One of my favorite movies of all time. There are so many reasons why that I can’t even begin to list them all. Everything in this movie was done perfectly.
Category Archives: Reviews
Braveheart
I’d been waiting for this movie my entire life – loads of realistic blood and gore on the screen. None of that pansy “lets sword-fight for 5 minutes and then I’ll punch you out” stuff. Hack, slash, UGH!!! I can die happy now.
Brainstorm
Really cool. This is one of the few techno-gadget movies that has stood the test of time. It’s still fresh and the ending is great (even though I don’t believe that would actually happen)
Brain Candy
The Kids in the Hall did some of the funniest, most innovative skits ever done, but this was just dumb. They’d already run out of steam a year before this was made. The funny thing is that they knew it, and weren’t ashamed to admit it. So why did they do this movie? Money? Probably. I don’t really care, if they made any money from this, they deserved it.
Brady Bunch: The Movie
Just frickin’ hilarious. It would have been so easy to do this poorly. They understood the cheeseball appeal of the TV show and exploited it to the extreme.
Boys of Baraka
A decent and honest documentary. I sometimes wonder though, subjects like this are so easy to shape into a compelling drama – I mean poor kids from Baltimore whisked away to a school in Africa? It almost smells of reality TV – where do you draw the line? I wish the documentary had more about previous classes of the Baraka school, and the history of it. Also, if the school was “closed” after 1 year due to non-financial reasons, why couldn’t they use that money & talent to move it to another location?
Boys Don’t Cry
She just wanted to be one of the boys… a real tragic movie for all obvious reasons. I will say that I didn’t feel much for Tina until near the very end. Afterall, she was lying to everybody… and she wasn’t much a better person than the people who ended up killing her. But at the very end, she lets the real person come out a little & we discover there’s a decent person down under those artificial layers. Anyway, I liked the movie. If I have any complaint, it was the scene where “John” shows his compassionate / feeling side to Brandon. I think this ruined his character development. We only have an hour or so to get to know these people, it was hard to understand just how he could be so crazy and violent after seeing that scene. Yes, I know – he had a ‘dark side’, but I think it would’ve been better they developed him as a testosterone-crazed redneck, rather than a pseudo-sensitive crazy guy. Then again, this was based on a true story, so maybe the real John was like that… I’ll probably never know.
Boys
Here’s one really darn dumb movie. I kept waiting for it to make some kind of sense, but it never did. And in the end? She didn’t do anything wrong, so what’s the big deal? Why in the world did Winona Ryder agree to do this script? Almost every character is completely irrational and illogical, there’s no explanation given for almost anything, I had no idea why anyone was doing anything.
Bowling for Columbine
Duh! A decent movie, but do we really need a movie to tell us that americans are a bunch of uninformed, deluded, paranoid gun-loving morons? Hello! take a look around!
Bourne Identity
Guns, chicks, fights, conspiricies, spies, car chases… and a happy ending!
Born on the Fourth of July
I really liked this movie for all the reasons “everybody” did. It was a really well done character development movie. It showed how people can really change their heart and soul on a deep level.
Born Into Brothels
Don’t you sometimes just wish that people could look at their situation, say “I’m better than this”, and change their lives? Why can’t they? Why don’t they? I’m not saying that everyone should pull themselves up by their bootstraps, most of them simply can’t. But, I can see why some people have that attitude. Even with a well done documentary like this, it’s impossible to really put yourself in the shoes of people who’s lives are so different from your own. Anyway, this movie poses another dilemma – if you do a well-received documentary about kids, when do you just call it “done”, and stop following-up with them? Should you?
Boogie Nights
Few movies are able to portray stupid people intelligently. This movie does it though. I don’t know if it was the acting, directing or writing, but it was brilliant. My favorite scene? Where “Dirk” has it out with his mom – classic. Remember, “stupid screwed up people” does not mean “stupid screwed up movie”. It even has a happy ending… why not?
Bonnie and Clyde
I barely remember much about the movie, but I do remember it was cool!
The Blues Brothers
When I was growing up, my schoolmate Dave Kelly had this movie on tape. VCRs had just come out and movies were scarce. He must have watched it like 50 times or something – knew every line. Heck, an actual movie in Chicago? Wow! That’s what was so cool about the thing. This movie is a classic regardless of the city used though – every scene and every line is priceless.
Bloodsport
Who cares? we have bloodsport for real now… no need to go sneaking around hong kong, you can rent an ultimate fighting championship video at blockbuster… and we all know that the “grapplers” win. JCVD would have gotten his ass kicked!
Blood Diamond
Brilliant from start to finish… While there were a few plot points that tried a little too hard, the excellent acting, direction and pacing made you overlook that. The charaters were all quite deep, and still fully developed in a short running time. However, you might feel about Leo DiCaprio, he earns his creds with stuff like this.
Blast from the Past
The concept was OK, but the execution (script/story) was just stupid. The same characters could have been portrayed in a much better movie.
Blame it on the Bellboy
ya! and it’s all his fault too. Damn Bellboy. Just getting drugs and hookers for all the rich and famous. Your world is fake. Oh, the movie? It was fun to watch. It was a “comedy of misunderstandings”, kind of like a long episode of 3’s company.
The Blair Witch Project
I saw this toward the end of my PCT hike in ’99. I was told that Bob said it, “rocked his world”. Sorry all you teenaged-open-mined-the-world-is-so-untamed kids out there. This was a dumb movie. I was a little impressed with the filming of the movie, but “lost in Maryland?” get real.. there’s a frickin’ road every few miles in Maryland. Just follow the stream downhill for a while and bam! civilization… or maybe a civil war battlefield anyway.
Blades of Glory
Am not. Are too! Am not. Are too! Am not. Are too!
Blade Runner
I finally just saw this 1 week ago (January 2000). I don’t know how I missed it all these years. It was very stylish and had a decent story (although finding the replicants was a little too easy). It was only average until the very end though. The replicant turns out to be more humane than the humans. It made the movie more than just another sci-fi thriller.
Blade
A vampire movie. As vampire movies go, this was one of the better ones… er, more fun ones anyway. There were a lot of well done action scenes (almost overdone, but not quite). Ummm, I don’t really know what else to say..? If you want to see a movie where a suave superhuman goes around slicing up vampires, then this is your movie. (I wish the ending was a little different though – like if the “bad guy” wasn’t able to control the evil that he created, and it somehow killed him, etc. I thought he died a little too easily)
Blacula
I saw a preview for this movie when I went to see a crummy vampire movie in San Jose. I can’t even remember the name of the movie I saw that night (oh, it was Nadja), but I did remember the preview for Blackula. For a while I wondered if it was just some kind of joke… then I found out, it’s a real movie. It was on TV late night some night. It was one of the the most hilarious movies I’ve ever seen. You may be wondering… what would a movie called “Blackula” be about? Well, you’re right. It’s a totally cheesy 70’s movie where Dracula is a brother. “blacker than night”, and he was. I guess there was a time when someone thought there needed to be a “black version” of every movie standard – “black-xplotation” they call it. I just call it silly. Now, we have “Blade” instead… see below!
Bittersweet Motel
Yup, the Phish “rockumentary”. I saw this at 7pm on a Tuesday night and the place was packed, that surprised me a bit. A director followed the band around for a year or so and edited-together a movie. I think the movie did capture the whimsical attitude of the band, but there’s a lot more to Phish than this movie shows. For one, the portrayal of the fans was pretty weak (they’re not all superficial drugged-out jerks). If you want to know what Phish means to some people, check out the “what is Phish” section on phish.net. The song selection was odd – a lot of standards were left out, and some mellow rarities were spotlighted and the sound wasn’t as good as it could have been. Plus, there was a lot of Trey (Phish’s guitarist). Trey can be pretty darn funny, entertaining and insightful, but he’s not all there is in the world of Phish. Then again, maybe the editing was just a reflection of what the director really saw… maybe Trey just dominated all the conversations. Generally, it was a decent film… I have no idea how it would play with non fans though.