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Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Too bad...
I'm truly disappointed. I had been looking forward to seeing this movie for quite awhile.
Moulin Rouge! could have been a truly great movie if someone would have held Baz Luhrmann's hand and restrained him a bit. Unfortunately, the film suffered from many of the shortcomings of Romeo and Juliet, but this time they were amplified beyond all reason. Baz Luhrmann's editing, while innovative, is nothing short of self-indulgent. It takes over the film, interrupts the story, and turns the film into a mediocre overly-long music video.
I don't fault any of the performances...not even the singing. The story was actually pretty good...when it was allowed to unfold. Had the film-makers exercised some self-control in the editing room, this movie could have easily taken place inside of one hour. It also could have been a very good movie. Luhrmann is a visual genius, but he needs to be reined in a bit.
My Side of the Mountain (1969)
Very disappointing...get the book instead
This movie is one of the poorest adaptations of a fabulous book that I've seen. Jean George's novel is a fantastic book that I think is an outstanding read for any child. I can't give the same endorsement to this movie.
Mission to Mars (2000)
Wow, that was bad!
I won't rehash the many fine bashings that have already been done. Suffice to say that I agree with most of the negative comments and few, if any, of the positive ones. I'm truly sad for the actors though. Sinise, Robbins, Cheadle and Mueller-Stahl are all far above this kind of movie. I'm even disappointed for O'Connel.
Some of the visuals were decent, others were laughable. I guess some of the space stuff was reasonably realistic--although, again, some was laughable.
With as much focus as there was on DNA in this movie, couldn't they have done at least some research on genetics? At one point we see a tiny snippet of DNA, and a character claims that it looks human...given the size of the snippet, you'd have been lucky to identify whether it belonged to anything. Then we're told that, based on this double-helix snippet, it can't be human because it's missing two chromosomes. How many stinking miles of double-helix does it take to make up two chromosomes? Alot more than the tiny snippet shown on the screen.
Go see Pitch Black instead. It had serious problems too, but it at least had some redeeming points.