I really wanted to see this when it came out last year or whenever but never got to it before it ran away from Chicago. Damn those theaters who don’t keep Indie movies for a decent run! Courtney Cox plays a photographer whose boyfriend gets shot to death in the first scene of the movie…or does he? If you liked Memento or Run Lola Run, films that question the continuity of the space-time continuum, you will probably like this. I loved it. Very intense. And very non-Monica like. 🙂

CanNOT believe how long it’s been since I’ve watched this (Kysa, didn’t we used to watch it all the time “back in the day”? When was that? 1995?). Also canNOT believe I do not own this on DVD. Will have to fix that. Still love it just as much as I used to, although admittedly the background music is very dated and somewhat humorous. Matthew Broderick is so fun in this, and I don’t know that I can think of very many other movies where him being in it is one of the reasons I like it. Rutger Hauer is YUM, yum, yummy. The love story is so desperately poignant. Oh the heartbreak. Oh the torture. Yes I’m being facetious; but I love it nonetheless.

This movie was so bad (and I couldn’t even honestly say “unbelievably” so), I really can’t believe I watched the whole thing. But I was tired and needed to sit still for a while, so it served its purpose. Really bad dialogue, bad acting, disjointed scenes, leaps in both logic & time. Michael Keaton just looks pained here. Bad.

Somehow, someway, I have GOT to get better at Netflix; this movie has been sitting in my house since sometime in March! Argh!

Anyway, this totally nutso crazy Napoleon Dynamite look-alike leads architectural bus tours in NYC. If you can get past his crazy rantings, there are some neat nuggets of architectural, historical and city planning information…as well as, of course, giving those of us homesick ones some cool B&W views of our former city.

Maybe a little less emphasis on how quietly meditative Gore is (all those longing looks out the windows of planes), but otherwise I did enjoy this movie, and I do believe he is a thoughtful person despite the movie’s overemphasis on trying to prove that to you.

If you have any fucking clue at all, you already know a lot of what he talks about here. Obviously the problem being that 90% of America chooses to be fucking oblivious.

Loved the graph about the difference between a) whether or not scientists agree about global warming and b) how the media reports whether or not scientists agree about global warming. Liberal media, MY FUCKING ASS. Those graphs would be identical, did we really have a liberal media. They (the graphs) are not (identical). They (the media) are not (liberal).

It will be interesting to see if Congress wakes up to this issue. I know “the administration” won’t. Jackhats.

Unlike another Tom Cruise movie I saw recently, this movie just was NOT good enough for me to forget it was him. In fact, this movie was a pretty bad piece of schlock, frankly. It was as if they made a remake of Independence Day…but left out all the good parts.

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD:

I mean – come on… Alien invasion. Fine. The aliens come, and kill a bunch of people and wreck a bunch of cities. Fine, we were expecting that.

And then what happens? They. Just. Die. Say what? No, America doesn’t come up with a master plan to destroy them or figure out a weakness or IN ANY WAY do anything redeeming at all. Nobody tricks the aliens, or thwarts their master genocide plan. The fuckers just die. Because, you know, they weren’t “accustomed to our planet” the way we are. How fucking stupid is that.

Hellloooo in alien invasion movies, the whole point is the humans overcoming the aliens. Talk about a No Hope ending! Because clearly the next set of aliens just has to be accustomed to our planet and they’ll have no problem annihilating all of us.
Stupid.

Great line in this movie: Please don’t interrupt me when I’m asking a rhetorical question.

Also Amanda greatly enjoyed the use of “embolden.”

Now on to the show: Yes, Tom Cruise is a freakshow. But if you can just forget about that for the two hours you’re in the theater, this is just as fun as your average summer action flick and not much of a letdown unless you were dumb enough to go into the theater expecting “high art”.

The scenes in China really reminded me of Tomb Raider 2 (which is a good thing in my book, but probably not in yours).

Not a great flick. No WOWza moments. But for a summer action movie with some ass kicking fights, and some chase scenes, and some things blowing up, and some twists & turns = it was just fine.

The girl playing Cruise’s fiancee, Michelle Monaghan I think?, looks eerily like Katie Holmes in a couple scenes. Spooky, man. Billy Crudup and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers are showing up all kinds of places you wouldn’t expect them these days, aren’t they.

What a terrible movie. Jane Fonda is pretty hilarious, but this is baaadly written. Jennifer Lopez and Michael Vartan have very little chemistry. I was totally into her little sundress over jeans look though (loath I am to admit it). But all in all, not a good movie in any way (not that I expected it to be).

I had actually heard enough good things about this that I was convinced I would like it. Eh – not really. The boy has been on One Tree Hill (as Jake) so I’m a fan of his, but this movie never really showed Uma’s and his characters to have more than just a sexual connection and some of it was just downright dumb. Shocking that it didn’t really have a “Hollywood ending” though. It was Ok but I thought it had the potential to be a lot better, probably starting with a better script to begin with.