My problem with Point Break is that it gets dumber and dumber as it goes. It runs long because it runs out of content. It's like the last third of the movie is lobotomized.
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Burn After Reading
(2008)
This is the definitive spy movie of our time
25 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The Idiocracy of spy films, this is PROBABLY a documentary as much as it is fiction. We'll never know, but we can imagine. Truly one of the greats.
Burn After Reading is a genre-defining definer of the Spy Genre genre. Together you and this movie can redefine.
You'll never know what hit you until it does.
Burn After Reading. Fin.
Burn After Reading is a genre-defining definer of the Spy Genre genre. Together you and this movie can redefine.
You'll never know what hit you until it does.
Burn After Reading. Fin.
Aladdin
(2019)
Everything they copied they did worse, but the new stuff is excellent and it's not a disaster
26 May 2019
The redone music isn't as good, but the new original music is great.
The redone special effects arent as good as the original animation, but the new costumes and practical work like costumes and dance choreography are great.
It is not flattering for the story to be no better than the original animated movie, but the added female power plot is excellent, timely, and realistic. This movie is a rarity not made purely from the male perspective and I enjoyed seeing something different and inspiring from a different perspective than my own.
The new genie is weaker than the original, but the new sultan is excellent.
Both new stars are perfectly good and I'd watch them in other roles.
Overall I give this a solid 6/10 because it tried the impossible (remaking a classic for new revenue) yet is not a disaster. The kids in the theater laughed and danced and seemed to love it, so mission accomplished because this movie is really for them. Highly recommended if this is your kind of thing. There are a few beautiful and emotional scenes that make it worth the price of admission.
The redone special effects arent as good as the original animation, but the new costumes and practical work like costumes and dance choreography are great.
It is not flattering for the story to be no better than the original animated movie, but the added female power plot is excellent, timely, and realistic. This movie is a rarity not made purely from the male perspective and I enjoyed seeing something different and inspiring from a different perspective than my own.
The new genie is weaker than the original, but the new sultan is excellent.
Both new stars are perfectly good and I'd watch them in other roles.
Overall I give this a solid 6/10 because it tried the impossible (remaking a classic for new revenue) yet is not a disaster. The kids in the theater laughed and danced and seemed to love it, so mission accomplished because this movie is really for them. Highly recommended if this is your kind of thing. There are a few beautiful and emotional scenes that make it worth the price of admission.
View from the Top
(2003)
Do movies get worse than this?
23 November 2014
I saw this on TV and had to immediately write a review because of how appalled I am.
I don't want to exaggerate, so I can't say this is the worst movie ever. I haven't seen every movie to know.
I can't say this is the worst movie I've ever seen. I don't remember them all, and I haven't been keeping track.
All I can say is: I don't remember any movie worse than "View from the Top" (2003).
I don't understand how the story is so bad.
I don't understand how the the writing is so bad.
I understand why the acting is so bad. They were doomed by the production they were in.
Credit for the musical montage in Paris. That was the one segment of the movie where I wasn't laughing from amazement or crying from torture.
Do movies get worse than this?
I don't want to exaggerate, so I can't say this is the worst movie ever. I haven't seen every movie to know.
I can't say this is the worst movie I've ever seen. I don't remember them all, and I haven't been keeping track.
All I can say is: I don't remember any movie worse than "View from the Top" (2003).
I don't understand how the story is so bad.
I don't understand how the the writing is so bad.
I understand why the acting is so bad. They were doomed by the production they were in.
Credit for the musical montage in Paris. That was the one segment of the movie where I wasn't laughing from amazement or crying from torture.
Do movies get worse than this?
The Prestige
(2006)
Only good if you don't figure out what is going on
21 October 2006
Warning: Spoilers
If you are Perry Mason when you watch this type of movie (like I am), then you will end up figuring out the first half in the first quarter, and the last half in the third quarter. Which means you sit around for half the movie twiddling your thumbs as the deception goes through its motions.
The movie goes from almost-plausible drama in the first half (she came out of the water dead with the killer knot still tied), to homicidal science fiction in the second half (I liked the kill-clone-self paradox better the first time I saw it in The 6th Day). I also liked the oddball scene editing better when it was in Memento.
Good movie if the wool gets pulled over your eyes, boring if not. Good if you don't mind totally implausible plot devices (two magicians, one with a twin brother and the other with a random man in town who looks exactly like him), bad if not. Good if you don't mind Back To The Future-style scifi, startlingly lame if not.
The movie goes from almost-plausible drama in the first half (she came out of the water dead with the killer knot still tied), to homicidal science fiction in the second half (I liked the kill-clone-self paradox better the first time I saw it in The 6th Day). I also liked the oddball scene editing better when it was in Memento.
Good movie if the wool gets pulled over your eyes, boring if not. Good if you don't mind totally implausible plot devices (two magicians, one with a twin brother and the other with a random man in town who looks exactly like him), bad if not. Good if you don't mind Back To The Future-style scifi, startlingly lame if not.
Bon Cop Bad Cop
(2006)
Good, but not great.
1 September 2006
The production quality of a Hollywood movie. Acting that stands up with the best you'll ever see. Genuinely funny jokes, though most are inside (Canadian) ones. Even some nice boobs and a sex scene.
But then it all goes down hill when the last half of the movie turns into every generic (read: bad) cop movie you've ever seen. We're talking The Dead Pool here. I think this crime plot was probably in movies in the 1960s.
But regardless of the bad core surrounded by a good candy coating, it shows that Canadian cinema can stand up with the best and worst of what Hollywood has to offer, even if it both stands up and falls down in the same movie. :)
But then it all goes down hill when the last half of the movie turns into every generic (read: bad) cop movie you've ever seen. We're talking The Dead Pool here. I think this crime plot was probably in movies in the 1960s.
But regardless of the bad core surrounded by a good candy coating, it shows that Canadian cinema can stand up with the best and worst of what Hollywood has to offer, even if it both stands up and falls down in the same movie. :)
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