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Terminator 3

In Mini Movie Reviews on 12 September 2003 with 2 comments

Living in London has neutered my ability to see movies in a timely fashion. A natural side-effect of this delay is that I’m as tardy with my reviews as Scorcese was making Gangs of New York. I finally had the opportunity to see Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and then proceeded to take even [...]

Pianist, The

In Mini Movie Reviews on 29 June 2003 with Comments Off

I don’t usually watch movies on my transatlantic flights because I have a knack for sleeping on anything in motion (planes, trains and automobiles) but this past trip to Toronto and back, I watched a fair number. The first of which was The Pianist. Having not seen The Quiet American nor Jack Schmidt, I can’t [...]

Matrix Reloaded

In Mini Movie Reviews on 23 May 2003 with Comments Off

Once again, I’d like to say: Trailers are bad. If there was ever a movie that didn’t need the hype, this would be it. Why couldn’t you just have teaser trailers with scary closeups of Morpheus’s gap in his front teeth? I think you could show that and people would still flock to the movies. [...]

X2: X-Men United

In Mini Movie Reviews on 21 May 2003 with 1 comment

The short version: Bigger than the first one, better than the first one, but X-2‘s still no work of art. Let me just say, the one thing X-men has done right is their casting. The actors all act and look very much like how I’d imagine the real life versions of characters to be. OK, [...]

Better Luck Tomorrow

In Mini Movie Reviews on 21 May 2003 with Comments Off

I saw this movie about a month ago and never got around to mentioning it. It certainly is worth mentioning. I recall reading an interview with the director Justin Lin sometime last year and the point that stuck was his comment that Asians in Hollywood have to be Asian™. I’ve always noticed this point as [...]

SXSW/Film Reviews II

In Mini Movie Reviews on 18 March 2003 with Comments Off

SXSW /film ended on Saturday. The music festival is still going but I’m probably not seeing any of the acts. More movies that I’ve watched: Where’s the Party Yaar? Bollywood / Hollywood Spun The Eye The Revolution Will Not be Televised

SXSW/Film Reviews I

In Mini Movie Reviews on 13 March 2003 with Comments Off

This week, I have been attending movies at SXSW /film. I’ve seen quite a few films and will see quite a few more before the week is up. So far: Narrative Shorts: Included movies Family Tree, The Cutman, A Ninja Pays Half My Rent and My Blind Brother. The Cutman was so-so, it was difficult [...]

Saw Catch Me if You

In Mini Movie Reviews on 13 January 2003 with Comments Off

Saw Catch Me if You Can, Adaptation, Gangs of New York and Bowling for Columbine in the past week. Catch Me if You Can was good. Very light-hearted and fun to watch and easily the best opening credits I’ve seen with a very appropriate soundtrack. Leo was a good cast for this role. Adaptation was [...]

Just watched Gladiator — finally

In Mini Movie Reviews on 23 July 2001 with Comments Off

Just watched Gladiator — finally — on DVD, and I understand now what I’ve been missing. heh heh… In other semi-related news: have played GT3, and discovered that my humble GT/GT2 skills have very little carry over into GT3. Bleh… I’m terrible at the game (relative to my ability in GT/GT2, which only highlights my [...]

I saw [U-571] yesterday. Don’t

In Mini Movie Reviews on 23 April 2000 with Comments Off

I saw [U-571] yesterday. Don’t watch it for the plot but it definitely had the suspense going and the special effects were very realistic. Some parts of the movie, you would go, “yeah right” but other than that, check it out for the awesome sound (and bring ear plugs =) ).