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cjwilson87
Reviews
The Grudge (2004)
A few misconceptions
I have been reading through comments about "The Grudge" and a lot seem to say that the plot was not built enough and they didn't understand it. I thought it was very easy to understand, as long as you pay attention. Like any movie where you need to piece a puzzle together, this one especially needs close attention because the scenes jump from the present to the past.
The plot is very simple: A woman, Kayako I believe, was in love with her professor, Peter. This woman was married with a son, Toshio, but no one knew of her secret, which was contained in her journal. One day, her husband came upon her journal, filled with drawings of herself with Peter and confessions of her love for him. In a rage, the husband cuts her out of every picture he can find and kills her, their son, and finally hangs himself. Thus, going by what the opening statements are about dieing in a state of extreme rage or sorrow, the house is cursed. As the detective later explains, a stain is left in the house because of this event, and anyone who touches the house becomes a victim of the curse and will inevitably die.
As many people before have stated, it's because the American culture is so used to a plot that is laid out in front of it and filled with knives and guns and chainsaws that some dislike the movie. I think it is a great movie because it uses that haunting noise or a single eye to make the movie-watcher jump. It is not a slasher film, it is a mental film, where the images are more haunting than just the masked murderer from Scream, because a person you can hide from, but a spirit you cannot.
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
For those with a sense of humor
Though the previous comment may convey Napoleon Dynamite as a boring, Indie film, I think quite the opposite. I don't think the director's aim was to create an epic, but just to make a funny movie. This movie is hilarious, but of course, you have to have a sense of humor as well. If you don't understand comedy, you'll think a lot of the stuff in it is pointless, but it's just stuff you wouldn't normally see in a movie. Napoleon is hilarious, and I disagree with the previous comment that the actor playing him can't act, because his lines require a certain comic delivery that takes skill. Again, if you don't have a kind of out-of-the-ordinary sense of humor, this movie isn't for you. If you like Office Space, Kung-Pow Enter the Fist, or Spaceballs, this movie is for you, because you have a good taste for comedy that others lack.
Zenon: The Zequel (2001)
This movie was totally not fabulo!
Ok where to begin! This movie was a little disappointing. To being with, Zenon's acting coach must have left with Raven Symone. When she was in the first movie, her acting was believable, but her acting in this movie was a little too much, she needs to tone it down and stop trying so hard. Next, the movie itself has many mistakes, tiny little ones. In the first movie, couldn't they only bring to the spay-stay what they could cultivate? No animals? So why were they eating turkey?! Maybe they were space zappad dinners, who knows. And maybe in space they put on socks with wet nail polish, too -- since Margie's socks were glued to her toes and wouldn't be if she had let her toenails dry like us normal humans. And what happened to the other characters in the movie?! All her space friends? Maybe they contacted Miss Cleo and she told them this movie was going to be a bomb and they kept their distance. And if Protazoa is trying to hide from the public, why is his secret hideout posted on his website? Ok, I don't want to seem like I am babbling, so in summary -- if you are looking for a laugh, see this movie--it's full of them!!