tháng 4 2010 ~ The Larsen Film Review

Our Hospitality (1923)

Seems like I've watched a whole lot of Buster Keaton films in the last few months. It is nice to watch one long enough to develop a storyline, even if it is just average overall.This was is about a family feud that Keaton grows up unaware of. Upon returning to the town he grew...

Robert De Niro stars in this film as a recently widowed man, who is retired, and bored out of his mind. There are elements of a dark comedy but this is primarily a [hollow] drama. He has four children who he invites home for a weekend. They all end up canceling on him so he...

It takes a very special movie to get a 1/10. One so bad that you question, "Who screwed this thing up?" I start to ask did the director do a bad job with a decent script? Did Amy Adams think the script was good? Was it the writers fault? Was it bad from the start and the producer...

The 1992 version of this film got one of my rare 10/10 ratings, so I had some mildly high expectations for this film. Maybe having expectation was the mistake here.The story is that two sisters are trying to catch up to their father, a British officer, and are being perused...

This is the first film ever produced by an African American. Oscar Micheaux's film Within Our Gates is a film about an African American woman who is set up in a compromising situation and out of embarrassment heads south to start a school for African American kids.Running into...

Based on the chilling book "In Cold Blood" written by Truman Capote, this chilling film told from the killers point of view is a classic. So popular in fact that Capote (2005) was a movie all about Mr. Capote's life and interviews with the killers before their execution.The...

A film starring Elizabeth Taylor when she was just 12 years old. Based in England this film is about a girl who has a love for horses and through chance wins a horse who has the potential of winning the Grand National. Mickey Rooney plays a former jockey who helps her train...

Everyone should be familiar with Christopher Reeve's as the original Superman. This 3rd of 4 Superman films stars Robert Vaughn as the bad guy, and poor idiot savant Richard Pryor as the computer programmer conned into becoming a bad guy.A film that is rated way to low on...

This is a Hong Kong action film directed by John Woo and starring Yun-Fat Chow. This was one of Woo's last films before making the move to Hollywood, the production quality clearly shows this. The movie has just awful production quality, it looks incredibly old and like it...

Maybe I'm going thought a negative voting phase, but it sure seems like I've been voting pretty harshly lately. That or I'm just getting tired of Hayao Miyazaki's animated films, because I just didn't think this one warranted better than a 7/10. It is actually one of the most...

Nominated for both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award [each in the Foreign Film Category], this is the best film I have seen in several months. Typically the Oscar is won before anyone can actually watch all of the nominations, which I find very frustrating. This category is...

Part 4 of the Film Registry takes us into some much longer films. I've decided that one hour is the cusp between getting an individual post and getting lumped into a grouping like this. Sorted by the ranking I gave it, and with longer comments on some since they had more content.Master...

There really isn't a whole lot to say about this film. Tony Jaa made the film Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior back in 2003, one that I gave 8/10. He then made The Protector: Tom yum goong in 2005, another 8/10. The original Ong Bak is about a fighter that unleashes an ancient fighting...

I don't know why I make new lists to try and watch when I still have ones that I haven't finished yet. A couple weeks ago I was reading about the Saturn Awards, which is basically a minor Oscar award for categories like Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. The Academy of Science...

This film has a double title and is a little confusing. It was funded by an American company, filmed in Australia, based on an Australian book, and Directed by an Australian. Since it was funded by an American Company it qualifies for the American Film Institute [why Spaghetti...

Easily the worst film I have seen in a while. A bad film that has good reviews, a good imdb rating, and a decent star always just baffles me.Tim Robbins plays a Hollywood Producer in the middle of a murder scandal which resembles the styling of some classic Film Noir pictures....

Winner of the ESPY Award for Best Sports Film, I watched this movie to finish the list of ESPY Winners. Ironic that the other ESPY winner I just watched was also starring Dennis Quaid. This sports film is about the first African American Heisman Trophy winner, a football player...

Wow, what an emotional film. An all-star 80's cast with Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels [Dumb & Dumber], and John Lithgow ["3rd Rock from the Sun"]. This film is a mother/daughter film, following the life of the daughter...

A 60 year old western film about a cattle drive starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. Listed by the American Film Institute as a top 10 western of all time. On the imdb top 250 until 2004, in the 1001 movies to see before you die, in the 501 Must-See movies, on the...

Paul Newman plays Frank, an alcoholic washed up lawyer who is handed a simple case were all sides want to settle. His friend [played by Jack Warden] understands the difficulties that Frank has gone though in his life but is ready to give up on him. Frank is moved by the case...

I fully expected to see this film get an average below 4 on imdb. To my surprise it is sitting at 6.4/10 right now. So a little history first, Sacha Baron Cohen had a tv series in 2000 on HBO called "Da Ali G Show". On the Ali G show he used 3 persona's: Bruno, Borat, and...

I was not aware of the production date when I first watched this silent film. Now seeing that it was made in 1912 surprises me even more. It was a fantastic film about the life of Jesus. I found it very interesting that they stopped at the cross and left out the resurrection....

This epic film very well could have been titled "The Life of Moses." A four hour epic film starring Charlton Heston [as Moses] and Yul Brynner [as King Rameses] and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. You have probably heard of DeMille, the Academy Awards has a lifetime achievement...

Does anyone else think that Dennis Quaid is a B grade Harrison Ford? I get the two confused all the time. Quaid seems to favor kids movies though, and this one is just that.A film about a guy that missed his chance at the majors and ends up a high school baseball coach in...

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Our Hospitality (1923)

Everybody's Fine (2009)

Leap Year (2010)

The Last of the Mohicans (1920)

Within Our Gates (1920)

In Cold Blood (1967)

National Velvet (1944)

Superman III (1983)

The Killer: Dip huet seung hung (1989)

Castle in the Sky: Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986)

A Prophet: Un prophète (2009)

Library of Congress: National Film Registry (4)

Ong Bak 2 (2008)

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

A Cry In The Dark: Evil Angels (1988)

The Player (1992)

The Express (2008)

Terms of Endearment (1983)

Red River (1948)

The Verdict (1982)

Brüno (2009)

From the Manger to the Cross (1912)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

The Rookie (2002)

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