Amelie decides to help all those around her by doing sneaky little tricks, etc. But, when she finds herself doing the same thing for herself, she doesn’t know how to “close the deal”. It’s an incredibly cute little film, filled with a lot of quirkiness… which is always a good thing for a film to have. Who couldn’t fall in love with Amelie? The world needs more people like Amelie… and more films like Amelie.
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Amazon Women on the Moon
A silly attempt at making a “comedy bit” movie, a la Kentucky Fried Movie. A couple of the bits were funny, but not any funnier than standard TV fare. Did this really need to be a movie?
Amadeus
When I was in 6th grade, our music teacher made us do a short report on Mozart. None of us had any clue who the guy was… and we didn’t really care. She was notably frustrated with us. Too bad this movie wasn’t out, we could have just watched it instead, we’d probably have gotten a lot more out of it. Sure, the movie isn’t 100% historically accurate, but I think it captures the spirit of Mozart and his music very well. My favorite 10 seconds was the scene where Mozart is first introduced, he’s messing around with his girl and his music starts playing without him. He immediately becomes serious – transported to another state of mind.
Altered States
What’s with all the technological gizmos? Just drop some acid instead you idiot. It was a decent movie, but hardly a must-see.
Along Came a Spider
Ho hum… another thriller with a surprise ending that comes out of nowhere – what’s the point of a surprise ending that nobody could possibly guess? Plus, a lot of the plot depends on really shotty policework, there are all kinds of really simple things they forget to do (i just can’t remember what they were right now, as I saw this a few months ago…)
Almost Famous
Pretentious drivel. Have you ever read the lyrics to a rock song? They have nothing to say! What is all this crap about rock stars being philisophical icons or some crazy shit? Sure, music can “stir the emotions”, but it rarely has more than a passing impact. There are exceptions, I’m sure, but early 70’s rock isn’t it. I imagine the “real person” on which this movie is based uses this film as masturbation material. Which is sad, because he’s probably a good writer… but do we really have to be beat over the head with it all?
All of Me
Steve Martin was winding down his “zany period”, and made this movie. It’s a decent movie, but it’s a departure from his previous stuff. Actually, I commend him for making a movie like this – it was good without relying on “the same old formula”.
Aladdin
Fits neatly in the middle of the pack of Disney movies. Not great… not bad. It’ll keep the kids quiet for a couple hours at least. Robin Williams was pretty good as the Genie though.
Alien Resurrection
Say it isn’t so! They’re back!!! The only good thing about this movie was Sigourney Weaver… and she wasn’t even that good. Oh… what the hell is Winona Ryder doing in this? Sure, she looks good (she usually does), but she just doesn’t make any sense in the role. Hopefully this movie lost enough money so that we won’t be burdened with Alien 5. (which I’d just HAVE to see as I’m dying to know what happens next!!!)
Alien Avengers
I don’t know why I watched this. The plot? A family of Aliens, who look and act like they’ve just come from Iowa, rent a room in “the hood” and take pleasure in dis-membering bad guys. It has to be seen to be believed… maybe that’s why I watched it. As for you? just believe it, don’t see it.
Alien III
OK, let’s keep crankin’ em out! I don’t remember many specifics about this movie, but I do remember that it had a good “look”… and that was about the only thing good about it. Well, it also finally “ended” the alien series once and for all!
Aliens
I liked the fact that this movie is quite different from the first one. It’s less of a mystery and more of an action-adventure film. It was fun. Not great art or anything, but entertaining!
Alien
The best of the Alien saga… Your typical horror / thriller set in outer space. The theme’s been done before and since – aliens take over human bodies – but this one does it well.
Akeelah and the Bee
I kind of wanted to dislike this – I mean it seemed so contrived… If you see Spellbound, you realize there’s enough drama in the real thing. But, I liked it anyway. If you’re feeling a bit down in the dumps, it’ll pick you up
Airplane!
This came out of nowhere. I don’t think that society was ready for Airplane! when it came out. It was like a revolution in comedy. This is an example of a movie where you’ll honestly laugh at the stupidest jokes and find them sincerely funny. If an alien ever needed to understand earthly humor, they’d just have to rent this movie.
Airheads
Almost forgot about this one. I love the scene where they try to describe their “sound”. This movie says a lot more about “rock and roll” than “Almost Famous” (see below). This is how it really is. Ok, it wasn’t grand cinema or anything, but it’s always better to laugh with a movie than laugh at it.
Air Force One
This movie is a close runner-up to worst movie ever. There are so many ridiculous things in this movie that It’s difficult to start listing them. Maybe if I had more energy, and a masochistic attitude, I’d devote more time to writing about how horrible it was.
AI
I thought this was done very cleverly. It tackles an unusual issue – what is it that makes us human? or, what is it that makes humans special? and can something we create ever be as special as we ourselves are? Could we ever create a soul that’s as real as our own? If you’re intrigued by this, go see the movie… if not, I feel sorry for you. I think if it was done by any other director, it would have been cheesy, if nothing else, this movie shows why Spielberg is simply great at what he does. (I think Kubrick would have done a fine job with it too – too bad he died)
Age of Innocence
Yet another movie about sex. Sex a couple hundred years ago anyway… apparently it hasn’t changed much. Innocent? hardly.
The Affair of the Necklace
Oh my. Some jewelry is better left in the box. In this case, even the box was painful to look at. What were they thinking?
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
The Dice Man makes a movie. It was a lot better than I expected, but it wasn’t good. Whatever happened to “Dice”… er, sorry, “Andrew Clay” as he’s now known….?
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
One of Terry Gilliam’s best films, and that’s saying a lot. Pure whimsical fantasy executed with intelligence, creativity and beauty. This movie has style.
The Addams Family
This movie didn’t need to be made. Who cares? I don’t even know why I saw it, but I did… something about Uncle Fester getting swindled by a cutie? This movie was more about Hollywood trying to cash-in on a franchise. Let’s go make some money folks… I mean let’s go make a “movie”, folks.
Adaptation
This movie spirals in on itself so much that it’s difficult to figure out just what your watching. See a movie unfold as it’s created… but then, it’s all just a script with actors, isn’t it? Truly an original. The ending was perfectly woven into the movie too – as the writer runs out of ideas, he turns to his dorky brother and we get car chases & drugs & alligators eating people.
Ace Ventura
God I hated this movie. Jim Carey is such a freak that he couldn’t possibly be real.