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

Thursday, August 30, 2007

War

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Of all the movies I thought that I would be seeing when I went to see War , the one I got was a bit of a surprise. If you've seen the tr...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Nannies, teen comedies and buddy cop movies

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I'm always disappointed when I see a movie and it doesn't inspire me to write something. Bad movies make me want to rant, good movie...
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Monday, August 27, 2007

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy

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All summer long the fantastic independent theater here in Durham was closed for renovations. This is the theater that permitted me to see Al...
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Monday, August 13, 2007

Stardust

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In any given year I see a great deal of movies. I have averaged about 75 movies in the theater for several years now. In addition I rent man...
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Becoming Jane

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As a fan of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (both the book and the most recent adaptation into a movie), I held low key hopes for the...
Friday, August 10, 2007

A War You Won't Believe

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No this is not a rant about Iraq. This is a review of 1982 classic Sly vehicle First Blood . Some might question how in good conscience I co...

An Academy Runner-Up

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In 1970 at the Academy Awards Midnight Cowboy took home the award for best picture. It has been a while since I've seen that film but m...
Thursday, August 09, 2007

Coming Soon

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I was starring at my tv watching some mindless show last night and as I glanced to either side of my tv at my beloved dvd collection I reali...

Sunshine

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Sometimes it can be hard to remember that Science Fiction as a genre can be well done or at least not terribly done. You get caught up in th...

Hot Rod

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If you ever wondered why does the movie idiot go to see movies he knows he will hate? You are not alone. I've wondered this for years. T...

Bourne Ultimatum

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Bourne Ultimatum is now up at Cinematic Arena .
Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Transformers

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I'm not going to sit here and try to come up with some elaborate justification of why Transformers is a good movie. In fact, I'll d...
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New Cinematic Arena Up

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Live Free Or Die Hard is now up at Cinematic Arena .
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

1408

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1408 is the latest victim of the tete-a-tete that is Cinematic Arena for your reading pleasure.
Monday, June 25, 2007

Evan Almighty

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Remember that movie a while back starring that no talent hack, Jim Carrey who gets the power of god and then realizes how tough it is to be ...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Fantastically terrible

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I want to write as few words as possible to express how much I disliked the new Fantastic Four movie. It has a poorly plotted story with ter...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Ocean's 13

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Ocean's 13 debate now up at Cinematic Arena for your reading pleasure.

Teil Zwei

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Did anyone see the trailer for Hostel 2 . The voice over was all in German. It was bizarre and inexplicable and made me think "what in...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Michael Bay is trying to kill me

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This has always been a movie blog. Movie reviews, strictly. I've tried to keep it that way. I probably shouldn't be writing this ...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Knocked Up

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If you are really interested in reading my Knocked Up review, you will have to travel over to Cinematic Arena to view it there, as it was t...
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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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