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08.12.07why “friday night lights” is the best sports movie everI like all kinds of movies. My range goes from sci-fi to romantic comedy to horror to kid's movies. I just really like movies. There is one genre that I generally hate: the sports movie. They just seem so tired and cliched. Even when the movie is a bit unconventional, it seems to only be a reaction to the convention. Lame. Plus, I don't really like sports so, you know, there's that, too. But I loved Friday Night Lights. I'm not doing a formal review because, well, I saw it on the FX Network on ...
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07.04.07movie review: transformersI like listening to people as they walk out of movie theaters. When exited the theater after watching Transformers, I heard one nerd tell his nerd friend, "Well, it wasn't what I had hoped for." I also heard complaints about the product placement in the movie (all the vehicles were GM). Let me first address these two concerns. To the nerd whose expectations of a faithful retelling on the 80's cartoon, um... they did the best possible job considering the source material. I mean, transformers are alien robots who transform into cars. This is the best it gets. To those ...
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12.28.06movie review: pizzaI want to start this review by saying that I respect writer/director Mark Christopher for making Pizza. A lot of work, a lot of work, goes into making a feature film especially on a low budget. You have to really believe in the project to deal with all the setbacks (and there will be many). I could tell as I watched the movie that Mr. Christopher is in love with his characters and that he really loved in this movie. I just didn't like it. Pizza stars unknown Kyle Sparks as Cara Ethyl an overweight teenager who had conversations ...
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11.11.06movie review: stranger than fictionThis is not a "Will Ferrell" movie. You know what I am talking about. If you are looking for a movie where Will Ferrell does pretty much anything he normally does (we're not counting Melinda and Melinda here), then this one is not for you. If you are looking for just a plain good movie with some laughs, then Stranger Than Fiction will probably work perfectly. Will Ferrell plays Harold Crick, a IRS agent whose life is ruled by numbers. He counts the number brush strokes with an OCD- like obsession. At work, people shoot out large multiplication problems to him ...
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11.05.06movie review: boratWow. This movie isn't for the faint of heart or for the easily (and not so easily) offended. Borat is the movie based on the same-named character created by Sacha Baron Cohen for his HBO news parody, Da Ali G Show. Borat is a reporter for the state-run television network in Kazakhstan and is send by his government to the United States to make a documentary on...american life (see, that's the name of my blog), which explains the movie's lengthy alternate title, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. A mixture of scripted and holy-crap-there-is-no-way-unscripted ...