Reviews

In the midst of the summer movie season, an awesome, beautiful, emotionally wrenching truly great film (AI) comes around surrounded by cheap thrill movies like Pearl Harbor and The Fast and the Furious. The latter two were huge hits and popular because they related to the lowest denominator in the viewer, the oohs and aahs of the special effects and action sequences. But AI makes you think. It makes you speculate and too few summer movie viewers are going to have the brains or the will to think and speculate. AI is truly a great film and should win best picture. However, because only 10% of movie goers have the will or the brains to understand AI, public opinion may steer AI away from the honor it deserves and give a movie like Titanic the prize (what a disgrace).

When I saw the previews for Double Jeopardy at the theaters I thought I had just seen the entire movie! I mean arguably the best line in the film, when the prison mate tells Libby about the double jeopardy law is shown IN ITS ENTIRETY on the previews plus almost EVERY OTHER good scene! The parts that weren't seen were also too predictable, most notably the scene in the graveyard. The plot was incredible but a few screenplay changes and a better advertising exec could have made this movie excellent.

I would not call myself a Star Wars fan. I still don't consider myself one. Actually, when The Phantom Menace came out I could have cared less. Then I was at my friend's house and we decided to go see it for the hell of it. And then I was blown away. After reading how "terrible" this movie is I was sure I was in for a disappointment but man, was I in for a surprise. As soon as the yellow text appeared on the starry- skied background, I knew I would love this film. Not only are the special effects phenomenal; especially in the pod racing scene and the Gungan underwater village; but the plot was great. It was what it was made to, set the stage. I loved this movie and do not want to give too much away but I must say that I do not think justice has been served to the incredible Natalie Portman. She is beautiful, intriguing, and a silence falls over the audience when the speaks. I hope she is given more screen time in II and III and believe me, I will be first in line.

As I started watching this movie I hated it. I hated how much of a cliché it was. I even just turned it off but fortunately gave it another chance. Then I saw the end and was astounded by how well-written, well acted, and well thought out this movie was. You can NEVER watch just a portion of this movie, you must watch it from beginning to end, then you will love it.

Oh my gosh, this show is bad. I mean its like DL Hughley took one black joke, one white joke, and one suburbia joke and tells each one 10 times on each show. It just gets stupid. I can't even believe people in the audience laugh!? Each time I watch this show I TRY to laugh at the jokes but they just aren't funny! Man this show needs to be hacked up, blown up, or just cancelled before it serves as ABC's iceberg.

WLiiA? is FUNNY! I mean is is like laughing non-stop for 30 minutes, literally. Collin Mocherie and Ryan Stiles are the best and when Drew Carrey does his thing at the end, that's a crack-up! I never watched the original show, so I can't compare, but this is like the only show I watch. It's great.

This show is terrible. It's not funny, the characters are SO obnoxious especially the tick the producers tried to pass as the blonde roomate. All the "jokes" and "one-liners" are recycled and it's torture to sit through, thank god Dharma and Greg, Drew Carrey, and Whose Line is it Anyway? are there as an antidote. I praised ABC for cancelling the show for a while but then it's back on, to ruin Wednesday nights forever...ha ha ha.

Yeah, Street Fighter isn't Oscar caliber or anything but it is the best video game film like EVER!!! I mean this movie had some plot....M. Bison taking hostages and acting in a Saddam Hussein like manner. Then an INTERNATIONAL league of fighters (finally a movie when other countries help fight evil) comes and saves the day. The movie wasn't great but it wasn't bad either and deserves a shot, at least if you just watch it for Raul Julia's last performance.

After seeing Deep Impact, you leave with both a feeling of awe and remorse. You leave thinking WOW but crying. Deep Impact makes you think about what would really happen if a comet was on a collision course with earth and makes you cherish all those close to you. It is realistic and may supply tactics to use when a comet does head towards our home. Deep Impact is not only a brilliant and engaging movie in itself, compared to Armageddon, Deep Impact takes the cake. Armageddon sent up half a dozen idiots to save 6 billion people while Deep Impact actually thought about it and sent up a group of educated and realistic astronauts. The Russian in Armageddon would NEVER have been let out of the asylum he was in to live on a shuttle (this Russian was portrayed as such a negative stereotype as well I'm surprised Boris Yeltsin didn't sue!) The Russian in Deep Impact was educated and realistic. The alternatives to blowing up the comet in Deep Impact were well thought out and realistic. Armageddon didn't have any alternatives. What are we supposed to do when this does happen, hope the cosmonauts do their job right? Deep Impact was one of the best movies I saw all year, and Armageddon was the worst.

After I walked out of the theater, I was seriously going to go up to the cashier and get a refund. Armageddon was that bad. Ok so an asteroid the size of Texas (get real? And they never saw it coming until it was 18 days away?) is coming to Earth and going to kill everyone. So what does NASA do? They send half a dozen idiotic, egotistical oil drilling maniacs to save the world. With NO backup plan, NO creative thinking and NO story. The only story was of course Liv Tylers and Ben Affleck's little love, but oh kazoo.....While the team is in space they give Liv her own little room with 15 TVs to weep over and man this movie sucked hard. Ok so the special affects were good but man I wanted to go have my ears checked after I saw this movie...it was SO LOUD!!!!! I ended up stuffing tissues in my ears it was that loud. So if you haven't seen Armageddon..DON'T...see Deep Impact instead.