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Archive for June, 2006

i’m glad i watched the sequel first - this was pretty standard stuff and might have kept me from seeing 2.  it was fine i guess, but had all the motivations and character background and stuff that i liked for its absence in 2.  it just takes out a lot of the power of the […]

this was pretty impressive. certainly a child of guinea pig, but it pretty successfully adds some amount of story to the intense torture and gore. i liked that they just hinted at some kind of background with a few objects - the manga doll, the roman statue - and the short muddy flashback/dream […]

Crooklyn (1994) imdb yahoo rt mrqe bad link
crooklyn review

Posted on June 25th, 2006
liked it

i liked this quite a bit.  the flow of the story was nice and the drama felt real.  with this kind of structure he was able to put in all the crazy characters he wanted and you can’t really say they’re unnecessary.  all the songs got a little excessive, especially when he was using them […]

Death to Smoochy (2002) imdb yahoo rt metacritic mrqe bad link
smoochy review

Posted on June 25th, 2006
**ooo

this was ok.  i liked the songs and the spectacle.  the crazy camera styles and big colors got a little tiring.  the unfortunate thing was that there wasn’t much funny in it.  and then as it got nearer the end it became obvious it was going where i’ve said before i don’t like comedies to […]

Grand Theft Parsons (2003) imdb rt mrqe bad link
parsons review

Posted on June 24th, 2006
**ooo

this was pretty bad, but i guess while i was watching i wasn’t too annoyed.  probably just cause it’s a true and crazy story.  the characters were thin and sterotypical.  the parts where robert forster has a change of heart are hilarious - he’s completely stoic, takes about half a second and that’s supposed to […]

Nacho Libre (2006) imdb yahoo rt mrqe bad link
can’t win em all

Posted on June 23rd, 2006
liked it

i liked napoleon dynamite for 2 reasons: the humor that seemed rooted in real life and not in any kind of movie humor; and the plot structure - it just bounced around with no real driving impetus until it came to some kind of conclusion. so maybe i should say i liked the […]

Auto Focus (2002) imdb yahoo rt metacritic mrqe bad link
auto review

Posted on June 20th, 2006
**ooo

this was fine, enjoyable to watch.  kinnear is perfect and defoe is great.  it’s pretty much the standard cautionary tale of overindulgence - revel in the vice for the first 2 acts, then they learn their lesson in the last.  it’s a bit underdeveloped as far as its own morality.  twice i think crane says […]

Undertow (2004) imdb yahoo rt metacritic mrqe bad link
throwing up boogers

Posted on June 19th, 2006

as noted before i really like malick, and i also thought george washington was great and all the real girls was simple and beautiful and true. so when undertow came out and i saw malick was producing i was a bit worried that this was just going to cement david gordon green as […]

Windy City Heat (2003) imdb mrqe bad link
holy fuck

Posted on June 16th, 2006
96

this was maybe the funniest movie i’ve ever seen.  just consistently end to end funny.  i can’t wait for the dvd cause they’ve got to have tons more good footage.  the scenes are so well thought-out and then they improv on top of that pretty well.  i guess if you’ve been playing crazy to this […]

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) imdb yahoo rt metacritic mrqe bad link
too entertaining

Posted on June 11th, 2006
didn't like it

saw this with my parents.  my mom unsuccessfully stifled her laughs every time magneto showed up in his helmet.  after the movie she was talking about how silly she thought the helmet looked and my dad pisshawed her with ‘cmon it was a good movie’ and i emphatically held my nose in a ’stinky’ position.  […]