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Argo

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argoThe story of the CIA agent who helped 6 (mostly very young) US diplomats get out of Iran in 1980. There are actually people out there, doing this kind of stuff.  Makes you kind of think your life is boring… but perhaps glad your life is boring.

I liked the tone of this – they didn’t overdo the drama, yet it was dramatic all the same. We all know what happens, but we’re still worried for the characters. I have to wonder how this movie would play back in Iran though. What would the people there today think of it?  The diplomats didn’t really commit any crime, so it’s not like they really got away with anything. In fact, if they’d given themselves up, they would probably have been released a number of months later, along with the rest of the hostages (of course, they didn’t know this at the time). So, at the end, is all we can do shrug our shoulders?

Armageddon

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This movie really really sucked.  I wish I could find a more colorful adjective, but this movie doesn’t deserve one.  It wasn’t even really a movie either… more like a 2 hour Aerosmith video.  (I think Aerosmith sucks too, so it’s no small wonder that I didn’t like this movie.)  There was not one camera shot in this movie which lasted more than 5 seconds!  Don’t believe me?  Try to find one.  The editor of this movie must have been on crack, cocaine, crystal meth and coffee all at once!  I just about got a headache watching it.  On top of the frenzied editing, the story and the characters were just plain unbelievably dumb.  I don’t know how this movie did better than Deep Impact.  Oh… wait… money, special effects, explosions, big names, hot chicks, hunky guys, stupid one-liner jokes, a zillion-dollar marketing blitz, and a thorough understanding of the stupidity and gullibility of the average American. The science of this movie didn’t come close to passing my “suspension of disbelief” filter either, but I won’t even get into that.

Dogma

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Sure it wasn’t an awesome movie or anything, but it was fun… and funny.  Message?  why does organized religion think it has a monopoly on god?  I have no idea why the Catholic League protested this movie, if anything it was pro-religon.  They just helped promote it… (Hmm… maybe they were using sophisticated reverse psychology? Naw.)

Pearl Harbor

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Probably the most marketing-oriented movie I’ve ever seen – Something for women + something for the men = big bucks! It’s like they were trying to make another Titanic or something. It was entertaining, but the whole end-thing was a bit much. Apparently that did actually happen, but I was watching the movie just waiting for the one guy to die dramatically – it was the only way to make everyone happy. They could have squished the plot a little bit and made a better and shorter movie. (he could have died at pearl harbor instead)

 

Good Will Hunting

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I think my favorite scene in this movie was the first time that the Robin William’s character ‘gives it’ to Will. I’ve never heard the “you don’t know everything kid” speech done so well… I guess that’s cause the kid does “know everything”… except what can’t be learned in books. I think this movie really says that we all have something to learn. Just think, if you ever reached that point where you did know everything there was to know, what would be the point anymore? What would you do? I think the actual character of Will wasn’t important, it was the development of that character which was most interesting. I could take the more cynical approach and just mark this one off as another “abused kid overcomes his problems”, but I think this movie is better than that. (I would like to know if the actual math problems were real though)