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3/5 stars
Disney has not put out a great animated film in a long time…and this was not it. It wasn’t bad, but it felt like every other Disney animated film of the last several years. The music even had a familiar feel, especially the first song which was very much like the opening song in The Lion King. It’s time to shake things up in the Disney animation studios…
2/5 stars
Glad we waited until this came to the cheap movie theater — it was not good. I think part of my problem was with the acting. In particular, I didn’t like the portrayal of Lawrence Robertson, the rich robot tycoon, and I wasn’t convinced of Bridget Moynahan’s stiff Dr. Calvin. Moynahan seemed to grab onto the role was the character became more likable, but by then the damage had been done.
I’m not burdoned by having read Asimov’s work that this is based on, but from the credit (“Suggested by Asimov’s work), I’m guessing it’s no where near what he wrote. I have it on my to-read shelf, and am looking forward to reading the “good version.”
This might be worth a rental, but don’t bother seeing it in the theater.
3.5/5 stars
We finally got to go to a movie in the theater today. It’s been a really long time, at least for us. We decided that of the movies we want to see, Sky Captain would be best on a large screen, and boy were we right. It’s a beautiful film to look at and a lot of fun to watch. Andrew commented, though, that it’s too bad the plot made not one bit of sense. I disagreed — if you stand back and squint, the plot makes perfect sense.
3/5 stars
I don’t actually remember ever sitting down and watching The Music Man end-to-end. I know snippets of many of the songs, but couldn’t put them into context, so I decided to add this one to the queue.
Campy, cheesy, typical musical from the 60s. I ended up fast-forwarding through many of the slower musical numbers, as I started to lose interest in the 2 and a half hour film…
3/5 stars
Vincent (Tom Cruise) hires a cab for the night, driven by Max (Jamie Foxx), to make five stops. However, after the first stop, Max discovers that Vincent is a hired assassin….
Not bad. I can’t remember any other films where Cruise has played a “bad guy”, and frankly he does a credible job.
3/5 stars
This is just not my kind of movie. I can see why Aniston would choose it as a break from her typical comedy role — her character is a “ordinary” woman stuck in a marriage she’s not happy with and working a dead-end job. She finds an easy diversion with a new, young employee. But in the end, this is just a depressing movie about ordinary people where not much happens along the way.
3/5 stars
Except for the annoying cinematography, I quite liked this movie. I think that even someone who hasn’t seen the first one could get what’s going on fairly quickly, though some of the specifics of the “Treadstone” project would remain murky.
Sadly, the cinematography nearly ruined the movie. Much of it is filmed in a jumpy, hand-held style…picture Blair Witch but without the cameraperson as part of the cast. This style worked well for the fight scenes. And, in fact, it probably would have worked well in some of the what-the-hell-is-he-doing-now CIA office scenes. But the use of it became gratuituous, and it felt as if about half of the film, or more, was done in this style. Both Andrew and I felt barfy on the way out.
4/5 stars
I never read reviews. Why? Because I rarely agree with them, and they often give stuff away. By and large, so I heard, the reviewers hated this movie because of the “twist”. I, however, had no problem with it. The set-up was excellent, setting me on edge, and while the “twist” was not necessarily set-up comepletely, I didn’t care. Go see it.
Oh, and we had the <SARCASM> pleasure <\SARCASM> of seeing this film in the “Director’s Hall” at our local theater. Four of the screens are “Director’s Hall”s at the theater. For $2/ticket extra, you get the pleasure of sitting in leather seats and assigned seating. That’s it. Even with our extra $2/seat, they still forced us to watch the ads. And there’s not way to know that the showing is in the “Director’s Hall” from the on-line listings, so our choice was to pay the extra $4 or to wait around for a half hour for the next showing. Frankly, my time is worth more than $4/hour, so we bought the tickets, but I’d like to avoid doing that again. Probably, we’ll only go to this theater if it’s the only one showing a movie we want to see.
2/5 stars
I had trouble getting into this one. William H. Macy put in a great performance as a luckless man, with luck so bad that he can stand next to a casino table and turn the whole table into losers. However, that just wasn’t enough. The story just didn’t pull me in.
1/5 stars
What was I thinking? I know better than to rent “cult classics”. It’s always better to see them with the cult or not at all. I only knew what was generally going on because I read the Netflix sleeve before watching this. I didn’t really know what was specifically going on, and much of it felt like a fever dream. The only thing I can think of that would make this a “classic” of any sort is that there was full-frontal, both female and male (David Bowie, to be precise); though, what kind of “classic” I can’t really say…
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