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Greg's Movie Reviews

Horton Hears a Who!

I didn't care for it. I don't need a kids movie trying to ram a message down my throat. I'm a smart guy. I'll figure things out for myself.


Lars and the Real Girl

A very good movie. The only shortcoming was Bianca. Her character wasn't developed very well. She was mostly inanimate.

If I ever decide to go crazy, this movie shows how I'd go about it.


The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Awesome movie. Now one of my favorite westerns.


Aeon Flux

I caught it on HBO recently. It's clearly the best movie ever made. Charlize Theron should win a Nobel Prize for acting for her efforts in this one.


Eastern Promises

Very good. Probably better than The Departed


Aug 18, 2007 | Superbad

Crude but very funny.


Jul 29, 2007 | Sunshine

A most excellent movie.


Ratatouille

If you approve of rats preparing food for human consumption, this is the movie for you.


Apr 21, 2007 | Hot Fuzz


Apr 20, 2007 | Fracture


300


Feb 17, 2007 | Laberinto del Fauno, El


Jan 13, 2007 | Children of Men


Dec 22, 2006 | Rocky Balboa


Nov 20, 2006 | Stranger Than Fiction

A real movie. I liked it.


Oct 28, 2006 | Saw III

I don't understand the point of these kinds of movies.


Oct 22, 2006 | Marie Antoinette

I had trouble with this movie.


Oct 14, 2006 | The Departed


Jun 30, 2006 | Superman Returns

The loudest and most preposterous movie ever made.


Jun 21, 2006 | Nacho Libre

Pretty funny sometimes.


Jun 21, 2006 | Over the Hedge

I liked it a lot.


Dec 20, 2005 | King Kong

A fun, well made movie.


Nov 12, 2005 | Derailed

It's hard to put a finger on all the problems this movie has.

One problem is that it has more twists than a Chubby Checker dance party. Think Great Expectations in movie form.

Another problem is that the main character is simultaneously very stupid and very clever. Generally, a person is clever or stupid but not both.

Yet another problem is how everything works out as well as it did for the good guys. If I created such a mess in my life, I'd spend the next 50 years cleaning it up. Somehow, Charles Shine (the protagonist of our little story) jumps up and down in a mud puddle for hours in a white suit and doesn't get the least bit dirty.

There are other problems with this movie. However, the above is all that I want to mention.

I give the movie two and a half enchiladas and a taco.


Serenity

A very good sci-fi flick.


The Exorcism of Emily Rose

This is based on a true story of a movie that's not very good.


Jul 19, 2005 | Wedding Crashers

A very funny movie.

It didn't have as many elements of crude humor as I thought it would.

It was well worth the price of admission.


Jun 30, 2005 | The Longest Yard

An ok movie (almost, not quite).


Sin City

A pretty good, adult movie.


The Ring Two


Feb 15, 2005 | Hitch

Very good.


The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

This movie had a some really funny moments.

However, it's not recommended.

It was kind of slow and uneven.


Closer

Better than I thought it would be. However, it's still swill.

Clive Owen played a kind of fun character.


Sideways

A very good movie.


The Incredibles

A very good movie.


Oct 24, 2004 | I Heart Huckabees

This movie is a tough call. I really liked portions of it. However, it has problems.


Oct 1, 2004 | Shark Tale

I liked Finding Nemo better.


Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Action without exposition is uninstructive.


Hero (Ying xiong)

There is a lot to like about this movie. However, it's not recommended. Its fascination with self-sacrifice is misplaced.


Aug 23, 2004 | Little Black Book

I encourage everyone to avoid going to the movies alone as long as this movie is in theaters. This will lessen the chance that you'll slip on some artificial butter flavoring coating the floor, fall and become paralyzed, remain unnoticed in this state, and have to watch this movie unable to leave.


Aug 22, 2004 | Garden State

Not recommended.


Aug 18, 2004 | I, Robot

A decent movie. I mostly liked it.


Collateral

Much better than I thought it would be.


The Village

I liked it. It was different.

Some people complain that they figured out the major twist halfway through the movie. I don't think that detracts from the movie.


The Manchurian Candidate

One of my favorite movies of the year thus far.

I liked it a lot.


Jul 25, 2004 | Napoleon Dynamite

Pretty funny stuff. I liked it a lot.


Jul 11, 2004 | Anchorman

A good effort. I mostly liked it.


Jun 30, 2004 | Spider-Man 2

A very good movie.

My only criticism is that I don't think the character development for the intelligent mechanical arms was sufficient. What are their hopes? What are their dreams? What motivates them? What do they find interesting?


Jun 29, 2004 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

Many parts of this movie are very funny.

A decent, silly movie.


Jun 28, 2004 | The Notebook

If your girlfriend forces you to see one movie this year, hopefully it will be this movie.


Jun 15, 2004 | The Stepford Wives

I have nothing bad to say about this movie.


Jun 13, 2004 | The Chronicles of Riddick

You can safely miss this movie and still have a full, rich life.

(I did like how some of the fight scenes where depicted.)


May 29, 2004 | The Day After Tomorrow

This movie had pretty good special effects and parts of it were very enjoyable. However, it was very preachy (in a very bad way).


Troy

A mostly decent movie.


May 13, 2004 | Van Helsing

This movie was produced as a joint venture of:

It's a fun little movie.


Apr 22, 2004 | Hellboy

An ok movie.


Mar 28, 2004 | The Ladykillers

This movie had its moments. However, it's pretty uneven. So, it's not recommended.


Mar 22, 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Overall, it was very enjoyable.

I was worried for a short time that it was going to be a plotless construct similar to Lost in Translation. However, the plot is entirely satisfactory.

As an added bonus, it has one of the finest jumping up and down on a bed scenes that I've ever seen.


Mar 15, 2004 | Spartan

A list of made-up quotes from this movie:


Mar 6, 2004 | Starsky & Hutch

A movie that is very funny without being juvenile.


Feb 18, 2004 | The Highwaymen

This movie is stupid, but lots of things are.


Feb 13, 2004 | 50 First Dates

This movie had potential and it also had its moments. However, it contained Adam Sandler humor, a brand of humor not fit for most adults.


Feb 6, 2004 | Lost in Translation

Not enough plot for a postcard. Not recommended.


Jan 30, 2004 | Big Fish

A movie very much more like a movie should be than most movies are.


Jan 19, 2004 | Along Came Polly

I mostly liked it.

It was a pretty juvenile at times.


Jan 16, 2004 | Monster

This movie is like a car wreck without the honesty of a car wreck. Nobody wants a car wreck. Car wrecks aren't choosen.

Somebody decided this movie was a good idea. Charlize Theron decided putting her worst foot forward was a worthwhile use of her time.

If this movie is entertainment, I want to be bored.


Dec 30, 2003 | Cold Mountain

A good movie.


Dec 13, 2003 | Something's Gotta Give

I liked it.


The Last Samurai

This movie had a plot (a plus). It had characters with some depth and it had actual character development (a plus). It was well-made and well-shot. However, since self-immolation has never been so glorious in real life, this is a bad, bad movie.


Nov 21, 2003 | Gothika

I liked it.


Nov 14, 2003 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

A good movie.


Nov 7, 2003 | Elf

A pretty ok silly Christmas movie.


Nov 5, 2003 | The Matrix Revolutions

I don't want to think about it.


Oct 25, 2003 | Bubba Ho-tep

Not as much fun as The Evil Dead and Army of Darkness.


Oct 17, 2003 | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

An ok horror movie.


Oct 12, 2003 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1

I wanted to like this movie but I could not.

It had more severed limbs than I think is proper.

It's unlikely I'll ever watch another Quentin Tarantino movie.


Oct 11, 2003 | Intolerable Cruelty

The characters played by George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones are very likeable in their own ways.

An ok movie.


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