For some reason or another lately, I’ve been all about seeing any and all movies that are within my reach. I guess you could classify this behavior into two categories:
Shit I Should Have Seen By Now: Everyone has a host of films that they know they should have already seen but for some reason have not. At least I do. When movies come out I am either really excited about them or could care less, which dictates my action. I either see them in the theatre, in the case of the former, or wait for DVD or don’t do anything when it comes to the latter. Hi ho.
The other case is that they came out before I was able to buy movies and just either never had access to them or didn’t care to see them based on hype or poor trailers.
Shit I Just Want To See: I hold a lot of things against movies that I shouldn’t. The color of the box. The font of the title. Cheesy cover art. The actors in them. Choice of Producers or Directors. All kinds of stuff.
But I guess the old adage is there for a reason and you can’t just judge a film by the box it comes in. So I just pop these guys in when I’m doing something else, usually Internet related.
“Just Watching Away”
I’m certainly seeing a ton of movies through this process. I was thinking about trying to review each one but that is rather tiresome and time-consuming. I may just list each one, though, and a quick description (in as few words as possible) of what I thought. That sounds do-able.
So let’s see, here is what I’ve got so far that I can remember, of course it helps that most of them are stacked on top of my TV…
‘Village of the Damned’: Heh. One of the only JC films I hadn’t seen yet. Pretty bad. Just kill the kids!!!
‘The Aviator’: Badass. LDC is cool in this one.
‘Ghost Dog’: Forrest Whitaker is my dog! Seriously. This one felt semi-foreign in the pacing and setting. Nice.
‘Godsend’: Kind of a head-scratcher. Well made but a little far-fetched. I’m a Greg Kinnear fan. Who isn’t?
‘The Proposition’: Nick Cave’s opus. Badass screenplay. Badass music. Badass acting. Badass cinematography. Badass movie.
‘Magnolia’: of all of the great performances in this one, Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s was my favorite. Though he didn’t get a lot of screen time, he has easily the most moving scenes.
‘American Gangster’: Huge fan. Deserves the hype. Solid performances, solid shots and story.
‘Summer of Sam’: Good news and bad news. Good news: Does a good job of capturing the scariness of mob mentality in escalation. Bad news: Other than that, this movie sucks.
‘Ronin’: Ever eat a really expensive piece of chocolate and instead of saying “wow. This is really good!” you say something akin to “hmmm. Tastes expensive…”? This film is really good in that way that really good films are. Long, solid, and heavily…”classic”. If that makes any sense…
‘Hard Candy’: Ellen Page: Awesome. Patrick Wilson: Awesome. Hard Candy: Twisted Awesome.
‘Live Free or Die Hard’: Not as crazy as ‘With a Vengeance’, but pretty cool. I can’t see Justin Long and not want to shove my PC using fist up his ass, though. Vista sucks? True. But guess what? Safari sucks, so there!
‘Red Eye’: Okay. I like Cillian Murphy a lot. Had some thrills. Those were thanks to Murphy. I wrote a haiku to more fully describe my feelings about the one:
Movies about planes
Just after 9/11
Are dated and weak
‘Hollow Man’: Ha ha ha ha ha. The very definition of diminishing returns. There are about 4-5 scenes that I liked and they were mercifully scattered throughout the film. The rest was stupid. I had an extended conversation with Dallas about how I could remake this thing soooooooo much scarier. Set the tone to be kind of clean and dark, like ‘Flatliners’. Expand on the processes’ effect on the mind of Kevin Bacon’s character… don’t get me started.
‘Pulse’: Jeremy walked in the house, saw this movie sitting on my TV, and immediately started talking shit about it. I’ll admit, I didn’t have the highest expectations for it and it certainly belongs in the “Just wanted to see it” department. It was alright. I thought it was pretty weak in execution but average in concept. Let’s just say I didn’t stop the movie halfway through and piss on the DVD.
’28 Weeks Later’: As good as the first one. Some of the large aerial scenes were a tad CG looking. Besides that, great! I’m all about the Rage virus mythology. Gives the dead a reason to run without making George’s zombies do it.
‘They’: I’m actually still watching this one. It seems pretty cool so far. It reminds me a lot of what Lisey’s Story by Stephen King would be like were it made into a movie.
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