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Lots of people don't know this, but Fool and I used to be one and the same person until -very- recently.
Where we split was when Fool sat through all of Sliding Doors and wrote that superlative review, while I (mercifully) slept my way through it. The ever unimpressive daughter of Blythe Danner and her pretentious Brit thing caused the sliding door of my brain to shut off.
I don't know why Fool and I exist simultaneously in the same universe. Perhaps it's because neither of us is a bottle blonde with a massive zit. I don't question fate, though, as long as no one makes my copy suffer through another Paltrow chick flick.
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so you guys are Tyler Durton and jack's raging shit?[smilie=jefffoster.:
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I like to do my movie reviews BEFORE I see the movie. This way, I'll save myself alot of money by not seeing it at a theatre (If I give it a bad review), and subsequently save over $5700.00 by not buying junk food at the concession booth.
Which brings me to Apocolypto:
Apparently, Mel Gibson has taken time off from Nazi Drill Camp to make another movie. This one looks bad, and I can sum it up in two words:
Loin Cloths.
It's bad enough that the movie won't be starring Scarlett Johannson and Beyonce, but apparently its going to feature alot of guys running around in:
LOIN CLOTHS.
Now, I guess it's about the Rain Forrest, or saving the planet or some such shit, but again, we don't all have to be wearing LOIN CLOTHS while saving the planet now do we?
I'm going to have to give this one the old "Thimbs Down" for thinking that I need to see a bunch of guys running around in LOIN CLOTHS and giving their "undercarriage", as Austin Powers would say, "A bit of a how's your father".
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^this guy is good
Hope he doesn't get an ego.
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Apocolypto looks like shit
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Good Night, and Good Luck--8/10
Amazing performances from Strathairn and Clooney, and great use of real footage. Watched this with someone who vividly remembered the Communist witch hunt and she loved it. My biggest complaint: it ended so fucking abruptly that it wasn't even funny, really.
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As a feature to the WTF Forum, I have been asked (by my wife so she won't have to talk to me) to review another movie.
This one's a bit older, but no less poignant than something that was just released today.
I'm going to take a look at "Flight Plan", starring Jodie Foster.
First of all, it's a very old plot format: Character wakes up, life is completely changed, no record of his existence, yet in the end, he proves to the world that (unfortunately in most cases), he does in fact exist.
In this case, Jodie Foster's daughter is missing on a flight. That's right. Her daughter has disappeared from a luxury jumbo jet, and not only can no one find her, but they have no record of the kid being on the plane.
Now, in most cases, a kid missing on a flight just means some peace and quiet, and no one really would complain, but here, Jodie Foster won't give up.
Enough about the plot. I'm here to discuss the acting and the writing.
In particular, I want to discuss the considerable thespian talents of the little girl who played Jodie Foster's daughter, and the fellow who wrote the movie.
The girl was brilliant. She slept through nearly the entire movie. I have seen acting before. Even wonderful acting: I've seen Fred Willard. But this performance moved me to tears. She slept. And slept. And then slept some more. If I didn't know better, I would have sworn I was watching Laurence Olivier or Robert DuVall at their best.
I say give this kid the Oscar for Best Supporting Performance by a Female.
Now to the writing. What can I say?
No kid I have to pretend is cute; no stiff reading cue cards in a flat monotone that rivals the best math teachers I had in high school. Nope.
In a move of sheer screenwriting genius, the writer (don't know his name, but I'm sure he has a long career ahead of him after this masterpiece), he has the main child character not only sleeping, but OFF SCREEN for the majority of the movie. Alexander Payne, eat your heart out.
I give this one a THUMBS UP, even though Foster finds her kid and the bad guy gets blown up.
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Borat is the most funniest movie i have seen all year.
Not goign to give anything away but damn it is very funny
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De Ja Vu -- Good until they needed to wrap up the ending.....plot had more holes in it than wiffle ball
I also recently saw Clerks II for the first time and I gotta say, I was disappointed. I just didn't laugh that much...too much emotional touchy feely talk. The Lord of the Rings vs Star Wars debate was great though.
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http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/transformers.html
New Transformers Preview and Somehow I'm impressed. I think Spielberg has Michael Bay on a short leash to keep him from fucking it up. Has an Independence Day feel to it though.
