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Vig (1998)
pretty lame
well i happened upon this movie on VHS at the thrift store. i feel like i just wasted 5 hours of my life, although the movie run time was probably under 2. it opened up with frank vincent and tony cirico a la sopranos, 2 excellent mafia actors... in an "introduction/set-up scene". "wow, this should be interesting..." i thought to myself. it held my attention through ACT I, but "petered" out quickly. freddie prinze seemed miscast for this. but that is a moot point... i'm only writing this review to forwarn potential viewers... do not waste your time. do not be swindled in by the cast names. it is a waste of a cast. lauren holly is excellent in her role in and of itself - i'll say at least that. But Bottom Line: there's no point dissecting the misgivings in plot, premise, plausibility and aesthetics... it's just a bad movie.
Love, Honour and Obey (2000)
Impossible to give it a # rating
i guess around minute 20, triggered by the third annoying karaoke sequence - i turned this thing off...therefore i did not see the whole movie...therefore i cannot give it an honest # rating.
(and btw i'm one of those who hates to not finish a movie once begun regardless)
what a waste of cast - by that i mean jude law
granted i started watching this as a netflix-back-to-back-cockney thing right after experiencing "Gangster No.1" which conversely was somewhat awesome and riveting on a number of levels.
on netflix "this thing" popped up "because i just finished watching Gangster No.1"
The Thin Red Line (1998)
slightly off
the first malick film i saw was New World - and was blown away - left thinking that there ARE some in Hollywood who have an "artists soul".
BUT i just caught Thin Red Line from VHS thrift store. And was "turned off" by the ridiculously cruel and inaccurate portrayal of Japanese soldiers. I only tend to visit the comments section of IMDb when something really feels "off". thank you to the commentators who articulated my "off" feeling for me. I guess I'm not the only one. I worked on Clint Eastwood's film Letters from Iwo Jima (aka Red Sun, Black Sand) - in which the Japanese soldiers ACCURATELY committed suicide rather than be taken alive.
And yes, unfortunately "the poetry" did begin to get tedious.
that being said... Nick Nolte was superb! Penn superb! And yes, Jim Caveizel superb! as well, there were some impressive performances from "lesser known" guys.
The Hangover (2009)
Just OK
I heard from "word of mouth" that this was to be a must see, hilarious comedy. It started off really well, and I give it credit for "reversing the process" versus the standard formulaic screenplay "structure". Somewhere in Act II it began to get a bit flat. The caricatures over "characters", the implausibility issues, and most of all THE VULGARITY. To me the movie deserves it's place (albeit, as does the other 99% of comedies and romantic comedies) in the "bin of mediocrity and cheap gimmicks". The reason for the negative review is due to the expectations I had going in. I was expecting something truly remarkable. It was not that. I'm 35, and haven't quite figured out this ever growing paradigm: "vulagarity-is-funny". I couldn't believe there were 5 year old kids in the theater. Guess, I'll stick to my drama's, and sci-fi, and action flicks.