TheFog-2 Reviews

The Score (2001)

Poor Man's Mission Impossible

[7/10 · 19 July 2001]

We've seen all this before; nothin new here. Very good acting but a disappointment.

Although this has all the elements to make a good film it's all been done before and anyone who has been going to films the last 25 years knows the way you circumvent security cameras is you either give the camera a direct feed of what you want security guards to see or take a photograph and hang it in front of the camera with a clothes pin. You =do not= shut off the picture causing the security guards to come running.

The screenplay is the stuff of yesteryear.

The only reason to see this film is for the same reason Space Cowboys succeeded; seeing some favorite actors do what they do best.

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

A Cinematic Triumph

[9/10 · 19 July 2001]

I know I wanted to see this but I didn't know what I was in for and for about the first 10 minutes I didn't think I like it; then suddenly I was hooked.

This is absolutely one of the best musicals ever made. Outstanding costumes and sets. Great acting, singing, choreography.

No matter what this does at the box office it has to get nominations for cinematography and editing.

I've probably seen most musical ever made for the screen and probably another 50 on and off Broadway and this film stands on it's own and sets a benchmark for others to aspire.

This is undoubtedly one film I will never be able to forget.

A Knight's Tale (2001)

The Audience Applauded (at least 3 times)

[8/10 · 19 July 2001]

I was disappointed to hear this wasn't doing that well at the box office. Somebody has to be doing something right if during the movie everyone in the theater is chuckling, guffawing, and laughing out loud, erupting into applause at least three times.

The jousting scenes are probably as realistic as it gets. There isn't a minute during the film that you wish they'd get on with it or end it.

This is a plain old good film with wide audience appeal.

Shrek (2001)

Something for Everyone

[9/10 · 19 July 2001]

I don't know that I'd call it the greatest fairy tale ever told but it certainly is a great animation and entertaining for many ages.

I found =no= fault with the film and the animation alone is well worth the price of admission; absolutely outstanding and definitely something that will give most Disney animations a run for their money.

This is probably one of the last animations where the audience can tell the difference between real actors and those created on computer.

Save the Last Dance (2001)

Poorman's Flashdance

[5/10 · 13 January 2001]

This isn't a bad movie but I'd see it on TV. Some of the acting is pretty good but the story is a rehash. It's a lesser version of Flashdance, Saturday Night Fever, and Staying Alive set to Hip Hop music and the music is totally unmemorable as well as the dance scenes.

TheFog

Submerged (2000)

Spoiler-One of the worst movies made

[1/10 · 5 January 2001]

This film has to rank down there with Ed Wood films. A terrible script and bad, bad acting.

A machine gun fight in front of plate glass windows; minutes go by before anyone is hit and nobody has cover - not one window ever breaks. You'd think after a fire fight like that the big U-Haul truck might be riddled - not a scratch.

Do CIA agents and government contractors =shout= Top Secret information at a stand-up cocktail party with hundreds of people around.

There isn't one actor you care about; everyone is shallow and basically unlikable.

A Hawaii bound 747 flies out of Los Angeles and crashes twenty minutes later in the Pacific "...in 100 feet of water...". A short time passes when the stewardess announces to the five other passengers they only have two hours of air left; on a 747?

The next day the rescue teams show-up and amazingly the six passengers are still alive.

A movie that starts out mediocre and goes from bad to worse.

Contact (1997)

SPOILER - A Question of Faith

[8/10 · 21 April 2000]

I recently saw Contact for the second time; I got more from it the second time.

I think one of the real underlying themes was the questioning of a scientist's faith; a 'scientist' can only believe in that which can be measured, quantified, proven, etc.

Based on the fact that something like 95% of the Earth's population is involved in organized religion the selection council determined =this>scientist could not properly represent the people of Earth because she didn't believe in what couldn't be proven.

Upon her return the same people proclaim the scientist a fraud because =she>can't prove she had somehow taken an 18 hour journey during a split second in real time. They in essence had no =faith= in that which couldn't be scientifically proven.

I think it's that question which comes back to me every time I think about this film.

A line comes to mind, "Where you stand on a subject often depends on where you sit."