movie was The Royal Tenenbaums, and nothing else he's ever done (including this movie) will convince me otherwise.
Riverworld - I didn't think this new SyFy movie could be less interesting than the last, but, hey! They managed! (Casting Tahmoh Penniket, he of the 8-foot-tall, leaning-down-into-smaller-people's-faces-leering, was probably how they pulled off sucking this hard.)
Princess of Mars - A former underwear model plays the hero, who is trying to rescue the titular (oh, pun intended there, my friends) princess played by a former porn star.
Planet 51 - One of those random CGI movies nobody has heard of and no one should waste time seeing.
I think instead of breaking them down by the month, I'm going to do something useful and break it down it enjoyed/indifferent/wanted to stamp on the disc and set fire to the writers.
Had fun with these:
The Full Monty - To date, I am still prone to start dancing myself whenever "Hot Stuff" comes on the radio.
Kung Fu Panda - Much more fun than a movie with Jack Black saying "ski-doosh" ought to have been.
The Princess Diaries - Oh, it's silly, don't get me wrong, but not terrible.
Bottle Shock - Alan Rickman is fabulous; what else do you need to know?
Scott Pilgrim vs the World - It may be blasphemy to say as much, but I'm reading the comics now, and uh, the movie was better...
Shutter Island - Good thriller, but not exactly the feel-good movie of the year.
Mega Piranha - There was a scene where a guy on his back moved his feet like he was pedaling an invisible bicycle so he could kick away CGI mega piranhas, so what's not to like?
Heavenly Creatures - An infinitely better movie taking advantage of how creepy it is for someone as beautiful as Kate Winslet to be evil than The Reader.
Kick-Ass - I'd like to join the chorus of people wishing they could be Hit Girl when they grew up.
Resurrection - I expected this to be cheese, given that it was a thriller starring Christopher Lambert (who was supposed to be Creole?), but it was decent enough.
Walk All Over Me - I know it would be typecasting, but if Tricia Helfer were a dominatrix in every movie, would anyone really complain?
The Losers - Okay, so it played out as sort of a knock-off A-Team, but I liked it.
It Might Get Loud - Even to a music idiot like myself, this was fun stuff.
My indifference, let me show you it:
Twist of Faith - Very sad, very complicated documentary, but one that ultimately teaches us nothing about a thorny subject.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - I liked Robert Redford's terseness, but otherwise ::yawn:: another Western.
Cop Out - One character having me in fits does not rescue the whole movie, alas.
Silver Bullet - Even though it's adapted from one of the weaker Stephen King books, this could have been better.
Clash of the Titans - The whole movie should just have been Mads Mikkelsson growling at Atia of the Julii because they're the only actors in it.
Surrogates - Alarmingly interesting set up sadly not used to its fullest, most creepy extent.
Megashark vs Giant Octopus - This should have been awesomer, DAMN IT.
Bedtime Stories - It didn't out-and-out suck for an Adam Sandler movie, but it wasn't exactly brilliant either.
Blood and Chocolate - Still waiting for that penultimate, fascinatingly realized werewolf movie.
Logan's Run - Cool ideas and premise, but over all too long and too dry.
Kitchen Privileges - Rape victim homeowner doesn't know if downstairs tenant is actually serial killer--nor does the movie.
Away We Go - Some touching moments, but too forced by half.
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde - Sister Hyde should have been let out more, 's all I'm saying--rrrooowr, girl!
There are people who should die for these:
The OH in Ohio - I didn't need to see Danny DeVito give Parker Posey an orgasm.
Bottle Rocket - Wes Anderson's best movie was The Royal Tenenbaums, and nothing else he's ever done (including this movie) will convince me otherwise.
Riverworld - I didn't think this new SyFy movie could be less interesting than the last, but, hey! They managed! (Casting Tahmoh Penniket, he of the 8-foot-tall, leaning-down-into-smaller-people's-faces-leering, was probably how they pulled off sucking this hard.)
Princess of Mars - A former underwear model plays the hero, who is trying to rescue the titular (oh, pun intended there, my friends) princess played by a former porn star.
Planet 51 - One of those random CGI movies nobody has heard of and no one should waste time seeing.
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Date: 2010-05-27 05:16 pm (UTC)It bothers me that the story of immigrant versus white, landed guy is given such a brush off. As if nothing matters so long as the product is good. This ignorance of the real politics and problems of racial resentments is why Libertarians are a bunch of fucktards. They think so long as you do the best, the rest will sort itself out. Riiiiight.
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Date: 2010-05-27 05:24 pm (UTC)