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: 2010-05-28 01:09 am (UTC)Ugh, and I just noticed there are more mini-reviews hidden behind cuts than I first realized, so I may have to come back and do more commenting. Anyway...
I fell in love with Alan Rickman the first time I saw Die Hard as a child.
I've been hearing good things about Kung-Fu Panda, so I'm not all that surprised to see another fairly positive review.
Hahahaha Mega Piranha. :D
Never heard of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, and it's based on a comic? Huh. Speaking of comic-based movies, I just saw the trailer for Jonah Hex in front of Iron Man 2 the other day and never even knew it was being made before that. Where have I been?
Butch Cassidy...: I've been curious about that one, but your review has at least temporarily convinced me I don't need to waste my time with it.
Silver Bullet: Saw it when I was maybe twelve or thirteen and it wasn't as scary as most horror movies were to me, but it still scared the shit out of me. Probably doesn't age so well, though, huh.
Alright, I have to go, but I'm will be back. : )
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Date: 2010-05-28 03:59 am (UTC)Scott Pilgrim vs the World has an awesome trailer online now, I'd recommend it. Without having read the manga (it's really more manga-like in English than it is just a comic), I saw the trailer and was convinced to go to a screening. It's a must-see for classic gamers, too. Jonah Hex looks like it might be a really bad mistake, which is a shame.
I admit to being not a fan of the Western, so take my Butch Cassidy review with a grain of salt. If you are similarly not inclined to the genre, I'd skip it. Rent The Magnificent Seven instead. Much better, which makes sense since it's a Western version of Seven Samurai which is awesome.
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Date: 2010-05-29 11:05 pm (UTC)