In my wekend of dvd watching as something to do between taking pain killers and avoiding the mirror because the left side of my jaw is swollen like a melon, these are my pointless thoughts.
(the Rev) Vince Artifical Intelligence - I got this because of all the recent discussion on it and liked it much better than anyone else seemed to. I was surprized that Spielberg could be so faithful ro Stganley Kubrick, and it was a Kubrick film all the way; Given that, taking Kibrick's career artistic vision as the concept that I as the viewer was entering, I thought it was a super fine movie. The "Flesh Fair" scenes were a direct rip on Gladiator and so I enjoyed it. And Haley Joel Osment - what an outstanding actor. Life as a House - good flick, a bit predictable, but then so was I Am Sam which I liked so much. The young star Hayden Christensen who plays Anikin Skywalker in the new Star wars, that kid can act. I had seen an interview in whioch he said he was glad that Life casme out before Star Wars since he wanted America's first impression of Anikin Skywalker was to be in makeup, inhaling, hanging himself while masturbating, which is how we meet him in Life as a House. A good film to watch with someone you love, especially for this line of dialogue spoken by Kevin Kline: "There is no doubt in my mind, in all my anger and my ego, I was always faithful in my love for you. That I made you doubt it was the great mitsake of a life full of mistakes. The truth doesn;t set us free. I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand it and the only thing it does is remind us tyat love is not enough, not even close." Of course before the movie is over we discover that love is enough. Training Day: good suspense film, held by interest, some nice plot twists. Momento: incredible film, and while I thought I had figured out the big ending (which in this case is the beginning because the movie plays out backwards) it sure fooled me. This was a movie that I had to watch intently, just fascinayted by the sophiscation of the plot and script, and the very cool acting by Guy Pearce especisally but by everyone in the cast. One of the most intriguing films ever. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: as sophomoric as this movie is at times, one of the more amusing films that I have seen, very clever and funny a lot of times much more than I had suspected. This is the type of humor we are supposed to outgrow but it had me laughing but then again I buy Linkin park albums too so my maturity was long ago arrested. The fact that every time the movie is about to lapse into a predictable dumb movie it twists the joke enough to a new level was clever to me, and the rip offs of (or homages to) oter movies, especially Ben Aflleck and Matt Damon films, was funny. So was seeing Mark Hamill playing Cock-knocker and doing the light saber fight from the original Star Wars while combating Jay who is doing the Darth Maul duel light saber number from Phantom Menance.
