Showing posts with label 2007. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2007. Show all posts
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
This movie was kind of frustrating. I didn't like all the tension of Hogwarts becoming a bad place, and I didn't like that Mrs. Figg was hurting people.
3:10 to Yuma
Crowe and Bale both did an excellent job here. It drags a little toward the middle-end, but the ending is fairly satisfying.
Transformers
I thought the entire premise of this movie was, "some of them want
to kill us and some of them don't." Luckily there was a *little* bit
more to the plot than that.
Planet Terror
It wasn't as bad as I was expecting. The gore was all cheesy, so it
wasn't too disgusting. I just don't think I can appreciate this kind of
movie. I always like Freddy though, and Rose was pretty. I liked the
ending, too.
Ladrón que roba a ladrón
The director made a big deal about how this was a Hollywood movie that
just happened to be in Spanish, so it looks like an American film and
not a foreign one, but most of the time, apart from the language,
foreign films don't seem that different to me from American ones in the
first place. Like Sukiyaki, this was pretty much a fluff piece, but at
least I was expecting that from it. The ending was a bit more dopey than
I would've liked, but the rest of it was entertaining, and there were
even a couple of surprises.
Sukiyaki Western Django
In terms of this being a Miike film, it's actually a little
disappointing. Maybe the fact that this is a classic Japanese story,
told as a Western, set in "Nevada-Utah," with Japanese actors who are
speaking a language they don't know (English), was weird enough that he
decided the story itself should be normal. It was a little surreal to
need subtitles on something in English. The movie doesn't seem to have a
whole lot to say, and it's probably better if you've seen Yojimbo
and/or Django, but aside from a few disturbing things happening, it's
interesting for aesthetics alone.
Snow Angels
I barely recognized Kate Beckinsale in this, but that's probably just
because I haven't seen her in much. She's pretty. I didn't like how the
movie kept showing one scene, broken up into and interrupted by five
scenes. All of the characters were fucked up, and it was interesting
once it took a turn, but getting to that point was tedious and
uncomfortable.
There Will Be Blood
Daniel Day-Lewis makes this movie awesome, and the milkshake line is just one of several great moments.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
There can be no hope in a movie that opens with a naked, sweaty Philip
Seymour Hoffman doing someone doggy-style. None at all. Also, they
managed to make Ethan Hawke look terrible. Albert Finney turned out to
be a good actor, though. (I've never really seen him in anything else.) I
really enjoyed the strategy they used for flashbacks, both introducing
them and editing them in. It kept things interesting, always revealing
more of the story without ever making you feel like you were missing out
on something. It really is more of a melodrama than a thriller, and the
commentary was quite interesting. More enjoyable than the movie,
certainly.
The Darjeeling Limited
Quirky and stylish, but there isn't a lot of substance, and we've seen a lot of this from Anderson before.
Enchanted
This is perfectly fine as long as you go into it expecting it to be
dopey. There's nothing terribly innovative here, and Adams' affect is a
bit much at times. Still, there were a few interesting moments.
Death at a Funeral
This is worth watching only because Alan Tudyk is brilliant in it. Other than that, the plot is rather un-interesting.
Atonement
The composition and score are absolutely beautiful. The second half is a little tedious, but the ending is brutal.
No Country for Old Men
Javier's weapons were pretty cool, but other than that, I don't see what was supposed to be so revolutionary about this.
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