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Archive for February, 2005
Review: The Day After Tomorrow
As long as you can shut off that part of your brain that might actually try to think about what you’re watching at all, The Day After Tomorrow can be reasonably enjoyable at times. At other times it borders on financial-report dull. It’s hard to take any movie directed by Roland Emmerich too seriously–he’s in [...]
Review: Garden State
I’m not one who’s usually big on surprises. I tend to like to know what’s going to happen so I can be prepared when it does–I guess that’s why I have a bad habit of seeking out spoilers for the TV shows and movies and comics I enjoy. (OK, “seeking out” might not be quite [...]
Review: Elf
My opinion of Elf essentially boils down to the same one I had of Anchorman: if you like Will Ferrell, you’ll probably like this movie, and if you don’t, then why exactly are you watching it in the first place? The big difference in my opinion of the two movies? Elf (2003) Grade: B- Directed [...]
Review: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Most of the time, technical innovation comes at a price. Most of the time, the movies that show us things we’ve never seen before (or show us old things in new ways) become so concerned with the “hows” of what they’re trying to accomplish that they lose track of the “whats” or, even more frequently, [...]
Review: Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting falls squarely into the “nice movie” category: it has a nice story, some nice acting, some nice moments, some nice cinematography, though very little about the movie stands out as excellent. But I have to be honest and say that Tuck Everlasting fits into another category as well: movies that are far better [...]
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