Ok, what all have I seen since I got back from my vacation and of
course what I saw during my vacation:
The Royal Tenenbaums
a weird movie for sure, I did enjoy it tho, but not really something to
rave about and not something I would rent again to see.
Spider-Man 2
more of the same, good adaption of Doc Ock and again quite a good
translation from the comics. The part where PP drops his costume in
the trashbin and walks away is straight from one of the covers.
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
I think QT needs a serious whack on the head for this travesty, this
is even worse than Vol. 1 (and words can't describe that crappiness).
I don't quite know why people keep raving about this pile of horse
manure, I guess if you put QT on top it, the dummies will go for the
"oh it's so extremely violent that it's art" line.
Hidalgo
Yawn.
I, Robot
I was surprised how much fun this movie was, tho I'm quite sure it
wasn't anything like the books. I wouldn't know, I wouldn't touch
Asimov books with a 10' pole.
Artificial Intelligence: AI
Quite a boring stew, but the all entertaining Gigolo Joe at least
kept me smiling during most of the movie.
I don't think Kubrick really had aliens planned for the end, but I
guess we shouldn't be surprised by anything from the guy who
put something as stupid as E.T. in a movie.
The Terminal
Hmp, the premise seemed ok and supposedly it's base on a
real person, but it's made a bit too much of a crowd pleaser,
in America anyone can make it, even if stuck on an airport.
The Ring
What a shitty remake of a much better japanese film, I don't
know, something in the japanese film makes it much scarier,
I would suggest to anyone to watch that instead.
The Ninth Gate
I can't help but like this movie. It's most likely too slow and
not enough scares for most people, but it has a Cthultian
feeling to it and I always like that in movies. And there is
quite many ways to interpid it as well.
The Village
Yet another movie that shows what kind of crap you can
load on the people if you happen to have a hit movie or 2.
I don't quite know what the point of this movie was, maybe
it was meant to scare the same people who were afraid of
going in the forest after seeing The Blair Witch.
Don't go see this.
Catwoman
Um, no, just no. It isn't enough for her to rape X-Men, she
also has to rape Catwoman (not that the character is
interesting in the first place). This movie sucks from pretty
much any direction.
Fahrenheit 9/11
Um, I don't really know what to say of this one, if you've
followed the news and maybe read Bill Mahers "When You
Ride Alone, You Ride With Bin Laden", you have pretty much
all the info from this documentary/movie already.
Of course, Michael Moore is a big name and will surely bring
this to larger audiences as well, which is never a bad thing.
And in anycase, any movie showing the stupidity of
George W. Bu
(ll)sh
(it) is always fun.
King Arthur
Oh yay, another movie trying to ride on the back of LotR
and Troy. This is supposedly trying to place the legend in
the correct historical time, even tho it's a legend *sigh*
In any case, the movie is just about as boring as you can
imagine, and WTF is the deal with every movie having these
main characters fighting with 2 swords?
I don't know a single culture that actually had fighters with 2
swords or daggers or some such, but this movie makes it
seem like it's childsplay to wield 2 weapons.
Oh an look there is Arwen... oh wait...
Dawn Of The Dead
Wow, I was surprised by this movie, it actually made much
more intelligent use of the mall than the earlier movie and it
showed off the chaos and destruction caused by the
"sickness" getting loose in the towns, something I would
have liked to see more of.
This is the one thing I have a problem with in all "end of the
world" type movies, they always jump the chaos/destruction
parts and their effect on the survivors.
I mean, what would you do if you woke up and noticed you
were all alone in a city that seemed to have all the people
missing? (28 Days Later).
Back to this movie, full of your basic shocks and trills and
also some funny stuff like taking out zombies with a sniper
rifle: Rosie O'Donnell! Tell him to shoot Rosie!
WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3
Now I have to watch this again, but I did quite like it, not
as much as Patlabor 2, but still quite a bit. I was also quite
glad not to see much of the pretty boring characters of the
SVU
The Butterfly Effect
This movie was surprisinly good, even if slightly let down
by the "and they all lived..." ending. Anyone who likes
Donnie Darko should like this one too.
Oh and don't watch it while getting drunk and talking to
someone
The Chronicles Of Riddick
Vin Diesel, blech. No wonder I forgot this and had to edit.
Torque
There isn't enough bad words to descripe this pile of shit.
The Fast And The Furious on bikes, woopi-fucking-doo-daa.
Wonderful Days
Wonderful graphically, not so with the plot, but it's ok I suppose.
I think that is it for now, have a huge bunch of movies still to see
at home,
Bourne Supremacy,
Dodgeball and
Walking Tall to name
a few.
