I am a huge movies fan. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I don’t get much free time to enjoy watching movies. But when I do, I try to share my thoughts about the movies that I’ve seen. Movie reviews, celebrity news, trailers of upcoming flicks, etc – are all in this category.
It has been a long time since I wanted to see “Cast Away“. Today I finally got my hands on that film and I couldn’t even wait until Olga will wake up. Watched it alone. I am glad to report that it wasn’t a disappointment.
IMDB rating: 7.3
My rating: 9.0
Celebrity highlights: great acting and production by Tom Hanks with directorship of Robert Zemeckis. Helen Hunt was involved in a couple of significant scenes.
Just watched “The Last Ride” on DVD. It’s a kind of dramatic action.
IMDB rating: 4.6 out of 10
My rating: 4 out of 10
Celebrity highlights: Dennis Hopper, Will Patton, and Fred Ward play three out of four main characters.
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This post will be the first movie review done in the different way. Since some people complained that I have spoilers and irrelevant stuff sometimes and it is difficult to separate these with one glance from the rest of the review, I decided that I will be splitting movie review posts into brief and full texts. Brief text will contain a link to appropriate IMDB page if any, IMDB rating at the moment of writing, my rating, and celebrity highlight, which is basically a list of well-known people associated with the film. The full text (“Read more” link) will contain the brief part as well as my thoughts, descriptions, spoilers, complains and anything else I might right about the film. This way it will also be possible to read the preferred version in RSS feed too.
Anyway, the good thing about immediate blogging (right after the event/happening) is that one doesn’t forget to write about what happened. Yesterday I watched “The Manchurian Candidate” and forgot to blog about it.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
My Rating: 5.0
Celebrity highlights: main parts played by Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, and Liev Schreiber with brief appearences of Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight
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I think that my non-American friends would be interested to know that the famous saga of Charlie’s angles (“Charlie’s Angels” and “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle“) weren’t just born out of thin air. It turns out that there were TV series with the same name back in 1976 (until 1981). IMDB pages you might want to check out are here and here.
Among other points of interests I find this movie connections list the most impressive.
Anyone has a DVD to fill in my gaps?
Watched “Radio” on DVD. At first I was a bit scared that it will be yet another movie about American football, but luckily it wasn’t. American football was just a theme for the movie. It could have been anything at all.
This film is an excellent drama. Excellent is very easy to measure in my case. If I cry like a baby, it is surely excellent. The story was good, but mostly it was due to the Cuba Gooding Jr. performance. I have already said several times that he is a very talanted actor, and I can repeat that any time. This guy is amazing. Others, of course, acted very good too in this film, but Cuba was unmatchable.
7 out of 10.