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This Film Is Not Yet Rated is a very good, entertaining piece of journalism about the evils of the MPAA rating system. I wouldn't have laid out the information in quite the way he did, but it gets its points across and was informative and interesting.
I saw a shitload of movies during my absence.
300 was good but not THAT good. I saw gutz excellent post on 300 about character buildup. I agree but there wasn't enough plot. War and sex is good, a definite man movie. best movie of the year..so far.
Inside man. I really enjoyed the ending. I am a huge Denzel fan enough said. but if ur looking for a movie with action and shit, this isn't the movie. oops
Saw training day for the first time a few weeks ago. Great movie, the shit.
Babel. I thought i wasted my time
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Couldn't agree more on Bable. A total piece of shit. Some "terrorrorrists" buy a gun in Japan and they can trace it to a kid who shoots an American tourist by accident? Well, have those fuckers look for Osama Bin Laden then!
This movie smacked of the same kind of sappy bullshit "we're all in one big circle of life" that filled the gagfest known as Mitch Alboms "Five People You Meet in Heaven".
Another "Movie with the Wife" review:
Trust the Man
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This movie appears to be about how women are always right when it comes to relationships since the only thing that happens in this movie is that both men in the film almost ruin their lives by not appreciating their loved ones. I think the director wanted Jack Black for the role of the guy who isn't from X-Files because the guy they got to play the role plays it in a quirky style that reminds one of Black without the exhuberance.
The all important "Romantic Comedy Mystery" that each director implants into these movies to hold a man's attention while he watches a Romantic Comedy for his wife comes in 2 parts in this film.
First, the aforementioned male actor in the film who wasn't on X-Files has the email address of "Assman204" which plays a minor part in the movie. The mystery imbedded in this address however is that the guy who's so much of an assman that he has it as his ONLY email address is supposed to be involved in a relationship with this chick.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal the sister of homosexual cowboy Jarhead.
What's tragically ironic about this is that she has the face that only a true assman could love, but not the neccessary ass that would be the basis of such love. Certainly bewildering.
The second mystery comes in the form of the actress whom the non-X-Filer is tempted by to betray his relationship with his assless ass-faced lassy.
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Eva FUCKING Mendes.
What? Eva Mendes is in this movie and she's NOT on the cover of the box? ...Wha ... I ... ??? And Assman204 is supposed to be faithful with MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL? I mean EVA MENDES comes on to him and he says "no thanks"? Really? Assman? Eva Mendes. Alright then.
The rest of the movie revolves around Mulder (or was he Scully, I never did get into X-Files) having an affair with some random European looking actress who is solidly hot enough for you to believe that a stay at home dad who gets no action would risk it with her. Especially since he's cheating on Julianne Moore who is as much of a "two-face" as there is in Hollywood IMO. Plus Moore is often sleeveless in this flick which only throws her extreme freckle disorder in your face and helps you believe that the alien detective would be unhappy that he found himself locked in a marriage with her.
It takes place in New York which means there is the required level of pretentious banter and of course an official "Dinner Party" where the beer drinkers make fun of the European artist. The movie ends with the guys making asses of themselves to prove their love and everyone ends up happy, except Eva Mendes who only gets a cold shower. This film should definately be classified as "unrealistic" and the presence of Mendes gives it the edge it needs to be an average to slightly above average chick flick.
Has David Duchovny actually starred in a good cinematic film post-X Files?
I've been waiting for the indie film The TV Set to come out, trying to balance my like of Jake Kasdan's vs. my dislike of every film I've seen Duchovny in.
(And no, I don't count the Red Shoe Diaries as cinematic films. For that matter, Duchovny isn't the star. :) )
Wow, hadn't thought of the Red Shoe Diaries in years. He did have a cameo in Zoolander [smilie=footballhel:
saw blood diamond. really good flick. dicaprio is one hell of an actor, i don't care what anyone says.
Don't watch: Black Dahlia, just like everyone says. There's a point about halfway through the movie where you say to yourself, "have I been hanging on all this time for plot twists in a plot that makes zero fucking sense?" What a disaster.
Do watch: Children Of Men. Wow, what a movie. Fantastic acting in all of it.
I finally got around to seeing Playas Ball, the movie that the Pistons' own Dale Davis co-wrote and produced that wasn't released when it was made because it was too close to the Kobe Bryant story. It's a so-so movie, not great, but certainly not awful by any means.
- The women are healthy and actually have back and meat on their bones (and even the token white skank isn't as anorexic as she could be), but don't show enough flesh.
- The music is poorly mixed in with the movie. DD was trying too hard to feature artists on his W.A.R. label, so you have music and talking where there should just be talking.
- The main almost chick-flicky plot is interesting and pretty good (if you can accept that someone would wait a year to set it all up). But, apart from the two moneygrubbing girls, the comic sidelines fall flat.
- There's a quick point at which our hero, the undersized PG, blurts out in frustration "we're just talkiin' about practice, man" which sounds like AI.
- At the very end, you see WEED-TV as one of the microphones interviewing the baller.
- Scottie Pippen and Dale Davis make an appearance, but don't interact with the rest of the cast. DD: "The mentor of my life is my mother." Just how real is it to have a movie about professional ballers without showing anyone taller than about 6'3"?
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Nobody here will take my advice I know, but if you go see Grindhouse, as soon as the last frame of Robert Rodriguez's "Planet Terror" is over, leave. Immediately. Throw away the rest of your popcorn and walk out. I made the sad mistake of staying, and now I will never have that hour and a half of my life back. Tarantino's "Death Proof" is soooooo fucking bad, that I feel the need to go back a re-watch all his other films to make sure they don't suck as well. This is coming from a former Tarantino fan, mind you. I won't spoil anything for you (as if there was something to spoil), but maybe I'm doing you a favor and building your expectations so low, that you might enjoy it. Apparently some people did. Hey, if you like to watch an hour of banal and useless dialogue among a couple of chicks in a sort of "Thelma and Louise" kick while the director jerks off all over you and shoves homages of his own goddamn films down your throat, then it might be your thing.
However, like I said, not all is lost. Rodriguez's film is phenomenally entertaining. It's purposefully campy and oozes style in a way only he can do.
Then you're treated to an hour and a half of this: [smilie=master_emot: