Indiana Jones 4 - Fun! Silly, but fun! I was very scared of this movie, it really didn't look good. In the end, as long as you can turn your brain all the way off, don't even let the little part in the back that keeps an eye out for fires and terrorists on. If you do that, this movie is great. People punching and whipping and car chasing and yelling. Besides some bad CG, it's pretty much good all around and everyone does a fine job. It will never been like the originals cuz it didn't come out when I was 8, but it's still good. The mystical part of the plot is ridiculous, far more ridiculous than any other indiana jones movie, even #2. So you will roll your eyes continuously throughout the last 15 minutes. But besides that it's quite fun and totally worth seeing.
The Quiet - Well, this movie sucked. More so because it seems like it could have been good. It's a reasonable premise, from the perspective of a deaf mute girl. Except that is quickly discarded, then throw in a fucked up family situation and it's super cliche. Still, maybe could have been good, except for the bad acting and writing part. Especially the voiceover stuff, what is this, a 12 year old's poetry journal?
Dagon - So this is my first Lovecraft movie (which is to say, a horror movie with a tentacle fetish), and I gotta say, i don't get it. it's just zombies, except with gills. Same cheesy acting, fighting, talking, boobies, boring. What's the big deal? Cuz they have squid legs? Ok, then what? I have Cthulu somewhere (it's an old one), maybe that will convince me, maybe this is a 2001 bastardization of Lovecraftian awesomeness, I dunno. Defintely not good though.
Marie Antionette - Strike 1 - rock soundtrack on a period movie. Strike 2 - Kirsten Dunst is only ever in a good movie on accident. Strike 3 - pop soundtrack on a period movie!! This movie never had a chance with me. Dumb and boring and dumb.
A Fish Called Wanda - 80s movie, that I never saw. Like most 80s movies, if you saw it in the 80s, it's great, and you will love it your whole life and quote it and watch it over and over. If, however, you see it in 2008 it, it's cute, but silly, and ultimately meh. PS, this review just cost me a friend :)
Last Train to Freo - Huh, I dunno. This movie starts out just ok, then it ramps up and becomes quite good. Then the primary performance falls to pieces at the very end, kind of souring me on the movie. It's a very small movie, meant to be that way, just 5 people on a train, you never see anyone else really. It feels very ordinary for a while, which is fine I guess, but I had this consistent feeling that it could be much better and I can't tell why it's not. It gets pretty intense, and I think everyone does a good job. But the end, man, how do I get over that horrible silliness? I think it's worth seeing, it's kind of like a play, so small in scope, so focused. Aha, the credits just rolled by, it's based on a play, well that makes sense. Okay, so points to them for making an interesting little piece that is worth watching. Doesn't change my life, but interesting.
13 Tzameti - Weird movie. For the first 30 min so I couldn't have been less intersted, it was just boring and french. Then it gets to the point and it's kinda fucked up, but pretty tense to watch, so that was good. Then it comes around with a whatever ending. Coulda gone that way, coulda gone another way, kind of doesn't even matter. It's worth the middle bit though, just to marvel at the twistedness of some ideas!
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