Sunday, February 06, 2005
some 25 movies i won't see in 2005, briefly reviewed.
previews courtesy of www.apple.com/trailers
The pacifier:
vin deisel is kindergarten cop.
much more watchable than superbabies.
duma:
brit school boy in africa genre, those can be ok,
but seems too national geographic.
le choristes:
this time the schoolboys are french.
gimmick - they sing.
plot - goodbye mr chips.
better than i first thought,
i may end up seeing this someday.
the green butchers:
eating raoul, with a danish twist.
cinderella man:
russell crowe as depression era working class hero boxer. yo adrian.
i liked the part at the end where he gets paralyzed and they have to put him to sleep. jerry lewis did this one first.
kingdom of heaven:
thud and blunder. cast of thousands. connecticut yankee.
house of flying daggers:
ok if you liked hero, crouching tiger woods, etc.
kinsey: liam neeson plays a nerd - can he pull it off?
I can't tell from the trailer whether I'll like the movie.
Could be the best indiana college movie since rudy.
My exwife left me for a nerd from bloomington, so I have mixed feelings.
Flight of the phoenix:
Dennis Quaid as the hunky plane repairman: it'll be a couple of weeks if we can get the parts.
Finding Neverland: the michael jackson story. saw this one, it was ok, 2 1/2 stars.
Nobody Knows (Daremo shiranai): party of five, set in tokyo.
Probably won't play in peoria, but this looks good, I'd like to see it.
Melinda and Melinda: adequate woody allen, what's the term, a kind of a play where smart people banter over luncheon. will farrell pulls of an understated performance. swimming upstream: soccer dad rage movie.
i'm reading a bio of the kennedies. joe kennedy was like that. the competition between joe jr and jack got them both killed.
cute aussie you men in swim trunks is not enough to lure me to see this.
(I have issues about angry fathers.)
Mr and Mrs Smith:
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolei in Echs versus Sever. Takes domestic violence to a new level. True lies was fun, this might be too.
Man of the House:
Tommy Lee Jones manages a hooters and fights aliens.
King's Ransom: Like Ransom, only ghetto and trying to be funny.
Even Jay Mohr doesn't help.
Kung Fu Hustle:
Could be this year's Shaolin Soccer. As a musical. <= that means see it.
Watermarks: if Swimming Upstream wasn't depressing enough here's a documentary about nazi swimmers.
The Final Cut:
A movie about what if memories could be erased.... hmmm...
Williams ins't the bad guy here, but it's another dark scary movie like the photomat one or patch adams.
Sahara: wants to be Raider of the Lost Ark, more like Jewel of the Nile. I haven't seen Ishtar so I won't draw comparisons. What was that Brooke Shields movie?
First daughter:
Poor litle rich girl movie. I like Katie Holmes, shame she got stuck with this.
It worked better with Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant.
Dark Water: ick. scary/boring. not my genre.
Bride and Prejudice: Bollywood culture clash. This is a movie I would want to love, but I'm not sure.
Ah now here's a musical culture clash i can get into!
Schulze gets the blues:
Once upon a time, my ancestor Charlemagne ruled an empire including what is now france and germany, and at some point the accordian was invented. So Germany has oompah bands and fat guys who work in the mines. Meanwhile the french brought their accordians to quebec and wound up in arcadia and became cajuns. Schulte, bored and retired fromt he salt mine, hears some zydeco on the radio, and gets the blues.
Road trip! les bon temps roullez.
Rebound: martin lawrence as the gipper. could be one of his best movies yet. which would not be enough to get me to go see it.
Assisted Living: slacker hired at nursing home. cocoon, awakening, but with a heart.
Willy Wonka: It has Deppth, but the original was wilder.
Bewitched: The trailer just shows Nicole Kidman, with the theme song and the lip twitch thing. I think that's all it needs. When we were allowed to watch one hour of TV a day after school, bewitched was it, and whatever came on before or after.
Hostage: I an handle Bruce Willis in a shoot em up like this. It's when he tries for a serious role I don't care for him.
E.g. Sin City: has potential, but has bruce willis.
The New World: Jamestown 1607. Tries to show it from both cultures. Ambitious. Don't know yet if it works. The Emerald Forest did this well.
previews courtesy of www.apple.com/trailers
The pacifier:
vin deisel is kindergarten cop.
much more watchable than superbabies.
duma:
brit school boy in africa genre, those can be ok,
but seems too national geographic.
le choristes:
this time the schoolboys are french.
gimmick - they sing.
plot - goodbye mr chips.
better than i first thought,
i may end up seeing this someday.
the green butchers:
eating raoul, with a danish twist.
cinderella man:
russell crowe as depression era working class hero boxer. yo adrian.
i liked the part at the end where he gets paralyzed and they have to put him to sleep. jerry lewis did this one first.
kingdom of heaven:
thud and blunder. cast of thousands. connecticut yankee.
house of flying daggers:
ok if you liked hero, crouching tiger woods, etc.
kinsey: liam neeson plays a nerd - can he pull it off?
I can't tell from the trailer whether I'll like the movie.
Could be the best indiana college movie since rudy.
My exwife left me for a nerd from bloomington, so I have mixed feelings.
Flight of the phoenix:
Dennis Quaid as the hunky plane repairman: it'll be a couple of weeks if we can get the parts.
Finding Neverland: the michael jackson story. saw this one, it was ok, 2 1/2 stars.
Nobody Knows (Daremo shiranai): party of five, set in tokyo.
Probably won't play in peoria, but this looks good, I'd like to see it.
Melinda and Melinda: adequate woody allen, what's the term, a kind of a play where smart people banter over luncheon. will farrell pulls of an understated performance. swimming upstream: soccer dad rage movie.
i'm reading a bio of the kennedies. joe kennedy was like that. the competition between joe jr and jack got them both killed.
cute aussie you men in swim trunks is not enough to lure me to see this.
(I have issues about angry fathers.)
Mr and Mrs Smith:
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolei in Echs versus Sever. Takes domestic violence to a new level. True lies was fun, this might be too.
Man of the House:
Tommy Lee Jones manages a hooters and fights aliens.
King's Ransom: Like Ransom, only ghetto and trying to be funny.
Even Jay Mohr doesn't help.
Kung Fu Hustle:
Could be this year's Shaolin Soccer. As a musical. <= that means see it.
Watermarks: if Swimming Upstream wasn't depressing enough here's a documentary about nazi swimmers.
The Final Cut:
A movie about what if memories could be erased.... hmmm...
Williams ins't the bad guy here, but it's another dark scary movie like the photomat one or patch adams.
Sahara: wants to be Raider of the Lost Ark, more like Jewel of the Nile. I haven't seen Ishtar so I won't draw comparisons. What was that Brooke Shields movie?
First daughter:
Poor litle rich girl movie. I like Katie Holmes, shame she got stuck with this.
It worked better with Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant.
Dark Water: ick. scary/boring. not my genre.
Bride and Prejudice: Bollywood culture clash. This is a movie I would want to love, but I'm not sure.
Ah now here's a musical culture clash i can get into!
Schulze gets the blues:
Once upon a time, my ancestor Charlemagne ruled an empire including what is now france and germany, and at some point the accordian was invented. So Germany has oompah bands and fat guys who work in the mines. Meanwhile the french brought their accordians to quebec and wound up in arcadia and became cajuns. Schulte, bored and retired fromt he salt mine, hears some zydeco on the radio, and gets the blues.
Road trip! les bon temps roullez.
Rebound: martin lawrence as the gipper. could be one of his best movies yet. which would not be enough to get me to go see it.
Assisted Living: slacker hired at nursing home. cocoon, awakening, but with a heart.
Willy Wonka: It has Deppth, but the original was wilder.
Bewitched: The trailer just shows Nicole Kidman, with the theme song and the lip twitch thing. I think that's all it needs. When we were allowed to watch one hour of TV a day after school, bewitched was it, and whatever came on before or after.
Hostage: I an handle Bruce Willis in a shoot em up like this. It's when he tries for a serious role I don't care for him.
E.g. Sin City: has potential, but has bruce willis.
The New World: Jamestown 1607. Tries to show it from both cultures. Ambitious. Don't know yet if it works. The Emerald Forest did this well.
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