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Cupid (2003)
entertaining
My wife and I liked this show. I admit I don't understand why someone especially a woman would attempt to find a husband on a show like this in front of millions of people other than money. She was beautiful and it made me laugh. It was ridiculous and trivialized marriage but it was something light and funny to watch after working in a jail for 12 hours. We watched every episode. I am surprised that it didn't have any more seasons. It was much better than the incredibly annoying Big Brother which has lasted nine years. All that show did was put annoying and irritating people in the same house and told them to get along. We would watch Cupid if it came on again.
Revolution (1985)
Very good movie
I saw this movie for the first time 1996 and I liked it a lot. It wasn't perfect but why expect perfection in any movie. So what if the accents of Pacino and Sutherland weren't good (I don't remember them being bad). I thought the visual effects of the city looked great. It looked cold and dreary; just how I always thought would be like. It showed how some of the colonialists were loyal to England which is accurate, and the battle scenes looked realistic to me. It showed how ill equipped and trained the Americans were compared to the British, and how easily the Americans retreated at the beginning of the war. I liked the movie.
Breach (2007)
great movie
Chris Cooper has become a great actor. I loved his role in the Bourne Identity. He plays the CIA role perfectly and I think he deserves an award for this movie. It was not a fast moving movie. It just showed how a CIA agent couldn't stop spying on his own country despite the guilt. It showed his guilt by going to church everyday. It showed his paranoia by snapping at his assistant and shooting at him in the woods to test his loyalty. The movie did a good job at showing how his somewhat introverted personality like when he was getting his picture taken. It was like it was his drug and he was addicted. It was only 110 minutes. I wish it was longer.
Apocalypto (2006)
great movie
This movie was great at showing the brutality of Indian culture. It really gets you pulling for the Indian's survival and rescue of his wife and son. It got a little monotonous toward the middle of the movie when they were in the mayan city and they showed the human sacrifices. It showed them chopping off about five peoples heads off and it just seemed like they stressed this too much. I was thinking OK we know that you sacrifice humans and chop their heads off and then throw it down the long staircase so lets get moving to the next part. The animal traps they set up are completely cool and he uses them to his advantage after his escape. This movie ranks up with Braveheart.
Terminal Velocity (1994)
What's the fuss
I don't understand certain people's hatred for this movie. If you are expecting 100% reality then you will be disappointed. Why would someone expect 100% reality from anything that comes from Hollywood? I don't, and that is why I liked this movie. I am a cop, and I watch CSI. The only reason I watch CSI is because they have very unique ways of people dying. Other than that it is a dumb unrealistic show just from the very basic points of it. Terminal Velocity has good action sequences. My favorite scene is where he and Natasha are in the super sonic land rocket and use it to get away from the bad guys. Completely unrealistic? Of course, but it was exciting. It wasn't great, but it was just a basically entertaining movie. My Point here is don't expect too much from Hollywood.
The Ring (2002)
Best horror movie
I thought this movie was the scariest horror movie I have ever seen. From the teen's dead face in the closet at the beginning to the girl crawling out of the well and then out of the t.v. at the end and everything in between made this movie great. I read the comment in the beginning and it said that it was just silly. All horror is silly because it is not based on reality, but what makes a movie horrifying is our imagination. You have to have imagination for most everything that comes out of Hollywood especially horror films. I am not known to be emotional, but this movie actually made me move farther back in my seat when Samara crawled out of the well. The screaming teenagers that were probably underage helped with the effect. The reason I didn't give it a 10 was because it was a little slow at times. I was very surprised that the Ring 2 was just as good.
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Great movie
This movie really did an excellent job of displaying the struggle of war on the Russian front. War is hell, and it was worse on the Russian front. Stalingrad is regarded as the most brutal battle of World War 2 and I believe it. I believe this movie is effective in proving it. Ed Harris did a great job of playing his role of the German sniper, Major Koenig. I think they could have found someone else to play the role of the Russian sniper, Vassily Zaitsev, but he did fine. I just think someone with a stronger personality like Matt Damon would have fit the role better. You can't find anybody better than Bob Hoskins to fit the role of Nikita Kruschev. He was perfect. The artwork was excellent. This movie showed the brutality of both sides, but I am sure it could have gone farther which I am glad it didn't. There is only a certain amount of brutality necessary to get the point across. It was not 100% accuraate which is why the movie is basically banned in Volgagrad, but why does anybody expect 100% from Hollywood. It is just a great movie
The New World (2005)
very good movie
This movie was different than what I thought. There was a lot more romance than what I expected. I expected for it to be mainly about the struggles and politics between the settlers and Indians with the romance between John Smith and Pocahontas as a supporting plot. It started out that way but then the romance part basically took over.
It seemed slow moving, but it was a wonderfully acted movie which is the reason why I gave it an eight out of ten score. The ending was rather abrupt and really needs to be redone, but I enjoyed it. The acting that really locked me in and grabbed my attention was the acting on the part of the indians - especially Pocohantis. She and the other indians really captured the essence of the native American Indians. Their emotions, form of humor, entertainment, politics, and temperament was very well portrayed by the cast - especially Pocohantis. The biography on her shows she is only fifteen. If this is accurate then she has a very bright future ahead of her. I will be disappointed if she doesn't win an award. Best acting performance I have seen since Denzel Washington in Training Day. I know they are two completely different roles, but Washington did a great job of portraying a corrupt cop just the same was as Kilcher portrayed Pocohantis.