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- Review count90
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- First reviewJune 2, 2008
- Last reviewAugust 2, 2012
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A romp for Clooney fans
PostedNovember 16, 2009
Fans of George Clooney should get a good kick out of this absurist comedy. Clooney plays a "psychic warrior" in an arcane branch of the US Army, that purports to combat an enemy by using paranormal means. Look out for the sparkly eyes technique! There is a fine cast, including Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey. Naturally, everything here, script and acting, is over-the-top. Clooney is wonderfully hammy, but not too much so. There is lots of silly fun in this movie. Enjoy!
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Going nowhere
PostedNovember 16, 2009
Think of this as the Coen Brothers' take on the story of Job from the Old Testament. Everything in the life of the lead character Larry Gopnik, a befuddled nebbish, is going wrong. He seeks an answer to the question: why does God allow such misery? The answer: there is no answer! This movie is faintly comic, with humor of the deadpan variety. But the lead character is not appealing, and all the other characters (almost all Jewish) are caricatures. This movie takes a long time to go nowhere in particular.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Funny, interesting documentary
PostedOctober 29, 2009
Chris Rock leads us all on the role and importance of hair in the life of black women. Chris is an appealing and droll personality, and makes the ride fun, though the movie is sometimes too slow. There were surprises here for me, like where the hair for all those weaves comes from, how much the weaves cost, and how protective black ladies are of those weaves. Chris keeps us smiling about the silliness of all this preoccupation with hair.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Cute lightweight chick flick
PostedOctober 22, 2009
This is a feel-good movie, directed by Drew Barrymore, about a high school girl (Juno's Ellen Page) who breaks from her mother's wishes of success in beauty pageants. Instead, she develops a yen to join the rowdies in ladies' Roller Derby. This is not high art, but the performances are good, and it is a fun movie to watch. Not too long, and you feel satisfied as you walk out.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Thought provoking
PostedOctober 19, 2009
Michael Moore makes his case that capitalism is unhealthy. He thinks we ought to do away with it. I think we just need to regulate it better. Moore is preaching to the choir here, in the sense that few are going to buy tickets to a Moore movie, who don't already agree with him pretty well on politics. But this is an interesting and thought-provoking movie, if at times a bit slow. The greatest surprise: what the priests had to say.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Interesting and odd tale
PostedSeptember 25, 2009
Matt Damon portrays real-life whistle-blower Mark Whitacre, a scientist/executive at the agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland. As portrayed, Whitacre has a squeaky clean, almost cornball or clueless idealism. But eventually his eccentricities reveal a darker soul. Interesting, but not a movie for the masses.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Very good offbeat sci-fi
PostedSeptember 10, 2009
This is definitely offbeat sci-fi. There are aliens, millions of them, and a mothership that squats above Johannesburg, South Africa. But the aliens came as refugees, and they were put in a wretched refugee camp in the city. That's District 9. Now the public has tired of them, fears them, ethnic tensions abound, and the authorities want to move them 200 kilometers away. It is the jaunty air of the man put in charge of this relocation that gives this movie its offbeat air, at least for the first half of the movie. The second half is more familiar territory.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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A Tarantino lollapalooza
PostedAugust 28, 2009
This is an imaginative, over-the-top, funny spectacle by Tarantino. He likes to do send-ups of movie styles, and this is his spin on war movies. It is an exaggerated plot, of course (just alike all his movies) and certainly not historically accurate. And a bit too wordy (a Tarantino failing). But it is certainly entertaining and worth seeing. As for the acting, Brad Pitt is very fine, and Christoph Waltz is even better. It is so nice to see a Tarantino movie with some life and zip in it, after the awful, wordy, tiresome examples of Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Volume 2, and Grind House: Death Proof.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Beautiful trickery
PostedAugust 13, 2009
The setting of Hawaii is just gorgeous. The performances of the four principals are good. But halfway along the movie has a plot twist that just isn't believable from what has come before. Even so, the movie makes for a decent adventure yarn, with plenty of tension and action.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Absolutely delightful
PostedAugust 13, 2009
This movie is delightful. Meryl Streep has her best role in many years. Her portrayal of Julia Child with the telltale mannerisms and roller coaster voice is absolutely uncanny. Inevitably she overshadows everyone else, but in fact the performances of the other principals are all fine, too. Especially Amy Adams in the smaller role of Julie. Amy Adams is so cute and appealing a performer that, if she were in the room with me, I'd want to go nibble on her.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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