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Pure pain to watch
This is 60 minutes of people being painfully stupid and dishonest. You can not do other but feel sorry for anyone that would believe the lies and stupidity in this movie.
Match Point (2005)
Worst Woody Allen movie ever
It's boring, slow and for the most part heavily uninteresting. The plot is for all of the movie except the ending, completely and utterly predictable even in minor details.
Allen even failed in the direction of the actors. Jonathan Rhys Meyers says his lines as if he is reading them out of a prompter.
The movie picks up a bit at the end and the ending 15 minutes are not completely predictable, but it doesn't save the movie. Most of the excitement in the end comes from knowing that you don't have to suffer through any more of this half hour detective story stretched out to a numbing two hour movie.
See any other Woodie Allen movie but this one.
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Thinly disguised propaganda movie
Michael Moore is not a bad propagandist. He does many things skilfully. Note for example how he never actually says that members of the Bin Laden family have not been interrogated about about Osama and his whereabouts. He just repeats that it would have been reasonable to interrogate them, thereby creating the impression that they have not been interrogated, and that they probably know where Osama is!
Have they been interrogated? Well, this movie sure doesn't answer that question. Neither does it provide any other answers. It does provide impressions and insinuations. Impressions and insinuations that almost without one single exception are false, and often blatantly so.
You need a LOT of knowledge to see through Moore's propagandist lies. Now, if he just could bother to make his movies look good, then maybe he will be remembered in the future as the Leni Riefenstahl of the 21st century. If not, he will just be remembered as a big liar, or maybe not at all.
If you are thinking of seeing this movie, see Fahrenhype 9/11 first.
Cecil B. Demented (2000)
You'll laugh your socks off.
As usual, John Waters take weirdos and make them the heroes. This time however, there is nothing disgusting or tragic about them, they are all simply and honestly insane. Which makes this John Waters movie a straight humour movie. It's slightly unusual for John Waters to make something without making it two-faced, but it works wonderfully.
Gangs of New York (2002)
An unrealistic about reality
This movie is inspired by real places, real events and real people in New York. Unfortunately, the opening sequences remind you more of a mix of Mad Max and A Clockwork Orange, killing of any sense of connection to reality. The story also has a bit too many clichés.
Martin Scorseses directing and the good acting saves the movie, and makes it a worthwhile piece of entertainment, but nothing more. Any moral to the story got lost on the way.
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Funny, sobby and moving.
Penny Marshall delivers yet another great drama, this time with the help of Drew Barrymore. The movie is about prenthood, how easy it is to mess it up, and how easy it is to grow up to become your parents. It's an excellent movie in most ways, but primarily it has a good story and some really good acting.
You'll laugh, and you probably will cry, and you might even call your mother. :)
If you have a chance, go through the movie a second time with Drew Barrymores excellent DVD commentary.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Action less action movie
This should be an action movie, but the director seesm to forget that, and instead had long "oh help we're hanging off a cliff above certain death"-scenes in an attempt to create suspense. However, he fails, becuase we very well know that he isn't gonna kill off the main characters.
The result is an action movie without action, whose only redeeming features are the nice special effects and the fact that Jeff Goldblum is totally cool.
Shôjo kakumei Utena: Adolescence mokushiroku (1999)
Stunningly beautiful, but ulitmately pointless
I got interested in this movie because somebody had made a beautiful video for Björks "Bachelorette" with clips from it. So I watched the movie. And it is indeed stuningly beautiful. A masterpiece of animation.
Unfortunately, the story doesn't keep up. It starts out well, with interesting plotlines about people fencing for the possession of the Rose Bride, but suddenly elevators fill up with water and looses their walls, people float away, and finally for no reason whatsoever, Utena is tranformed into a car, and a highspeed chase ensues.
I like much Anime for it's ability to make alternative universes, but this universe is just stupid. If you are gonna watch this movie, turn of the sound, it's better that way.
The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
One of the most skilled directions you'll ever see.
This movie is about many different things at once, and is played out on several different levels at once. On the surface, the movie is about the setting up of a play about a historical event. Peter Greenaway lets the storyline switch between the play and the historical event, thereby breaking down the barrier between the movies play and the movies reality, and simultaneously breaking down the barrier between the movie and reality, making it near impossible to brush of the events as "Ah, it's just a movie".
The way he does this is so skillful, that somebody should invent a Nobel price in directing and give it to him. :)
This is a movie lovers movie. If you aren't a cineast and would rather see a guy with two machine guns killing people that spend an hour or two thinking, forget about it. It will only make you confused. And if you are a sensitive person, this movie might make you feel bad for days.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
One of the funniest movies ever
Really good comedians can tell you the depressing truth while making you laugh so hard you can hardly breathe. In this movie Trey Parker and Matt Stone shows that they are amongst the worlds greatest by delivering a biting satire dotted with the funniest catchy tunes you have ever heard.
If you think this movie has to much bad language, then you are the one the movie is making fun of.
Mononoke-hime (1997)
Excellent movie
This movie should appeal to everybody, not just the dedicated anime lover. Everything about it is well done. The plot is refreshing in that it doesn't make the typical clear distinction between good and evil, and it doesn't reduce women to being just pretty, neither does it make an obvious point of having strong women.
Although the movie is violent, it portraits all kinds of violence as bad, and I have no problems in letting kids watch this movie, in fact, it's strong moral contents and equal rights statements makes it an excellent movie for kids in the typical Disney-movie age. But that doesn't mean that it is only a kids movie. It's highly enjoyable for everybody. Movies doesn't get much better than this.