| Jun. 1st, 2004 @ 03:12 pm Movie Reviews |
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Current Music: "Ocean Avenue" ~Yellowcard
Last Thursday night I finally saw Far From Heaven which I've owned since the beginning of May. It is an original movie paying its respects to the great classic, All That Heaven Allows with enough differences in the story so that it is isn't a remake. Dennis Haysbert (President Palmer on FOX's 24) plays a much better other man and Dennis Quaid gives a great performance. But Julianna Moore steals the movie. The lighting mimics that in All That Heaven Allows and other subtle details, such as the characters' costumes and the settings pay resepcts to the classic. Overall A.
Thursday night I saw Soul Plane. I am not going to waste space writing about it. F.
Last night I saw The Day After Tomorrow which was a conventional disaster movie, predictable and cheesy. The special effects, for the most part, were actually better than I thought, I especially liked the tornadoes ripping up L.A.. The movie was better than I thought it would be, but still nothing to brag about. Jake Gyllenhaal isn't believable as a 17 year-old, but his character could have been annoying if it were played by someone else. Dennis Quaid has an old school Harrison Ford thing going on, which actually helps his character. The thing that disappointed me the most about the movie was how all the male characters were the heroes while the females were reduced to cheering them on or crying from the disaster. It's only worth seeing to see the special effects on the big screen with the dolby sound, other than that you're not missing much. C+. |
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