Monday, January 03, 2005
Netflix List/Movie Review Update:
Even more mini-reviews of movie rentals!
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
What actress can we find who will walk around with her mouth open, saying nothing? Scarlett Johansson!
Love Actually (2003)
Pretty damn lame, actually! The premise seems to have been to get every famous British actor in the same movie and have put them in a multitude of plots that are somewhere between the sophistication of a television commercial and a sitcom. Not pretty.
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Almost good, but then not really very good at all. Julia Roberts as earthy-crunchy Berkeley type is hard to take. Her character goes back east to Wellesley to teach rich girls who are mostly just interested in getting married. There were some moving moments, but those were outweighed by a lethal combination of schmaltz and predictability.
My Life Without Me (2003)
I liked this! Weird little Canadian movie about a young mother who finds out she's dying. It's an interesting film, and even has Debbie Harry playing the main character's mom.
Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
Very good German film about a family in East Berlin and how the fall of the Berlin Wall effects them. There's lots going on, on many levels, and it's much less of a comedy than the previews made it seem.
Swingers (1996)
Almost really good, but then only kinda good. The Vegas scenes are classic. In some ways I wish the movie had stayed there. It was just a little too much "wacky LA lifestyle making fun of itself while taking itself seriously" for me. And oh man do I hate swing dancing.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Fabulous! I really liked it. The flaky mind-erasing technicians stressed me out, though.
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
I fell asleep. Perhaps Chris would like to comment?
¶ 2:25 PM
Even more mini-reviews of movie rentals!
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
What actress can we find who will walk around with her mouth open, saying nothing? Scarlett Johansson!
Love Actually (2003)
Pretty damn lame, actually! The premise seems to have been to get every famous British actor in the same movie and have put them in a multitude of plots that are somewhere between the sophistication of a television commercial and a sitcom. Not pretty.
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Almost good, but then not really very good at all. Julia Roberts as earthy-crunchy Berkeley type is hard to take. Her character goes back east to Wellesley to teach rich girls who are mostly just interested in getting married. There were some moving moments, but those were outweighed by a lethal combination of schmaltz and predictability.
My Life Without Me (2003)
I liked this! Weird little Canadian movie about a young mother who finds out she's dying. It's an interesting film, and even has Debbie Harry playing the main character's mom.
Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
Very good German film about a family in East Berlin and how the fall of the Berlin Wall effects them. There's lots going on, on many levels, and it's much less of a comedy than the previews made it seem.
Swingers (1996)
Almost really good, but then only kinda good. The Vegas scenes are classic. In some ways I wish the movie had stayed there. It was just a little too much "wacky LA lifestyle making fun of itself while taking itself seriously" for me. And oh man do I hate swing dancing.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Fabulous! I really liked it. The flaky mind-erasing technicians stressed me out, though.
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
I fell asleep. Perhaps Chris would like to comment?
¶ 2:25 PM
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I guess we won't be inviting you to our Scarlett Johannson film festival then. ;)
'The Man Who Wasn't There' was actually quite good.
Carl
'The Man Who Wasn't There' was actually quite good.
Carl
# posted by 
: 8:37 PM
: 8:37 PM
I liked Coffee and Cigarettes. Jim Jarmusch could pretty much just set up a camera in front of any couple of people he thinks might be interesting and I'd love it...and that's pretty much what this movie is. It's just a series of scenes (many of which seem barely or not at all rehearsed) with a bunch of different cinematographers doing their cinematographing and mostly people who aren't really actors mostly talking about coffee and cigarrettes when they can't think of anything else to say...which seems pretty often. You don't often see people who are so cool (like Iggy Pop and Tom Waits) made to look like real people...and sort of goofy people too.
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