tháng 7 2010 ~ The Larsen Film Review

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

The 1957 Oscar Best Picture winner, a 2 and a half hour family film, with slapstick comedy and bad action scenes. I was a lot more disappointed with this film than I expected. The movie has an intermission around the time they make it too San Francisco and the film turns south...

A surprisingly good film. I really didn't expect ANYTHING from this one and it really delivered. Clive Owen is fantastic and the storyline is exciting, interesting, and complex.Naomi Watts character was very unbelievable. Her decisions, actions, and role didn't make a lot of...

I'm not a big sequel fan, especially when it comes to animated films. Had Disney ever had a successful sequel before this one? All the princess film's sequels were just awful.So how did they do it? First off the creative team at Pixar is excellent at making a script out of nothing....

I heard a lot of bad things about this movie before watching it, and it definitely delayed me getting around to watching it. I was told it was boring and long. So first off, it isn't not long. 1 hour 48 minutes means a run time minus credits and intro of about 1 hour and 40...

This is a Brooklyn cop movie following three different story lines. Richard Gere is the loser cop that has never even tried to be a hero and only waits for retirement. Ethan Hawke is in the "in crowd" on the force. He gambles with his cop friends, and epitomizes what is wrong...

I definitely approached this movie as another crappy Gerard Butler action film. The movie even starts off with him witnessing his wife and daughter murdered just to see the killer get out of jail after just a couple years.What I did not expect is what happened next. The movie...

It is not easy to express what a commitment it is to watch this film. A mini-series by Ken Burns of the complete history of baseball. By complete I mean 9 films [innings] around two hours each for a total of about 19 hours of film.As you can imagine, while watching this lengthy...

The first 10/10 of the year [the other 3 reviewed I had already seen]. This movie was the perfect example of a single acting performance making a film unforgettable. Al Pacino is at his very best as a blind retired army lieutenant with strong opinions and a short temper.Philip...

The potato girl movie! This has to be the strangest movie I have seen in a very very long time. It takes place in Peru, and starts with a mother lamenting on her death bed about a horrendous experience. She is singing this song about how she was forced to watch terrorists murder...

I'm not quite sure how they got away with hiding in the cast on imdb, but the key players in the crappy movie, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Dennis Quaid, and Sienna Miller, managed to be listed 10th, 12th, 13th, and 3rd on the cast list. I would want to be listed lower on...

I can honestly say that I had completely forgotten this was a Coen Brothers movie until the end credits began to roll. The movie was simple, interesting, a rare modern black and white film.The film is narrated by the main character Billy Bob Thornton as he seems to giving an...

Hard to believe it has been almost 15 years since I have seen this film. The breakthrough film for the Pixar studio and reason for much of their success. I thought it would be nice to watch the first two again in HD before the 3rd on comes out for rental later this year.Tom...

French new wave crap. Jean-Luc Godard made this film early in his career and the story is almost poetic... just almost. Reckless Michel kills a cop and is on the run. He hides out with an easy American girl Patricia.She is one of the most wishy-washy characters that I have ever...

So I watched this movie out of "season" to finish a movie list. A random Top 100 I found that has been setting at 99/100 watched for some time. With horror month only 2 months away I went ahead and watched this one also because I came across it in HD.I have to say the first...

I definitely heard about this one when it came out. I had no intention of watching it and at the time heard it had some mixed reviews. It happened to be on Peter Traver's Top 10 list from 2000, a writer for Rolling Stone, and I gave it a shot. Let me start by saying that I'm...

When I came across this movie a year or so ago I assumed it was just another guy movie that will be on Spike or some other guy movie network television channel in a year or so. With Keanu Reeves, Cedric the Entertainer, and Common in the cast I didn't expect much. Forest Whitaker...

In 2006 Shane Acker was nominated for the Oscar in the Short Animated film category with his film 9. The film, only 11 minutes long has no dialog. The rag doll comes to life and fights a monster which appears to be trying to steal his soul.The graphics were fantastic and impressed...

I'm wasn't sure what to think going into this film. Six months before its release it looked to be the blockbuster of the early year. After Avatar's 3-D success they retrofitted this film for 3D as well. With so much hype and the price tag for the glasses at the box office it...

The romantic comedy that made Cary Grant a star. Nominated for 5 Oscars, winner of best Director, part of the National Film Registry, in the top 50 of the AFI 100 Laughs, and also on the AFI 100 Passions [e.g. love stories].Irene Dunne is billed at the headline here but it is...

I managed to find this movie in blu-ray so I gave it a shot in a new HDTV. It really made me wonder if anyone that had anything to do with this movie actually saw this HD version. Parts of it seemed fantastic, and others really highlighted the flaws, like the paper mache head...

While browsing my favorite website: listsofbests, I came across a list were I had seen all but one of the 170 or so films. This was the single film I needed to watch to finish the list.Part 3 of Ingmar Bergman trilogy, where the other two films are not on any of my lists, I...

Lee Marvin stars as the badass Major who's peers dislike him enough to volunteer him for a suicide mission. The mission: Take 12 convicted felons into enemy territory and kill as many as possible. The major has no intentions of failing at his mission and works out a perfect...

Kevin Smith fails again, hey maybe he'll twitter how much he sucks some more. Strike after strike after strike and we keep watching and holding this director in high regard for no good reason. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl, Clerks II, Zack and Miri Make a Porno,...

So I accidentally watched this one because I thought it was "The Cheat (1915)" which is on the Library of Congress Film Registry. This film however is not on any lists, and if it would have been bad, it would have been a complete waste of time.Luckily it wasn't bad at all. An...

A 1930's silent film from Germany that, from the title, seems like it might need to be part of horror month. I say this because it seems to be the same basis of the Hellraiser series.Well, it's nothing like that. Louise Brooks plays Lulu a beautiful woman who uses her charm...

Starring Matt Damon and directed by Paul Greengrass, I fully expected this to be an action flick along the lines of Jason Bourne films which these two worked on together. I was wrong, this is an Iraq War film, a war film, fictional and all about the lack of WMD's (Weapons of...

Chasing list completions can get boring, so I decided to branch out from my current goals and pick a few random movies from each genre and give them a shot.This western has always been spoken of very highly, and its absence from the AFI Top 10 Westerns made me wonder if this...

The big comedy movie of the spring starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey, the two most popular comedians on television right now. The duo should be a blockbuster, and I have to say I was disappointed with this movie.Disappointed!?! And I gave it an 8/10?? How you might ask... it's...

Robert Mitchum was just fantastic in The Night of the Hunter (1955), and this film feels like a sequel on his very scary performance for several reasons. Both have him hunting down children where you play the role of the child. Both have him hunting in the dark in the swamp....

Watched this one on a whim while browsing my to-watch list with some of my family. They raved about it so we gave it a shot. Nominated for 7 Oscars and 5 Golden Globes this film even won one of each for best Musical/Comedy. Starring Julie Andrews and James Garner in a slapstick...

About a week behind on this post. With some family in town we pulled this one off the movie shelf. Probably my favorite movie from 2008, this classic Stanley Kubrick was one of the first non-sequential films. Considered to confusing for audiences in the 50's it did poorly at...

The Superman that ended the series, most comic series are like this, you need an awful one to convince the production company that another one is not worth it.The plot is incredibly weak, it seemed like I wasted and hour and a half on a single comic that would take 5-10 minutes...

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