Everything Is Illuminated
You know, if Elijah Wood told me to donate half of my spleen so that his eyes could be more of that gorgeous liquid blue....I'd consider it.
He's got one of those faces that you just want to squeeze. Then he looks melancoly and you just want to squeeze his face. Then he looks pensive, again with the face squeezing. Plus, in this film, he wears these awesome huge glasses. FACE SQUEEZE!!
Although, I like the Russian characters, ole EW needs to get away from movies involving rings. At least for a few years.
2 out of 4 starsAbout a Boy
They should call this movie "About a Boy, Or How I Learned to Stop Hating Huge Grant and just accept all his British self-deprication for what it is".
Let me put it this way. It is a family, having-kids, single-parent movie that didn't make me feel uncomfortable and made me laugh.
3 out of 4 stars
Death Race 2000
Just
wow.Granted, Roger Corman and I have had our differences in the past (Dracula "HI-I'M-VLAD-I'M-FROM-AKRON-OHIO Rising), but this one wasn't awful. Yeah, it is culty and cheesey and blah, blah, blah. BUT, It has nipple and David Carradine dancing around in his tighty underwear.
I kind of liked it. Even better, they are doing a
remake. On the scale of directors Paul W.S. Anderson is just a step above Uwe Bole, which is like saying HIV is a step up from full blown AIDS. If it ain't broke, buddy...
2 out of 4
Clerks II
Did you ever had that friend that went to rehab and swore up and down that everything was cool and that you could still drink around him and he wouldn't bother you about it but still did every time you came around him with a drink?
That is kind of what I think about Kevin Smith these days. Ever since this guy got married and procreated, he thinks that is the greatest achievement on earth. His movies, while still containing good jokes, tend to lay the "marriage/baby" elements on a bit thick.
Of course, perhaps getting married and having a kid is the greatest thing ever, and I'm just being jealous, bitter and uninformed.
Fuck you, I'll just concentrate on Jay tucking the goods.
3 out of 4 stars