Saturday, November 20, 2004
Netflix List/Movie Review Update:
More mini-reviews of movie rentals ...
The Cooler, 2003
Kind of good but kind of not. It's one of those movies that's conspicuously "not a mainstream movie", but still plays by basically the same rules as mainstream movies. That bugs me. William H. Macy (Fargo, some other stuff) plays the main character who is Mr. Bad Luck. His job is to walk around a casino in downtown Vegas cooling off gamblers' good luck. The big surprise, which is not really much of a surprise, is that his bad luck turns into good luck in the end. Wow.
Spellbound, 2002
This is the best movie ever, at least for now. These spelling bee kids are crazy insane. A couple of them were almost normal, but they didn't come close to winning the national bee. If any of those kids read Motel, we'd love for them to write an article for us. Especially since we wouldn't need to spell check it, unlike with all of our other legions of writers ... that would save us some time.
Mean Girls, 2004
This movie was pretty good and funny until they started dishing up lame moral lessons or whatever you call that where people learn who their true friends are and that the mean people are really actually nice inside or whatever. And Lindsay Lohan's breast implants are hella scary.
The Professional, 1994
Oh that Natalie Portman, isn't she so cute? Isn't that professional just so professional? But then not really so professional ... But what's with that scene where Natalie Portman dresses up like old movie stars? That was just about the scariest thing I've ever seen. Not only that, it was really really stupid. In fact, this movie could have done with a lot less stupidity. It was almost good though. Just a bit too stupid. That plant won't survive the New York winter in the yard of your boarding school, Natalie! Come on. ¶ 9:31 PM
More mini-reviews of movie rentals ...
The Cooler, 2003
Kind of good but kind of not. It's one of those movies that's conspicuously "not a mainstream movie", but still plays by basically the same rules as mainstream movies. That bugs me. William H. Macy (Fargo, some other stuff) plays the main character who is Mr. Bad Luck. His job is to walk around a casino in downtown Vegas cooling off gamblers' good luck. The big surprise, which is not really much of a surprise, is that his bad luck turns into good luck in the end. Wow.
Spellbound, 2002
This is the best movie ever, at least for now. These spelling bee kids are crazy insane. A couple of them were almost normal, but they didn't come close to winning the national bee. If any of those kids read Motel, we'd love for them to write an article for us. Especially since we wouldn't need to spell check it, unlike with all of our other legions of writers ... that would save us some time.
Mean Girls, 2004
This movie was pretty good and funny until they started dishing up lame moral lessons or whatever you call that where people learn who their true friends are and that the mean people are really actually nice inside or whatever. And Lindsay Lohan's breast implants are hella scary.
The Professional, 1994
Oh that Natalie Portman, isn't she so cute? Isn't that professional just so professional? But then not really so professional ... But what's with that scene where Natalie Portman dresses up like old movie stars? That was just about the scariest thing I've ever seen. Not only that, it was really really stupid. In fact, this movie could have done with a lot less stupidity. It was almost good though. Just a bit too stupid. That plant won't survive the New York winter in the yard of your boarding school, Natalie! Come on. ¶ 9:31 PM
