The Painted Veil: Ed Norton and Naomi Watts can act like no one's business, but the movie is mundane. Story and plot were detached, and never the twain did meet.
Nicole Kidman was originally supposed to play the cheating wife with the too-early change of heart, but Naomi Watts ended up co-producing the picture.
Fearless: Wonderful fight scenes but dumb revisionist history. China comes off as a big xenophobic crybaby, "Oh the Westerners are evil, we are a proud people, blah blah blah."
6'10" strongman Nathan Jones does 150 pushups whenever there's a break in filming.
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown: It was alright. Like the first Ice Age movie, I felt uneasy with the subject considering it's for kids. Big dance numbers with carrion birds, the idea of repopulating a species from two specimens. It was too macabe. Also, while the 3D models were marvelous, the directing was lazy. Okay, we have all four of these characters in a lively action sequence, how should we frame it? Where should the cuts be? Just zoom out and keep the point of view stationary for five minutes!
Took only eight months to animate. Compare that to the anime Metropolis, which took 5 months to animate a 3 second crowd sequence in its opening reel.
The Da Vinci Code: Enough has been said about how bad this movie is. When it wasn't busy making me sick, it was boring me.
Having died from water poisoning after the release of Apollo 13, Ron Howard's mindscan was transferred to the RonTron 3000. After getting dialed in over the course of Ransom, EdTV, and the live-action Grinch movie, RonTron crapped out this one and Cinderella Man in one sitting.
Unleashed: I liked it. I couldn't help wishing they had gotten someone famouser to play the girl. Better fighting than Fearless, even. Rent this one for the fight in the bathroom. Amazing.
Same fight choreographer as The Matrix. End song by The RZA.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Almost charming. I have a soft spot for narration. Val Kilmer = yes. The movie is too self-aware, Hollywood fell[h]ating. Also this movie made me wonder when they started having boobs in movies again. There was a period of about six years there...
Kilmer lost 50 lbs for this and still looks doughy as hell.
Snatch.: I've seen this one a hundred times. I just love all the Guy Bitchies. Every time I see Alan Ford as Brick Top, I think he should be the next Bond villain.