There was some neat stuff in this… but tell me, what was with the whole interrogation scene? That went on way too long… I mean, what an ass this guy is. Ditch him, honey! Also, the end with Ahnold’s daughter was really really hard to believe. They could have come up with a more believable, yet just as “action-packed” end.
All the younger actors in this movie were great – I really liked Brad Pitt in it (and Eric Bana, etc… even that wimply guy who woo’d Helen was OK). But the older Kings? They were too “unkingly”, and “unwise”. Maybe that was part of the point, but it really made the movie frustrating to watch. As for its adherence to the “true story”? Get over it! It’s not a truly told story anyway, so who cares? People who get all worked up about “the classics” miss the point I think. The classics were never classics when they were written – they were just the pop fiction of their day.
A woman cures her son’s malaise with the gift of a new bike, then molds him into a mid-rate champion bike racer, only to have him kidnapped by a mafia boss who hooks him and two other bicyclists up to a machine that makes them race against each other so other mafia types can gamble on the outcome. His only hope of rescue lies with his mother and overweight dog, who fall in with a group of aging lounge singers that now perform music on houshold appliances and subsist on a diet of frogs which they acquire by exploding dynamite in a swamp. It’s amazing what one must dream up to make an original movie these days. This dream is worth getting lost in for a couple hours at least…
More than meets the eye… Sometimes, you just need to see a silly movie with giant robots smashing things.
Yes, the plot was mostly predictable, and a bit contrived, but thanks to a stong performance by the lead, it actually works.
I wasn’t too impressed with this one. It’s your typical “heroin movie”. I guess I would have enjoyed it more if I had once been a Scottish heroin addict. There wasn’t anything about trainspotting in it either… unless they were trying to equate heroin use with the activity of trainspotting, they’re both rather pointless.
4 different takes on the drug “trade”. It was a bit overly-dramatic and preachy at times, but still worth a watch. Some scenes and bits were very watchable. I especially liked the actor who played the Mexican cop. By the end of the movie, I couldn’t help but think… “so what’s the solution?” Someday, this issue will settle… it may take a hundred years or more, but someday… So, how do we get from here to there? is there any way to speed the process? or do we just have to wait for history to unfold and tell us the plan?
Now this was a comedy.
This was probably just as good as the first, but it suffered just a little by being a sequel – the characters weren’t as new and fresh, I knew what to expect going in. Although, I guess every sequel has that… that’s why they’re sequels in the first place. Ok, so it was incredible too.
Every so often a movie comes along which completely redefines what cinema is. I had been waiting for a 100% computer animated movie for years. What makes this movie absolutely amazing is that it’s a great movie regardless of the animation. The animation just made it totally classic.
A forgettable movie that tries to be a musical comedy I guess… but just ends up being dumb. One word review: “Huh?”
What ever happened to Tromaville movies anyway? did somebody die or something? This was one of the better ones, but none of them were that good.
Finally, a good climbing movie, no… an awesome climbing movie based on the legendary true-story book.
I still think it was all just a dream. Watch the scene where Arnie is getting implanted with the fake memories, they totally describe the plot of the movie, and they even show some of the alien technology on the video screens. There’s no way they’d “know” what that stuff looked like because nobody had even discovered it yet.
The best “pearl harbor” movie… plot-wise. The real story of pearl harbor was the war & bombing, etc… not some silly love story (like that other movie). Too bad this was filmed a number of years ago – with today’s special effects, it would have jumped into the incredible category.
There will never be another. I must have watched this move 50 times when it came out, and it was funnier every time. This movie has so many absolutely classic scenes that I can’t even list them all. The jokes aren’t “forced” either, they just flow into the plot seamlessly. I love the way this movie confuses time periods and countries and politics into some mushed-up alternate reality.
I remember liking this movie when it came out. I just saw a bit of it recently, and it looked totally dorky. So, I have no idea what to write about this… I don’t know if I like it or not… oh, wait, I just figured it out – it was stupid.
You know… Dustin Hoffman makes a really ugly woman.
The only remotely funny thing that Chris Farley ever did.
A black and white movie… black and white life, black and white people, and black and white film. Anyway, I really liked the way the movie was portrayed from the viewpoint of the children… I thought that was done really well.
You’ve probably already seen it, so I won’t bother you with another review. I did like it though.
Kevin Costner needs to work on his swing, but at least it’s better than Don Johnson’s. The final sequence made this movie. They did a good job at getting to the real appeal of golf – you just know you can make the damn shot.
Imagination by committee.
One of the few old sci-fi movies that’s still very watchable decades after it first came out. Perhaps ahead of its “time”?
One of JCVD’s better movies… still, your probably better off just reading a plot summary than actually sitting through the movie.