Tag: three sentence movies

I knew going into this that it was a really awful movie, but had hope that the scuttlebutt was wrong, as Peter Bogdanovitch was the director, plus Sandra Bullock and Durmot Mulroney starred along side River Phoenix (his last movie) and Samantha Mathis (who?*). But yes, it was that bad. There were a few lovely moments, and the commentary features make me like it a bit better, but mostly this is a “only if you have the flu” movie.

I was quite surprised at how much I enjoyed this film, which I was only watching due to the Vin Diesel Film Fest. My liking had to do with two main things aside from the presence of Mr. Diesel: 1) there’s actually a strong woman character in this movie, much to my surprise and enjoyment 2) when the monster part comes, it’s pitch black and so we never really see the monsters eat the people. This is apparently an overlooked movie, so perhaps my recommendation will spur you to seek it out.

Note: this great swath of eight movies watched in four days was because I was working on the Roman shades for the front room and there was a lot of hand stitching, which called for a lot of movie watching.

Documentaries for me are like my sometimes feelings about exercise, namely they tend to be something I have to force myself to partake in and then I usually quite enjoy them. This was no different. With hardly a word, we get to experience the first years of four children in widely different settings, which was informative (so that’s what they do when there are no diapers!) funny and moving.

The theme for August movies seems to be “a bit slow” and this one was no different. The other theme is, “quite good acting, with enjoyable actors” and this movie fit that theme too. I was amused at all the lines of dialogue that clearly served only to inform the non-rugby understanding public of what the heck was going on, but overall, I was mostly bored.

This was a gorgeous movie to look at and the acting was very good. It was clearly carefully composed, but somehow, it came off as a bit cold. I was drawn to the story and many elements were quite good, so I recommend it anyway.

Enough of making movie adaptations about Jane Austin’s works. Instead, why don’t we see something about the author herself? This movie was a bit slow, but packed with very good actors and so was fun to watch.

“I haven’t watched it yet, but I’m looking forward to the experience,” was always my reply when someone asked me if I watched Glee. And now that Matt and I have jumped on the Glee bandwagon, I can say that I–like 98% of all Glee viewers–love it too. I was looking forward to the singing and the dancing, but I had no idea it would be so funny.

Harrison Ford’s wattles were covered by a bandanna for most of this movie, which was quite a relief for this viewer. I found this to be a B movie with A list actors who brought their A game, making it a pretty enjoyable summer movie experience. The movie also thankfully connected the dots as to why Olivia Wilde was riding through the late 1800’s Western setting with her hair all about her, instead of pulled back into a nice bun, as would have been correct to the setting; this was driving me crazy for most of the movie and I thank them for clearing the matter up.

Just as I enjoyed this upon its release, so did I enjoy this re-viewing. I had forgotten, however, that it was a Farrelly Brother’s movie, as it doesn’t really fit into their famously gross boy humor style. Drew Barrymore is always a delight and I quite enjoyed Jimmy Fallon, who I think doesn’t get to act in movies any more after Taxi and several other “eh” movies.

Vin Diesel speaks only 53 words in this movie so I probably could have excluded it from the Vin Diesel film fest, but I have wanted to see this since it came out and so many people spoke well of it. It was a good Brad Bird movie, (and short) with great voice acting. I also enjoy the classic animation style, which fit well with the 1950s setting.