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Mini Movie Reviews

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The Departed

In Mini Movie Reviews on 20 October 2006 with Comments

Rotten Tomato gave this movie a very high ranking, with comments like “epic” and “brilliant”. Okay, so I thought it was a good movie but maybe because I saw the original and that made me see where it had potential and lost it. The original had much deeper character relationships. In the original, there was [...]

Little Miss Sunshine

In Mini Movie Reviews on 20 October 2006 with Comments

Character comedy is always great, especially with such a great cast of characters (and actors). It’s not a knee slapping kind of comedy, which one might expect because it’s one of the first major films Carrell has done since 40 Year Old Virgin, but it’s got some precious moments, both in humor and sentiment. Now [...]

Snakes on a Plane

In Mini Movie Reviews on 19 August 2006 with Comments

You already know what I’m going to say. Just as you already know what the film is about. If you’ve somehow not heard anything about it and wonder why there’s appeal … I can’t help you much. think of it like modernized campy b-horror flick that features … “muthafuckin’ snakes on the muthafuckin’ plane”. Also [...]

Talladega Nights

In Mini Movie Reviews on 8 August 2006 with Comments

Standard fare Will Ferrell. I think the best lines actually came from his character’s kids but like Anchorman, as a movie it was shit but buried in there are a handful of gems in lines. The difference was that there was no Steve Carrell and that made it not nearly as good as Anchorman. For [...]

Clerks II

In Mini Movie Reviews on 22 July 2006 with Comments

Unlike Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back, this doesn’t depend as much on references to past movies, instead cleverly injecting references where appropriate but not forcing the audience to have watched ever Smith film to date to appreciate. The dialogue is simply brilliant and, especially for the first half, so densely packed that I’m going [...]

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

In Mini Movie Reviews on 18 July 2006 with Comments

For a two and a half hour movie, it actually passed by surprisingly quickly. The slapstick elements of the movie bordered on ridiculous but were still entertaining while the action was sufficient tho not terribly memorable. I liked Keira Knightley’s larger role in this one. I do wish I’d seen the first one more recently [...]

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

In Mini Movie Reviews on 27 June 2006 with Comments

Fast cars. Sweet drifting. Hot women. Bad dialogue except this one line: “Why don’t you get yourself a nice Japanese girl like all the other white guys?” [ imdb link ]

Nacho Libre

In Mini Movie Reviews on 27 June 2006 with Comments

I’ve yet to be convinced whether Jack Black can do awesome movies that don’t relate to music. His best roles were in School of Rock and High Fidelity and his best single moment in Nacho was when he sang. Nacho is a terrible, terrible movie from an objective standpoint but I have a feeling it [...]

X-Men: The Last Stand (X3)

In Mini Movie Reviews on 4 June 2006 with Comments

Definitely worse than the first two though it still made the enjoyable list - barely. Where is Nightcrawler? Why did some jackass have to tell his friend who dies in a crowded bus on rush hour on the opening week? Who are all these mutants we’ve never heard of? Why make up characters when there’s [...]

Da Vinci Code

In Mini Movie Reviews on 26 May 2006 with Comments

A truly bad movie. Bad dialogue, inappropriate casting and poor pacing. On top of that, they took all the parts that made the book fun and trivialized those elements while emphasizing the more standard aspects associated with the thriller suspense genre. I’m not a fanatic about adaptations of books being accurate and true but really, [...]