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An imaginative and charming story. Sendak's wonderful book provides the fuel for this wonderful movie. It's pure in nearly every way. You feel exuberance and excitement when Max is running through the forest with the wild things, and the woe and sadness the characters posess. Each creature is fully realized both in personality and appearance. I must take a moment and praise the conservative use of CG. They're actually there, just not their faces and it looks real. Made even more real by their range of emotion, characterization is very strong. It's clear it was the focus of this piece. Not a lot of plot to speak of. I think Jonze realised he didn't totally need one. The monsters are the plot. Spike Jonze has given us a tangible fantasy through the eyes of Max. It's something every moviegoer should take in.

A fantastic thriller. No. I'm going to italicise it. Fantastic. Samuel L. Jackson is given the screen time he needs to really show his stuff. From the beginning, Changing Lanes effectively conveyes the motivations and drives of the main characters. The plot is top notch. Dialouge is impeccable, action is intense, and so on. Do not pass up the chance to see it. You would be hard pressed to find a better modern day thriller.

Excellent makeup work on the Tar Man. "More Brains!"

A criminally underrated sci-fi horror hybrid. It's tough to straddle genres but I think it is handled adequately and with precision here. You get going with your deep space mystery, the movie bides its time until it ramps up the intensity at the end. POW. All kinds a shit hits the fan that would make Pinhead proud. This did Doom better than Doom did. I love the supernatural angle. Larry Fishburn is heroic and believable as the crew captain and Sam Niel does well as the fucked up doc. Their chemistry on screen is not something seen often in this genre, really fleshes out the whole thing. Great make up work, great soundtrack, great movie!

Agressive and engaging. The Maltese Falcon is pure noir purely executed. Back then I don't think the conventions were established so there's no way anything this production team did that was done before. I hear it's word-for-word from the novel, which I have to give brownie points to. Bogart is a fast talkin', hard punchin' private eye. This Sam Spade character is a classic example of the anti-hero, or the emerging idea thereof. Peter Lorre is equally compelling and creepy. How he can balance the two is beyond me. Oh, the plot, the story. Wow. Such dialoug. It weaves the story so intricately. I probably didn't catch the best parts of it either. This was my thousanth film watched and it's the stuff that dreams are made of.

I'm shocked I had to track this film down, I mean something of this calibur. It must be a studio thing. Well, I'm not sure actually. I can't really tell if John Waters is ultimately comitted to the messages conveyed in Cecil B. DeMented or if he's playing it for laughs. Whatever the case I now have a film to point to when asked why the average film-goer deserves a fate worse than death. The story's entire drive is one message: mainstream cinema sucks. While I do admit to enjoying the occasional big budget flick I think I tend to agree with the characters in Waters' film. It's by the book (mine anyway). What a perfect satire. A bunch of radical cinephiles terrorize the Boston area? Amazing. I hope this film reaches a much larger audience, the audience it deserves to have. Demented forever!

A wonderfully crafted modern classic. The story here is so heartfelt and genuine it leaps off the screen and into your head. Now, I don't know the first thing about wine, but I can tell you Giamatti and Church are impeccable together. When the scene calls for a laugh you get it, a somber tone, you get it, or a zesty bite, you get it. These two fine accomplished actors never falter during the entire 2 hours I was enthralled with the film. I loved Thomas' running gag of "I think it's alright." every time he tries a wine. On the other side of the coin is the deep pains Giamatti's Miles character exudes. I've never been big on identifying with characters (because, that's all they are) but I think anyone can understand what's happening and has had such a period in their lives, however small or short lived.

A very impressive comedy. Typically I'm not a fan of these kinds of movies. You know, the kind where the main driving focus is "Let's get laid." Well, that's what this could have been, based on the previous works of those involved (and they all sucked). No, they did something right here. They actuall concentrated some effort onto the story elements. That coupled with a cast full of likable characters makes for a stellar comedy. There won't be one like this for a long time. A genuinely funny comedy comes around maybe once every one or two years.