Read the user comment at http://imdb.com/title/tt0343818/ for this one. It's revealing. For my part - get to read Asimov (the movie is supposed to be 'inspired' by his writings). Not necessarily the short stories that are said to have sparkled this movie...Asimov is really good and he helped me develop in my head much, much, better movies than this one.
The one thing I thought would be interesting to study closer (not in this movie though) is the shifting of heroes. The way that a guy is established as a hero at the beginning only to have someone else gradually take the focus. I can imagine a number of ways to do this and I've seen something like this in several films. In this one it is so disappointingly obvious that one should think of how to avoid doing it like this. The blueprint for this movies goes something like this: the initial policeman-hero, naturally blamed by the whole world, is called back to duty one more time for an extraordinary case - a bank robbery where the robbers asked specifically for him as a negociator. We know he is the hero because everybody gives him lots of attention and he is openly blamed only by people we don't like. Coincidentally a new guy, with pedigree, enters the police force as his partner. In the end the initial hero turns out to be the bad guy and the new guy turns out to be smart enough to find that out. Oh...and it looks like Lorentz's Chaos Theory is very popular with the American police right now.
Interesting for me: it's about the war in former Yugoslavia. Oh..no...That is not accurate: the movie is about how happy should we be that Americans go to rescue other people with the risk of their own lives. And also how smart they are and how good will, eventually prevail. I know better movies about such things that this one could possible be - I watched it just because they decided to have that specific conflict as a background - but the reference to it is nothing more than superficial. Cheap propaganda.
Another Kevin Costner 'hero' movie. This time as Coast Guard and Coast Guard teacher. I think the best would be that Mr Costner makes a complete 'hero' type in every possible field of life so we can watch it or screen it when we ask for funds. I'm curious about any sort of intellectual type jobs since it seems to me this type is under-represented; or try 'The Writer', 'The Watch Maker' and my possible favourite - "The Lazy". I would love to see how sitting around and wasting time can become thrilling. In fact, I think I would try myself to do that one.
This one it's a love story between Sandra Bullock (MD) and Keanu Reeves (Architect). They are in love with each other but also have quite a problem on their hands: They are apart 2 years in time. Try to manage that one. Around here distance relationships are not easy but what do you think about a 2 years distance 'in time'? So trying to set up a meeting work for her "tomorrow" and for him "two years from now, tomorrow". Jane Austen's 'Persuasion' and an old mail box help. You'd better believe it. It's definitely not a great film but my heart melts when so many relationship myths are touched.
It's what I call a popcorn movie (not worth seeing if you don't have a big bag of popcorn). An easy job for Meryl Streep, a clichéd story and a dull happy ending. If you watch it in the cinema, it's a waste of money. If you watch it at home, you might run out of patience before it ends.
It's a lame movie. I couldn't find a line or an idea worth mentioning. How it makes all this money (~23M$) I don't know. Don't see it, it's a waste of time.
This movie almost doesn't worth write about. It seems inspired by a real story but even if the actual story could be interesting what it came out in this movie is the pure boredom of life. The 'tensed' scenes are not almost ridiculous, the story is plain boring and the form it got cries 'cliche'.
I figured it doesn't pay the effort to put a picture in this post but I actually liked the girl in this boy's movie. She is a teenage French and learns English - charming. So here is her picture. Ha!
This movie made 29M this weekend. I don't know whether Freud would have dealt with this decently. I know I cannot - I could only skip through some of it always close to vomit. I thought it is decadence but it's quite a lot beyond that. It shows so many things at the same time that I won't even bother to analyse it. If you get a chance to see this give it a look - it's bound to be puzzling trying to figure out why would a 'normal' guy drink some fresh sperm coming from a horse he just masturbated...I'll tell you why - it's fun.
I wouldn't pay to actually go to the cinema to see this movie because I have a weak heart and I would be out very early in the screening. But I see how I would watch it, with moderation, in certain situations in life.
Let me put in some more info: you'll empathize with people stuck in a limo with a bunch of crazy bees or how it feels to have ice-testicles. Not to mention some of the snakes and the fart-mask and planty of other pranks. I'm not sure you can get a kick out of it but...
