LOST 6×01 & 6×02 “LA X” Parts 1 & 2
February 3, 2010
A lot has changed for me since the first season of LOST back in 2004. Has a lot changed for the show? Read on but beware of spoilers.
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS [2009] review
February 1, 2010
I think I may be done watching Quentin Tarantino movies. He does not make many, so it will not be that hard to do. This is the feeling I am left with after watching INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS. Would I ever want to watch the movie again? No. Is it basically the same movie Quentin has already made a couple times? Yes. How’s that? Female heroine, check. Gory violence for its own sake, check. Two characters having an exteeeended conversation, check.
THE HURT LOCKER [2008] review
January 24, 2010
I unexpectedly had a chance to watch THE HURT LOCKER tonight, a movie I definitely wanted to see before composing my 2009 top ten movie list. However, I was not blown away by THE HURT LOCKER as I was expecting to be. I thought it was going to be a very feel-bad movie, but it was not. For me it did not have nearly the emotional impact that GENERATION KILL did.
UP IN THE AIR [2009] review
January 3, 2010
It has been awhile since I laughed out loud that much in a movie theater, but such is the appeal of the humor in UP IN THE AIR for me. It was exactly my sense of humor mixed with some well used strong language that often caused me to be one of the only people in the theater to laugh. This was not the first time such a thing happened. This movie is not all laughs as the third act takes a decidedly serious tone that is not all that expected, but was mostly welcome.
EMPIRE OF THE SUN [1987] review
December 30, 2009
It is always nice when a movie turns out to not be at all what I was expecting, but I still like it. Such is the case with Steven Spielberg’s EMPIRE OF THE SUN, a movie that long bounced around in my head as one to see, but took a couple decades to actually make onto my playlist. Maybe most surprising of all was that the lead character (a young British boy) was played by Christian Bale.
THE MOSQUITO COAST [1986] review
December 30, 2009
If you want to see Harrison Ford in something very different, give THE MOSQUITO COAST a look. Harrison must really trust director Mike Weir as he made this movie right after they made WITNESS together. I have not seen the latter film yet, but am very curious too after Weir and Ford have shown me a really different and disturbing film in MOSQUITO.
THE CONVERSATION [1974] review
December 30, 2009
I like movies that show me a world I am not familiar with, especially if it’’s an interesting one. THE CONVERSATION succeeds on that level for me as I was very interested in learning the lingo and ins-and-outs of the covert listening and/or wiretapping fields. There is tech and mystery and then the glimpse into the 1970s as well.
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