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Drogue
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Omnipresent conscience
Oct 2002
time: 05:29
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Eyes Wide Shut: Was slated by the critics as a mistake by Kubrick, but IMHO was one of his best. Sure it's sick, it's perverted, but it's a fantasy film, it's ment to be surreal. I think A Clockwork Orange was even more twisted, and although it was a good film, I'm not sure it deserved all the praise it got. Eyes Wide Shut is better, and I watch the DVD more.
I don't really look out for Tom Cruise films, but I don't avoid them. The only actor I avoid is Arnold Schwarzenegger, and I may make an exception for Terminator 3, which looks far better than the first two (which bored me stiff).
I think Jennifer Aniston is underrated as an actress. I always thought of her as someone there just for the look and smile, but after seeing The Good Girl, I changed my opinion completely. The film was quite good, but she was great as the lead. She took remarkable well to playing a downtrodden Texas department stor worker.
Also, and this will sound very strange, I was dragged to see Legally Blonde by my friend determined to get me to see a girly comedy thing. It was pretty good. It wasn't a great film, but very watchable and funny. Much as I feel weird saying it, it's a teen chick flick that I actually enjoyed. The second one looks crap though.
Memento is a good film. On the DVD it has the version forward too, and it works there and is more watchable, but doesn't have the impact or the cleverness of the backwards way. If it was made to be forwards, it could have looked good too, but it was great as it was IMHO. A few thigs hit me about it, like the way at the begining you take his polaroids to be the truth, and what's written on them as fact, whereas when you see them being made, they tell only a small part of the story about that person. I thought it was all very clever, but that was the main thing that hit me. Not that it was fun to watch, but that it was clever. I enjoyed it, and it's great to have a film like that in the mainstream, but i wouldn't watch it again and again. After the cleverness has warn off, there isn't much to be gained from watching it IMHO.
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Boris Godunov
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Portland, OR
Aug 2001
time: 00:29
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The Royal Tenenbaums - Wasn't as bad as the critics made it out to be. Some good laughs, cute story. Not stellar, though.
The Big Lebowski - I remember when the end credits rolled, I felt I'd been drunk while watching it, but I wasn't. Should check it out again.
O'Brother Where Are Thou) - Entertaining enough, but could take it or leave it.
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut - This is underrated? I thought it did pretty well and was reasonably popular. Certainly funny, if just for Uncle F*cker alone.
A.I. - Bleargh. Come on, this was sentimental drivel. The movie's last 45 minutes or so ruined everything. Kubrick should have risen from the grave to kick Spielberg in the ass.
Beetlejuice - Again, underrated? Beeltejuice was a hit. Put Burton on the map. The Day-O scene rawks!
Zoolander - You've GOT to be kidding me! It's TERRIBLE! The only funny parts are due to Owen Wilson and Will Farrell.
Clueless - I only laughed twice, both at lines her father said. "Get out of my chair!"
The Princess Bride - Now how could this remotely be underrated? It's one of the biggest cult classics around!
Minority Report - Bored me. Once I saw von Sydow, I knew what the ending would be...
Kentucky Fried Movie - It ain't no Amazon Women on the Moon!
Waterworld - Didn't deserve the bile, but doesn't deserved to be considered "good" either. Considering the outcome is decidely mediocre, the expense is appalling. The wettest disappointment since Raise the Titanic!
Last Action Hero - "That's the guy who killed Mozart!" Mostly forgettable, though. Except you can see Ian McKellan's first movie appearance.
Citizen Kane - Yeah, sooooo underrated, monkie. 
The Fifth Element - Turgid.
Munchausen - Coooooool.
Memento - I forgot to watch the movie, too busy looking at Guy Pierce. There was a plot, right?
The Cable Guy - My favorite Jim Carey movie. Dark, moving and quite funny.
My own picks are:
Ghostbusters 2 - A damn fine sequel to the original, though admittedly inferior)
Without a Clue - Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Paul Freeman, Jeffrey Jones...and it's a hoot! Dr. Watson (Kingsley) is the real genius behind Sherlock Holmes (Caine), a drunken actor he's hired to fill the part so he can solve mysteries in cognito. The humor verges between slapstick and something more subtle, but it's all done with class.
Halloween - Dismissed by many as a mere slasher flick, it's actually extremely effective in creating a relentlessly creepy atmosphere. The last 15 minutes are stiflingly scary.
Yellowbeard the Pirate - Okay, it's a bad movie, but this how you should make bad movies. James Mason is in it, for cryin' out loud.
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Sava
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GO GO GO!
Mar 2001
time: 23:29
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Brazil Why can no one else see that this is probably the best movie of all time? Except for maybe Rushmore , which I won't put on this list, because lots of people recognize its fantasticity. |
too ****ed up... sorry, but I have seen that movie, yet still don't know what the **** it was about...
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Zoolander Funniest movie in the last 10 years, probably. Too good.
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The Cable Guy - My favorite Jim Carey movie. Dark, moving and quite funny. |
I didn't laugh the entire film... IIRC, quite a few people walked out of the theatre.
My Picks: (which will undoubtedly lead to other saying the movies sucked, but oh well... they smell)
Thirteen Days- It never quite got any attention, but IMO... good  All the players in the Kennedy admin were casted and acted well. It was easy to feel the emotions surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Heat - Great crime drama. Pacino and DeNiro (although never in the same frame) were great. Classic method actor movie... and the shootout in the end was great. All-star cast in addition to Al and Bob(Sizemore, Val Kilmer, Ashley Judd, Jon Voight). For some reason, this movie is often overlooked in most discussions of Pacino or DeNiro movies.
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15-07-2003 06:21
(I think 'Catch Me If You Can' will be another 'Almost Famous' in like 5 years... great flick, but mostly forgotten on lists).
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