danz radikle reviewz

i don’t understand why they thought this was a story that needed to be told.  they fired one member and got dropped and had to shop around a bit.  and there was zero drama in any of it.  jesus.  i liked the albums with billy bragg but i guess that wasn’t enough to get me […]

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the one thing demonlover had going for it was its main character. a conniving but still sympathetic woman as the main character definitely gave it some weight and heart. but beyond that i don’t think i liked much at all about it. the ‘we’re living in a strange new future, oooh’ sequences in japan felt […]

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after they go through with the plan and they have to stay apart for a while barbara stanwyck says something like ‘we’re splitting apart and you’re fine with it’ inviting fred macmurray to reassure and console her, but his response is ’shut up baby’ then they kiss. 
i also really liked that stanwyck’s redemption was […]

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right away i didn’t like this cause i just wasn’t buying brando to start with.  we’re supposed to see he’s depressed because you can’t hear what he says and he just ignores the girl til he bangs her.  speak up!  it seemed artificial cause of how overdone it was.  like silent actors trying to emote.  […]

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i like movies that jump around like this between a bunch of barely-related characters. for one thing you don’t have a main character, and don’t necessarily need a plot. i definitely liked this about magnolia. you can also show more sides of a story and create some complexity. the wire in particular is […]

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The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
very cute.

Posted on February 8th, 2006

this is one of those plucky, can-do, overcome the odds with spunk and a smile kind of movies.  i guess i was expecting more straight biopic since the director also made a documentary on the guy.  i dislike these kind of movies but this was fine for what it was.  things could have moved quicker, […]

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oh wait, she’s 15, never mind. 
anyways i went into this not knowing anything other than terrence malick and something about settlers.  so i was pretty surprised when i realized it was the john smith/pocahontas story.  i guess i associate mailick with smaller characters, certainly not a pair so mythologized.  and overall i think it […]

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i actually saw grizzly man 6 months ago.  i remember liking it and thinking it was a little mean-spirited in parts, like the ‘funeral’ scene.  but i mostly wanted to post this review cause of this little article:

Herzog Shot During Interview
By WENN|Friday, February 03, 2006
HOLLYWOOD - German director Werner Herzog was shot by […]

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K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
meh.

Posted on February 3rd, 2006

even besides the bad to non-existent accent, harrison ford just didn’t fit. he never struck me as as stern or as mean as they seemed to want him to be.
peter sarsgaard had a good sniveling coward scene.

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sean connery is really annoying in that scene where they’re waiting in the shack on the canadian border.  first he gives kevin costner some zen advice on ‘don’t even want it, let it come to you,’ then on to andy garcia ‘did you check it already?  then don’t check it again, you’ll do fine.’ then […]

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