July 07, 2004dv-dvdhaving watched a lot of movies over the past year, i've hit runs of good and bad flicks. recently i've had a pretty good run. i suppose that offsets a rather bad month and i should be happy about it. ok, first some bad flicks to avoid -- club dread was dreadful. it was supposed to be funny. they missed. morvern callar kinda appeared out of nowhere when i was looking for movies so in the name of going with a maybe i'm supposed to watch this, i rented it. i guess i was supposed to be bored that night. lastly, cat in the hat... the book was better! in the "it was ok" category -- honey (reminded me of flashdance), cooler (yet another casino movie), perfect score (trying to be the breakfast club?) bad santa was pretty funny. it had amusing characters as well as a rather compelling little kid that santa eventually cares about. definitely worth a rental! secret window was another good johnny depp film. a good story, fine acting, but the ending was so-so. still worth watching. cold mountain was long, but with nicole kidman playing a lead role, that keeps it easy on the eyes. it was one of those stories that provides a different perspective on a well known time period (civil war). did i tell you it was long? next was along came polly. now generally i don't care for ben stiller a whole lot, but this movie had enough cute moments to make it worth the rental. it just barely made it into my thumbs up category though, so viewer beware. much to my surprise, the butterfly effect with none other than ashton kutcher turned out to be an excellent film. given a good sale price (e.g. $9.99), i'd probably even buy it. i mean really, a film that has chaos theory at it's core, gotta love it! "i just thought you should know..." definitely see this movie!
oh yes, some haiku review too...
Posted by ac at July 7, 2004 07:43 PM
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