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Archive for December, 2005
Movie of the Week Pt. II: Brokeback Mountain
December 29, 2005
After much thought and consideration, this was the best movie I have seen this year.
Heath Ledger is probably neck-and-neck with Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Capote for best actor and it should be an interesting competition being that Hoffman’s performance (from what I’ve been told) is more showy while Ledger’s is extremely quiet and nuanced. It’s more about how he expressed himself even though he wasn’t a talker.
Anyway, it was a sad love movie. Not so much about gay cowboys but about two people who couldn’t do the one thing they both they wanted to do.
Actually it’s more about what happens when one person isn’t willing to follow his heart and live a long repressed life.
I wonder if Ang Lee had Michelle “Dawson’s Creek” Williams and Anne “The Princess Diaries” Hathaway show their breasts in some sort of “There’s something for everyone” gesture.
Movie of the Week: The Ringer
December 26, 2005
It was Christmas and we wanted to see something funny.
I have never been in a theater with so much…I guess you would call it cautious laughter.
Some of the mentally challenged actors were playing for laughs but the crowd, myself included, flet bad laughing.
It was actually propaganda for the Special Olympics but it was cute.
It didn’t suck.
Movie of the Week (Pt. II): King Kong
December 15, 2005
Let’s be honest.
If Peter Jackson did a shot-for-shot remake of that movie, it would be torn apart by critics as shallow.
Jackson and crew fleshed out Ann, fleshed out Denham and most importantly fleshed out Kong a character not just a big ape.
Naomi Watts was amazing. I am starting to believe that she doesn’t know how to bad in a movie.
Jack Black was okay as Carl Denham. It was hard to get past the fact that it was Jack Black but he sold Denham’s despicable nature.
The F/X on Kong were nothing short of amazing. There needs to be an award for motion capture work just so Andy Serkis can get the proper recognition.
It didn’t feel like a three hour movie but it could have been cut short.
We need a leader.
December 12, 2005
“You know who l think the black leader should be?…Coach Pat Riley. No man has led more black men to the promised land…than Coach Pat Riley. He may not get us to the mountaintop, but he’ll get us to the playoffs. And that’s all we want.”
–Chris Rock
Bigger And Blacker
Welcome back, Pat.
Good luck with Antoine Walker.
Movie of the Week: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
December 11, 2005
If I was 10 years old:
This was like The Lord of the Rings for kids.
I didn’t hate it but the story had too many holes and “huhs?”.*
But if recognized that if I was a young child, I would have thought it was on the level of Dark Crystal or Labyrinth.
The acting was good especially Tilda Swinton (White Witch) & Georgie Hensley (Lucy) and the whole Christian allegory was not as bad as some people made it seem.
The CGI was okay. I feel like they put all their energy making Aslan (The Lion) look realistic that everything looked bad by comparison.
Out of curiosity, I know they get a lot of cardio work but is there such a thing as a overweight centaur?
And, um, why the hell was Santa there?*
*No, I have never read any of the books.
Movie of the Week: Jarhead
December 11, 2005
This is a hard movie to judge.
Because the point of the movie was that these soliders did nothing during the first Gulf War.
They succeeded in getting that point across.
But it doesn’t make for a very engaging movie experience.
It was an interesting watch.
The acting was great (Peter Sarsgaard is becoming one of my favorite actors who will never play the lead in a movie).
I don’t know.
I’m glad I saw it.
But nothing happened.
And that was the point.
*Shrugs*
