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post #151 of 601
7/28/03 at 9:16am
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post #152 of 601
7/29/03 at 12:10pm
Updated with Old School (***½/*****) and Just Married (*½/*****).
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post #153 of 601
7/29/03 at 9:19pm
Updated with a few titles:

Spider - I dug a whole lot.

Into my Retro Section goes Permanent Midnight, which I thought was damn good.

And I also took one of my Festival Flicks and was able to switch it over to the Coming Soon list:

It's called Dummy and Artisan is planning to release in (in NY and LA as far as I know) on September 12th. I saw it at SXSW and just LOVED it. Adrian Brody, Illeana Douglas, Milla Jovovich, Ron Leibman and Vera Farmiga; it's an oddball romantic comedy that's a little heavy on the Jewish humor. But in a good way.

It's about a nebbish who starts dabbling in ventriliquism and ends up falling in love with the gal at the unemployment office. Milla's his riotgrrl best friend. Douglas is hilarious as the older sister.

I fully expected someone to pick this flick up once Brody won the Oscar. Nice to see it was Artisan...as long as the DVD doesn't get monkeyed with.

I'd absolutely recommend it to those who prowl the 'art house movie theaters' looking for something quirky and charming.
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post #154 of 601
7/29/03 at 9:27pm
Updated with Seabiscuit (8.1/10), Johnny English (6.3/10), and a few others.

On a slight tangent, man looking at the percent of rottens for the 2003 films I've seen vs. the non-2003 films is funny. I guess I just pick out older releases that I've actually heard good things about (instead of just getting dragged there with friends).
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post #155 of 601
8/1/03 at 7:59am
Updated with Francois Ozon's Swimming Pool.

~Edwin
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post #156 of 601
8/1/03 at 11:36pm
Updated with American Wedding (***/*****).
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post #157 of 601
8/2/03 at 8:37am
Updated with Gary Ross' Seabiscuit.

~Edwin
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post #158 of 601
8/2/03 at 8:46pm
Added the surprisingly and consistently amusing American Wedding (3.5 out of 5), the depressingly charm-free Spy Kids 3-d: Game Over (2 out of 5), and the "easily as bad as everyone says it is" Gigli (1 out of 5).
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post #159 of 601
8/3/03 at 8:57am
Added Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (***/****) and American Wedding (***/****):

As for "Pirates..."; finally a pirate movie that doesn't try to be Citizen Kane on a boat. I don't know if anyone wants to see that and they never pull it off successfully anyway. The creative team here understands that the concept the public has of pirates is one created by cartoons, video games, and campfire stories. They don't try to do some historically accurate dramafest, they just made a fun, entertaining ride from beginning to end and it's all the better for that. Bonus points with Jack Sparrow. Most fun I've had in the theaters for a while, and a great score to boot.

"American Wedding" was the perfect third installment; part of the joy of this series is watching the characters we know and love hit milestones. Seeing where they were at the beginning of the movie was a gag in and of itself. Can we see "American Family" next?
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post #160 of 601
8/3/03 at 12:04pm
The Best movie i've seen this year is Ichi The Killer and My Sassy Girl, but they're not even Made In USA.

Does anyone actually reads our post or no one cares?
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post #161 of 601
8/3/03 at 2:30pm
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The Best movie i've seen this year is Ichi The Killer
So you've seen, what, two movies this year?

(I love Miike, but I don't think I could watch that again)
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post #162 of 601
8/3/03 at 3:16pm
My movies list is on page 3. I knew it. This is a Movie List Thread that no one read yours
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post #163 of 601
8/4/03 at 8:25pm
Updated with a pair of sequels, one a disappointment and one a major improvement.

Spy Kids 3-D is the disappointment; the fun interaction of the Cortez family is almost entirely missing and the 3-D world, though flashy, displays little of the whimsey of the previous movies. Still, the last ten minutes are a whole metric ton of fun, Sylvester Stallone and Ricardo Montalban deliver more than I could have expected, and the kids around me seemed to have a great time. ½

(deep breath) Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life (exhales) is a major improvement over the excerable first movie. Jan DeBont displays a certain amount of actual competence directing action (I could tell who was where in relation to everyone else and what they were doing!), the locations and stunts are filmed in a way to recall old-school James Bond, and Angelina Jolie seems to be having fun this time around (the whole production is breezier). Not a great movie, but solid, giving hope to the franchise. ¾
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post #164 of 601
8/5/03 at 2:12am
Updated with Freaky Friday (a nice little surprise, 3.5/5), I Capture the Castle (draggy here and there, overall rather charming, 3.5/5) and Dirty Pretty Things, which I really liked (4.5/5).

Added a few to my Retro Section: the endless bloated chore that is Disney's Pete's Dragon and the yes-I-never-saw-it-until-tonight The Seven Year Itch.
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post #165 of 601
8/5/03 at 3:52am
Seems like a very mixed reaction to Dirty Pretty Things. I've been looking forward to it and was surprised to see some of the lists in this thread give a big thumbs down. Hopefully i'll be viewing it by the weeks end.
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post #166 of 601
8/6/03 at 2:13am
Speaking of that...

Updated with Dirty Pretty Things (****/*****).

I really liked it. It may not be the tightest story ever told, but Ejiofor and Tautou really sold it for me...not to mention the ever-smarmy Sergi López.
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post #167 of 601
8/7/03 at 12:43am
Updated with the surprisingly well done Freaky Friday (****/*****).
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post #168 of 601
8/7/03 at 8:03pm
Updated with The Shape of Things (****½/*****).
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post #169 of 601
8/8/03 at 6:19pm
Updated with Swimming Pool, which features a pair of interesting actresses, but becomes cloyingly artificial toward the end, with an all-too-predictable plot twist. Gains an extra quarter star for Ludivine Sanger looking yummy. ¾

And, for those of you in the Boston area, let me reiterate - Loews Copley Place sucks. That it was Boston proper's best theater up til a couple years ago is mind-boggling. It makes me want to wait until these films are playing the second-run theaters. Several of its screens have no good seats at all, the "in the event of an emergency" clip is upside down and backward, and half the screen often seems vaguely out of focus.
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post #170 of 601
8/8/03 at 10:41pm
Updated with Irréversible (*****/*****). This is a film that won't escape the confines of my mind for a long time.
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post #171 of 601
8/10/03 at 10:53pm
Updated with Seabiscuit. Gripping racing scenes aside, the film was trite and insulting. * 1/2

DJ
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post #172 of 601
8/12/03 at 4:25am
Updated with Finding Nemo (*****/*****) and a couple of first-timers.
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post #173 of 601
8/13/03 at 1:07am
Added:

Freddy vs. Jason out of 5

Open Range out of 5

Uptown Girls out of 5

From Justin to Kelly out of 5 (One of the most inept feature films I've ever seen.)
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post #174 of 601
8/13/03 at 8:11pm
Updated with Shanghai Knights (5.7/10), American Wedding (6.6/10) and a few older titles, including the only Python flick I'd never seen before, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (8.2/10).
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post #175 of 601
8/13/03 at 8:22pm
Updated with a couple more.

S.W.A.T. is a competent, by-the-numbers action movie that is pushed the slightest notch above average by Samuel L. Jackson in badass mode and a certain amount of restraint by director Clark Johnson. ¾

Koi... Mil Gaya is the first big-budget Bollywood sci-fi movie. It's a three hour sci-fi musical romantic comedy, and is in many ways as much of a mess as that description implies. It has its moments, but 171 minutes can swallow a lot of moments. ½
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post #176 of 601
8/13/03 at 8:34pm
Added Final Destination 2 (3/10) and Bruce Almighty (5.5/10) to my 2003 list.

Neither as good as 2 non-2003 movies I just saw for the first time (Taxi Driver (1976) and Cypher (2002)), but both far better than My Little Eye (2002), which might have been the worst movie I've seen this year (and I saw Darkness Falls...)
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post #177 of 601
8/14/03 at 2:38am
updated with

Dirty Pretty Things B-
Northfork B+

Reviews in Indy thread
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post #178 of 601
8/14/03 at 12:51pm
Updated with a bunch of stuff from the last week and a half. Some quick hits...Gigli isn't good but isn't as bad as advertised, I finally liked an American Pie movie (even if the filmmaking is shoddy at times), and Le Divorce is not very interesting.
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post #179 of 601
8/15/03 at 4:31am
Added He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not ( out of 5)

And two great additions to my Retro pile, both 4.5 out of 5:

Peter Bogdanovich's Targets and Atom Egoyan's Exotica
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post #180 of 601
8/15/03 at 12:50pm
Updated with the very, very, very not good Freddy vs. Jason (*½/*****). I'm a horror geek. I love the F13 flicks. I love the Nightmare flicks. While FvJ offered up some good kills, on the whole it was a piss-poor edited mess of bad writing and bad acting.
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