Showing posts with label 2006. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2006. Show all posts

X-Men: The Last Stand

X-Men: The Last Stand is a pointless abomination that deserved to be retconned. The ending is quite possibly the greatest failure in logic ever to exist.

X-Men: The Last Stand is easily the worst X-Men movie I've ever seen. Maybe it's because Bryan Singer wasn't involved. I can definitely see why they retconned it.

The entire thing was just terrible. Wolverine's hair looked ridiculous for most of the movie, and Storm's wig was super distracting. Kelsey Grammer was a weird Beast. Nick Hoult is much better. I still don't like Halle Berry as Storm. I do still like Rebecca as Mystique, though. Knowing her backstory gave the character more depth than it probably had for people watching the movie when it first came out. And I still liked Ian, too. Magneto's entire team was more interesting than the X-Men. I don't really see them as villains.


The Departed

The Departed is a bit dated, but the acting is good, and I guess it’s interesting enough, if you like that kind of thing.

I had always heard that The Departed was good, but I wasn’t interested in it. Now that I finally got around to seeing it, it seems kind of dated, but I guess that’s what happens when you watch something that’s a decade old.

Borat

I felt sorry for half the people and dumbfounded and disgusted by the other half, and too many of the jokes were un-funnily distasteful. The best events were probably the ones that weren't in the movie, and I would've liked it better without the farce of a plot.

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

I love the Japanese aesthetic..I hated the Southern hick. The movie as a whole was ridiculous, but not as much of a trainwreck as the last one.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

A refreshing movie after the last two. It really captures the simple, beautiful things. The story's nothing spectacular, but it's not hard to watch. I didn't like the ending, though.

First Snow

Guy Pearce is good times. Other than that, the movie was interesting, but I didn't like that the ending was ambiguous.

Delirious

It's a little slow at first, but I found it more interesting at every point than parts of The Bank Job; maybe only because Steve Buscemi makes any scene worth watching. I loved the score and the soundtrack. It's a little weird that there were no attractive people in it, not even one, but I guess that's what happens when you make a movie for $2 million (or was it three?). The lead actress reminded me of Alex Borstein, which was really distracting since she was supposed to be pretty. But, that aside, it was honest and satirical and fantasy all in the right places, so I enjoyed it.

Paris, je t'aime

This was hard to get into because the first few stories are about meeting and nothing else, and I felt like they weren't complete. It turned out alright, though, with lots of recognizable people. The best exchange in the movie is when someone asks Natalie Portman's character if she's an actress. Answer: "I'm trying to be one."

Fearless

The first half of this movie is hard to watch because Jet isn't terribly believable as an idiot. However, the action is excellent and it manages to be quite poignant by the end.