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Overrated Movies
I ran across this list of Premiere’s 20 Most Overrated Movies: 1. American Beauty 2. Chicago 3. Clerks 4. Fantasia 5. Field of Dreams 6. Chariots of Fire 7. Good Will Hunting 8. Forrest Gump 9. Jules and Jim 10. A Beautiful Mind 11. Monster’s Ball 12. Moonstruck 13. Mystic River 14. Nashville 15. The [...]
Movies Year in Review
My favorite movies I saw in 2006: Little Miss Sunshine (2006): Funny, touching, original, has Steve Carrell. What more can you ask for? My favorite movie that I saw this year. I don’t want to overhype it too much because you could be let down, but it’s an entertaining movie. Thank You for Smoking (2006): [...]
On My Mind
Some of the things I’ll miss most about Champaign (other than friends, of course): the Central time zone (man, that extra hour is nice for sporting events), Curtis Orchard (pretty much the idyllic midwest experience), four way stops on four lane roads (never seen them elsewhere), my window-office at work (even though it’s shared, it’ll [...]
Samuel L. Jackson Has a Problem…
Just watch the clip to see what it is: The most anticipated movie of the year (literally) starts this Friday. I don’t think you’ll find another 2006 movie with as long of a Wikipedia entry.
Grizzly Man on the Discovery Channel
If I convinced you to watch Grizzly Man, you can watch it on the Discovery Channel tonight and tomorrow night. It’s playing at 8 pm and midnight Eastern Time on these nights.
Three Good Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen
Murderball: Awesome documentary about wheelchair rugby (the title is the slang name for the sport). The basic idea is these paraplegics get these like $3000 wheelchairs that basically act like battering rams. Then, on a basketball court, the goal is essentially to get the ball from one end of the court to the other while [...]
Orson Scott Card: Best Sci-Fi Movie Ever
Orson Scott Card, one of the top five Mormon science fiction writers alive today, offers his review of the new movie Serenity. Well, guess what. It’s great. I’m not going to say it’s the best science fiction movie, ever. Oh, wait. Yes I am. … Because for me, a great film — sci-fi or otherwise [...]
Al Michaels Should Stick to Football Commentary
Last night on Monday Night Football, ABC had Geena Davis in the booth promoting her new TV show. To introduce her, Al Michaels referred to her as, I kid you not, “one of the most accomplished actress of a generation”. Nothing against Geena and her film achievements, but does anyone honestly believe that introduction outside [...]
Review: Gosford Park
Gosford Park is kind of a whodunit murder mystery set against the backdrop of the early 20th century class structure in England. Sounds kind of boring, but it’s actually pretty interesting and keeps you in suspense about the killer. Original and worth watching at least once. My Score: 70% Tomatometer: 87%
Review: Crash
Crash was recommended to me by a professor and grad student at a conference a while back. The film is kind of like a collection of intertwined short stories dealing largely with the stereotypes people make about others. Good movie…it challenges a lot of people’s pre-conceived notions and has an interesting plot. My Score: 85% [...]
Review: Startup.com
Yet another documentary, Startup.com is about two friends (one of whom looks a lot like The Rock) that start govWorks.com during the high of the Internet boom, get millions in VC funding, and end up busting all in the course of less than two years. It’s pretty entertaining to see the whole process you’ve probably [...]
Review: Hoop Dreams
People always say to me, “when you get to the NBA, don’t forget about me.” Well, I should’ve said back, “if I don’t make it to the NBA, don’t you forget about me.” That quote comes from high school basketball phenom William Gates in Hoop Dreams. This is one of those movies I’ve been meaning [...]
Review: The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Compliments of some of our most awesome friends, Will and Valerie, we went to see The 40-Year-Old Virgin last weekend (Thanks!). You really have to do two separate reviews for this movie: one for those who don’t mind crude humor and another for those that do. And by crude, I mean this movie makes American [...]
Maybe Crappiness is More Damaging Than Piracy
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The NY Times has an article that makes me optimistic that the movie industry is more willing to adapt to the digital age than the recording industry. Consumers are no longer biting for the inferior products: “Part of this is the fact that the movies may not have lived up to the expectations of the [...]
Review: Rebel Without a Cause
We watched Rebel Without a Cause last night. I didn’t find it to be that great of a movie. I get the whole “looking for a father” theme, but the plot is just completely unbelievable. Basically, in the course of one day, the new kid (James Dean) gets in a knife fight with the school [...]
The Critics’ Favorite Film of the Year
Hope you’re not expecting too much at the Academy Awards next year…we’re almost two-thirds of the way done with 2005 and The 40 Year-Old Virgin has the highest reviews of any film so far this year.
Review: Kung Fu Hustle
We watched Kung Fu Hustle the other night. I’d highly recommend it. The first five minutes are a bit sketchy, but once you get past that, it’s very entertaining. The fight scenes are great and I liked the music a lot. The plot is rather unique and throws in a lot of humorous elements as [...]
Okie Noodling
So, the other day I was at a friend’s place and he started playing this DVD that he’d got from Blockbuster online. The DVD was Okie Noodling, a documentary about noodling in Oklahoma. For those of you unfamiliar with noodling (a.k.a., grappling, hogging, hand fishing), it basically consists of the following. You walk into some [...]
Dukes of Hazzard
Color me skeptical about the new Dukes of Hazzard movie, especially after seeing these reviews from both critics and normal folk. I doubt it’ll make the list of movies I watch this year.
80′s flashback…
Today my brother and I had an 80′s flashback and watched one of our favorite childhood movies, Little Monsters. It was still funny just like I remembered it, although I don’t remember it having all those bad words. I can’t believe our parents let us watch that!