Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Darkness

Darkness
Starring: Anna Paquin
How can Hollywood accept this script?
NO stars
A teenage girl (Paquin) moves into a remote countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family making this another non-original horror movie adding more to the worst movies ever made.
The best part of the movie is the opening credits indicating that the movie was a complete waste of energy and time.
The acting was not convincing and nothing was explained. The movie seemed to be bits and pieces of other horror movies put together. The only problem with that is that they forget to introduce the characters and forget to add a plot.
The worst movie of the year is inexcusable and unable to show any type of a horror related plot.

The Worst Movie of the Year
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OSCAR PICKS

IF I PICKED THE WINNERS:
Best supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett (The Aviator)
Great Job being the legendary Katherine Hepurn
Best Supporting Actor:
Morgan Freemen(Million Dollar Baby)
-A master at acting
Best Actress:
Uma Thurman (Kill Bill Volume 2)
-Would the Oscars please recognized this movie! This is such a good film that always seems to be left out of the race in every award. Thurman plays greatest bride in Hollywood history.
Best Actor:
Jamie Foxx (Ray)
Pure and Simple, no questions asked
Best Director:
Martin Scorsese (The Aviator)
Once again, this was a tough choice. It came down to three: Michael Mann (Collateral), Quentin Terrentino (Kill Bill Volume 2), and Martin Scorsese (The Aviator). Mann definetly deserves breakthrough director, Terrentino is always good, but I had to go with Scorsese because The Aviator has style and heart. Plus Scorsese is way over due.
Best Picture:
Million Dollar Baby
This year was disappointing for movies. It seems that Hollywood is getting worse. But when good films are released, they are really good films. There were some extrodinary movies this year that deserves the recognition they deserve. Million Dollar Baby is the best movie of the year with the best acting you can buy.

Monday, December 27, 2004


One of the Best Movies of the Year
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The Aviator

The Aviator
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
168 minutes and not an once of fat
**** Stars
The Aviator," directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan, tells the story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio), the eccentric billionaire industrialist and Hollywood film mogul, famous for romancing some of the world's most beautiful women. The drama recounts the years of his life from the late 1920s through the 1940s, an epoch when Hughes was directing and producing Hollywood movies and test flying innovative aircrafts he designed and created. The film also has one of the most realistic crashes in recent years. It truly captures the trecherous fear of ditching.
DiCaprio gives his best performance of his career in the film. The oscars will come down to him, Depp (Finding Neverland), and Jamie Foxx (Ray). The movie is one of the best movies of the year.

Sandler is captivating
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Spanglish

Spanglish
Directed by: James L. Brooks
A satisfying experience
*** Stars
James L. Brooks unites with goofball Adam Sandler to create a great film filled with unreachable love, a loveless marriage, and a spanish maid.
A woman named Flor(Vega) and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife. It was a very inspiring movie with great performances from everyone. Especially Adam Sandler as the dad and the chef. He is continuing his success towards an academy award.

A well acted bad movie
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Closer

Closer
Starring: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen
Directed by: Mike Nichols
There is more love than hate which is how i felt about the film
** Stars
This is the story of four strangers (Roberts, Law, Portman, Owen), who meet eachother in London and consistently circles back in forth in a circular motion of instant attractions and casual betrayals.
Julia Roberts plays Anna, a photographer who seems attracted to one man named Dan (Jude Law). Dan is an author who becomes attracted to Alice (Natalie Portman), a young stripper whom he meets after she is hit by a car. She eventually bumps into Larry (Clive Owen) a lonely doctor who meets Anna. It is was circle of attraction and yet it seems incredibly square and dull.
The beginning is the worst part of the film. Alice is hit by the car and randomly Dan shows up and she says "Hello stranger". The director completely forgot describe the meaning of the words. It was suppose to signify something and nothing comes out of it.
There is not one bad performance in the movie. Owen definetly deserves a nomination but he definetly could not save this disaster from striking theaters around the globe.

Sunday, December 19, 2004


Lindsay Lohan unites with Tina Fey
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Mean Girls

Mean Girls
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Tina Fey
Written by: Tiny Fey
The title speaks the truth
*** Stars
Stepping aside from Disney pictures, Lindsay Lohan hooks up with former Saturday Night Live star
Tina Fey. Fey, writing the screenplay, found the true fact of high school life and that is it isn't always nice and innocent.
Lohan plays Cady Harren, a innocent 16 year old that moved from Africa into America. She gets homeschooled throughout her life and now makes a big step into a publoc high school. She meets the popular girls in school, AKA "The Plastics". Consisting of them are Regina George (Rachel McAdams), Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert), and Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried). They are the girls that everyone thinks are hot but inside they hate them all. Regina, being the ring leader, invites Cady to sit with them at lunch and share her experiences with the girls. They soon become friends and stay together until Regina hits on the guy Cady likes. Cady soon realizes that deep down she hates Regina. So Cady does everything possible to ruin Regina's life but still think they are friends so she can get information. This sparks a tension between all the girls in school. Eventually everyone will start to hate eachother.
This is the real version of high school with its "dumb-blonde" like atmosphere and its hatred towards one other. Welcome to reality high school.

Sunday, December 12, 2004


Twelve is the new eleven...
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Ocean's Twelve

Ocean's Twelve
Starring: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta Jones
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
TWELVE IS THE NEW ELEVEN INDEED
*** Stars
They are back, all eleven of them in this sequel to 2001's box office hit, Oceans Eleven. During the making of Ocean's Twelve, the cast explained deeply that they had so much fun making the film, ultimetely making it a fun movie to watch.
Andy Garcia stars as Terry Benedict, a casino owner in Las Vegas who wants revenge on the heist that the crew pulled 3 years before. Even thought his insurance company payed off the debt, he wants financial satisfaction from the people he hates the most especially Daniel Ocean. Ocean stole his girl, stole his money, and stole the control of his casino's security. So now 3 years later, he gets a tip from an insider that it was Ocean who did for sure. So now all of them are back to return the fortune they stole from him 3 years earlier otherwise Benedict will put them into jail or eventually kill them. They decide to go to Amsterdam and steal a priceless artifact, that should be enough to pay off their debt.
They add a new character in the film which is the reason it is called Ocean's Twelve. Catherine Zeta Jones plays Isabel Lahiri, a detective working on a case that could end up in the hands of Ocean and his crew. Lahiri and Brad Pitt's character Rusty Ryan have a past relationship with one another and somewhat play a cat and mouse game during the film.
Another new character is François Toulour played by Vincent Cassel. He has reason to believe that he is the best thief in the world and wants to challenge Ocean and his crew at a game of stealing. Whoever wins, gets the respect and the money.
There are many twists and turns in the film, making it interesting to watch. Although the first one was better because it was simply the original, that doesn't mean that the new Ocean's Twelve has style, comedy, drama, and everything you need to make the film be a lot of fun to watch.

Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis star in a Christmas disaster
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Christmas with the Kranks

Christmas with the Kranks
Starring: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Akroyd
A ripoff off a Home Improvement Christmas, only Home Improvement was good
** Stars
Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis star as a married couple obsessed with Christmas. But when there daughter joins the peace corps, and won't be coming home for Christmas, they decide to skip Christmas completely. But their neighbors won't let them. In the end they all celebrate at their house with their daughter suprising them at the party.
The movie had some moments but it wasn't enough to save this trainwreck. Especially when you saw Jamie Lee Curtis in a tight bathing suit.

Saturday, December 11, 2004


A digital masterpiece
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The Polar Express

The Polar Express
Starring: Tom Hanks
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
A TRUE Christmas Story
**** Stars
There a Christmas stories and then there are real Christmas stories. The Polar Express is a real Christmas story; one for the ages.
Tom Hanks, voices a train operator who picks up kids on Christmas Eve to bring to the north pole. He brings those who need to understand the true meaning of Christmas and to prove that Santa Clause is real. But the train does not show up at the train station. It shows up at your house. The shots of the train in this movie is a phenomenal achievement.
This is a spectacular adventure through the dark places and into the love and joy of Christmas.
This is one true classic that will never get old, just like all of Hanks's other movies.

Johnny Depp meets Peter Pan
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Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland
Starring Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet
Imagination vs. Reality
***1/2 Stars
Finding Neverland discovers the beginning of Peter Pan. Johnny Depp, getting better every movie he makes, plays as the highly imaginitive Sir James Matthew Barrie, a talented playwrite who meets a young family, with a mother and 4 kids struggling to cope with the death of her husband and their father. The mother, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, portrayed by the wonderful Kate Winslet is missing something in her life. She wants her kids to be happy but she does not know what to do. They eventually meet James Barrie in the park one day with his dog. They soon bond towards one another and Barrie seems more focused on this family than his own wife, Mary Ansell Barrie (Radha Mitchell). He is inspired to write Peter Pan based on his experiences with the kids and his love towards them.
The question in this movie is simple. Does it really matter what is real and what isn't? Just becuase it isn't real, doesn't mean you can't see your dreams come to life in your imagination. Depp, the shining star of the movie, is picture perfect, as Sir James Matthew Barrie, who wrote ne of the greatest stories of all time.

Sunday, December 05, 2004


National Box Office King
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Saturday, December 04, 2004

National Treasure

NATIONAL TREASURE
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Sean Bean
Directed by: John Turtletaub
Produced by: Jerry Brockheimer
*** Stars
The Twist of Fate
How does something so valuable thousands and thousands of years ago manage to be found by just a handful of people? Why are the clues on the back of The Declaration of Independence? Only the ones with the clues will know why...
From the producer who brought you Pirates of the Carribean and Bad Boys II, National Treasure is about Benjamin Gates (Cage), a treasure hunter seeking a fortune that long lives through his families generations. After finding out that the clues are on the back of the Declaration of Independence, he must find a way to get it. But when his ex-partner (Bean), wants it too, he must find a way to stop Bean from getting what could be the key to all his problems.
Although the plot can be a little ridiculous at some times, it still was immensely entertaining. Casting Cage and Bean as rival enemies is conviently reasuring to the viewers.