THE EIGER SANCTION [1975] movie review
May 11, 2012
I was referred to this lesser known Clint Eastwood movie by a climbing friend I met in Japan, who said THE EIGER SANCTION had some of the best climbing scenes put on film. Being a big Clint Eastwood fan, both of his acting and directing, I was looking forward to seeing this “lost” Eastwood movie. It is a movie definitely of its time, 1972, but I liked how this spy movie turned into a mountain climbing movie.
THE AVENGERS [2012] movie review
May 5, 2012
Now about an hour after seeing THE AVENGERS I cannot say I feel any real emotion about the movie. In bringing all the Marvel heroes together, something building over the course of several movies, I cannot say it lived up to expectations. It was an entertaining movie for the most part, but a very unexpected one as well.
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT [1967] movie review
April 22, 2012
A rare Sunday night movie viewing continued my civil rights marathon with the excellent IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT. I really liked this movie that was as much quirky as it was serious about race relations in Mississippi in the 1960s.
MISSISSIPPI BURNING [1988] movie review
April 22, 2012
I like to watch mini to large marathons of similar movies. For a couple of years I have been watching westerns, last year I started film noir, and tonight continued a new theme started this year on civil rights movies by watching MISSISSIPPI BURNING. This movie was yet another from my long held mental movie queue. The title when I first heard it long ago made an immediate impression.
AMERICAN HISTORY X [1998] movie review
April 20, 2012
I had been wanting to watch AMERICAN HISTORY X for a number of years and finally, all of a sudden, watched it tonight. It was perhaps the movie that had been in the back of my mind to watch for the longest time of any other movie in that mental queue. I was no doubt motivated to watch it by current events happening here in Florida on race and violence. After seeing Edward Norton’s intense performance and the powerful story telling I immediately looked up debut director Tony Kaye’s other movies, which surprisingly were of no note at all.
THE INCREDIBLE HULK [2008] movie review
April 20, 2012
I have really liked most of the recent Marvel Comic movies that were all in a way building toward this summer’s huge combo movie THE AVENGERS. The lone one I had yet to see because I did not think it looked very good was THE INCREDIBLE HULK (2008), but since the Hulk character is in THE AVENGERS I thought I should see it just for completion and to find how how the Hulk is portrayed in this latest incarnation. After watching the movie, that very little is all I ended up getting, a little Hulk character backstory. The movie itself was very nondescript with an ending like watching a poorly lit video game, which plagues nearly all modern movies relying on CGI for action and visually representing characters.
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE GHOST PROTOCOL
April 7, 2012
Very few people know that I largely credit MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II for the reason why I went abroad in 2000. It really was the catalyst. Really. However, MISSION: IMPOSSBILE – GHOST PROTOCOL will not be inspiring any decades long life change this time. In fact, if I do not hurry up and write this review, the movie will completely fade from my mind it is that disposable.
LIKE CRAZY [2011] movie review
March 24, 2012
It was pretty unfair to watch LIKE CRAZY just a night after I watched the mesmerizing THE HUNGER GAMES because I have actually not stopped thinking about the latter movie still and I only chose to watch LIKE CRAZY because Jennifer Lawrence has a part in it too. It did not help that LIKE CRAZY was an odd, awkward, intimate star-crossed love story between a British girl and an American boy.
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