Regular Spelling
Thoughts on language and more

Movie Mini-Review Roundup V: Backlog I

When I first started posting these on here, I was also posting them on the AnacondaSoftware forums, but I had been already doing it there for a while before I started here. Meaning there was a lot that wasn't posted here yet, and since the AnacondaSoftware forums are shut down currently, they're currently inaccessible. So, since I don't have time the next couple weekends to make new ones, I'll post backlog ones for this week and next week, and then fitting in more later after that until I have them all ported over here, working backwards from what I posted here for the first entry.

The following movies were from a post dated 24 September, 2010. 

kick-ass
roomate was the one that rented this, I really had no interest in seeing it. it was an okay film, but i didn't really like it overall.

time after time
kind of an interesting variant on HG Wells' Time Machine, which follows HG Wells himself traveling to the modern future to chase after Jack The Ripper. 

osmosis jones
not an altogether great movie, but its amusing to watch, and ended up spawning a series on Kids WB. 

horsemen
this is a pretty good Dennis Quaid thriller about a series of murders likening themselves to the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.

equilibrium
equilibrium is 1984 meets Batman meets The Matrix. and unlike 1984, this movie is actually really interesting to watch. 

memento
Memento I'm guessing is what happens when you get exposed to too much time traveling, as it stars my favorite time traveler Guy Pearce in a mind bending sequence of reverse and forward sequences. 

defiance
this is a historical fiction piece starring Daniel Craig about the WW2 era, and can be looked at as a complement to Schindler's List. well worth the watch 

1492
1492 I was interested in solely because its scored by Vangelis, who has been one of my favorite film composers for a long time ever since I first heard the Conquest for Paradise theme years ago (long, long before I finally saw the film its from).

judgement day 
this is kind of a lesser meteor disaster film, starring Ice T, but then again thats par for the course with Ice T. was amusing to watch, but don't expect anything near the level of Armageddon or Deep Impact

before and after 
this I started watching because I thought the description read that it was "Liam Neeson Out For Revenge Once Again", but it wasnt. it was a really boring drama, instead, and I just quit halfway through. this one certainly doesn't count in his mention of his "certain set of skills" in Taken

clash of the titans
speaking of Liam Neeson, i completely forgot my roomate rented this one too. featuring Liam Neeson in Really Shiny Armor and Giant Enemy Crabs Scorpions, this overly wasnt really that interesting of a movie. although, I hear often of people complaining about the lack of any relation to actual mythology in this movie, and I'm going to have to disagree because there was a lot of pretty accurate things actually. although I dont remember there being Protoss in Ancient Greece. 

the crow
the crow I saw after the sequel, because I didn't realize it was actually a sequel. I thought this one was a lot better than the sequel. also, we learn from this movie that being a zombie doesn't hinder one's ability to play a mean guitar

the crow city of angels
this one i saw first, on watch instantly on netflix. it was an okay film, but kind of delved into ludicrous at the ending. original was much better. 

Up
up was a great movie. that is all

benjamin button
Benjamin Button was a really interesting movie to watch, about a guy that ages backwards. not just for his strange situation, but for the great detail they put into recreating each of the time periods they portray over the course of the film. 

the machinist
the machinist stars Skinny Christian Bale with insomnia, that has strange things happening to him after an accident at the factory he works on. was pretty good to watch, he had to put on like 60 or so pounds after this to film Batman Begins. 

ark
couldn't find a trailer for this, its a CG movie by John Woo. it was in my netflix DVD queue left over from the last time I had my account active, and so I had completely forgotten what it was about when it arrived. was kind of meh, but had James Woods (as a good guy for a change!)

eden log
eden log is kind of hard to follow for the first part, mainly because its so damn dark (lighting wise). but it was rather interesting to listen to. 

the core
the core is a really scientifically off disaster movie, starring a really young looking Aaron Eckhart (who ends up looking like younger Scott Bakula in half the shots). way hokey movie, but funny to watch because of it.


Date posted: 18 August, 2015
Tags: movies
« Movie Mini-Review Roundup IV | Eliza’s Notes - 00: Eliza’s Notes »