Jim Carrey’s “breakthrough” movie (and Cameron Diaz’s too). He is good in this movie, but I think the success of this certainly contributed to his current annoying personality…. and for that, the Mask can not be forgiven.
Category Archives: Reviews
Mask
Gosh, what a sad movie. It does make one think about those people that aren’t blessed with a “normal” body or normal life. I think almost everybody has been guilty – at least on the subconscious level – of seeing a disfigured person and cringing. I think there must be some evolutionary biological mechanism at work there. What would happen if the elephant man’s mother was a biker chick? go see this movie and find out.
Mars Attacks
Neat, but it should have been about a half hour long. It was like they created these neat Martian characters, but then they didn’t know where to go. They should have cut some scenes short and lengthened others.
The March of the Penguins
I’d been waiting for this – a really good documentary about Emporer Penguins. I don’t think it could have been done much better than this either. One thing though, the movie seems to imply that this group is the only group of Emporer Penguins in the world, when that’s not the case.
The Man with Two Brains
Steve Martin meets Frankenstein… er something like that. I guess he doesn’t build a monster, but there is an “igorish” element to the movie. It would be cool if this kind of thing could really happen. I’d love to live on in a jar of jelly after my body dies.
The Man with the Golden Gun
James Bond kills an evil millionaire bent on ruling… or destroying the world.
The Man Without a Face
More Mel. Pretty cheesy, rather dismissible.
The Man with One Red Shoe
I don’t really remember much about this movie – it was from back in the days when Tom Hanks still did comedies. Kind of your “normal guy gets mixed up in big conspiracy” thing. It was pieced together pretty well.
The Man in the Iron Mask
Few people had kind words to say about this, but I liked it. Sure, it was a bit predictable, but stories like this usually are. I think people didn’t like it because of a subconscious backlash against Leonardo DiCaprio. This movie came out soon after Titanic. I think people wanted Hollywood’s golden boy to flounder a little. Sure, this movie wasn’t awesome or anything, but it was decent.
The Manhattan Project
Smart kid builds a nuclear bomb. This was intelligently done. It would be really easy to screw up a movie with this kind of plot. It’s been done countless times. Sure, the “steal the plutonium” scene was a little unbelievable, but it did work – the movie didn’t make any “leaps of faith” with respect to plot development, it let the intelligence of the characters move the plot along. (one thing though, if you smoke inside, it still smells for hours afterwards)
Mallrats
I was really rooting for silent Bob to “see” the 3D picture. He’s missing out on one of life’s great joys. Although if one can’t see the picture, one might as well cause mayhem in a mall. I thought the love story was dumb, that one guy who went on the game show was a total dork, he didn’t deserve the girl. But there was plenty of good dialogue and general goofiness.
Maid in Manhattan
Just read the plot summary on the jacket of the DVD, you’ll save yourself 2 hours of completely predictable and totally absurd “plot”. On second thought, even reading the jacket is a waste of time.
Magnolia
Strange to say, but I think this movie needed to be longer. It was really long, but I think it needed another 20 minutes to really complete the stories. In case you wondered, this is another of those “intertwined lives” movies, a la ‘short cuts’ or ‘pulp fiction’. It was done really well – there was a lot of good acting, and the direction was first rate. I wish I could find better words of praise for this movie… it deserves some. I guess I’m just not sure what it was really about. Perhaps it was just about life & relationships & consequences, but isn’t almost every movie about that? Anyway, if you want to see an inventive, beautiful, smart and long movie, go see this.
Mafia!
This movie was so dumb I didn’t even finish watching it. (Were those supposed to be jokes???). Just a bunch of people standing around trying to be funny or something. I can’t believe this was made by the same person that helped make Airplane! and Top Secret. Where’s Zucker?
Mad Max
Mel actually playing an Australian. This would have been fine if it hadn’t been duplicated (and therefore diluted) by so many ripoff movies.
Lucas
I really liked this movie. I dunno, it was “cute”. I haven’t seen it in years though, so I don’t know what I’d think of it today.
He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not
Girl is insanely in-love with an older married man… or is she just plan insane??? An interesting presentation, though I thought they could have been a little more clever – I sort of figured it out before the secret was “revealed”. Strange, this was subtitled in French, but I was just thinking that I don’t really remember reading any subtitles. Is that good or bad? Good, I think.
Loverboy
Cheesy teen in over his head flick. Of course, it has to do with sex. Ya know, I’ve seen a lot worse movies of this genre.
The Lost World (Jurassic Park II)
More dinosaurs and Jeff Goldblum. Ho hum. You know, they should make a movie with lots of special effects, no plot and just have dinosaurs go on a rampage… oh, wait… I guess that was THIS movie. Nevermind.
Lost Souls
It’s about this guy who is slated to be the re-incarnation of the devil… although he doesn’t know it. Winona Ryder is in this, for once she did a decent job (she wasn’t the ‘same character she usually is’). I don’t know, it’d be a stretch to say this was a good movie, but I suppose it was worth a buck fifty at the cheap theater. Don’t go out of your way to see it, but it won’t harm you.
Lost in Translation
Ever been at a party at 2am, and you want to go home, but you’ve agreed to drive your friends home, and they’re engaged in some inane conversation and don’t want to leave? That’s what this movie was like for me… I just wasn’t having a good time. This got a bunch of good reviews, but for me… something was, um, lost in translation.
Lost in Space
This movie was given such horrible reviews that I felt kind of embarrassed even renting it. It really wasn’t that bad though. Sure, the whole ‘time travel’ thing made almost no sense, the writing wasn’t special, the acting wasn’t super, and some of the special effects were marginal, but these are all things which made the original TV show so great! (except the writing in the original was better). Lost in Space (the TV show) was on at 10-11AM every morning in the summer when I was a kid. I think I saw every episode twice. Back in the late 70s/early 80s, there simply weren’t any sci-fi shows. Lost in Space had to do. I thought this movie had enough ‘new stuff’ to make it viable, while still being true to the original. They even managed to make Dr. Smith a somewhat respectable character (still very evil, but at least not pathetic). I think my favorite line in the movie was Dr. Smith saying “the pain”, his catch phrase from the original show. Ah, the memories. (on it’s own though, this was a pretty dumb movie)
Lost in La Mancha
Kind of like being a peeping Tom… There’s something entertaining about actually seeing Terry Gilliam do regular stuff. Too bad it was such a tragic disaster – would’ve been a great movie. One other thing – there are derogitory comments in this movie about “Baron Munchausen”, which I thought was an amazing movie. Who cares if it lost money! It was a great frickin’ movie!
Lost Highway
Just bizarre… but bizarre for bizzarness’s sake, which isn’t good. A movie has to be more than “weird” to be appealing. I did like the scene where the bad driver gets a gun in his face though – have you ever wanted to do that?
The Lost City
A seemingly honest look at the events around the Cuban revolution, from the point of view of fictional characters involved in various aspects of it. I did like how the romance worked-out – very unconventional result. Anyway, it was just a whole sad series of events. I wish everyone would just get over it though – the people who lost their property in the revolution need to face reality – it’s gone. You’re not getting it back. Your side lost. The world is not fair. Get over it & move on.