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The Lake House (2006)
Thoughtful reminder of what True Love is
I suppose I'm a glutton for romantic punishment. Home alone for New Year's Eve, I opted to watch The Lake House for the first time. I recently had a former love interest from my past contact me. So I thought of this while watching the storyline unfold tonight. And when the film concluded I realized that the man from my past couldn't hold a candle to Keanu's character 'Alex' in the film. Sure The Lake House could be considered schmaltzy chick flick tripe, but the screenplay, directing and acting takes it to another level. Even though it left me drained and melancholy, Im very glad I watched it tonight. It was a good refresher of what real caring and genuine love is all about.
Gerry (2002)
Watching Coyotes wander aimlessly wouldve been better
I love nature footage, I don't mind movies that move slowly or have little dialogue. This 'movie' was beyond slow and the dialogue was virtually non existent. I seriously wouldve had a much better time watching a couple of wild animals cavorting around the desert. That wouldve been a million times more entertaining than watching dopes wander aimlessly. I ended up not caring about the characters because they were so utterly blank. No great acting isn't been 100% non emotive. I'm amazed I'm awake after watching this. Warning, don't ever play a DVD of this 'movie' in your SUV while driving or you'll drive off the side of the road from boredom-induced sleep. Damon deserves a wedgie for this piece of flotsam.
Wild at Heart (1990)
One wickedly cool ride
I saw this movie when I was a very young teenager.
I thought it was so out of this world mesmerizing that I wanted to see it a second time and share it with a guy I had a crush on it.
He was several years older and the movie scared the hell out of him.
I realize now, years later, after seeing Wild At Heart many more times that he was just a fantastically unhip square pansy.
Maybe I'm a little biased because I'm a Lynch myself and David Lynch is the spitting image of my great grandfather, but this movie is a total work of art IMHO.
The movie is very dark and lurid in many respects, but it adds to the overall tone of the movie.
And at its core, Wild At Heart is the perfect romantic comedy for anyone who is a rebel at heart !
Oh and do watch it on Widescreen DVD.
America's Heart & Soul (2004)
If you don't love the people in this AHS u have NO SOUL.
So nice to see a sweet, heartfelt and genuine piece of work.
All of the negative reviews from demented lefties on IMDb shows once again that far left liberals DON'T want other Americans to be HAPPY.
They don't CARE about others happiness.
This piece of work documents simple down to earth salt of the earth Americans.
This movie says NOTHING about politics, yet to leftist sensibilities, the people in this movie should be reviled because they love their life, liberty and country.
The anger displayed by many of the miscreant reviewers of this film says more about them than it does about the actual film.
The film is splendid and I plan to get a DVD copy to show my future children some day.
I'm sorry so many of you have a problem with wholesome living in the heartland of America.
I live in NYC and I can appreciate how others live in my country.
Cursed (2005)
Unrated DVD is campy and gory dark fun.
It would appear that some reviewers on here thought this was a straight horror flick.
No it was supposed to be tongue in cheek and poking fun at Werewolf movies.
For example, near the end, the bitchy Werewolf flips off the cursed siblings after the sister says the female werewolf has bad skin and fat thighs.
In spite of its humorous slant, it still delivers some gruesome and horrific little moments.
Such as the mangled torso of an car accident/werewolf victim dragging herself around in lurid detail.
If you haven't got a sense of humor and/or a stomach for grisly scenes, then Cursed won't cast a spell on you.
The Terminator (1984)
Extraordinarily prescient as time marches on
The Terminator is an all time favorite movie of mine. No need to write about it per say, so much as already been said over the last two decades since its release. I was just a kid when it first came out but it stuck it my head as being forward thinking even then. The one improbable aspect is time travel, scarily the other sci-fi in the story is becoming increasingly likely. A new book called "Radical Evolution" by Joel Garreau explores various endeavors by DARPA (Goverment's (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) The direction that scientists in the book are taking is one geared towards making people more than human (Enhanced) and melding them with machine and vice versa. A sobering and profound look at how close we may becoming to a day of diminished humanity. Hope not, but the evidence to the contrary is compelling.
Dead Birds (2004)
Something to crow about
As an ardent horror fan, I'm quite snobby about what scares me in in films.
I am happy to have come across this unexpected little DVD in Blockbuster earlier today.
Strong points of the movie would be innovative genre blending, authentic Southern Gothic set, superb cast of actors and a good restraint of shock value.
Also impressed by the high quality end product on such a low budget. (something like a piddling 2 mil) The only drawbacks I found were an anti-climactic denouement and not enough sympathy created for any of the characters during the robbery scene.
I might add that the DVD includes an informative little Making of Dead Birds short and some deleted scenes to flesh out the story a bit.
White Noise (2005)
Super scary for such a stupid storyline.
Didn't see Noise in movies, just watched it on widescreen DVD tonight.
The post editing is abysmal, the plot staggers more than Paris on a bender and half the characters are mere window dressing.
But still I found myself utterly creeped out at points.
Doesn't hold a candle to The Sixth Sense, but White Noise still is effectively scary in spite of its been there, done that qualities.
Perhaps it's a bit too effectively frightening.
Someone who knew nothing about EVPs before this movie would have to be a spiritual masochist to experiment with EVPs themselves after viewing it.
Malevolence wins out in this movie and the ending has a disturbing disclaimer line that states that 1 out of 12 EVPs contain menacing words.
The DVD extras are interesting and add to the skin crawling effect of White Noise.
Darkness (2002)
International Version DVD Thumbs Up
I can just imagine how muddled and disappointing this movie would've been had I viewed it without seeing the 14 most disturbing minutes. I didn't see it in the movies.
I rented the unrated version on DVD and was mildly surprised that it delivered some potently scary moments.
It could've been even better, but for a 3.80 DVD rental it passed the time with a nice scare or two.
My one big bone to pick is that the identity of three identical trannie-looking old women in the picture on the all weren't clearly identified.
And also to explain the ending, I think that the evil in the house 'knew'(via Regina's evil grandfather) that Regina's boyfriend was en route to come save her and Paul.
The evil in the house couldn't risk Regina's boyfriend entering the house and finding her, so briefly an illusion as created to trick her and her brother.
IMHO.....
Saw (2004)
This See Saw will leave you queasy
I don't know if I'm sorry or not I didn't see Saw while it was in theaters. It was so utterly disturbingly entertaining to me on th esmall screen, I can only imagine how much it would freak me out on the big screen.
Mind you, I am not easily frightened whatsoever by even the grossest of visuals. I can usually eat dinner and watch medical surgery shows at the same time.
Something has to be over the top depraved to unnerve me.
And SAW surprised me by leaving me completely disquieted.
I can see many shades of SEVEN in SAW, but it steps things up many notches.
But it's not all gore and murky lighting, the storyline makes this twisted little afair top shelf viewing.
SAW's storyline is cleverly thought-out, many little nuances unfolding through out the film. The pacing veers wildly, from painstakingly slow to feverish towards the end.
Usually I can figure out a movies twists and turns very early on, but the surprise ending left me floored.
This may be the most disturbing Horror movie since Ed Gein.
Hats off to Aussie screenwriters/creators James Wan and Lee Whannell (also Adam in the film) for giving me a thrilling scare.
The Door in the Floor (2004)
Elle Fanning only bright spot
This movie is tripe.
No it's worse than three day old tripe. It's flotsam. Mean-spirited and drawn out. The only likable character is the poor neglected 4 year old.
Basinger is well suited to the role because it just requires her to look blankly out at the sea. The characters are so stilted and constipated in their emotions.
Very fake and contrived feeling to this movie.
"Bridges, who carries the film for its entirety, gets absolutely no help from the Academy Award winning Basinger whose hollow character seems more lazily portrayed than it should especially when sharing screen time with novice actor Foster. Their relationship makes about as much sense as a blind man wearing glasses.
With tiresome character development and a strenuous screenplay to get involved in, "The Door in the Floor" quickly becomes a pit of despair."