You go to the movies. You have feelings about what you see. So isn't it about time your thoughts on the latest flicks enter the world-wide blogosphere?
Send me your reviews or thoughts (relatively brief and profanity free, please) as a comment to this blog and I might just post them for your friends, relatives and soul mates to see.
Woody Harrelson breaks out the banjo in "Zombieland." (Columbia Pictures)
I just saw "Zombieland" today and it was a real trip!
Bill Murray's house was showcased and was fabulous. It is what you would expect a movie star to live in.
Woody Harrelson really stole the show with his dry humor and ability to eliminate those pesky zombies. There is blood and gore in this flick but there are also some funny lines too.
And there is one goof up I noticed. Woody and his friends are on a freeway in Los Angeles driving to an amusement park. Wrecked cars are all over the place (as they have been all through the movie). However,for a few seconds,I saw a street several blocks from the freeway that had all the cars properly parked along the curb and not a zombie in sight.
Oh, yeah! I liked this movie! I'll give it three stars! What do you think?
Hello Larry.
("District 9") was a good flick. Not for everyone's tastes, but solid filmmaking was definitely in full display.
I did think the movie went into too many directions (a mocumentary, horror, and action film rolled into one), but the special-effects are dazzling, the acting solid and the action spectacular.
In (other) words, this was the best summer movie since "Star Trek". Forget "Transformers" and "Terminator", this was the triple A sci-fi action flick of the season.
Larry your review of Public Enemies was spot on. Once again you say it like it is.
Thanks for your great work!
Hey Larry. I saw the pic two days ago. It wasn't bad, but for some reason I enjoyed "Da Vinci" more. Still, A & D was a better pic overall. It's filled with great atmosphere and the storyline (while silly) involves the audience.
Alex O.
Any movie with Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber starts out ahead of the game in my book. :-) But I digress.
Thought "Wolverine" was a terrific popcorn flick....2 1/2 jalapenos just about right. Strong acting from Jackman and Schreiber, and a passable script. Some of the cinematography was quite beautiful, particularly in the Canadian Rockies (or whatever passed for them). Some of the CGI looked a little fuzzy to me, though. A bit of language and body count ("comic"-style body count, but body count nonetheless) were a little intense for some of the ages I saw in our screening. Wished there was more of Gambit, one of my favorite X-Men. And there's a short but fun surprise for poker fans....watch closely!
A humble correction....Three Mile Island is in Pennsylvania, not New York.
Looking forward to your jalapeno review of Star Trek next week.
Hi Larry,
We are so glad to find you!! When we noticed that you were not doing the reviews in the paper we became concerned and called them. They told us that you were no longer working there and with a quick evaluation we said to cancel our subscription! You are a wonderful critic and we appreciate your candor and unbiased reviews! Thank God we got our jalapenos back!!
We wish you the best of luck in this new venture!
Ric and Kathie Lingafelter (Always home at the "Bijou")
As a writer and an aficionado of superior screenplays (“Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” and the late, lamented “Battlestar” being the two finest recent TV examples), two contrivances drive me nutz:
1) Snipping the final scene from, well, the end and pasting it onto the beginning. The writer can’t figure out how to catch our attention from the get-go, so he starts out with the big bang (quite literally in “Michael Clayton”).
2) Timeline-hopping (most of the time).
Writer/director Tony Gilroy has pushed those both buttons in his two most recent films. I enjoyed “Duplicity,” but the “keep you guessing” part shouldn’t result from constantly having to reacquaint the viewer with where he sits on the timeline.
laurabray (on Twitter)
(Comment on trailers: *my* but Christian Bale has been a busy boy lately, hasn’t he?)
Doug Bruner: 'Zombieland' a real trip
Alex O.: 'District 9' a 'triple A sci-fi action flick'
Les Thomsen on 'Public Enemies'
Laura Bray: 'Wolverine' a top popcorn flick
With friends like these ... Ric and Kathie
Laura Bray on screenplays, timelines
So you want to be a movie critic?
Hey Larry, I went to a midnight showing of the movie you refuse to name. Bottomline: unless you're a 9 year old boy who plays with action figures, you're most likely going to be disappointed. I tried to enjoy it as being dumb summer fun, but felt that I was just watching a live-action cartoon made for pre-teens. I dare say that even "Transformers 2" was slightly better! 1.2 stars out of 4.
P.S. I knew Stephen Sommers would let fans down, but I had no idea that he would be making the film for kids. I thought it would've been a litte more "movie-like".
Alex Ozuna