I’m trying to keep my expenses down, so this will be a cheaper Christmas than the previous years.
With that in mind, my Amazon wishlist is comprised of DVDs, so stop asking what I want for Christmas and just look there, will you?
A feel good movie that works. It’s sappy, it’s full of dry British wit, and well, it’s sappy. Sappy. Sappy. Sappy. And it works wonderfully well in its sappiness. I enjoyed this movie very much. Of course, I’m not sure about the movie’s logic concerning two axioms it presented:
1. American presidents are lecherous, big-mouthed, over-confident asses.
2. All the hot chicks in to British accents and group sex with only one man live in Milwaukee.
I would revise it to:
1. The skinny Billy Bob Thornton is a lecherous, big-mouthed, over-confident ass.
2. You don’t need a British accent.
Excellent movie. Mood, atmosphere, everything’s there. Close, cramped quarters; male bonding; class differences; the maritime subculture. Peter Weir does a good job of showing what life was like onboard a naval warship 200 years ago. The plot suffers a bit because of this… it’s really a simple search and destroy with no real marine tactics presented, so strategy buffs won’t see anything to smile about. But as a presentation of “How Things Were”, it does a grand job.
Funny and cute. Loses the plot a bit towards the last fifteen minutes, and you are required to believe that in a precious few hours one of the characters undergoes a change of heart without showing any major signs that they would change, nor presented with such a dire circumstance to truly for that change. Whatever, it’s about Christmas and family and it’s all warm and fuzzy. Just enjoy it and make the Clausometer needle climb.
by Chris Moriarty
A good case of exemplary use of scientific theories implemented in a futuristic setting. Story-wise, decent, but nothing all that revolutionary, nor done in an exciting manner. I enjoyed it enough, but I probably won’t read it again.
Everything I was hinging on in Reloaded turned to crap in Revolutions.
As a science fiction film Revolutions works well. You have the life and death of free humanity hanging in the balance, and the heroes make superhuman efforts to tip it in favor of life.
As a film about the Matrix, and the question of what is real, what isn’t, and what would ultimately be the point if you knew, the trilogy as a whole fails miserably.
Of course, if the movie went more towards a philosphical bent, it probably would have lost the audience the first film garnered through wire fu and patent leather. But I wish it did go that way, and that questions about our reality and how we choose to view that reality are addressed in ways that would fit more in line with a film like 2001: A Space Odyssey. As many people keep reminding me, however, I am not representative of the consumer majority. And while this certainly can be viewed as a compliment, wherein my thoughts and tastes are discernable and unique, it can also mean that I get assed out of a lot of things, including just enjoying this movie as an action flick instead of wishing it were something else.
A dwarf retires to a train station in the middle of nowhere, New Jersey. There’s a lot of deep understanding about attempts to flee yourself and human contact the the futility of doing such a thing. There’s the message about friendship and acceptance of how things and people are; how they treat you, how you treat them, how you learn to accept, then love them.
It’s a good movie. Watch it with a friend.
November 11th, 2003 at 10:29 pm
Terry says he refuses to watch Revolutions because Reloaded was such a disappointment (a la the latest Star Wars). Actually, he never took to the first one. (It’s so hard for him to suspend disbelief.) I plan to see it, though.