So...
this blog is part 3 of the movies I've watched in theatres. I think I watched a lot more movies that I enjoyed. I think.
SPOILER ALERT WARNING!!
Since
I will be mentioning a good number of movies in this blog, some of them
will contain spoilers. Any movie that will contain a spoiler will be
marked.
2004
MOVIE: 21 Grams
DATE: February 18, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): **
COMMENTS: What I remember
most about this movie was the depression and the sex scene. I remember the sex
scene because it was the most honest I’ve ever seen of a sex scene (not saying that I've seen many!). No
glorified music to heighten the emotions or anything -- just two individuals who
want each other hungrily. And the depression – so much depression in this
movie. I can’t say that I like it just because of all the depression. But I
recognize it as a nicely done movie.
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MOVIE: Eurotrip
DATE: February 28, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): *****
COMMENTS: One of my guy friends invited me to this movie. Not knowing anything about it, I agreed... and I greatly enjoyed it. There was lots of
nudity… and lots of comedy. It was light and fun. When it was over, my guy friend said sheepishly, “I’m so sorry! I didn’t know there
would be that much nudity.” I didn’t know why he was apologizing, because I
really enjoyed it. This would be a movie I wouldn’t mind showing my boyfriend,
because I found it so funny. My guy friend blocked out the scene with all the naked old
guys, haha.
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MOVIE: The Cooler
DATE: March 3, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): ***
COMMENTS: I really wanted to see The Cooler. William H. Macy kind of
resembles my favourite university English professor. The trailers drew
me in as well. The movie itself, was okay. I wouldn’t greatly recommend it, but I
thought it was sweet. And awkward. The opening was really cool. The ending was
really nice, too. Some stuff in between wasn’t that interesting.
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MOVIE: The Triplets of
Belleville
DATE: March 23, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): ***
COMMENTS: I remember the
interesting animation style. I don’t remember anything else about the movie,
though. It was unique, but I don’t remember if it was a good unique.
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MOVIE: Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind
DATE: March 30, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****
COMMENTS: This was a really
nice movie. It was unique, thought-provoking, and a little sad. However, when I
think about whether or not I’d want to watch it again, the answer always leans
towards a NO -- I get a little too sad thinking about it. I think Jim Carrey and the main girl did a really great job with
their roles.
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MOVIE: Kill Bill: Volume 2
DATE: May 18, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****
COMMENTS: The movie was really good. I
liked that there was much more story and character development in this one.
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MOVIE: Spring, Summer,
Autumn, Winter…. and Spring [SPOILER]
DATE: June 9, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): *
COMMENTS: No. This was a
forgettable movie. I didn’t like it at all. I remember only two scenes: 1. The
old man telling the main character that it is natural that if you see somebody
as desirable, that somebody else would also be able to see that same person as
desirable. 2. That the old man in the end didn’t believe in his own preachings.
The music was so grand for the second scene, as if it was a very major
revelation. I kind of saw it as forced. That it was telling me that I should
feel that way. So I didn’t.
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MOVIE: Jeux d’Enfants (Love
Me if You Dare)
DATE: June 16, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****
COMMENTS: Despite some
uncomfortable scenes and content, I really enjoyed this movie. It’s something
that I think back to every now and then. I don’t even know how I knew about
this movie, but I’m glad I did hear about it. There’s just something… innocent
about it.
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MOVIE: Spider-Man 2
DATE: June 30, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): ***
COMMENTS: I did not enjoy
this movie very much. I don’t remember why. Maybe because it was super-hyped or
maybe because Kirsten Dunst was in it and everybody kept gushing about her. I
don’t remember. I remember being very distracted, and enjoying the first movie more.
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MOVIE: Fahrenheit 9/11
DATE: July 27, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): *
COMMENTS: Ewwww…. I found it very boring.
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MOVIE: The Village
DATE: August 4, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): ***
COMMENTS: I think the story
was interesting. The acting was slightly awkward at times. The twist sucked, though.
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MOVIE: Resident Evil:
Apocalypse
DATE: September 10, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): ***
COMMENTS: I don’t remember
much. I remember it not being as good as the first movie. But I also felt sad
when one of the characters died.
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MOVIE: The Grudge
DATE: October 22, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****
COMMENTS: This remake was
really good. After watching the original (with no subtitles), I concluded that
the remake was much better. It really creeped me out.
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MOVIE: Saw
DATE: November 12, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): *****
COMMENTS: This was a really
good movie. I loved the idea, but was also freaked out by it. Because I knew
that I would qualify as one of Jigsaw’s victims. When I watched it, I didn’t value life as
much as I could have.
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MOVIE: Lemony Snicket’s A
Series of Unfortunate Events
DATE: December 28, 2004
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****
COMMENTS: I really enjoyed
this movie. I really liked that no matter what harsh situations they found
themselves in, that they wouldn’t give up and stuck together.
2005
MOVIE: The Incredibles
DATE: February 11, 2005
RATING (OUT OF 5): *****
COMMENTS: I really enjoyed
this movie. I thought it was very sweet and funny. And I loved the idea of a super-hero
family.
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MOVIE: Sin City [x2]
DATE: April 1, 2005
DATE: April 5, 2005
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****
COMMENTS: I really liked Sin
City. The black and white aspect was really cool, and I enjoyed the stories. It
was a visual feast.
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MOVIE: Kung Fu Hustle [SPOILER]
DATE: April 22, 2005
RATING (OUT OF 5): *****
COMMENTS: Somehow, I
remember watching this more than one time in theatres. But I only have one
movie stub. I deeply enjoyed this movie. The combination of elements worked so
perfectly. I loved the action, and the idea of regular old people as really
being kung fu masters. I love the humour as well. And the romance… soooooo
gooood. I can still watch it now and feel something for those tender moments.
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MOVIE: Hitchhiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy
DATE: April 29, 2005
RATING (OUT OF 5): **
COMMENTS: I think this movie
just fell flat. The romance was totally unnecessary and the movie wasn’t as
exploratory as I was hoping. The humour wasn’t really there either. It just
sucked.
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MOVIE: Batman Begins
DATE: June 15, 2005
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****
COMMENTS: This was nicely
fleshed out. I enjoyed it. Though I can’t compare it to the previous Batman
movies since I haven’t watched them.
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MOVIE: War of the Worlds [SPOILER]
DATE: June 29, 2006
RATING (OUT OF 5): **
COMMENTS: Ugh… This was just
as flat as Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I didn’t appreciate a
post-apocalyptic movie that just stopped being post-apocalyptic without any
kind of real fight.
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MOVIE: Fantastic Four
DATE: July 16, 2005
RATING (OUT OF 5): ***
COMMENTS: This was an okay
movie. Nothing to write home about. Decent. That’s all I can say about it.
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MOVIE: Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory [x2]
DATE: July 27, 2005
DATE: August 8, 2005
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****
COMMENTS: I really enjoyed
this. It was a decent remake, and I thought it was very
funny and honest. It was kind of neat that Tim Burton added the father issue to
Willy Wonka. The singing was blah, though. I could have done without the
munchkins singing.
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MOVIE: The Island
DATE: August 4, 2005
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****
COMMENTS: I really liked the
movie. The idea of it was pretty neat and I thought the main characters were
portrayed really well. The ending could have been brushed up a bit more, but
whatever.
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MOVIE: Doom
DATE: October 25, 2005
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****
COMMENTS: This was a really
good movie. I decided not to compare it against the video games, and that paid
off. If I did, I would have hated the movie. Instead, I really enjoyed it for
what it was. The main character was really cool.
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MOVIE: Saw II
DATE: October 28, 2005
RATING (OUT OF 5): *****
COMMENTS: I liked this
better than the first one. Quite horrific and scary. But I enjoyed the twist
and the story.
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MOVIE: Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire
DATE: December 20, 2005
RATING (OUT OF 5): ***
COMMENTS: By this point I think I’ve read the first 5
books. Having read the 4th book before watching the movie, I already
knew that there would be cut scenes. The movie felt really rushed. I did not
like it at all.
2006
DATE: March 24, 2006
RATING (OUT OF 5): ***
COMMENTS: It was scary and
cool. It was more scary when I found out that the villain was based off a real
historical murderer. I couldn’t sleep easy that night.
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MOVIE: Silent Hill
[SPOILER]
DATE: April 21, 2006
RATING (OUT OF 5): ***
COMMENTS: I was hoping for a
more faithful adaptation of the video game. I really liked Silent Hill and how
it addressed serious issues like domestic violence. The movie threw that issue
completely out the window and just made Alessa into some supreme being. I liked
seeing the walls melt. That was pretty much all that I found nice about it. It was interesting that
the movie had a female lead, but I was hoping to see the interactions between
Harry and Nurse Lisa.
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MOVIE: X-Men 3: The Last
Stand
[SPOILER]
DATE: May 28, 2006
RATING (OUT OF 5): *
COMMENTS: Yuck… it was
horrible. Why did everybody have to die?
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DATE: June 28, 2006
RATING (OUT OF 5): *****
COMMENTS: This movie was
awesome. Full of action, good story, great acting – I liked almost everything.
The music was really great, too. The only thing I did not like was one line –
the line about thousands of people being killed because they didn’t have blond
hair and blue eyes. I tend not to like lines that reference the real world. It
almost feels like it’s breaking that 4th wall.
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DATE: July 14, 2006
RATING (OUT OF 5): ***
COMMENTS: I wanted to watch this just because Joseph Gordon-Levitt was in it (I am somewhat a Joseph Gordon-Levitt fan). And I heard it was good. Well…
I thought it was quite brutal. I didn’t like watching Gordon-Levitt’s character
getting progressively more beat up and broken down as the movie went on. It
made me want to help him, but I knew that I couldn’t. I like the film noir
lingo used in the movie, even though I didn’t fully get it.
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MOVIE: Thank You for Smoking
DATE: July 16, 2006
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****
COMMENTS: This was a very
nice and witty movie. I really enjoyed it. Aaron Eckhart was fantastic, and
J.K. Simmons was cool, too. I liked the scripting and everything. Though after
watching it multiple times over the years, some of the humour has started to wear off.
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MOVIE: The Descent
[SPOILER]
DATE: August 9, 2006
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****
COMMENTS: This was really
good. And very scary. I couldn’t sleep well after watching that, even though I
was with my boyfriend at the time. I liked some of the psychological stuff. And I knew right
away that Juno was having an affair with the main girl’s husband – somehow, I
was just able to tell from how he treated Juno.
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DATE: September 11, 2006
RATING (OUT OF 5): ***
COMMENTS: It was suspenseful
and I thought the main villain was hot. The second half, though, was all
action, which I guess was okay.
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DATE: September 29, 2006
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****
COMMENTS: This was a really
high-energy, blood-pumping movie. Really fast-paced. I thought it was really
good. Kind of ridiculous at times, like the public sex scene. It was a fun
movie.
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MOVIE: Lady in the Water
[SPOILER]
DATE: August 24, 2006
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****
COMMENTS: I really liked
this movie a lot. I’d say it was very different from M. Night Shyamalan’s other
movies. I enjoyed that so many different characters from so many different
backgrounds could come together and play roles that would kind of unify them. I
thought it was really sweet, too, when the main character was trying to heal
Story.
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DATE: November 6, 2006
RATING (OUT OF 5): **
COMMENTS: This was horrible.
Too much focus on the gore. Not enough on the story. And it seemed like
Jigsaw’s victims were chosen with less conviction – they didn’t follow Jigsaw’s
original intention of getting the victims to appreciate life more. I read a
synopsis before watching the movie, knowing that I may get too many nightmares
if I went in not knowing anything.
