[glow=red:c262876040]Bobby[/glow:c262876040]



I saw this movie tonight. Very poignant ensemble piece. This movie was actually directed and written by Emilio Estevez in what was an 8 year labor of love. The movie centers around 20 different people and their lives on that eventful night in 68 when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

William H. Macy plays the hotel manager who is having an affair with a switchboard operator played by Heather Graham. Anthony Hopkins and Harry Bellafonte play the retired doormen with nothing to do but hang out at the hotel and play chess. Demi Moore plays a famous singer and Emilio plays her tagalong husband. Moore is a total drunk in this movie and her boytoy Ashton Kutcher plays a total hippie druggie who deals out of the hotel. Joshua Jackson is on the Kennedy campaign and plays a pretty good part. Lawrence Fishburne plays the role of a cook through part of the movie. Christian Slater is the kitchen manager who gets fired for how he treats his employees. Martin Sheen and Helen Hunt play an upscale couple staying at the hotel. Elijah Wood and Lindsay Lohan play a young couple getting married to try to keep him out of Vietnam.

All their lives center around Robert Kennedy. The actor who played Robert Kennedy really didn't have much to do as most of the footage was Archival footage from Robert Kennedy's appearances so the actor really was there as a body double. The movie was pretty uplifting up until the part where Kennedy gets shot. It ended sad as you thought it would but most of the ended had a voiceover from one of Robert Kennedy's speeches. I liked the movie very nice poignant movie.

[glow=red:893a5ef067]Deja Vu[/glow:893a5ef067]



Okay this was one of the two movies I saw this weekend. Despite what the reviews said I liked this movie. The movie follows an ATF Agent played by Denzel Washington. The movie takes place in New Orleans where a boat gets blown up in an act of terrorism. On this boat was military personnel, women, children etc. The act was carried out by a very fitting Jim Caviesal a la Timothy McVeigh. Denzel is asked by the FBI Agent Val Kilmer to be part of a new investigative unit.

Denzel is brought on originally to help piece together how the act was done and how to solve it. The crew tells Denzel that they are looking at surveilliance footage captured 4 days in the past and that everything is rendering in the computer. They can't rewind or fast forward but have to look at everything as if it is in realtime. Denzel discovers however that the people they're watching seem to know something is happening. He realizes that they are somehow looking into the past with the technology. After he discovers this he tries to change the past after he falls in love with one of the victims.

The movie was a trip. It makes you wonder a bit about the movie like some of the stuff that he does somehow takes place in the past and it leaves the viewer wondering if he hadn't changed anything if everything would have happened differently or the same. Its a trip. Like stuff happens in the current timeline that could have only happened if he went back but we're left with a conundrum because the stuff he did in the past shouldn't happen in the same timeline. Its a stretch but if you're willing to suspend your disbelief it is a really good movie that makes you think a bit about choices and consequences.

I have to say this was a really refreshing return for director Kevin Smith. After the flop that was Jersey Girl, Clerks 2 was great. I saw this today as a matinee and was laughing for most of the movie. There are really funny jokes especially the whole Lord of the Rings bit as well as the pussy trolls I recommend everyone to go see this.

So this was one of the two movies I saw this week. Seven Pounds is the new Will Smith movie



I don't want to give too much about the movie away but as you can tell from the trailer its a pretty deep and profound movie. The movie centers around Ben Thomas an IRS agent who holds a secret that is tearing him up. He picks out 7 people at random to help and drastically change their lives. The movie is mainly about redemption and loss.

I have to say I was impressed with Will Smith's acting in this. Usually he tries to be all funny but in this role he plays a pretty serious guy and comes off a bit realistic. Great supporting roles in this. Woody Harelsoon plays a blind vegan meat salesman whom Will seems to harass at the beginning of the movie. You'll see the motivation for it later on. Rosario Dawson (hottie) plays a young woman with a bad ticker whom Will seems to fall in love with. Barry Pepper plays the childhood friend who has reluctantly agreed to Will's request. Sad ending I don't know how much more I can say without giving away the plot.

First things first. The film was directed by Christopher Nolan who has done a phenomenal job since wresting the reigns of director away from the horrible Joel Schumacher. Dark Knight is the sequel to Batman Begins



Okay so Dark Knight picks up where the last movie left off. Bruce Wayne has now fit comfortably into his role as Batman. There's a new district attorney in town Harvey Dent played pretty well by Aaron Eckhart. Rachel Dawes is now hooked up with Harvey Dent which ruffles Bruce Wayne's feathers quite a bit. Katie Holmes opted out and has been replaced by Maggie Gylenhaal who brings a lot more emotion to the role and really offsets Holmes flat acting. Lt. Gordon is taking on the mob and trying to track where their money is and what not. We see Harvey Dent's case on the mob get steamrolled as a witness turns on him and pulls a gun on him. Harvey acting like a badass disarms the guy and comes off looking tough. Everyone in Gotham is fawning over Harvey as he is the white knight while Batman is the antecedent to Batman's Dark Knight. Harvey knows he's a do gooder and tries to do everything he can to do good while Bruce Wayne is the opposite and is the reluctant hero. Jim Gordon falls in the middle of them being the average guy just trying to get by. Each person has to make a choice in the film and the film has come across very dark. If I could call this movie anything I would call it the Empire Strikes Back of the series. It ends somewhat on a happy note but even that is rather sad because of what happens through the course of the movie.

The Joker pretty much is there to cause chaos and he stirs up everyone in the city and plays everyone against each other. The mob turns to Joker to fix their problems with the cops and Batman but really he's just there to cause chaos and knows things won't ever go back. I agree with everyone who says Heath deserves an Oscar for this role. He makes Jack Nicholson look like Cesar Romero. That's the joker from the Campy 60s tv series in case you didn't know. The Joker is a sadistic rat bastard in this film. There is nothing campy about him and at times you can't help but laugh at how sadistic this fucker is.

The movie is long but in a good way as the action never slows down and there's a lot to explain in the movie. The movie had plenty of character development in it. You get to see Harvey's relationship with Rachel, the mob, the cops, Gordon's relationship with his family, etc.

The fiml is about a lot of touch choices each of our major characters must make and how each choice affects the other. I don't want to spoil the plot as there are some great twists in there. This film goes above and beyond the original batman film. I can't wait to see what they do with the next one.

Highly recommend this and will probably write more on this tomorrow 5 out of 5.


PS if anyone sees this there are a few good trailers: Watchmen trailer yes the graphic novel pretty awesome... Also the trailer for the new terminator movie. Terminator Salvation:

What happens when you put a bunch of no-name actors with a 30 million dollar budget and shoot a film on Camcorders detailing a monster attack on New York City told by some young 30 somethings. Apparently you get Cloverfield. Cloverfield is the designate name for the create that attacks NYC in this movie. Much like the Manhattan Project was a project that had entirely nothing to do with Manhattan. So I didn't expect much from this film going into it I thought it might be some cheap movie like Blair Witch. Even though it was filmed almost in the same style. So the film starts out innocently enough a bunch of friends are throwing a part for their friend who got a big job in Japan. From the getgo there's some tension as Rob the main character had a falling out with this girl Beth. He tries to fix things and she leaves when the attack happens. So we follow a group of 5 people as they make their way out of Manhattan. The monster in this movie is huge reminds me of a cave troll but it has tentacles and also little spider looking things that drop from it and start attacking people. There are lots of explosions as the monster rips through manhattan destroying buildings stomping on tanks and eating people. Theres a lot of references to myspace and what not. The statue of liberty's head comes crashing through the streets and people get out their cell phones and digital cameras to take pics of it. One of the guys decides he has to document everything that happens. It was a decent movie all in all and I enjoyed every minute of it. It got a rating of 77 on rotten tomatoes and so I would give it about 3 eggrolls at 2.99 out of 5 eggrolls.

American Gangster stars Denzel Washington as the drug lord Frank Lucas who in the 1970s ruled harlem with his rival Nicky Barnes. Frank was an innovative individual and was able to sell heroin at a lower price with higher potency because of his connections in Asia. He would use some of the soldiers in Vietnam to transport the drugs to the US in military cargo planes. The story takes place from Frank being the driver of another notorious drug kingpin Bumpy Johnson. If you're looking to see a prerequisite for this movie please see the movie Hoodlum with Lawrence Fishburne. The movie shows Frank's vicious rise from Bumpy's driver to Drug Lord. Denzel was superb in this movie showing many sides to him from cunning businessman to ruthless gangster. One part in the movie Frank is eating breakfast at the local diner when he goes down the street, points a gun at a rival's head and pulls the trigger in the middle of the day with people watching. He then goes back in and finishes his breakfast as if nothing happened.
Russel Crowe plays Richie Roberts the cop who helps bring Lucas down and then eventually works with him to bring down crooked cops. Russel Crowe is also phenomenal in this one. Its great how Ridley shows Richie's career as a cop from beginning to end at the same time as you see Lucas' rise. The film also stars Josh Brolin (yes the son of that Aamco guy) as a crooked Special Investigation Unit cop who is cutting confiscated drugs and then selling it back in the street for a profit. Cuba Gooding Jr has a small cameo as Nicky Barnes, Lucas' rival.
I do recommend this movie to anyone if you're interested in Gangster films but something more current and not Italian. This was a great way to end the year and I think Denzel is up for another oscar.

Shoot em up stars Clive Owen, Paul Giamati, Monica Belluci. Clive is a relative stranger in this movie you don't even know who he is throughout the whole movie. He's just some stranger on a street who stores weapons in a baby changing station in a bathroom. Clive is just minding his business at a park bench when a pregnant woman runs by him and is being chased by some random guy. Clive doesn't seem to care until the guy pulls out a gun and that's when Clive's character "Mr Smith" gets involved. He dispatches the gunman and helps deliver the girl's baby. He tries helping the woman and child escape and fights more gunmen until she is killed. From then on out Mr. Smith takes it upon himself to take care of and protect the baby. Monica Belluci is a formerly pregnant whore who panders to guys with a milk fetish. Paul Giamati is pretty sadistic in this movie. No matter how many hired guns die he still throws everything he can into trying to kill the baby. It may take a bit for the viewer to suspend their disbelief at some of the stunts. Say for instance shooting a file drawer to dispatch a badguy or shooting out a windshield and flying into the other car and safely killing everyone in it. All in all this is entirely an action film. Plenty of dead bodies to go around. Some of the stunts are off the wall crazy like shooting people during skydiving in the air, etc. I have come to like some of Clive Owen's films and like a lot of the choices he has made career wise. Plus he's english and likes to kill people so the whole movie comes off pretty well. The dialog is often short in between the action and time after time it is cut short because Clive is being shot at. Also look for the sex scene mixed with a gun fight. That part is quite interesting.

Just thought I'd start this review with the preceding song as every time I hear the word "war" I think of this song. Nothing like seeing Edwin Starr belt this song out.



War stars Jet Li as an assassin named Rogue he is pitted against Jason Statham who plays an FBI agent caught in the midst of a war between the Yakuza and the Triads in San Francisco. Jason Statham's partner and his family are murdered by Rogue and over the next three years Jason tries to find Rogue and ends up destroying his family life in the process. Rogue returns 3 years later and starts working for the yakuza and then he switches sides and works for the Triads. He starts a war between the two opposing gangs meanwhile the FBI is caught in the middle. I don't want to say too much here though as halfway through the movie the movie throws you a curveball which makes you question the loyalties of all sides involved.

Was a pretty action packed movie and Jet Li didn't disappoint with his martial arts skills. Not bad for a guy whose pushing 50 soon. All in all I liked it but i still want to see superbad but its not playing near me. Lot of bad guys died and it was interesting as Jet Li was using a mix of martial arts and a mix of gunplay. He'd shoot people and still use a sword. Was pretty nuts.