Yeah, it's fair to bring up Hitchcock, and I have a bit of a hard time defending myself here. But I'll say this. With Hitchcock I rarely feel... well I definitely feel manipulated, but it's manipulation aimed towards telling a good story. In certain movies I feel like the manipulation is less about story and more about conveying a creepy feeling. Cape Fear is one of these movies, particularly in the third act. I just recently saw Psycho for the first time. (Yes, I know, the FIRST time.) I

I'm kind of familiar with Herzog's work, and I'm working to fill out the whole picture, but what I found different about this is that I was constantly (and I think deliberately) lulled into the belief that this was a police procedural. Suddenly Cage shakes me out of my complacency. Tells me he doesn't give a shit about who the killer was. Then I am shown Cage grinning like an idiot at some bizzare, ambiguous metaphysical imagery. And then after that things wrap up so conventionally, so like a

I can't really respond to someone's review of a comedy when they call it simply not funny. I found it simply funny. That disagreement is fairly fundamental, and hard to justify.

Ultimate Watchmen, which I just rewatched, is a 3 and a half hour version of the movie, and I would argue that it's an improvement on the theatrical version. It had the regular folks in there, as well as the pirate Black Freighter comic book story. I mean, off the top of my head I can't think of anything it was missing. I found that a lot of the things that I found so offensive in the theatrical version, like the sex scene in the sky, were much less egregious when put into its proper context (Night

This is the dullest movie I've ever seen. I saw it when I was like 12, and just remembered being bored and not much else. It turns out I was mistaken. I remembered it perfectly, it's just that nothing happens. NOTHING HAPPENS. That bald woman doesn't do anything. Spock doesn't do anything. McCoy doesn't do anything. That guy from Seventh Heaven doesn't do anything. Kirk talks sometimes, but never really says anything of any significance at all. Nothing happens. NOTHING.

1 stars

Max Payne might be my favourite video game series of all time. There was no Max Payne in this movie. Where the hell was the first person narration? Where was the moody music? Where was one single fucking moment of self awareness or humour? Also, Max is arrested a the end of Max Payne. I honestly don't know if this happened in the movie, because the police storm the roof and have their guns pointed at him, and then someone says "don't worry, Payne is alive," and then the movie ends. Wha?

3 stars

This shit is not very funny. I laughed once, and that was at a sheep wearing lingerie. Derek does not recommend this film! It's pretty much a waste of time. My PSI was way off on this one.

3 stars

IN WHAT WAY IS THIS A GOOD MOVIE? The climactic sequence consists of everybody getting superpowers and just standing there looking at each other, using the power of the mind to create awful special effects. The theatrical version spoils the big reveal in the first 60 seconds. The director`s cut is more mysterious, but boring because nothing makes any sense for the first hour or so. Furthermore, this contains some of the worst acting I've ever seen. Admit it, this movie is a train wreck.

3 stars

I hate thrillers. I watched this for Scorsese and De Niro. What I got was a thriller. Shame on me I guess. I hate the screaming, I hate the tension, I hate the "boo" moments, and I hate the sexualization. When that stuff is taken away all I'm left with is just a little bit of De Niro and barely any Scorsese at all. That's not nearly enough to outweigh my distaste for thrillers.

3 stars

When taken on its own, not all that interesting.

4 stars

This should be proof that the man-child comedic motif has kind of run its course.

5 stars

Unsurprisingly, the Seinfeld parts were pretty good, and the parts with that douchebag were not so good. I get the feeling that there wasn't quite enough content featuring the rebuilding of Seinfeld's act to fill an entire movie, which is fine, but I was totally uninterested in this secondary character they chose to introduce.

5 stars

I don't really like crosswords, but I love movies about people going nuts over whatever nerdy niche they are passionate about. We all have that one thing that we're like that with, so we can all relate. The movie captures that spirit, which makes it pretty good. That being said, I didn't really care about who won the crossword competition, because that is a "thing" rather than the "characters." Again, the "thing" doesn't interest me at all. Other than that, a fairly strong documentary.

6 stars

I just wanted terrible things to happen to that little brat. The protagonist probably the most violent child I've seen in my life. In the very first scene he starts a fight with a gaggle of teenagers and then immediately cries when they playfully fight back. Who doesn't hate kids like that? This movie is hard to rate, since that kid was annoying as hell, but those giant gopher things are very good. It's refreshingly complex for a kid's movie, so in that sense I guess it's worth seeing.

6 stars

This movie is extremely well written, but I don't feel as if I gained any insight. I mean, it's interesting enough, but as we approach the end of the movie everybody's motives become impossible to understand. For example, why does the father steal his son's girlfriend? We understand that he does, but there's no depth there. The problem probably stems from the fact that this is a real historical event, and actual motives are unknowable, but that's no excuse.

6 stars

So let me get this straight. Their idea to kill the giant Jello mold made out of negative energy is to Silly String the Statue of Liberty, turn it into a robot, and have a parade with it. Okay, on second thought that's kinda awesome.

6 stars

On paper this movie should annoy the shit out of me. And in its own special way it kinda does, but I always thought it was still alright. This movie seems to be kind of polarizing, but I would argue that it shouldn't be. Even though it did win best picture, I don't think there's enough substance here to evoke extreme love or hate. It's kinda somewhere down the middle. Not really worth thinking about in the year 2010.

6 stars

I gained some information, but not a whole lot of insight. I didn't learn very much about the man or his movies that I didn't already know. The most interesting part of the documentary to me was learning what his actors and what fellow directors thought of him. Overall, a pretty straightforward, good, documentary. I would suggest that you be familiar with Kubrick's entire filmography before you watch this film, because otherwise it's really of little use to you.

7 stars

Pretty funny. The references to Back to the Future are off the chart. Too many to count. This movie`s answer to the kiss at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance in Back to the Future is pretty hilarious.

7 stars

Pretty funny, but a bit over-praised. Oftentimes this is touted as Mel Brooks's best, but I don't agree.

7 stars