Posted on 01/17/2005 12:40:51 PM PST by pabianice
My 18yob and I frequently disagree with the critics. We enjoyed The Bulletproof Monk and Blade: Trinity, though they got a lot of knocks.
But we were going to see Elektra last Friday, and I was unnerved by the fact that just about EVERYEONE hated it. Instead, we saw and enjoyed House of Flying Daggers.
On the other hand (no pun), I'd read lyrically glowing reviews of The Hired Hand, an old Peter Fonda Western.
Yow! We still laugh over that one. Yikes!
Dan
Of course. I didn't mean it in any snide way just so you know. :-)
I would have to disagree. This movie was excruciatingly (is that a word?) boring to sit through.
Best movie I've seen was last years Man on Fire with Denzel. Great ending.
Read a few months ago on FR that Chariots of Fire was coming out on DVD. Any idea if it will hit retailers or will it have to be personally ordered?
Special 2 disc edition will be out in Region 1 on 2/1/05
I agree that "Sideways" was terrific, and hysterically funny in places. I wondered about the title also, and concluded that it might mean that the main character took a "sideways" approach to happiness, kind of creeping up on it, walking around it, frequently sabotaging himself.
This movie was TERRIBLE...the previews made it seem like a Ghostly horror movie, but it morphs into some stupid murder mystery...another example of the previews distorting the true plot of the movie.
Roger that--and I went to a midnight screening for its debut!
*gag*
No problem! :-)
The only thing I could come up with was the manner in which wine is sometimes poured into the goblet.
Is this based on the book by DeLillo. I've been a fan of his since the late 70's when I read End Zone. That book was brilliant, funny, terrifically structured, and was unlike anything I'd ever read up to that point.
No it's not! I was wondering that myself.
Great movie...watched it twice...better the 2nd time.
To top it all off, hack director Stephen Sommers (who inflicted the Mummy films on us as well)dedicated the film to his late father! The poor old man must be rolling in his grave.
My entire family - including the kids - loved "National Treasure'. The kids liked 'White Noise', but the the wife & I thought it was lame.
Keep an eye out this year for both Constantine and Fantastic Four.
I don't know who "Dreyer and Ozu" were either, but then I'm not a critic. I do know the reason "The Aviator" did well last night is because the 40 or so Euro film critics based in Hollywood, most frenchies and Italians BTW, think DiCaprio is some kind of god. What humps.
If you thought Van Helsing was torture, why sit thru it? Money or love?
Thank you.
I agree, the league of blah blah blah sucked in a major way.
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