If I was to sum up the movie Nacho Libre in one word I would say “sweet disappointment”. If you go in expecting a typical Jack Black comedy, you’ll come away shaking your head. Nacho, the title character played by Jack is a Mexican monk moonlighting as a professional wrestler to battle his own inadequacies [...]
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Brilliant MIT youth discovers easy cash and the fast life, betraying his mentor only to crash miserably and finally redeem himself. Typical story but pregnant with potential. It was quite entertaining but there wasn’t enough depth. Everything just got glossed over without fully exploring all the real conflicts and dynamics. The actors were good. Perhaps [...]
Since George Lucas and Steven Spielberg went against all better judgement to create the latest “so-called” Indiana Jones film, I had to go back and watch the trilogy. The Indiana Jones trilogy is really remarkable in retrospect. You could even say it was perfect if George Lucas didn’t give into his propensity to go and [...]
After watching Lost the other day I was taken by all the similarities that the island of Lost and its characters have with an IT company. Jack Sheppard as the CEO A solid runner who came up in the ranks starting with the code. He’s a hands on type manager who’s not afraid to [...]
The Hunting Party is a film starring Richard Gere and Terence Howard about a washed up journalist and successful cameraman hunting for war criminal in Bosnia. Richard Gere plays Simon Hunt, a war correspondent addicted to war, covering conflicts from one country to the other with Duck, played by Terence Howard, his cameraman capturing every [...]
I loved this film. Of course, I avoided it with a passion when our high school English teacher was raving about it. He more or less judged the class based on how much they would take to the film. I suppose that if I had seen it then, I would probably write it off as [...]
You really have to be a good sport when watching a movie based on a true story. That or avoid reading the book it’s based on. Alas, I’m neither a good sport and I actually read the book a while back. The book was a riveting read that brilliantly captured the misguided struggles of a [...]
Although the film was not bad by any standards, the whole story left a lot to be desired. Though Russell Crowe is a capable actor, he sounded more Australian in this film than a Jewish New Yorker and Denzel Washington didn’t seem much of a gangster. Since the film is nominally based on the story [...]
After watching both installments of the Grindhouse collaboration (the other being Planet Terror ), I find myself struggling to find things to compliment (aside from the faux Machete preview that I could watch over and over). Both movies are a tribute to the B-movie grindhouse tradition to supposedly simulate the experience of watching movies on [...]
Good Will Hunting had to be the best damn movie I’ve seen in a while. It’s the stuff legends are literally made of. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote the script when they were still nobodies. Studios wanted to buy the script but there was one string attached, they had to star in it. Matt [...]