Mini Movie Reviews
In just a few sentences … or less
Thank You for Smoking
Brilliant and funny with some absolute, “that comment is so wrong but so true” moments. Why does William H. Macy play the loser so well? Every time i see him, phrases like “gosh darn diggity” come to mind because he just looks so harmless that he couldn’t even possibly curse. Mental note: work on my [...]
Crash
I was really confused when there was all this buzz about this movie because I had watched a not so old movie by the same title which I thought was good if bizarre (it’s a David Cronenberg afterall). The new one is unrelated and rings like Magnolia in mood and storytelling. The acting isn’t as [...]
V for Vendetta
It’s hard to even just hear Hugo Weaving without expecting “Mr. Anderson” but I felt he did a very adequate job of portraying V, especially his introduction. The various officials weren’t given as much development as the comic due to time constraints, thus making out some antagonists to simply be “evil” in a far too [...]
Initial D
Based on the anime/mange, this Hong Kong flick features actors who speak worse Cantonese than I do and/or worse acting than Haiden Christiansen in Attack of the Clones but has fast cars doing street racing and a couple of highlights from Anthony Wong play Bunta (the dad) with even more character than the anime and [...]
Suicide Club
Said to be the little sister of movies like Battle Royale, this movie is absolutely gruesome in its bloodshed (its the genre of inspiration for Kill Bill afterall) but aside from a strange musical interlude, was an awesome movie about a mysterious chain of mass and individual suicides. [imdb link]
Hellboy
A few weeks ago, I was at SxSW for the Interactive festival. Usually, I show up only for the film festival but this time I had very little time for the films which was rather unfortunate since there were a lot I wanted to see including Bush’s Brain, Supersize Me, Jersey Girl, Red vs Blue [...]
Casshern
Ok this trailer of a Japanese movie named “Casshern” is absolutely bad ass. It’s been around for a bit now I think but I’ve only just seen. It’s live action anime on crack.
Movies in the Past Few Months
I am way way behind in movie reviews. Those that know me, I watch a lot of movies that span a really wide range of genres. My view is that movie reviews from “critics” try to hard with word play, spoil movie plotlines and endings and generally differ in opinion from me. Personally, I prefer [...]
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Many have seen Kill Bill vol. 1 advertised as Quentin Tarantino’s 4th Film. Everyone immediately thinks of Pulp Fiction and the more seasoned will recall his first attempt at non-sequential story telling with Reservoir Dogs. The third and least popular was Jackie Brown, the film that featured Samuel L. Jackson’s braided goatee and the line, [...]
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
I have always been a big fan of Johnny Depp. His choice of roles are always interesting and seldom mainstream. From Hell to being a Dead Man, he seems to always border on the fringes of Hollywood without stepping squarely into “Summer Blockbuster”. Pirates, I think, is a pretty big departure in that sense for [...]
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