This is a funny movie with some smart dialog and a couple adults in adult situations for a change. Thoroughly enjoyable. Dryfus is in control and not doing his "cute" routine. Davis is believable and always nice to see an old vet like Fred Ward. Sometimes you just have to sit back and enjoy a movie and be entertained.In an era of movies pandering to functional illiterates with the attention span of a bi-polar humming bird on crank, it's enjoyable to see a movie with people actually speaking to each other in complete sentences. Or if it isn't your style, there is always the latest Ben Stiller movie. I understand there is a hum dinger staring a blind ferret.
Reviews
4 Reviews
Se7en
(1995)
Great Thriller
5 December 2004
Having attempted to write suspenseful, original and interesting
scripts, I have a great appreciation for the cleverness of the writing
and ploting in this thriller. So much is truly original and interesting
that I was transfixed watching it unfold. Three cheers for the
writer(s). Only thing that took me out of the film was the shift from what
appears to be New York City for most of the movie, to the power
grid scene, shot in territory I am intimately familiar with, Southern
California desert. Oh well. A small glitch in a wonderful thriller. Great writing, acting and
execution, If you will pardon the pun. JP
scripts, I have a great appreciation for the cleverness of the writing
and ploting in this thriller. So much is truly original and interesting
that I was transfixed watching it unfold. Three cheers for the
writer(s). Only thing that took me out of the film was the shift from what
appears to be New York City for most of the movie, to the power
grid scene, shot in territory I am intimately familiar with, Southern
California desert. Oh well. A small glitch in a wonderful thriller. Great writing, acting and
execution, If you will pardon the pun. JP
Secret Window
(2004)
Odds and Ends
4 December 2004
Couple of things. 1. I like Turturo but didn't buy him as the Mississippi hick. 2. Similarities to The Shining: Crazy writer in a remote forested
location has murderous designs on his wife, hears voices and
kills a black guy with an ax. Hmmm. 3. A setup without a payoff: The watch Depp lost on the Bronco's
gear shift disposing of the bodies, was a setup for linking him to
the bodies when they would be later dredged from the lake. Did
the book end Differently? Is it not a setup, but just looks like one? 4. While it appears to be Depp's real hair in the end of the movie.
The first 90% of the movie seems to be a bad, over the top wig. 5. Production flub. When he returns to the cabin and tosses the
black hat on the phone, there is a dent in the crown. When he tries
it on a second later , without smoothing out the crown, the dent in
the hat is missing. 6. This movie wouldn't have gotten made if Steven King's name
was not attached to it. 7. Yawn.
location has murderous designs on his wife, hears voices and
kills a black guy with an ax. Hmmm. 3. A setup without a payoff: The watch Depp lost on the Bronco's
gear shift disposing of the bodies, was a setup for linking him to
the bodies when they would be later dredged from the lake. Did
the book end Differently? Is it not a setup, but just looks like one? 4. While it appears to be Depp's real hair in the end of the movie.
The first 90% of the movie seems to be a bad, over the top wig. 5. Production flub. When he returns to the cabin and tosses the
black hat on the phone, there is a dent in the crown. When he tries
it on a second later , without smoothing out the crown, the dent in
the hat is missing. 6. This movie wouldn't have gotten made if Steven King's name
was not attached to it. 7. Yawn.
Signs
(2002)
He got how much money for writing this movie?
29 November 2004
Let me get this straight. 1.Intergallactic travelers who have mastered time and space need
to have some crops mowed down to find out where to land
because they can't figure out GPS? 2. Intergallactic travelers who have mastered time and space need
to poke you with long finger nails and some gas because they are
not bright enough to invent a weapon. How about stopping at the
hardware store and pick up a 12 gauge? 3. Super smart aliens needing a new home and pick the one
planet in the universe that has the most of they find deadly.-water?
4. They want to inhabit a world where at any time, death can rain
down on them in the form of -- well, rain? 5. The world can be saved by loading the local tavern trolls up with
beer and urinating on the antagonists? 6. Can I have my eight bucks back?
to have some crops mowed down to find out where to land
because they can't figure out GPS? 2. Intergallactic travelers who have mastered time and space need
to poke you with long finger nails and some gas because they are
not bright enough to invent a weapon. How about stopping at the
hardware store and pick up a 12 gauge? 3. Super smart aliens needing a new home and pick the one
planet in the universe that has the most of they find deadly.-water?
4. They want to inhabit a world where at any time, death can rain
down on them in the form of -- well, rain? 5. The world can be saved by loading the local tavern trolls up with
beer and urinating on the antagonists? 6. Can I have my eight bucks back?
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