danz radikle reviewz

the first act of this was great.  i lol’ed numerous times (it helped that i was the lone audience member.)  chowder is basically a chunk-type, and is well done as such.  i loved the line:  ‘you’re just freaking out cause you killed that guy today…life goes on…for you.’  then right after that he says ‘let’s […]

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so at the last second decided to run over to the 8:00 showing.  from a couple reviews i knew the basic plot of this already and the whole drive over i started thinking about it and i think just put myself in a bad mood for what i was going to see.  i hate […]

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i had pretty big expectations for this going in and they were exceeded.  the cinematography was incredible and with such a small setting and so few characters the pacing was perfect and it didn’t feel too small.  some of it was really elegant, like the cut from the close-up of mom saying ‘they’re fighting’ to […]

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this seemed half-baked. they had the ideas to have a musical with old songs, old lenses/film/processing/whatever, and a lot of characters, but then they stopped and didn’t come up with anything past that. with all the characters and pretty settings and time passage it seems like they’re going for some ‘ob-la-dee life goes […]

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in my effort to chip away at my list i chose this one cause it was in imax and 3-d.  the imax was pretty cool, especially with all the detail they had in the big aerial shots.  the 3d was a bit of a letdown cause it was only 4 scenes and the glasses were […]

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this was a bit disappointing.  all the reviews i read save nate’s were glowing in how great they thought this was.  it was fine, but not worth all that praise.  the material wasn’t new at all, it was pretty compelling, but not, ‘oh my god, what’s gonna happen’, and was uneven, like nate said.  the […]

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there’re so many out right now i felt the need to prioritize. but then i need to factor in how long each will be in theaters.

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest
Monster House
The Heart of the Game
Cars
Strangers with Candy
The Descent
Miami Vice
Superman Returns

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i was pretty psyched when i saw this was on turner classic last night.  i loved double indemnity, and knew this was the same writer and viewed in that same class of noir, but this was nowhere near as interesting as d.i..  the characters never seemed real to me at all.  the husband was such […]

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i usually really dislike shmaltzy indie movies like this where people go through big changes, accept who they are, and become better, happier people.  and this one did annoy me in parts - how much a villain they made greg kinnear to start with, dwane and steve carrell’s too-conclusive talk on the pier - but […]

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this was a big disappointment after i really liked the last 3 spike lee movies i saw. very few of the scenes were convincing or effective for me.  particularly important bits like the ‘falling in love’ sequence and the walk through the crack den.  everything was so disjointed it just felt like a series of […]

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