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Archive for February, 2007

Bad Santa (2003) imdb yahoo rt metacritic mrqe bad link
keep it safe.

Posted on February 23rd, 2007
***oo

this was close to being good but had a lot of things i really didn’t like.  santa’s gf, for example - great setup of a pretty scummy relationship, but she is way too young/clean/un-haggardly and they end up always looking happy around each other.  that kind of exemplifies the whole movie for me - they […]

Re-Animator (1985) imdb yahoo rt mrqe bad link
birth is always painful

Posted on February 23rd, 2007
liked it

this was quite excellent - right about exactly what i wanted out of it.  the kills were all pretty good and the pencil snapping scene really made me laugh.  every scene with the john kerry looking professor was hilarious.  the setup of the conflict was perfectly vague with one point of specificity - 6 minutes.  […]

well this was certainly overwrought.  i guess with characters with superhuman physical abilities it only makes sense that they should have superhuman emotions too.  i think it would have been easier for me to take if it were part of a broader story.  throw in some subplots or side characters relating to the bigger historical […]

El Laberinto del Fauno (2006) imdb yahoo metacritic mrqe bad link
pan’s labyrinth

Posted on February 18th, 2007
liked it

this was pretty awesome in just about all aspects.  the main thing i liked was just how easily they made a really great young girl character without pushing it too hard.  she likes to read and gets a little scared of stuff sometimes, but didn’t go too far either way to artificially enhance the drama […]

But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) imdb rt mrqe bad link
cheerleader review

Posted on February 13th, 2007
liked it

i can’t take too much camp, so i liked how it spaced out the camp between more realistic teen coming-of-age type moments.  unfortunately it leaned too far to the latter and took itself too seriously, mostly in the inevitable love scene that was way over-the-top with some song that was way out of place.  i […]

Schizopolis (1996) imdb yahoo rt mrqe bad link
successfully thawed

Posted on February 13th, 2007
liked it

this suffered from being a little too zany - the elmo oxygen stuff mainly.  but i did like some of the zaniness like when the drug dealer comes to collect money and the dentist runs around in fast motion for a while.  at that point it kind of seemed like a woody allen-type movie in […]

Dekalog, trzy (1988) imdb mrqe bad link
your faces crushed by a truck

Posted on February 2nd, 2007
liked it

alt. title: kieszlowski does a car chase.  it took me a while to get to this one since i was pretty underwhelmed by the first two, but i liked this a good deal more.  it’s a lot less complicated and didn’t require one of those big expositional scenes.  it aims a bit lower too - […]

'Breaker' Morant (1980) imdb rt mrqe bad link
horrors committed by normal men

Posted on February 2nd, 2007
liked it

i usually don’t like trial films.  it seems like a lot of stories in general are written to say ‘i was right you were wrong’ and trial films take that to an extreme with an actual verdict.  that was a weakness here as well - being too clear-cut about what they ultimately wanted.  there were […]