Movies Watched in September 2007
Submitted by iamthemaxx on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 11:24
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- [hated] War(2007 Philip G. Atwell) I'm sick of these kinds of action films. Enough cash, cars, and contraband thrown around to feed the world for at least a year. Count how many times they cut to those same three floor model cars. I lost count at about 25. No originality. No style. No enjoyment.
- [ok] The Brave One (2007 Neil Jordan) Hey look! It's Sayid, the interrogator, from Lost! Hey look! It's Jodie Foster's nipple…maybe. Jodie Foster's mouth resembles the Joker. Thank you plastic surgery!
- If you've seen the trailer for The Brave One then you can start the movie 45 minutes in. Trust me. You won't miss anything important. I'm all for vigilantes. Kill or be killed. Was the movie more about the actions of the vigilante or rather the relationship between the vigilante and the detective?
- "Because I couldn't stop for death, he kindly stopped for me…" One of my favorite poems.
- [loved] 3:10 to Yuma (2007 James Mangold) God, I love westerns. I would have changed up the ending but a wondrously enjoyable film never the less. A western movie marathon is in order. The character relationships were superb. [rewatch]
- [liked] The Interpreter (2005 Sydney Pollack) A complex series of events that somehow worked as a film. Or maybe cause I dig Sean Penn.
- [didn't like] Silent Movie (1976 Mel Brooks) I must have came in much too late for this film cause it was about as funny as a Christian Fundamentalist.
- [ugh] Shoot 'Em Up (2007 Michael Davis) I knew I was in for a lousy ride the second I heard Clive Owen mutter "Eat your vegetables." I knew exactly the kind of movie this was going to be. It's the action movie where you can cover behind a measly metal barrel in a gunfight and not have a single bullet penetrate. The one where you can dispose of an entire armada of enemies by merely shooting the environment around them triggering some amazing mouse trap to go off. The kind of action movie most people will go gaga over.
- I have a problem turning my brain off during these kinds of movies. For example, giving birth to a perfectly clean baby within a matter of seconds. At this point I have the option to move on to the next movie or stay and suffer. And if it weren't for Paul Giamatti, I wouldn't have suffered for another 20 minutes before finally switching movies.
- Clive Ownen a carrot eating sharpshooter.
- Monica Bulluci a lactating Russian whore.
- Paul Giammatti a psychic crime lord disguised as a salesman.
- And a baby with a knack for rock music.
- Might have been a good movie under different circumstances.
- [pass] Resident Evil: Extinction (2007 Russell Mulcahy) The earth won't wither and die with the fall of man you stupid, stupid movie. And if you tell me because some virus killed every living thing except a handful of humans and crows, I'm going to vomit in your mouth. Stop making these movies. Pass.
