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A History of Violence (2005)
Don't know what to think.
Movie Hacks exposed! You know sh¡t. This movie was a comedy. A dark satire on Hollywood movie clichés and ultra violence. This movie was so bad it was good. And that was (I hope) the purpose of this movie. And if you gave this movie a glowing review and did not see this you are a total moron. Which apparently a lot of you would be critics are.
What gave it away for me and have me howling was the scene where Tom's running home from town. I mean come on that was too much. And the editing of it was great. Every cut scene was from a new perspective and completely different environment. I'm surprised they did't have a scene where he was running through a rainstorm, but that would have been too obvious I guess :).
I could see how some people may have missed the whole point of the movie, and thought it was bad, but to sit here and say it was great, without "seeing between the frames".... is just sad.
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
Didn't like it
First I should admit maybe I didn't give this movie a chance, I only watched about 10 minutes of it, and then FF to the next scenes in hopes of catching something funny or interesting.
I found the movie forced and trite. I didn't see any chemistry in any of the scenes that I watched, and found myself bored. They seemed to be trying to think of clever things to say and coming up empty. I can sort of see what they were trying to do, but I'd rather go to a coffeshop and eavesdrop on some totally normal strangers conversation. Steven Wright and Roberto Benini? Ouch. That hurt. Love Steven Wright, Roberto not so much.
Dull.
The Forgotten (2004)
The forgotten plot (spoiler
This movie had the potential to be interesting but ended up being just another cheesy attempt to recreate the 6th Sense twist. Well here's the twist: ALIENS ARE DOING SOME SORT OF SCIENCE PROJECT ABOUT THE MOTHERS NOT WILLING TO LET GO OF THE MEMORY OF THEIR CHILD! Whooooooooooah! I mean how dull is this? You have a movie with some potential to open the door to some other world co-existence between aliens and "big government" conspiracy theory, and instead it turns into some mediocre science fair project for aliens.
And we wouldn't want to actually go into the conspiracy, hell that might just be a little to interesting.
BUT, the big question to be asked: Why the big elaborate "memory erase", why not just have her accept the fact that her kid was killed in the plane crash? Ohhh I know, because it was was a experiment. Yeah right, doesn't wash. Here's the real reason: the plot wasn't thought through it was forgotten.