“A Scanner Darkly” is dark, much darker than the last Philip K. Dick movie, “Minority Report.” The world presented is very pessimistic, with 20% of the population addicted to drugs, especially a life-destroying drug called “Substance Death,” sales of which benefit The Terrorists (Communists, in the book). An undercover agent, Fred (Keanu Reeves ( Read more... )

Despite being disappointed in “The Village,” I really wanted to see “Lady in the Water.” The only reason I didn’t like “The Village” was the forced twist I’d figured out 10 minutes into the movie, so I figured that if “Lady” had all its cards on the table from the start I would like it much more. And, for the most part, I did, except for when I ( Read more... )

I was concerned that I wouldn’t like this movie, as I either received reviews of immense squeeage or extreme disappointment. Since I am not given to the former, I was afraid I was going to experience the later. But as always, I seem to fall somewhere in the middle. I definitely enjoyed the second offering from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” ( Read more... )

First the Spidey trailer: OMGYAY! Black costume! Venom! Crazy Harry! Gwen Stacey! I have to wait a year? NOOOO!

Okay, now for the movie I actually saw.

I read somewhere that this movie is supposed to take place after Superman II, meaning we are supposed to pretend Superman III and IV never happened, which is what all sensible people were ( Read more... )

I did see X3 on Friday (and on Saturday), but since everything I could say about it is already on your friends list or in professional reviews, I decided to do something different.

On our way to see the movie, sadalice and I saw people protesting The Da Vinci Code. We wondered if it would help if we told them we were seeing the X-Men movie, but decided ( Read more... )

On the whole, I enjoyed this movie. I didn’t find it to be an exceptional movie, or a life changing experience, but it was enjoyable. It doesn’t deserve the hype it’s getting, but the book didn’t either, and, in general, people need to sit down, have a Long Island Iced Tea or ten, and look up the word “fiction” in the dictionary. Though probably ( Read more... )

You know, sometimes it’s okay to be emotionally manipulated by a movie.

( Cut for spoilers, though you probably already guessed them )

It's been a long time since I've done one of these, mostly because a) I haven't had time to see movies, and b) movies have been mostly made of suck recently. If there are any movies not here that you think are going to be good, let me know. If you think any are goint to be real stinkers, seriously, let me know. I don't want to see bad movies.

( Summer Movies! )

Several of my friends and I tried to go see Brokeback Mountain last night, but, perhaps due to the recent Golden Globe, it was completely sold out. Since the other movie we were interested in seeing (Capote, for future reference) was about two hours away, and we had just eaten dinner, we opted for this movie instead. And I am quite glad we did. ( Read more... )

I saw this movie about three weeks ago, but I’d like to hear what everyone else thought of it. Personally, I liked it a great deal; my mother called it “LotR-Lite” (literally called it that, with abbreviations and implied misspellings included) and I’m still not sure if this is a good or bad thing; my friend Marty raged at White Witch’s costumes; ( Read more... )