Reviews

This was a really decent film.

When I initially saw the trailer my first thought was, "Hey, I will probably never watch that movie." However, upon entering the movie theater on a first date I immediately acquiesced when my date said she wanted to see the film. She wanted to know if I would be mad at her for making me watch the movie, and as it turns out this movie was the second best film I saw that day, right behind Iron Man, so I definitely was not mad at her.

Still, I had my doubts as to how well I was going to enjoy the movie. We had a Zohan preview, and also a preview for a movie about a girl who didn't know who her real dad was because apparently her mom slept around when she was conceived. With these previews in mind, I still hadn't a clue as to how the movie would turn out.

The guy from Grey's Anatomy turned out to be pretty funny. Actually, I don't know if it was because he was really funny, or if it was just that he was so handsome that I got lost in his eyes and hair, and then laughed at random moments when others began to laugh. The main chick was pretty good, but I've liked her better in other roles. The Scottish Duke would have been better played by Gerard Butler IMO.

I'd also like to note that there is really a sad dearth of movies which involve a man being forced to be the maid of honor to a woman he is in love with. I hope there are more to follow. Such as, if they hadn't wrapped up this movie with the marriage of the two main characters, they really could have a squeezed another movie out if she had chosen the Scottish Duke to be the maid of honor in the sequel. And thus.

this movie was easily enjoyable. it stayed true with the quick cut fight scenes. the fast paced chases are also paramount in the bourne trilogy. somehow they don't really get old even though this is the third installment of the same idea.

i'm also simpleminded, so i took no mental strides to make an abstract possibility out of what this ultimatum might have been. it wasn't really stated at all in the film.

somehow julia stiles is cuter and cuter in each movie. early in her career i didn't think she was that cute and now i think she is that cute and maybe more. there was not much more to say about this film.

This is a movie that is basically about dinosaurs, and their relationships to the forests around them. I can remember back to my younger years as a student when I played this dinosaur game on the computer. It pretty much showed you every dinosaur there ever was. It had real videotaped footage of the dino's in action. There was an Allosaurus chase among many others. In this movie there are more dinosaurs than some people had thought before. They dinosaurs eat a few people and some dinosaurs are nicer than other dinosaurs. The real thriller here is that Sam Neil somehow has a black daughter. By black I mean African-American and not like Gothic. I could understand if he had a Gothic daughter. Always telling her he's going to "study dinosaurs." I'd be Gothic too if my parent told me he was studying "live dinosaurs." Anyway she is black through some way or the other and he is not black; however, he occasionally has black in his wardrobe. A focal point of this movie is that they kidnap a baby t-rex and in maniacal crazy killer t-rex fashion they try to eat the people that took the baby. The baby soon learns to speak English and translates to the parents who are still not impressed with the whole situation. The black daughter is also a gymnast and manages to woo the t-rex's with back flips and toe touches. Harelik plays a nice role as someone I can't remember. I think he was more in the background as someone you aren't supposed to remember, so I think he did his job because I can't remember exactly what he did in the film.

The "only you" song/ love scene montage sequence was so hilarious that I literally broke three ribs laughing, metaphorically speaking that is. i did cry a little. i just couldn't stop myself. when topper is dressed as rhett butler and he grabs ramada telling her she won't be 'putting him out tonight' or something like that, and the picks her up and carries her up the stairs, but then as he reaches the top he loses his balance. it shows his face as he realizes he can't maintain much longer. it's just that knowing look of hilarity, you know something awful is going to happen and just can't help it. of course, you never want it to be you, then he goes careening down the stairs with his love. it was just too much. the guy that was in charge was amazing. i can't remember his name. i'm just too dumb for something like that. at one point he is addressed my his name but nothing else and he goes, "wow, that's my name too." just awesome. he also claims they will be bombing 'the toast.' when someone corrects him 'the coast' he says that's OK it'll just take a little more planning. too genius really. it's just the right branch of idiocy that very few people thing inside. pure idiocy, i loved it.

this is the first in a trilogy (three movies that are part of one story, usually with the second and third films sucking) where e.t. plays an alien which is not hard for him since he is an alien. his second role in aliens is somewhat different than e.t. because he had to train for many months at a killer monster camp on a moon of jupiter to get ready for the part. the third in the sequence is close encounters of the third kind with is partially a play on words since it is the third part of the trilogy and a close encounter of the third kind is when you see an alien and make direct contact with it. seeing a ufo is of the first kind and seeing an alien from a distance is the second kind. if you happen to make out with an alien you shouldn't tell anyone as no one has of yet so there really isn't a tier for you. e.t. is stranded on earth and he is an alien botanist. the plot is basically that his species had never heard of a pine tree and they came to see one. they had not a clue that the pine cones were sharp and could cut and they ran onto the ship. e.t. had inadvertently found a pear tree and was eating the delicious "pine cones" when his friends left him. i don't want to ruin anything so i won't let go of the rest of the story.

This movie left me hanging at every turn and i couldn't put down my remote because i wanted to change the channel but i just figured it would get better because of the caliber of the actors involved. Viggo mortenson was superb in hidalgo and gweneth paltro was hard to beat in a movie where she was a flight attendant whose test was stolen. she had to live in some dump like cleveland as a result. quite frankly, this is primarily a film that focuses on the aspect of the female as a serial killer. first she takes down viggo and later she is given a chance to run away from her husband but instead makes a mockery of his attempt to hire someone to kill her and then she pulls a gun on him and proceeds to kill him. this was actually better than monster and i believe most people that watched this film and even the people that made it did not really notice that it was in reality about the notion that female's are just as adept at killing their fellow humans as their male counterparts.