Tuesday, December 30, 2008

the yes men

** witty but not engaging or motivating for me to do anything. saw with lora at rhondas.

Monday, December 01, 2008

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

city of angels

** nick cafe did okay. nice plot. not breath-taking but decent.

don juan de marco

**1/2 cute. not much memorable stuff but nice plot. great acting.

tropic thunder

**1/2 meh. i chuckled a few times.

Persepolis

*** good dark, interesting plot. wish i had paid more attention
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a good year

**3/4 surprisingly good russel crowe love film. cute, simple. he could have been harsher but overall i was pleased.

Monday, November 24, 2008

primer

*** good, weird, made on $7,000 budget, made it even better.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

under the tuscan sun

**1/2 not bad. cute chick flick. but surprisingly nice. almost teared

Monday, November 10, 2008

3:10 to yuma

***1/2 really good. great acting, dialogue, characters. bravo. watched at home.

Monday, November 03, 2008

garbage warrior

***1/2

really good. watched with lora. didn't finish. love the concept and documentary.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

charlie bartlett

***1/4 my roommate rented it and this was surprisingly good. great acting, cute plot. enjoyable.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

things we lost in the fire

***1/4 good movie. slow but entertaining and great character development. lots of anticipation. ending didnt really make sense.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

bully

**1/2 decent. didnt draw me in that much but enjoyable entertainment. good rec from rachel

Sunday, August 03, 2008

Thursday, July 31, 2008

the breakup

** normal break up movie. yawn. they overreact which i guess is realistic.

Friday, July 18, 2008

batman begins

**** amazingly awesome movie. no complaints at all. definitely more looking forward to the next film.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

balls of fury

1/2 most disappointing movie ever. a few funny quotes but mostly shit. especially about a subject, ping-pong that i love dearly.

the guy from reno 9-11 was great

"the years have not been kind to YOU!
i will not either"

"this is freddie finger's house" - terry crews. love him!

Monday, July 14, 2008

harold & kumar escape ...

**1/2 i loved the first one. maybe i needed to get really high to laugh more at the second one. it was okay but not hysterical.

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

21

**1/2 not bad. i liked the book better but this was okay.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

in bruges

**1/2 decent british movie with colin ferrel and guy from tiger's tail. was okay.

Sunday, July 06, 2008

Monday, June 30, 2008

mongol

***1/2 really great movie with shivani at balboa theatre. long, not too much action, great character development, a bit of unnecessary scenes but overall great film.

the kite runner

*** good movie. missing some parts of the book but overall no complaints.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

wall*e

*** fell asleep for part of it but overall really good. saw with andrew and john. great animation and cute plot. opening pixar short film with rabit / magician was cute.

Monday, June 23, 2008

darjeeling limited

** i like wes andersons most movies. this was a just a bit too weird.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

the happening

? fell asleep on pre-fathers day with parents;)

bigger, stronger, faster

**1/2 decent. with ori,hilary and tim f. nothing spectacular. glorifies steroids a bit but makes some decent arguments.

Friday, May 30, 2008

indiana jones and blah

*1/2 really just shit. so contrived, poorly acted, direction was okay. waste of time, i fell asleep. watched with chris/andrew

Monday, May 12, 2008

iron man

*** really well done acting, cinematography and writing. semi-usual plot but overall super entertaining. actually saw it in a theatre.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Thursday, April 10, 2008

door in the floor

**3/4 good acting. no real plot. kind of cute. kim bassinger is hot!

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

hoffa

**1/2 nice to learn the story about him. better than a lot of other movies.

the namesake

*** really liked the book and the movie. kal penn surprisingly did great.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days

*** greatness. plot was good. acting was perfect. interesting story. worth watching.

Monday, March 10, 2008

city of men

*** not as good as the first but independently still a good movie!

Friday, March 07, 2008

there will be blood

*** great acting, great cinematography. strange parts at times. enjoyable but could be shorter.

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Saturday, March 01, 2008

once were warriors

**** perfect. great recommendation from grant. hard lives in new zealand. amazing. touching. loved.

dan in real life

** decent. i like steve carrell. plot is decent. music is great. not enough on his character about his work. kind of flat.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Friday, February 01, 2008

Sunday, January 27, 2008

juno

*** good but a bit over-rated. had chills but could be cause i was cold.

gone baby gone

*** almost similar to mystic river. good. casey affleck finally gets some light and ben does something decent but more of a copy in my opinion.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

once

** got great reviews on RT (rottentomatoes). movie was good. not exceptional, maybe i was just tired.

Monday, January 14, 2008

no country for old men

***1/4 goodness. super intense and scary. jorge bardem is awesome. ending is... you'll see for yourself.

Sunday, January 13, 2008