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Archive for May, 2007

Heist (2001) imdb rt metacritic mrqe bad link
why they call it money

Posted on May 27th, 2007
liked it

this was a fun caper movie, but at no point did i ever think gene hackman had lost control.  it could have been a lot more interesting with a smarter villain.  sam rockwell was some perfect casting.
oh and i really liked that money line and was surprised to see on the imdb boards that some […]

Waking the Dead (2000) imdb rt metacritic mrqe bad link
couldn’t do it

Posted on May 27th, 2007

i gave up on this one.  at one point i took a snack break and kind of had the feeling of being right in the middle of the movie, then when i went to un-pause i saw i was only 20 minutes in!  so that was disheartening, then at about 40 minutes i just couldn’t […]

Angel Heart (1987) imdb yahoo rt mrqe bad link
from brooklyn

Posted on May 24th, 2007
liked it

this was definitely entertaining, but i think they’d have to really screw things up to make a neo-noir detective turns crazy supernatural genre blender with a naked lisa bonet not entertaining.  it would have been a lot spookier if it weren’t obvious what was going on with de niro’s character and his cornball name.  also […]

Winter Kills (1979) imdb rt mrqe bad link
part of the family

Posted on May 22nd, 2007
liked it

the ending i thought made this pretty awesome.  along the way things were ok, but almost lost me with too much overacting and too many cliched situations and characters (the doorman never seen yvette, the whole big brother anthony perkins character, dawson, …)  the twists and turns and excessive number of names would have been […]

The Lady from Shanghai (1947) imdb rt mrqe bad link
everything’s bad

Posted on May 18th, 2007
liked it

i was kind of unfocused watching this, so it didn’t make a huge impression on me.  the line of morality was drawn a bit too clearly - whatever he’s doing michael still seems righteous.  grisby was pretty over the top all the time.  the courtroom scene was really strange how the judge and lawyers were […]

Casualties of War (1989) imdb rt mrqe bad link
it matters more

Posted on May 8th, 2007
didn't like it

the basis of the moral quagmire here seemed too simplistic for what they were aiming for. diaz and hatcher and, in part, meserve were supposed to be some muddled gray area of this, but meserve is too crazy and eriksson’s too goody for any of it to resonate. we see very clearly what’s […]

12 Angry Men (1957) imdb yahoo rt mrqe bad link
u mad doggie?

Posted on May 8th, 2007
liked it

definitely entertaining and compelling, even being all in 2 rooms.  the argument/counterarguments are all pretty straw dog-ish, but that’s kind of necessary by structure i suppose.  still, a lot of them, like the old man’s racist outburst and the sudden glasses realizations were pretty silly.  the only misstep direction-wise i thought was showing ‘the accused’ […]

Uganda Rising (2006) imdb mrqe bad link
peace before justice

Posted on May 8th, 2007
liked it

very good overview of the history of the acholi situation and outlining of the current problems with a few quibbles. in the outline they try to broaden the scope a bit with noam chomsky and touching on the wto and such and i think it’s kind of pandering for this type of doc. it works […]