Movies, Phantasy
On a previous flight this film was offered to me for lunch. I passed. Without any sound the beginning looked slow and quite lame. On this new flight I tuned in and discovered that the story has unexpected depth. Extraterrestrial creatures have come to earth to recapture what was lost in perfecting their ability to clone people: the human soul. The ET creatures have one last chance to copy that human quality before they will be too far away to reach earth. For those of us who had security blankets for many years, the film conjures up familiar feelings from childhood.The Last Mimzy
Movies, Drama
Anthony Hopkins plays a sociopath similar to the one he portrayed in Silence of the Lambs. Hopkins’ character shoots his wife when he discovers she is cheating on him with a police officer. Without any remorse, he tries to get off the hook for the murder by outsmarting the good-looking district attorney. The film is not terrible, but it also contains one basic flow: we don’t know the husband well enough to understand why he would kill his wife. What propelled him remains an utter mystery, lending the whole movie an artificial character. Fracture
Movies, Drama
Isn’t it interesting that people have such a soft spot for bank robbers? Forcing a grandmother to hand over all her savings and shooting her right in the head would not make a good story. But robbing a bank does not stir peoples’ indignation. The impersonal bank is not perceived to be a real victim. And if clients are scared to death during the robbery, does this upset the public? Well, if no one gets hurt during the action that’s just the cost of an exciting robbery. It requires some brinkmanship and the clients should be grateful for being part of such a coup! Buch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) make a living robbing trains and banks in the waning days of Wild West. The tolerance for such a line of work is clearly on the decline out West. Butch and the Kid find it harder and harder to make ends meet. The movie starts slow but it turns out to be a very special Western.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Movies, Drama
How would you feel if you suddenly found out that you were a totally different person until a few years ago and if you did not remember anything about your previous life? (My fear is that I might discover out that I was George Bush. ) For two installments Jason Bourne has been trying to recover his personal history. So far his enemies have prevented him for finding out who is really was before he lost his memory. In this third episode Bourne pulls out all the stops to discover his identity. This is the best action movie of the summer. Paul Greengrass directs the film with a sure hand, changing the pace frequently enough for the viewer to breath before the next action sequence glues you back into your seat.The Bourne Ultimatum
Movies, Comedy
This newest effort by Will Farrell is not nearly as funny as Bodega Nights. The basic idea behind the movie has some charms. Let’s use the gender wars to go for a real gender bender. Two guys compete in the Olympic pair ice-skating competition. I have been told many times that the top female player on the tennis circuit would have not chance against any of the top forty players on the men’s circuit. But in ice dance you imagine that female grace will make it impossible for two guys to win over the judges and win the gold medal in pair ice-skating.Blades of Glory
Movies, Drama
Sandra Bullocks plays a good-looking mother who is visited by the most awful kind of deja vu experiences you can imagine. She no longer knows what is real and what is simply a hallucination. I was moved by the film because it artfully highlights how we can quickly fall apart when our brains are no longer able to provide one coherent take on reality in which earlier events happen earlier and later event happen later—where we can remember things in the right order. Speaking of deja vu moments. The other day I sat next to a lady at dinner and I thought I had seen her many times. My brain is now scanning memories for her Doppelgaenger. She agreed to meet her if I can find the twin. I am curious to see their reactions when they first meet because they look eerily alike. Twins separated at birth without them knowing it? Uhhh.Premonition
Movies, Drama
This is probably the most inane movie I have seen in a long time. The characters are fake; the story is shallow. But here comes the real shocker: the viewing public made the film the bestselling DVD in month of September. Famous actors (Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Ray Liotta, Marisa Tomei) seem to be able to sell stupid movies!Wild Hogs
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