I thought Moore's film was very good, it made me think and laugh quite a bit and I did enjoy it. However, I have a few beefs with it. The first is how Moore manipulates the numbers. Fine, we here in Canada have fewer gun murders than the US (11 000 to 165 in the film), however, Moore fails to mention that the US has a population of 250 000 000 and that Canada has a population of 30 000 000. Thus, it is more important to look at the ratio of murders than the actual total number, because it is ludicrous to compare two countries' murder numbers, especially when one country has 220 000 000 more people than the other! This is a however a great propaganda movie for the left and you gotta love it when actors look like idiots, eh Hestin?? 7 out of 10.
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And Justice for All
(1979)
Powerful.
18 May 2002
I cannot believe this film only gets a 6.8 rating! The performances are great, the dialogue is witty and at times extremely funny! (bathroom scene, plate throwing incident, crazy judge). I admire this film more than other courtroom dramas, like any John Grisham movie or A Few Good Men for example, and why? because not every case is a newsmaking career maker or breaker! there are big cases and small ones...as this movie indicates perfectly. Great performance by Pacino, although not his best film, I thoroughly enjoyed it. 8/10.
Pearl Harbor
(2001)
hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
25 April 2002
Horrible in every sense of the word. Actually I don't even think words can describe how bad this movie was! Being a history student, films who completely ignore facts for explosions and a second rate love story insult my intelligence in ways that I cannot describe. My two main complaints about this piece of trash are Jon Voight and Alec Baldwin. Voight impersonates FDR well but how could a man who has starred in the terrific Midnight Cowboy and the shocking Deliverance lend his talents to a worthless piece of garbage like Pearl Harbor??? Baldwin has not made "great" films, but has certainly made many which were better than this. He is, in this movie, a walking, talking cliche! Every word that comes out of his mouth is riddled with patriotic hero crap that is only seen in movies such as this. Shame on director Michael Bay (who is about as shallow as a kiddie pool, read the Rolling Stone interview) for making war look like so much fun! How stupid can people actually get? I had more sense when I was 5!
Malcolm X
(1992)
Great...I'm very glad Spike Lee decided to direct this.
26 March 2002
All I have to say about Malcolm X is that Spike Lee made this film human, portraying the civil rights leader as a person and not an angel as in almost every other biopic that is spewed out by American studios these days. Norman Jewison was originally slated to direct this film but was replaced with Lee after Lee stated that a black person should direct this film. I am very glad he did, because after seeing The Hurricane, Jewison would have probably left out all of the mistakes Malcolm Little made during the earlier parts of his life and made him out to be a saint like he did with Ruben Carter. The intention of the biopic should be to accurately portray a person, not to make that person larger than life...Spike Lee did a great job of this...I only wish he would have directed the Hurricane.
Do the Right Thing
(1989)
very good...
28 February 2002
Warning: Spoilers
POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD...
However, a lot of comments have been made of the MLK vs. Malcolm X issue in the movie, thus non-violent action vs. violent. In the film, I fail to see Martin Luther King's way of solving problems, to get his way, Buggin out shouts at Sal, Radio Rahim turns his music up as loud as possible and later attacks Sal and Mookie throws a garbage can through a window, inciting the riot. But, to be fair, Sal is no angel either, he is rude with customers and does bash Radio Rahim's radio with a baseball bat. But, if this movie is about racism, I fail to see exactly where Sal actually fits in. He does use the "N" word out of rage once but does treat most people with respect, as long as they do the same. Mookie(along with Pino of course), is the most racist person in the film. Sal, his boss tolerates all of his jerking off at work(let's face it, he would have been fired in a second anywhere else) and he rewards him by inciting the riot that eventually ruins Sal...seeing this, one would have to ask this question: did Mookie throw the garbage through that window because he felt discriminated against, or because he simply did not feel like getting up to work the morning after??
However, a lot of comments have been made of the MLK vs. Malcolm X issue in the movie, thus non-violent action vs. violent. In the film, I fail to see Martin Luther King's way of solving problems, to get his way, Buggin out shouts at Sal, Radio Rahim turns his music up as loud as possible and later attacks Sal and Mookie throws a garbage can through a window, inciting the riot. But, to be fair, Sal is no angel either, he is rude with customers and does bash Radio Rahim's radio with a baseball bat. But, if this movie is about racism, I fail to see exactly where Sal actually fits in. He does use the "N" word out of rage once but does treat most people with respect, as long as they do the same. Mookie(along with Pino of course), is the most racist person in the film. Sal, his boss tolerates all of his jerking off at work(let's face it, he would have been fired in a second anywhere else) and he rewards him by inciting the riot that eventually ruins Sal...seeing this, one would have to ask this question: did Mookie throw the garbage through that window because he felt discriminated against, or because he simply did not feel like getting up to work the morning after??
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