From the Sofa

Written by Matt Baker   
Tuesday, 11 January 2005 08:02

Everything about this movie, with the exception of Drew Barrymore, screams for me to hate it. First, it was co-produced by and stars (if you'll allow me to use that word loosely) Adam Sandler, whose contributions to cinema are astoundingly forgettable. I find Sandler funniest when he's doing his humorous songs like the Chanukah Song and allows himself to laugh. His movie characters are always latently furious losers which you wouldn't expect to be a big box office draw, and yet there he is. Sandler is who he is; love him or hate him. I think I'm clear on which camp I fall in.

 
 
Written by Matt Baker   
Friday, 31 December 2004 15:45

I love dystopia films. As a closet misanthrope, I get a small thrill seeing new and fresh ways for humanity to consume itself. The best of these movies were made decades ago, in the forties and fifties, but one from the past few years deserves to join their ranks.

 
 
Written by Steven Dougherty   
Thursday, 16 December 2004 21:31

So I have these two DVDs right?  These two versions of the same movie that, with three for four edits, somehow become completely different flicks.  One enjoyable the other...not so much.

 
 
Written by John Shea   
Thursday, 16 December 2004 19:39
This is one of those movies that looked really cool in the trailers, got fairly positive buzz and yet I still failed utterly to get to it before it moved on to video.  So finally I decided to rent it and see what all the fuss was about.
 
 
Written by Sam Brady   
Tuesday, 14 December 2004 12:24

With the imminent release of the Extended Edition of The Return of the King, I recently went back and watched the first two movies in the series for the first time in several months.  I therefore encountered anew the only thing about the entire Lord of the Rings series that I really, really disagreed with.  I’m sure this has been flogged to death elsewhere, and I’m probably going to come off as a Tolkien fanboy, but seeing these movies again brought it home all over again: it just kills me what Peter Jackson and his band of marauders did to poor Faramir at the end of The Two Towers.

 

 
 
Written by John Shea   
Sunday, 12 December 2004 04:01
Apparently, Fox thought that there was a significant part of the population that believed what was really lacking in theaters these days was romantic comedies in the vein of the Rock Hudson/Doris Day variety that ocurred in the sixties.  Judging by the rather lackluster box office reception to Down With Love, I'd say they need to put the bowl away for awhile and stop taking advice from that one receptionist as indicative of most movie goers.
 
 

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