Movie Idiot

We went seeking greatness in movies, and were most often disappointed. We waited for a movie like the one we wanted to make, and secretly wanted to live. -Roger Ebert paraphrasing a quote from Masculin Feminin

Monday, December 18, 2006

Blood Diamonds

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Many people I know hate Leonardo DiCaprio and I for the life of me can't figure out why. He is easily one of the top five actors workin...
Sunday, November 26, 2006

Delays are inevitable

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No one was more disappointed than I when I stopped posting reviews. I apologize for the long delay but things were out of my hands. School...
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Bobby

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I'm not really sure what the point of Bobby was other than a venue to make people sit through some RFK speeches. The plot follows the ...

Tenacious D

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I'm not the biggest fan of Jack Black. I tend to find him a bit annoying. Which was why I was more than surprised to find myself laug...

The Fountain

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Darren Aronofsky impressed me with Pi . It wasn't a perfect movie but it was an interesting. Then came Requiem for a Dream which left...

That's how Bond should be done

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Casino Royale is one of the best Bond films I have ever seen. Daniel Craig plays Bond as a suave but ruthless secret agent. Many a fan mi...

Fiction

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Stranger Than Fiction was a delightful film. The first film in quite some time that starred Will Ferrell where I actually thought he was p...

Borat

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The goal of Borat , I assume, was to show people in the US how ridiculous some aspects of its culture truly are. Let all America laugh at t...

Saw 3

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Yes, I have seen Saw 3 . Yes, I have often expressed how horrible the first two films were and how much I hated them while I was viewing th...

Man Of The Year

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What to say about Robin Williams? What to say about Man of the Year ? If Hollywood had never acknowledged either I suspect the world would ...

The Departed

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Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest directors in American Cinema. Even when his movies miss their mark, they are still cinematic feats. ...
Monday, September 04, 2006

Why, Mr. Statham, why?

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Jason Statham has played memorable favorites in Lock Stock and Two Smoking barrels and in Snatch . Which is why it pains me to see him in ...

In Heaven There Is No Beer

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It is hard in good conscience to talk about Beerfest as anything but an intentionally offensive, desperate pandering spectacle but the real...

Pulse

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Sometimes you go to a movie because you are a fan of one of the actors or actresses who happens to be starring in said movie. I can give yo...
Friday, August 11, 2006

The Descent

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The Descent is a pretty decent horror film. It doesn't do anything new or exciting, but the cast is good and the premise holds up over...
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Road To Gitmo

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You could imagine my shock when I discovered that Road To Guantanamo was not a long lost Bing Crosby/Bob Hope movie. Actually it is a docu...

Lady In The Water

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M. Night Shyamalan has been trying to perfect self indulgent tripe for some time now. He has finally succeeded in the agonizingly bad Lady ...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

District B13

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District B13 is a French action film. Its characters are wooden and poorly developed beyond their archetype. The plot has been recycled f...

So Much Potential, So Little Good

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My Super Ex-Girlfriend had a premise I really liked. A man dates secret identity of a superhero. He grows tired of her and breaks it off....

Clerks 2

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Clerks 2 represents a sad moment. In some ways I was interested to see the return of Dante and Randal but in other ways it shows the true ...
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Rory Larry
I study the economic history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds in my daytime commitments. Thus the desire to sneak away to the world of cinema.
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