Reviews

Don't watch the opening scenes with the lights off. I did and the flashes killed my eyes-they were really more annoying than the lights flickering in Titanic.

I'd recommend doing some research before watching the movie, I noticed that the people talked over each other a lot which made it hard to keep up, so I'd have to imagine that knowing the complete background (or at least more than I knew) of the times would give you a better idea of what they're talking about. It was also kind of difficult to keep the characters straight since they were in black and white, since they didn't really introduce them. I'm not saying the movie shouldn't be in black and white. In fact, I should think the people who lived through those times would argue that there's no other way. The fact that the directors did the movie in black and white is part of the reason the movie got a higher rating from me, considering I was bored throughout the whole movie, it seemed more like a documentary to me.

I didn't really understand why people always started conversations with asking how each others wives were doing.

I thought Alex Borstein and Rose Abdoo were great actresses (Okay maybe I'm just being a little biased because they were both in Gilmore Girls. =P)- it's a shame they didn't get bigger parts.

I really liked the ending, although it was about 15 minutes too long. Overall, this movie isn't the kind of movie that I'd watch over again unless I had to do some in-depth studies of the era and learn more about it.

I really don't have much to say about this movie. Judging by the other comments about people hating the script, I'd guess I really don't have much to say ever about the script of a movie, so it seemed fine to me.

This movie was hardly anything like I expected (but that doesn't mean James Franco didn't make it good. ;)). I was expecting the movie to be him going to the naval academy, and then actually going and fighting some place. Instead, it's like Rocky...only Rocky was probably better. I did really enjoy a couple funny lines in the movie, especially the part about porn.

I liked the opening shot because it didn't show everything all at once, and made you try to guess what was going on before they showed it.

The relationship between Jake & Ali was super predictable from the very beginning, although I was very pleased that the whole movie didn't turn out to be Top Gun at sea, rather than in air.

Some sets looked the same, I really think they should have added a little more detail to most of them.

I really liked the music in the movie! The movie wasn't too long, although it could have been a little shorter simply because there were some useless sub-plots in the movie.

This movie had the same story as Wicker Park (and I'm sure a bunch of other stories that I just haven't seen as recently)- girl meets a guy, they arrange to meet somewhere but can't find each other so they each go their separate ways for a few years, then both of them get engaged but suddenly "destiny" steps in and makes them NEED to find and see each other again before they are married, and I think we all can see where that is going. Not that this story makes a bad movie, I really enjoyed the movie, I'm just saying it's been done before, was done afterward, and I'm sure will be done again.

I suppose I shall now contrast Serendipity and Wicker Park since I have reviewed WP as well. There weren't any "freaky" scenes in the movie like there was in Wicker Park, which was better for me because I really don't care to see all of that. The music in Serendipity was good, however it certainly was no "(The) Scientist".

The only reasons I did not give Serendipity the same rating (or more than) as Wicker Park was not because of the acting or the story, but more towards the directing side. Paul McGuigan did an unreal job of directing Wicker Park and the way he was able to clearly (if you really think about it-and pay attention) tell almost the whole story backwards. Serendipity is simple, to the point, and...not...backwards, which is probably a good thing for people who don't have a long attention span, or time to sit and watch the whole movie at once. Serendipity also had more comedy in it than WP. All in all, I'd say that if you like either of these movies, you should give the other a try.

Kate Beckinsale was a wonderful actress, as in any movies I have yet to see her in (PEARL HARBOR!! YEAH!!! WOO!!!!), and she's so beautiful! I was also very pleased with Jeremy Piven's job in the movie. He did a great job acting as the encouraging tag-along best friend.

"Life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences, but rather it's a tapestry of events that culminate in an exquisite, sublime plan." I found it almost funny that we just-so-happened to watch this movie on December 23rd, and the beginning and the ending of the movie was Christmastime...who knows, maybe it was fate? ;)

Put together every fairy tale you can think of, add a bunch of disturbing dysfunctionality to the characters, add Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk-turned into Jacob) and a brother who are con artists, and you have The Brothers Grimm- Not that that's a bad thing. I definitely wouldn't recommend this for kids, something tells me they wouldn't want to imagine their favorite fairy tale characters as something evil. The special effects in the movie were certainly decent, however there were a couple spots in the movie where you could tell they cut the scene. The beginning was sort of jumpy, opening up pretty decently, but kind of confusing, then slowed down, then picked back up again in scenes in the wood.

What I'd really like to know is why nobody ever just punched the General dude out since he was such an annoying idiote. I also thought the whole French/German thing, while possibly historically accurate (really don't know, really don't care, didn't watch the movie for a documentary-type thing), was really quite useless and only added some confusion in the movie.

You could tell that this was a directed by Terry Gilliam (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) when the duck/witch situation came up, and when the kitty went flying into the rather large screwdriver thing.

I was actually pretty disappointed with Matt Damon and Heath Ledger. While I haven't seen many (if any?) movies with Matt Damon in them, I think Heath Ledger was great in any I've seen, so I was not very impressed at all when neither of them seemed to show fear or concern when Jacob was on top of the (how many stories?) tall tower, and when they were being burned.

Lena Headey was probably my favorite actress in the story. She kind of reminds me of a cross between Keira Knightley and a much younger Karen Allen. She seemed to be a little too...undecided for me. You know, can't seem to make up her mind so she has to kiss both of the brothers?

Although I've definitely seen better movies, this one may very well be worth a shot, however I'll have to sleep on it to figure out an exact numerical rating.

*This contains very big spoilers if you haven't seen the movie*

Who knew you could base a movie like House of Wax on some separated Siamese twins? It reminds me of some horror-type Phantom of the Opera. Really though, House of Wax was actually a pretty decent movie. I had heard from most people that it was a pretty bad movie, so I was expecting the worst but I was actually pleasantly surprised.

I originally only bought the movie because Tristan (Chad Michael Murray) and Dean (Jared Padalecki) from Gilmore Girls were in the movie so, needless to say, I was disappointed at how short a role JP got to play. His "he-man" haircut also was pretty bad. =P

Paris Hilton did some *okay* acting (I think the best part would be for guys-her dancing in the tent), but I think the writer/director/producer should not have gone against the invisible rule book of horror stories, where they're supposed to havethe...woman of questionable morals die first, though it was cool to see Paris Hilton with a pole through her forehead. I have to add that I think that whole plot of her *maybe* being pregnant, was absolutely pointless, unless I missed the part of the movie where it actually developed into something.

The last time I had seen Elisha Cuthbert in anything was on the Nickelodeon series "Are You Afraid of the Dark", so I wasn't sure what to expect from her, but I must say that I think she did a pretty good job, especially after having her finger cut off! That was kinda creepy. So, apart from the whole, being a tad on the emotionless side of your boyfriend disappearing/being murdered thing, she did pretty good.

Another disappointing thing was the way JP's death was was very detailed (The ankle cutting was just like..."holy flaming cow, ow!" It looked so real and painful, even for a movie.), and even Paris' death had a failed escape attempt scene before she got it, while the other two didn't really get any glorious death scene. (Although I did find Robert Ri'chard's death probably the creepiest looking.)

The actor who I liked the most in this would have to be Chad Michael Murray, who knew he could be such an awesome "bad-ass" brother (or character in general)? I never thought I'd see him with a crossbow, and I must say, it was quite awesome. And I'm sure many girls will just love his generosity in the scene where he takes his shirt off and gives it to Elisha.

One final critique, I don't think they called people by their names enough. Maybe I was just not paying close enough attention, but the only person's name (in the movie) that I could really remember was Wade. I was having a hard time keeping track of who everyone else was (or maybe I just have bad memory =P).

Overall, this movie is worth a shot.

Although I don't have much to say about this movie, I would recommend it.

Guys might actually like this movie,(compared to most of the other reviews I have written so far =P) what with all the spears going through people and heads getting chopped off.

The movie had some (in my opinion) unnecessary parts, and while it may be in the book, I would have to use the example of Crane having flashbacks of his mother, and where he got the scars on his hand, as an example of an unnecessary part.

The whole bit about the symbol under Crane's bed, and what it really was about, was quite predictable.

The movie kept me guessing/trying to figure out what the heck was going on, almost to the very end, and overall is a suspense/action/somewhat-horror-though not really all that scary- movie that is worth the time it takes to watch it.

I have read several reviews that say this movie is just too confusing to understand and/or enjoy. I thought it was, as the official website put it, a movie that was wonderfully weaved together in an intricate web of time, using flashbacks and memories to compose practically the entire movie, and show very little of the movie in actual "live time".

I would not recommend this movie for someone who has a short attention span, or someone who, like my parents, thinks that you can always listen to a movie while actually doing something else. In order to really understand and enjoy this movie, have a solid chunk of an hour and 55 minutes to do nothing but sit down and watch the movie. One of the neatest things (I think) about this movie is that, even though I have seen it about 5 times by now, if I really pay close attention, each time I watch it I find or understand something new.

I must admit that the only reason I saw it to begin with is because Josh Hartnett was in it. I figured, after seeing him act in Pearl Harbor, I couldn't go wrong with a movie he was in. Now, I don't know if I would really classify this as a chick flick, considering the only reason I cried at this movie is because of the song at the end. I will not tell you what the song was, because that would be the biggest spoiler of the movie; However, I will tell you that if you have heard this song prior to the movie, and have ever really paid attention to the words and the meaning of the song, you will probably cry too. I can remember my exact reaction to the first time I saw the movie, as if I just finished watching it. Knowing the song from hearing it so many times, I was able to "name that tune" before the words even came into the song, and I had to close my eyes (wound up missing part of the movie-not that it was all that important) and cry because they could not have picked a better song for the moment.

The song made the movie- it summed up everything the movie was about and everything Matthew was working for- perfectly.

I only saw the end of this movie, and I must say, I probably couldn't have beared to watch the first bit of this movie if it were anywhere near as bad as the last 30-20 minutes.

1. The guy couldn't drive straight to save his life. 2. There was a head in the guy's rear-view mirror the whole time that was not his own, and there was no one in the back seat. (I thought this was just hilarious, and was rolled over on my side laughing.) 3. The guy talked to his car, and made it go from desperately needing an oil change into not needing one at all. 4. The truck went from keeping up with the guy when he was going 65, to slowing down with the guy (Even though HIS engine wasn't blown out) when he went 15 MPH. And, most importantly: 5. It was just soo incredibly boring. I mean wow...a high speed chase of 65 MPH. Now, even if that was fast for back in that day (which I don't know that it is), you don't have to make a movie about it.

I guess I will begin at the rating. I seriously think this should have been rated PG-13, simply because: What kid 12 and under wants to imagine that when they get rid of their imaginary friend by stomping his toy into the ground, the imaginary friend becomes real and gets a bunch of bullet holes in it and bleeds to death in front of the kids eyes? You would also think someone 12 and under (I'm just assuming that most teenagers wouldn't take this part too seriously) would not want to imagine that some adults with really big guns do, in fact, hunt kids for a living. Oh and then of course I'm sure all kids want to have images of winding up in the trunk of a car with their best friend, who has been shot in the head. One last thing and I promise I'll stop talking about the rating...I figure that anyone who takes movies seriously (aka younger kids) is now deathly afraid that their grandparents or someone else's grandparents are now going to kidnap them and hijack a plane with them. =)

Although she was cute, I must say I think Christina Nigra didn't do all that great a job on acting. Just like in E.T., Henry Thomas did a great job, but, unfortunately, that didn't really make the story any better.

The story did have some hidden potential, but they could have found a better, not so violent (or just change the rating), way to carry it out, and they could have found better actors to do it with.

I did think at the beginning of that garage scene where Davey has to drive with one of the bad guys' cars was pretty darn funny. That kid did one heck of a peel out...certainly a heck of a lot better than I could have done. (Yes I do realize it did become more like an 8 year old's driving after that, but the beginning was funny.)

This is a movie that I believe would appeal to most of todays teens, what with the newer "hip" music, and the dancing, and then of course todays image of a hot Cuban guy (as the leading male).

It was a pretty cute movie, with several parts that made me crack a smile and almost start laughing (but I couldn't because I watched it when people were asleep so I didn't want to wake anybody up =P). The romance, which took longer to develop (it had to have been well over an hour before they even kissed) than the first movie (which actually is contrary to popular opinion where things just jump right to sex these days), was very sweet (and mostly innocent), and I, as a teen, could relate to it better than in the original.

On the case it said "Better than the original". I am not sure if I agree with this or not. I would imagine that our parents (or you know...any people around when the original came out) would like the original better, but kids of today's society would like this one better. The only reason that this movie did not get a higher rating is because I absolutely hated the way the movie ended (won't tell you how, because I don't usually write that big of a spoiler. =P).

I must say I did think it was pretty friggin awesome when Patrick Swayze showed up. =)

I would give the first 30 minutes of this movie a rating of 8 or 9/10.

I work at the library where a lady comes in (much like Alice in the movie), and works with a person in the same way Alice was, when she wanted him to compare things, and I had a friend who recently had a growth on her brain that was causing her to have seizures and slow her thought process and memory down, and so I really enjoyed the first 30 minutes of the movie. I really enjoyed seeing a bit more in depth how people really work with retarded (or mentally handicapped, or whatever the politically correct term is these days, though the movie freely uses "retardation") people to try to improve their thought processes.

However, in my opinion, the whole thing goes downhill when Charly has his operation, and turns into a regular jerk of the male species, apparently resulting in supernaturally enhanced hormones or something? (When he practically assaults Alice)

The whole motorcycle scene screamed pointless, and confused the heck out of me.

Cliff Robertson DOES do an absolutely kick-butt job in this movie.

This movie is great for the whole family. I first watched it when I was 15, and my parents watched it, and we all thought it was great. The little 6 and 3 year old I babysit also loved it.

The movie has several funny parts even in just the first 5 minutes of the movie. Of course, the movie only gets funnier when Dory arrives. If you have a "thing" against Ellen DeGeneres, you might as well not watch this movie, because her character (Dory) really ties the movie together, and definitely adds the most humorous parts, including my favorite: "I shall call him squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my squishy".

The movie goes from Happy to Sad, back to Happy, and of course in between everything, Outrageously Funny.

Overall, I never would have thought a movie whose star character is a deformed fish, with supporting roles from an "obnoxious" fish, an H2O intolerant Sea Horse, and a fish who can hardly remember her own name, could be so good, but it certainly was! =)

*Contains some very teeny tiny "spoilers"*

I went to this movie with as low expectations as I could for a Star Wars movie, and was going to be as critical as I could, because my friend had been ranting how bad it was going to be.

Although the movie certainly did not need to be as long as it was, and some of the ideas were old/overused, such as the Destroyers rolling out to attack Obi Wan and Anakin (as in the first movie with Qui Gon and Obi Wan), this movie still gets a 7/10. I mean...R2-D2 got weapons, and a fire jet pack things in his "feet", and did some major butt kicking!!! I think he might have even been my favorite character in the movie! =P

This is my third favorite Star Wars movie. Return of the Jedi will always be my favorite, and I think I actually liked Attack of the Clones better than this one, because it wasn't so sad (but then you know...that's just a "girly" thing).

I suppose you could consider something in here a spoiler, though it is not much of one...I mean...there's nothing even in this movie TO spoil.

I have heard that "The Sweetest Thing", and "Shakes the Clown" are the two worst movies ever made (bad enough to make you puke), however I have not seen them, making this the worst movie I myself, have ever seen. Although it is almost fun to try to catch all of the odd things they put in the movie (i.e. different outfits on people in different shots of the same scene, or the Hooters restaurant), it isn't worth an hour and 22 minutes of your life just for that. There are possibly two seriously funny lines throughout the whole entire movie. "I'm a man too ya know, I go pee pee standing up" and in the beginning when the baby rolls down the hill and gets picked up "Aww so cute..." and then gets thrown back down the hill "...bye-bye". My friend called this movie "true art", however, I do not see how any movie that has the line "My nipples look like Milk Duds", can be art. Which is why this movie gets only 1 star out of 10.

This contains 2 things, 1) A response to the review by oatwich (some true historical facts), and 2) My review of Pearl Harbor

I, personally, think that oatwich's review was nuts. I do not recall the Japanese ever shooting at innocent people in the movie, considering the Nurses had military ranks, and that's what the Japanese were there for. The Doolittle Raid was not an attack on civilians. It was an attack on the military structures such as war industries, shipbuilding facilities, and power plants. In fact, Doolittle strongly reiterated that no hospitals, schools, or other civilian targets, were allowed, and got very angry when hearing that some of his men wanted to hit the Imperial Palace. Therefore, the movie portrayed those American bombers as heroes because they WERE heroes, according to the current president. So maybe the movie is not 100% accurate, but what movie is, unless it's a documentary? MOST of the movie IS historically accurate. I also do not see how one can say it was insulting to the Japanese. The movie crew was nervous on how Japan would take the movie, but they obviously liked it, considering Japan was the first or second country, where the movie made the most money. The movie was NOT disrespectful to the world war veterans, they loved the movie, got to advise in the way some of the scenes went, spent time with the cast and crew of the movie, and even cried at the "real feel" of it.

Overall, I think oatwich needs to learn to speak for himself, instead of taking it upon himself to speak for all of Pearl City and Honolulu.

Usually (even with movies that I like), I am sitting there, looking at the DVD player to see how much time is left until the movie ends, because I want to get up and do something. With this movie, I was looking to see how much time was left, because I could not WAIT to see how the movie ended! I think this is an awesome, well balanced love story and action movie (almost exactly half and half), if you are able to sit in one place for almost 3 hours, and like action and romance, I would definitely recommend this movie. :)

Also, if you watch this on DVD, when you put the second disk in, make sure you don't look at the chapters, or you'll ruin the ending. :P

(This is my favorite movie in case you couldn't tell, and I could rant on it forever, but I won't take up any more of your time here, so if you need to talk about the movie, e-mail me.)