John Woo is da man! Tom Cruise? Who is he? Must be the extra doing the bed stunt. Woo, the director, made his mark with the fabulous high action scenes. But come on, those motorcycle and some stunts scenes look unreal. Cheesy in some cases. And IMF agent Ethan Hunt (yes, it's little Tommy Cruise) fighting impossibly to let a biological weapon in Austrilia from reaching the general population. He was spectucular in the action scenes, but darnit, he really needs to work on his emotional acting. It's more like a joke than it is a romantic thing with Nyah (Thandie Newton), which I found out is actually half black, half white. Damn, I thought she like Philipino or something. Crazy. Oh, by the way, what is up with John Woo and his white doves? This is no peaceful Olympics.
My Grade: A-
Darn that 46-year old Jackie Chan can't just stop kicking. Only a year and a half after "Rush Hour," he out in force again with "Shanghai Noon." And again, it's the hilarious comedy of Far East meets West West. (Hmm...West West...) This time, Chan plays an Imperial Guard to save a kidnapped princess, which somehow is transported to Carson City, Nevada; of all places in the world. Frankly, the "chinaman" crap is very disturbing to me. But I guess it could be much worse. I was called "Buddhua" before. But of course, that's more me than anything else. Anyway...oh yah, Chan goes to Nevada, crashes into a stupid cowboy (Owen Wilson), plays around with him (literally), marries an Indian girl (Brandon Merrill), and finally saves the ugly-looking princess (Lucy Liu). Not quite a good plot, but hey, it's better than "Road Trip." Owen Wilson was not bad, but this guy acts more like a two-timing cherry picking than a fierce cowboy. Lucy Liu, well, I don't know why she is all that famous all the sudden. Come on, can one lesbian kiss really get you this high? Man, I should try a homosexual kiss. Maybe I will get notice by the UCSD mainstream. Wait, this there such a thing as "the UCSD mainstream?" Eh. Brandon Merrill. Pretty yes, but she like only spoke one sentence in the whole movie which featured her in most of the scenes. You get more lines as an extra! Well, it's her first major acting debut and she's the queen of rodeo. Overall, movie is very funny, plot is so-so, and the culture clash as spectucular.
My Grade: C+
Woody Allen can not act. At least not in this one. His fierce voice can not blend into the acting of co-star Tracy Ullman. The plot was pretty good, but substitute Woody Allen with someone. And I do not care if he is the writter, director, producer, doulbe extra, whatever! Replace him.
My Grade: B
Reality does not set in in this latest animation movie by Disney. Of course they used the latest in technology in computer graphics and institute it in real-life images. The scenery, sound, soundtrack, cinematography, and the computerized stuff are all done exceptionally well. The problem with this movie is the freaking plot sucks! The meteor that sucked out the dinosaurs blacked out the whole earth for years. Also, how can you have a nesting ground and storms and expect us to believe there is hardly any water left on the planet? The main charactor, Alador, grew up in a lemur family and rush out of their island because the meteor killed their island and species off. Then they went somewhere and into a herd rallying to the nesting ground. There, Alador and Kron butt heads and, of course, Alador won and everyone lives happily ever after. Of course, they die off soon. Not a very good plot. But of course, the showing I saw came from a special Digital Picture Projector. No film, but digitally done for a clearer movie-watching experience. But I didn't see a difference in Dinosaur. I assume that Dinosaur was already digitally altered and the projector can do less. Good try by DLP though, but Gladiator would be a better movie for it. I gave the link for curious people out there on top. But as for Dinosaur, surely, a kids movie.
My Grade: C
This is no "There's Something About Mary." Or even close to "American Pie." In fact, it is an adult, non-animated version of "The Road to El Dorado." Four friends go on a 1800 journey to retrieve a video of a one-night stand in which one of the friends encountered. Come on, do you really tape your intimate nights on video? And then send it to your girlfriend (and eventually ex-girlfriend)? Though the movie has many funny parts, there are many wise cracks too. The plot is stupid, the sexual senses are stupid, the humor is stupid. Let's sum it up: IT'S STUPID!! Like "The Road to El Dorado," both have roads. Roads leading to nowhere.
My Grade: B+
First of all, I really want to slap the idiot(s) who opened the sprinkler valve at AMC Mission Valley 20 on Friday, 5/19/00 at 11:17pm. Yup, you know who you are! The fire alarm went on and AMC can't restart the projectors. It appears the fire department has to revamp the valve and do a thorough search. Those idiots are glad the movie just finished with previews and I didn't see the start of the movie, otherwise I would not just slap, but give a full 800-pound godzilla hoot up the "ganine" and force him or her to scream like a lemur in Dinosaur and throw up on themselves! Yeah.
Anyway, the movie. No, I'm NOT going to write this review in Latin. Though you got to admit my German (U-571 review) ain't bad! First of all, Gladiator was one very long movie. But I can't miss General Maximus (Russell Crowe) go around chopping off heads and other body parts as routine as us breathing in everyday life. Hmm...I guess the gore was very brutal. Yet, awesome!! Surely the fake Rome was too fake. Looks more like a digital center than a old rock-made city. Don't get me wrong, the graphics were way cool. The tigers and war battles especially. But for god's sake, Russell!! Come on, act a little bit! You sound like Chow Yun-Fat in the Replacement Killers. You're a gladiator, a warrior, a general! Not some circus crown politely and shying from people. Be like Joaquin Phoenix (Emperor Commodus). Standing tall, strong, a wale of an acting performance. Very nice ending, but go for the money's worth of Gladiator being a long movie.
My Grade: B+
Lots of German in this. Hmm...I guess I'll write this review in German.
Der U-Boot-Thriller U-571 hat sich auch zwei Wochen nach seiner
Premiere an der Spitze der amerikanischen Kino- Hits gehalten. Der Action geladene
Kriegsfilm mit "Matthew McConaughey" spielte bisher rund 35 Millionen Dollar ein.
Generell Taylor meinen die Analysten von U-571, weil
regelmäßigen Beträge der sogenannte "Female Specimen" erzielt werde
dass der "Leave It to Beaver!" Zu Höchst- oder Tiefstkursen kaufe, sondern automatisch gute Durchschnittspreise erreiche.
Dennoch beklage U-571 eine zu passive Anwendung dieser Technik durch die Anleger. Die
Börse habe "Bill Paxton" in den letzten begründe U-571 diese Ansicht. So
habe die Schwankungsbreite, deutlich zugenommen. Übertreibungsphasen
seien ausgeprägter als früher, sowohl nach oben als auch nach unten.
Daher der Rat von U-571. Wer mit Sparplänen darüber nachdenken, diese
aktiver zu handhaben und in "Smack Me Duh" !!
My Grade: A
Here we go again. AMC just have to make my movie-going experience more memorable. My friends went before me in line, brought there tickets, then after that, I went up the the booth and they just freaking just sold out! I was pissed, making me watch it at a later time. Then I went in and found a packed house, forcing me again to have a grand front row seat! YES!! But as the movie started, about fifteen minutes delayed, I got used to the "odd arrangement." Frequency is about a son who uses a machine that is able to talk to his father back in the past (30 years ago). This was done by the amazing nothern lights pheonom occuring over New York City in both time frames. The story of what happens is kind off complicated, but the summary of the movie is how the lifes and paths changed when the son can talk to his father 30 years back. Dennis Quaid plays the father and James Caviezel plays the son. Both have stunning good performances while the other noticables, André Braugher and Elizabeth Mitchell, also contributed very well to the good acting movie. Frequency, in my opinion, is the best movie in the market right now. You should watch it. Oh, unless you really want to watch the Flinstones in Viva Rock Vegas poking fun at one another while your friends are cheering the acting performance of that dog. I'll take Frequency.
