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Even More Movie Reviews Part 1
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Good Songs, Good Music, Dumb Movie. 525,600 Minutes is the first line in the opening song, that's how long the movie felt. I guess I was underestimating the movie. I thought it would end at the 105 minute mark but nope it kept going and going. It was just an uninteresting story with too much focus on each character. I liked the cast alright including Rosario Dawson and Taye Diggs. When it was trying to be sad, I didn't feel anything so I had no connections with it at all. Not even one of the top five musicals I've seen, that is if I have seen that many.
BROKEN FLOWERS
On the other hand, an excellent documentary- probably one of the five best Docs I've seen. If you like Docs and rock music, then this an awesome movie for you to see. It kind of plows through all the details of Arthur "Killer" Kane's life pretty quickly. But I understand that because it was getting to the point which was he was reuniting with his fellow surviving members of the legendary band The New York Dolls to play a show in London. The LDS angle (he converted to the church over 15 years ago) was OK, not too preachy. Shoot, I would like to have a famous musician in my ward so he or she can tell me about the rise and fall of fame. Very well organized and interesting film.
Good Songs, Good Music, Dumb Movie. 525,600 Minutes is the first line in the opening song, that's how long the movie felt. I guess I was underestimating the movie. I thought it would end at the 105 minute mark but nope it kept going and going. It was just an uninteresting story with too much focus on each character. I liked the cast alright including Rosario Dawson and Taye Diggs. When it was trying to be sad, I didn't feel anything so I had no connections with it at all. Not even one of the top five musicals I've seen, that is if I have seen that many.
BROKEN FLOWERS
Very quiet, seriously you could fall asleep watching this movie. Bill Murray does alright but he plays such a boring person that it's hard to pay attention. The story is simple enough to understand but there's no clear answers in the movie. So I guess you have to make your own conclusions. I like his next door neighbor in the film played by Jeffrey Wright. I don't know what the movie was trying to be instead of just an artsy fartsy film. Every character has these weird facial expressions that were confusing. It had a few good laughs and a brief scene of nudity but besides that, it is a forgettable film.
NEW YORK DOLL
On the other hand, an excellent documentary- probably one of the five best Docs I've seen. If you like Docs and rock music, then this an awesome movie for you to see. It kind of plows through all the details of Arthur "Killer" Kane's life pretty quickly. But I understand that because it was getting to the point which was he was reuniting with his fellow surviving members of the legendary band The New York Dolls to play a show in London. The LDS angle (he converted to the church over 15 years ago) was OK, not too preachy. Shoot, I would like to have a famous musician in my ward so he or she can tell me about the rise and fall of fame. Very well organized and interesting film.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Even More Movie Reviews Part 2
The Matador
A very good dark comedy. But to be honest, it was just average until the last 10 minutes when a couple plot twists makes the movie rewarding if you paid attention. The sexual content sort of ruins the movie because there's like 1,000 innuendos and a few "sex" scenes don't help the movie at all. It was kind of like, "Okay I get it, Pierce Brosnan's character's a sex addict." But the acting is good and the chemistry is pretty good. Beautiful locations and some really good comedic moments.
Brokeback Mountain
A very excellent film. The nature scenery is amazing even though those scenes were shot in Canada. All the performances are awesome. But the reason why Jake Gyllenhall's performance is good because, like most of the other movies he's in, it's really over the top. Over the top to the point of laughter with such lines as "I wish I knew how to quit you." The story is very good, especially at getting you to think about certain choices you have made in your life or will make. The only thing the movie scuked at was making the young actors look older since the movie spans 20 years. All they did were put wigs on the eand mustaches on the men, not really convincing. I read the Rolling Stone review afterwards and they pointed out what is so good about it and I agreed, I can't remember what it said though. It's nominated for Best Picture, which it does deserve. But I'm rooting for the movie Crash myself. If it makes you feel better, there's more gratuitous heterosexual sex than homosexual. Overall, I wasn't disappointed cause I knew it would be good.
Waiting This movie, I don't know where to begin. I describe it as a movie you watch with your friends just to waste time. I don't care for the cast except for Ryan Reynolds cause he's good in every movie he's in even though he plays the same character in every one. The rest of the cast sucks. The story is stupid. The gross out humor lost me on this one. It's like a really bad independent movie that has nothing memorable about it cause like I said , it's a time waster. This goes in the book of crappy comedies next to The New Guy and Scary Movie. So I only recommend it for perverted retards who laugh at every thing. The only thing that could of saved it is frontal female nudity, not lower. I rented it for free and I'm still pissed.
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