The Day the Earth Stood Still

Awful. I don't usually like Connelly very much, but I liked her in this. I can't remember why I don't like her though. The only thing that comes to mind is that awful film with Ruffalo, Phoenix and her, and then I vaguely remember why. Why I thought this was awful was for two main reasons. Firstly: What is it with human beings that ET either have to take on the human form because they would scare us if we saw them in the true form or that they look like they came from Earth because they possess traits that exist on Earth like arms and legs or in this case looked like insects that exist on Earth. The human mind is incapablee of creating something that doesn't look like its from this world or this galaxy. Considering how imaginitive the human mind is, this happens to be one of those limits which drives me crazy when it comes to seeing it in movies. I don't read this stuff... but if I did, this would bother me in books too. Secondly: This is one of those movies that supposed to show how retched human beings really are and that we need a second party to come in and save the beauty of the world that we're destroying. The fact that we think we own Earth, but in actuality we don't. I'm not going to even go there in a review, though I really could. Apparently our self-sacrifice for our loved ones is enough to save humans for. Sadly not all humans beings have the capacity or the ability to even want to self-sacrifice themselves for their own family. For this film to take any effect on making humans feel the need to be better... which trust me... is impossible... they had to really go all out by showing everything. They didn't. Because they either didn't want to show just how retched we are, or they don't think we're that retched. Reeves' character had more hope in humanity than I do. Which is why I didn't like the film. It was unrealistic in too many ways. Even the human part was unrealistic.

Traitor

This was a very slow paced political/philosophical/theological film. I watched this with my parents, both of which fell asleep. I on the other hand loved it. I wish I would have seen it sooner than waiting for it on DVD. I really liked Don Cheadle's character. He's what I think of when I think of how religious people should be. The sad thing is, he's unusual, because many people do not act this way when it comes to religion. People are either extemists or what Kierkegaard calls Sunday... somethings. I'm sure you could figure out what I mean. Don Cheadle was right in the middle. Pearce's character could have been played by anyone. I was surprised to see Jeff Daniels in this. He hasn't dine much, especially political films. It was nice to see this perspective being pursued from a Muslim point of view. Body of Lies had the same sort of idea, except that DiCaprio was born most likely Judeo-Christian which sets the tone a little differently, than being born into the religion. If it wouldn't have been Don Cheadle, then this film probably wouldn't have been good. Cheadle made the movie good, otherwise it wouldn't have been good.

The Women

This felt like it was a remake of a 1939 film. The dialogue and the reactions felt like it was a 1939 film. I do have to say though... the fact that everyone was a woman including extras drove me crazy. I think there was a male waiter... maybe. I understood the concept, but it was not reflecting reality so well. Maybe in 1939 this was empowering, but now it just seems patronizing and overly feminisitic. It was still hard to relate to these women because they had money, success and a reputation. I was wary about seeing Jada Pinkett-Smith has a lesbian, but she was AWESOME. She was probably the best character in the film. It was about friendship, love, power and self-endurance. It was always the older women who were giving advice. There were lots of things I liked about it, but I just didn't care for it. It was just too women-lib for the time or just showing women-lib where we have already have it. It would be interesting to see the exact opposite of this film, except men acting like women. Maybe...

Seven Pounds

I enjoyed this film. I'm going to try not to talk about the plot too much since I went into this not knowing what it was about because I liked the mystery that the trailer left. I avoided imdb-ing this or reading any reviews which can be hard sometimes since I like to do both. Smith's character was painfully trying to get through life. I liked his relationship with Dawson. I thought they had great chemistry. They played off each other's emotions well. Seeing two lonely people reach out to each other was interesting. This was a heartbreaking film, but I liked it regradless of it being a Will Smith movie, which can put on a tone to it before even watching it. Its a movie you should try to give a chance... even if you just rent it and not tell anyone about it.

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

This looked like a Canadian film with absolutely no budget... which the film coincidently was about. I thought it was graphic in some parts. I should hope this was R or 18A in the theatres. There were elements I liked other than the film being funny. I liked their first idea better than their coffee shop porn. The high school reunion with Justin Long was hilarious. It was really good acting for a comedy. It would be nice if Rogen would stop acting like a pot head loser in all his films. He could do other comedies that don't have that entity in it, except for the 2 computer generated family films he's done the voices for. It was funny though. It had new jokes which is always nice to see since there are so many comedies.

The X-Files: I Want To Believe

I used to watch the show when I was a kid and it always scared me. So I guess I had a child's perspective when watching this because I was expecting to be scared, but I never was. I liked the mystery ending. It was certainly not what I thought. The priest's bit has still left me wondering if it was coincidence or if it on purpose that he had his visions. Its one of those movies you watch because you want to watch something new and it just happens to be lying around and its entertaining enough that you can sit through the whole thing. I wouldn't say that I would have gone out of my way to rent, buy or go see this if it didn't happen to be in my house.

Australia

This was great. It had magic, romance, fighting, adventure... I didn't realize that the movie was so long because it was so entertaining. The film had two parts. It almost felt like there should have been an intermission like they did in the past like Gone With the Wind and so many others. The first part was about the Outback and the second part was about the War. Its too bad that this movie was placed in the era it was. It seems that contemporary times cannot be portrayed like this unless its an epic and its historical. The little biy had a great voice, both singing and how he spoke English. This was a beautiful film.

Four Christmases

I liked this movie. I wasn't my favourite Christmas movie or my favourite comedy either. Because of a course I took I really liked the evangelist scene because it reminded me of a joke. I also liked that because both of them had divorced parents, they didn't want to get married because they thought they would love each other less. It was cute. Strange how Vince Vaughn's last film was a Christmas movie too.