tháng 5 2010 ~ The Larsen Film Review

Extraordinary Measures (2010)

One of my favorite films early into this year. I expected this to be a cheap Harrison Ford action film, guess I forgot to read the synopsis. Ok, so Brendan Fraser does not have the best track record, and Ford is not always the best in dramatic roles.This film is about a family...

This is an old Swedish silent film telling the fable of the grim reaper's assistant and how he earns his job. The story goes that the last person to die before right before new years eve has the year long task of driving the reaper of soul's carriage.A just makes a day seem...

The first movie starring Mel Gibson in 6 years. Considered by some to be a sequel to 1999's Payback because he just goes on a rampage taking out the bad guys.Gibson plays a homicide detective that goes after the killers responsible for his daughters death. Action packed, unrealistic...

The 10th and final Best Picture nominee for me. This has been low on my priority list because I didn't think I would like it. Well I didn't...A story about a naive young girl (Carey Mulligan) who decides that skipping school and running off with a man easily 10 years older...

A fantastic movie about a middle aged man named Marty (Ernest Borgnine), who works in a butcher's shop and is constantly hounded by all the women that come in. They are all asking "Why aren't you married?," questioning why all of his brothers and sisters are, yet he still lives...

Honestly the title of this film really threw me off. Not sure how to put this in words, but I really had it in my head this this was going to be a gory war film. It is actually heroic story about a man's struggle to escape a brutal dictator.Much like Full Metal Jacket, this...

Actually considered a musical this is a very fun movie, and probably the best film created from a Saturday Night Live skit. Starring the late John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, in cool guy roles but still incredibly dorky... which is why this movie is so funny. With Carrie Fisher...

Another Sergei M. Eisenstein film about Russian revolution. After watching the depressing Stachka just before this I was sure there would not be a happy ending.The film drug on. It was over 100 minutes, which is painful for a silent film if the subject matter is not complex...

The first thing you have to realize is that this film is meant to be a sequel to the original Alice in Wonderland story. It starts treating the first film as a reoccurring dream that Alice had and then flashes forward to where Alice is about 19 years old.As you should expect...

Probably the best silent film that I have seen in some time. If you don't watch silent films then you might not realize that the vast majority of them are pretty depressing and are not shy to take on difficult subject matter.This film is about "Making it in the crowd." A young...

I don't do good with Shakespeare. Laurence Olivier (Rebecca) directed, produced, and starred in this film which starts on the stage at the Globe Theater in 1600 England and transforms into a live action film, sumarizing back on the stage for the conclusion.I just have a lot...

One of the last D.W. Griffith films on my list to watch... thank god. I don't like Griffith and I especially don't like his muse: Lillian Gish [the Smashing Pumpkins named their first album "Gish" after her... a little trivia for you]. Gish has this puckered lip look like...

This film was highly regarded as the action movie that everyone missed. It is one of those undercover FBI agent films, where the agent is so deep undercover that the FBI themselves think he is a bad guy. Starring Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda) as the US citizen and devout Muslim...

Sergei M. Eisenstein, director of Battleship Potemkin is easily one of the most famous directors from the early part of the 20th Century. His films of the Russian revolution have some of the most powerful images and scenes of the silent era. If you are familiar with the Odessa...

I found it very hard not to confuse this film with Body of Lies. Russell Crowe starred in both films within the span of a year with an FBI theme and I was very confused which one I still needed to see.This film has Crowe in the role of a newspaper reporter alongside Rachel...

I'm at a loss for words on what to say about this strange film. Are you allowed to say it sucked when the star died during filming? This fantasy film starring Christopher Plummer and Heath Ledger came to a crashing halt last you when Ledger was found dead in his apartment....

I'm sorry to say that this is another John Wayne film that I simply didn't enjoy. Paired up again with director Howard Hawks [since recently watching Red River], this is another slow unrealistic western.I'm not a huge fan of the genre and it is because of films like this one....

Mike Judge creator of tv shows "Beavis and Butt-Head" and "King of the Hill"; as well as films Office Space and Idiocracy created this film as a flip on Office Space. Office Space is a film about an employee as a company with ridiculous management, and this film follows...

After watching a string of bad [or just average] films I sat down to watch a couple of my favorite actors: Edward Norton and Colin Farrell in a film I hoped would be really really good. Both actors have been a part of some of my favorite films, yet both have made some pretty...

If anything, this film is a precursor to Frankenstein (1931). A Golem is an animated being made from inanimate matter, and activated by a Rabbi. This silent German film was very difficult to watch, the video quality took away greatly from the not very exciting storyline.A German...

There really aren't that many types of silent films that have withstood the test of time. Slapstick comedies, D.W. Griffith Epic films, then stock footage that I have been wading through. Many of the films that are on the National Film Registry are also artistic studies, follow...

It was a strange year for extremes, Jeff Bridges won the Oscar for Crazy Heart, but was also in The Men Who Stare at Goats. Meryl Streep had numerous nominations for Julie & Julia, but was also in It's Complicated. Sandra Bullock was in The Blind Side & The Proposal,...

There is a lot of hate out there for Hugh Grant, I for one strongly dislike him, and as a critic I have to look past this to try and rate the film as if I didn't hold anything against the guy. I have to do the same thing for Woody Allen films...Just like a Tyler Perry film...

Starring Christian Bale (Batman) and Sam Worthington (Avatar) this science fiction film is part 4 in the Terminator series where we follow John Conner after the machines have attacked and all but taken over the world. Worthington plays a man who submitted his body for research...

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Extraordinary Measures (2010)

The Phantom Carriage (1921)

Edge of Darkness (2010)

An Education (2009)

Marty (1955)

The Killing Fields (1984)

The Blues Brothers (1980)

Oktyabr (1928)

Alice In Wonderland (2010)

The Crowd (1928)

Henry V (1944)

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)

Traitor (2008)

Strike: Stachka (1925)

State of Play (2009)

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

Rio Bravo (1959)

Extract (2009)

Pride and Glory (2008)

The Golem: Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920)

The Docks of New York (1928)

All About Steve (2009)

Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)

Terminator Salvation (2009)

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