tháng 6 2010 ~ The Larsen Film Review

Fanny and Alexander (1982)

This film has been giving me writers block for about a week. It is hard to form an opinion on a film where I fail to understand so much. This is Ingmar Bergman's last feature length film and it was quite a challenge to get through.The first is over 3 hours long and the first...

The most fun I get out of these just HORRIBLE action films is that you can go onto the imdb message boards and read the threads like "What we learned from this movie." Then sarcastically list all of the plot holes, discontinuities, and general lack of quality script.The selling...

Sandy Powell is a bitch. The costume designer who has 3 wins and 8 total Oscar nominations in the category made me not want to like this film. Her smug acceptance speech at this years Oscars pissed me off. In the end I had to watch this winner, and I got exactly what I expected:...

It can be hard for me to find the time and desire to watch a film like this. If an animated film does not get an oscar nomination or make it on some sort of watch list then it at least needs some good marketing or star for me to want to see it.The title character's voice is...

Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston in the film Entertainment Weekly is dubbing Butler's Razzie contender. Although I agree that Butler is on track to win the award for worse performance of the year, I don't understand the hate for this film.If you want to compare this is a...

For whatever reason my movie lists have led to me watching three Ingmar Bergman lately. This one being the first of those, and probably the best of them.The movie is about an actress who has a nervous breakdown and makes the conscious decision to never speak again. She is committed...

A pretty fitting movie for me right now. Personally I'm gearing up to run a marathon at the end of the year, so watching a film about a marathon runner [and college student] starring Dustin Hoffman sounded pretty good.Watched as part of the AFI 100 Thrills list, I'm finding...

The last Oscar Best Picture winner of the last 50 years left for me to watch; features Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in an epic based on a true story.The story is about a Danish woman who marries a friend to avoid being a spinster. This is a good example that marrying a...

Part 5 of the Library of Congress features 5 films. 3 of which are NOT silent, and 4 of which are close to an hour a piece. Watched over the last several months as I've happened upon them. Here is a brief write up on each.Big Business (1929) [8/10]Stan Laurel & Oliver...

You'll love this movie if... you love hearing the F word every 30 seconds. Man I hate John Cusack. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Fool me 6 times in a row then I must be the idiot. He hasn't been in a good movie in over a decade, and I keep hoping his...

A film that clearly has a teenage target audience, starring Shia LaBeouf and Sarah Roemer. A plot so predictable that you expect a twist but don't get one. One that starts as a boring drama but ends as a thriller/horror.There really isn't much to say about this one, it was...

Oh... so this has nothing to do with a parade... The title definitely made me overlook watching this film for a while. At over two hours a silent movie isn't appealing in the first place, but I am happy I finally watched it.A film starring John Gilbert how acted in almost 100...

Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman star in the 1989 Academy Award Best Picture Winner about an old Jewish woman in the south who forced to have a driver after a minor car wreck.Tandy won the Best Actress Oscar as well, making her the oldest winner to date (81 years). Surprisingly...

What a movie poster, "Best Picture of the Year!," "Extraordinary!"... really. This was a very boring film about a college age girl wandering around Afghanistan trying to get to the city where her sister is.Why? Well her sister wants to commit suicide and she has to get there...

Ricky Gervais, creator of "The Office" (US) and star of "The Office" (UK) takes his first stab as writer and director of an American film.The concept is simple, almost simple enough that you would assume the film would be lacking. Imagine a world where no one can lie. By...

Before I proceed to bash this movie, I'll start by saying that The Boondock Saints (1999) is one of the few movies I gave a 10/10. Without ruining that film, let's say that part of the joy of that film is seeing how they got their start as "The Saints" and the events around...

A gripping story about undercover reporters in Burma who risk their lives attempting to make the world aware of their suffering. Journalism is illegal in Burma, and government agents are undercover all over the cities ready to arrest anyone taking pictures of shooting film.The...

Director F.W. Murnau is probably better known for his films Nosferatu and Sunrise. This is probably his third most popular film and for me a complete waste of time.The story is in all simplicity about a doorman that is looked up to until he is forced into retirement. Without...

Surprise! The ESPN writer that made the top 10 sports documentaries of all time felt that a tv mini-series deserved to be considered a movie.This documentary that aired on tv (hence the "" around the title), was about 4 and a half hours total. The writers did a *good job of...

Another sports documentary watched as part of the ESPN "The Watchlist." This one is about a contest started in Longview, TX by a automobile dealership called "Hands on a Hard Body"The idea is simple, stand with one hand on the car, no leaning, 5 minute breaks every hour, 15...

Yay! The last film for me to complete the American Film Institute's 10Top10 list released in 2008. A gangster film that I had to buy on ebay to get my hands on, and the back cover of the dvd is in Korean.The sad thing is that I had really high hopes for this one and it was just...

I consider this film an American version of Love Actually. A romantic comedy with many intertwined love stories with a very full cast... all with minor roles.Jessica Alba & Ashton Kutcher start as the main couple. Jennifer Garner & Patrick Dempsey then get pulled...

The Arnold Schwarzenegger body building documentary was the 6th film in my attempt to watch the ESPN Top 10 Sports Documentaries. This is by far the creepiest film on the list, and one of the strangest I've seen in a while.Arnold has some very interesting quotes in this film...

A post-apocalyptic action film starring Denzel Washington as a blind man guided by faith with the last surviving copy of The Bible.A film that touches on the events that led to the current status, does a horrible job explaining that the man is blind with constant hints that...

This turned out to be a much narrower documentary subject than I expected it to be. I thought it was going to document Ali's career as a boxer, or a phase of that. Yet, this film was really only about a single fight: The Rumble In The Jungle.We start about 6 months before the...

The only thing cool about this crude dry British comedy that pulled an Oscar nomination out of nowhere is that it features Anna Chlumsky [the girl from the movie My Girl]. For the whole film I had one of those "where do I know her from?" feelings. So yeah, that is about it....Ok......

The 3rd of 5 Oscar documentaries from this years Oscar nominees. Hard to compete with The Cove and Food, Inc., two excellent documentaries that stole the entire spotlight.Earlier in the decade a documentary called Fog of War won the Oscar. It was a film about an interview with...

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