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apocalypsosOkay, boosting this from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ashlle1, 'cause I like it lots.
Am feeling vaguely ADD at the moment, so let's play a game. Simple games. Two movies you love, two movies you hate, and why for all of them. And then chitchat in response to other people.
Me first, and I'm going to use other movies than the ones I picked over there.
HATE:
The last two Matrix movies: Wait, I'm sorry. What am I saying? There were no other Matrix movies. There was just that really good movie with neat special effects and an ending with great potential. And then nothing else. Okay, maybe a video game or two, but that's it.
Moulin Rouge!: I'm not sure I should admit that in public, but, oh, did I hate Moulin Rouge! with a passion. I mean, I loved the visuals and I loved the soundtrack, but together ... my GOD, did they grate on my nerves. Plus, Nicole Kidman -- blech.
LOVE:
Sneakers: Look, it's on USA Network right now! And it's got Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Ackroyd, James Earl Jones and River Phoenix. And look, they're all snarky and mysterious. Wheeeee.
Citizen X: Pretty much one of the best made-for-TV movies I've ever seen HBO put out. I really need to watch that again.
Okay, your turn. :)
EDIT: Dear internal organs, behave or I'm selling you all on the black market.
ashlle1, 'cause I like it lots. Am feeling vaguely ADD at the moment, so let's play a game. Simple games. Two movies you love, two movies you hate, and why for all of them. And then chitchat in response to other people.
Me first, and I'm going to use other movies than the ones I picked over there.
HATE:
The last two Matrix movies: Wait, I'm sorry. What am I saying? There were no other Matrix movies. There was just that really good movie with neat special effects and an ending with great potential. And then nothing else. Okay, maybe a video game or two, but that's it.
Moulin Rouge!: I'm not sure I should admit that in public, but, oh, did I hate Moulin Rouge! with a passion. I mean, I loved the visuals and I loved the soundtrack, but together ... my GOD, did they grate on my nerves. Plus, Nicole Kidman -- blech.
LOVE:
Sneakers: Look, it's on USA Network right now! And it's got Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Ackroyd, James Earl Jones and River Phoenix. And look, they're all snarky and mysterious. Wheeeee.
Citizen X: Pretty much one of the best made-for-TV movies I've ever seen HBO put out. I really need to watch that again.
Okay, your turn. :)
EDIT: Dear internal organs, behave or I'm selling you all on the black market.
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Date: 2005-04-29 02:16 pm (UTC)Kill Bill, Volume 1: Now hold on a minute before you come after me with a ...whatshisname sword. I think the first movie is a mess form-wise, a petty sort of boulabaissey wank festival of the highest order. And when I start to feel pity for the mounds of writhing bodies instead of a healthy hoowah, something narratively has gone plinkthunk. This whole review was intended to be in English, I swear, but it infuriates me so badly only onomonopeia will suffice.
Way of the Gun: Nearly the worst written movie ever, by the man who wrote one of the best movies ever (Usual Suspects). Is directed in what's supposed to be an arty yet gritty manner, succeeds in only looking pretensious, Ryan Phillipe manages to be outacted by a pile of glass, and Benicio del Toro gets punked. Repeatly. Not in the fun way. I'd mug Christopher McQuarrie to get my money back for this, cause unlike Kill Bill, I actually expected this to be good.
LOVE:
Kill Bill, Volume 2: I know. What gives? Well, starting fresh with characters and tasefully cutting away some of the violence without the intent to grip you via spectator guilt is one. Finally introducing Bill, Mike Madsen being sexariffic in cowboy boots, and my favorite girl-girl scene ever written.
The Rundown: I always feel like I gotta defend Seann William Scott movies and I don't. He's a pleasure unto himself and The Rock is more than willing to play goofy rather than tough (...Mr Diesel...) and is quite exceptional at it. Add in Christopher Walken, some really cool fight scenes (to this day one of the few movies with capeoria in it), a whole truckload of Ho!Yay and some of my favorite lines to quote around the 2.5 people who know what I'm talking about. "ESTABLISH DOMINANCE!"
Okay, I'm shutting up now, because I have way too many more ideas.