| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Road - R |
"The Road" is a beautifully depressing movie with no other objective other than beutifully depressing you. As much anticipation as I harbored to watch the next movie from the director that gave us visually-arresting "The Proposition"... This flick felt more like a test pilot for a TV mini-series, where the storyline would be someday continued, the many open questions eventually answered and the characters fully explored overtime. But alas, this incomplete movie is only interested in depicting a bleak world with a few survivors clinging to their even lesser remaining human qualities. Period. "Bleak" is the operating word here, and "Hope" is not the expected outcome (I still don't know which other one was). |
December 10, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Fantastic Mr. Fox - PG | Mr. Fantastic Fox is simply delicious. A gem of animation artistry with painstaking and detailed graphic design sensibilities (yes, despite being made out of stop-motion figurines, it is rather two-dimensional in it's rendering of light and perspective). This movie requieres a very sophisticated director to dream it up... and a very sophisticated audience to appreciate it. If you are not charmed by its painterly and gentle aesthetics (the simplistic storyline takes secondary relevance) you should be concerned that you may have lost the ability to enjoy the small, subtle things and moments in life. Intense therapy of careful, pensive and quiet observation of your surroundings may be required. In a corner facing the wall. With a dunce cap if you've got it. | December 10, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Invention of Lying - PG-13 | As much as I find Ricky Gervais funny (for the most part)... this movie (written, directed and acted by him) has only but a couple of good moments (mainly the thinly disguised stabs at religion's fantastical rationalizations and society's civilized hypocrisies). The rest (specially the last third of the movie) is just predictable sappy formula. Also: The make-up is overpowering in a bad way, the product-placement is past the level of comfort, the music depressing and the lighting plain ghastly. Save it for streaming Netflix on a rainy day. When your mind is down and you don't want to waste a good movie. | October 30, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Shrink - R | This movie feels like sloppy seconds. It takes the succesful model of interwoven life stories in L.A. (Magnolia, Crash, etc) and turns it into an also-ran cheap melodrama with unclear logic, cardboard-like trite characters (steryotypes?) and just an overall feel of an unsuccessfully manipulative commercial. The only thing I found slightly amusing was the obssesive-conpulsive asshole producer with implanted Bluetooth earpiece. | October 28, 2009 | N/A | |||
| A Serious Man - R | October 1, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Zombieland - R | October 1, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| A Cinderella Story - PG | September 16, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| A Walk to Remember - PG | September 16, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Notebook - PG-13 | September 16, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Scary Movie - R | September 16, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Longest Yard - PG-13 | September 16, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Moon - R | Great little flick with a refreshing new twist. Despite being low budget, it feels more produced, but the scarcity of locations also make it feel like a stretched-out short movie. Sam Rockwell continues reaffirming himself as one of my favorite actors to watch. | September 16, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - PG-13 | Michael Bay's yearly supply of Ritalin must have run out... For this movie marks his highest achievement in spastic, hyperactive direction. The action is so relentless, even the romantic "slow" scenes feature multiple lens doing spiraling 360s while the actors speed-talk in rapid-fire snaps blinded by non-stop surface glares and high-rate sun flashes. When the transformer fighting begins, there is nothing to contemplate but an absurd number of hyper-detailed yet blurry amalgam of polygons in psychotically diverse movement that will give no rest to your eyes as they struggle to keep up and focus for the 2 hours and a half of eyeball gymnastics... No merciful rest whatsoever all the way throughout (perhaps so you wouldn't have a moment to reflect on the utterly bad script and dialogue). The result is either a mind meltdown and/or eyelid catastrophic failure and/or neck seizures and perhaps lip twitches for life... I am serious folks, this movie CANNOT be healthy for kids of any age. Unrestraint in visual effects can lead to madness, numbness and dumbness. I kinda enjoyed the over-the-top stupidity of it all though. | July 7, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Up - PG | I am a big fan of Pixar. I find their story lines masterful in bridging the wonderment of childhood's imagination to adult themes and concerns, mostly through ageless humor, candor and imagery. "UP" is no different. It is a nice poem (specially in the beginning) which later becomes your average action kid movie. BUT... It is not "The Incredibles", and somehow is not even a deserving step-up movie to "WALL•E". It is just a cute story that could have been told in half the time if not even less. No big belly-laughs, no smarty-pants writing... just a nice poem with a forced happy ending. | June 25, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Revolutionary Road - R | June 12, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Terminator Salvation - PG-13 | June 12, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Star Trek - PG-13 | June 12, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Bothersome Man (Den Brysomme mannen) - Unrated | This movie attempts to explore if a perfect world where all your comfort needs are met, but at the price of having no passion is indeed worth living. Is it Heaven, is it Hell... or is it just Scandinavia? Beautifully shot with a couple of harrowing moments, it will make you think without noticing. | May 24, 2009 | N/A | |||
| An Unreasonable Man - Unrated | May 24, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Låt den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One in) - R |
First horror movie where dismemberment is followed by thoughts of "Aahwwww... That is SO romantic", and the cause of a blood-stained mouth may actually be cute. What else can you say where innocent pre-teens are vampires and the peace of snow in Sweden makes for a beautifully evoking new vision on the genre? I enjoyed it, and now I feel bad about it. |
May 6, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Irreversible - Unrated |
Irreversible is a masterpiece. Period. But has to be enjoyed with the curtains drawn, earphones on, kids and wife put to sleep.... and never, ever tell anyone about the deed. It is so disturbing I feel queasy thinking about it... But it is also a fine, fine piece of film making. Superb control of storytelling, an extremely controversial plot and a very gutsy approach to camera work, time line and character-building. It is truly a must-see for any film buff (if you have a tough stomach for sadistic violence). Watch the "Extras" in the DVD to learn how they built subtle but important effects (like the feeling of a continuous single take). |
May 3, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Monsters vs. Aliens - PG |
This movie on its own, is not a great thing (quite derivative of many, many others that came before with similar formula and perhaps better artistry)... BUT, see it on an IMAX 3D Experience, and it makes ALL the difference! 3D has come a long way from those red-blue plastic lenses of yesteryear. Now days you can sustain the entire movie (not just moments when an ax is thrown to you) without enduring an splitting headache or motion sickness. In fact, certain scenes in this movie CANNOT be enjoyed properly without 3D. For example, the aerial attack on the gigantic alien drone. Pure awesomeness. Besides the effects, another character saves the movie and makes it worthwhile... the cool RocknRolla president with an amusing ego and zany attitude. He deserves a nomination on his own. |
May 1, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Game - R | A now classic mind-bending thriller on alternative reality (and the grandfather of "Eagle Eye" and countless others). At the time it broke new ground, and although it takes plenty of suspension of desbelief (specially at the end, where there are too many variables to be under control by anyone), its moody photography and an intense Michael Douglas, still make for a good ride. | March 28, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Hotel for Dogs - PG | February 7, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Dance Flick - PG-13 | February 7, 2009 | N/A |
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