You take the good…You take the bad…
January 23, 2001 | 12:35 amDamn! I love this time of the year! More meaty movies that you can shake a stick at. Here’s my ranking so far for the past couple months:
The Cream of the Crop
- Thirteen Days
- Finding Forrester
- Unbreakable
- Chocolat
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
I can’t recommend these movies highly enough. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon can be described in one word: Beautiful. It is a martial arts epic, but it is so much more than that. Two heartfelt love stories and powerful performances. I’ll never forger Michelle Yeoh’s face when…well you’ll just have to see. ^_^ It should be in your area now…run to see it!
Thirteen Days was simply shocking. I was stunned to find myself so tense and anxious while watching this movie…and I wasn’t the only one. How could a crowd who knew full well the result of the Cuban missile crisis be this tense? That’s the power of this movie. Brilliant performances all around…especially by the two Kennedy Bruthas. Where did they find these guys?…to look so much like the Kennedys and also be able to act that well. Sugoi! Best movie I’ve seen in a long time.
Will write about the great Finding Forrester later. It deserves special consideration. :)
Hideous, Repugnant Tripe
- Double Take
- Dungeons and Dragons
Double Take could have been so much more. Orlando Jones was da Bomb when he was at MadTV and Eddie Griffin’s stand-up shows are funny as hell. But when you put them in a movie with an extremely convoluted and stupid script and a WAY over the top performance by Eddie, you get two hours of boredom and irritation. Folks..all the funny parts of the movie are in the commercials…ALL of them! I will give props to Orlando’s ‘Schlitz Malt Liquor’ rant…I’ve been cracking up at that since I saw the first movie trailer. ^_^
