- The Godfather
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- The Godfather: Part II
- Star Wars V - The Empire Strikes Back
- Kill Bill: Vol. 2
- Se7en
- Jaws
- The French Connection
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1
- Braveheart
- Gladiator
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Saving Private Ryan
- Star Wars IV - A New Hope
- Alien
- Pulp Fiction
- The Dark Knight (new)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Goodfellas
- The Departed
- The Hustler
- Drunken Master
- Battle Royale
- American History X
- Rocky
- Die Hard
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Unforgiven
- Jurassic Park
- The Maltese Falcon
- Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- The Usual Suspects
- Hero
- The Sting
- Drunken Master II
- The Killer
- Chinatown
- A Better Tomorrow
- The House of Flying Daggers
- Schindler's List
- Hard Boiled
- Rear Window
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Gangs of New York
- Good Will Hunting
- Heat
- No Country for Old Men (new)
- Spider-Man 2
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Iron Man (new)
- Juno (new)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Seven Samurai
- The Insider
- Tombstone
- Children of Men
- Michael Clayton (new)
- X2
- Oldboy
- Leon: The Professional
- Syriana
- Black Hawk Down
- Munich
- Glory
- The Wild Bunch
- Batman Begins
- Lady Vengeance
- Back to the Future
- Blade Runner
- A History of Violence
- Into the Wild (new)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Rounders
- The Princess Bride
- The Shining
- Traffic
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Training Day
- Midnight Run (9)
- Batman (9)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Taxi Driver
- Enter the Dragon
- Boyz N the Hood
- Whale Rider
- Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (9)
- Layer Cake (new and 9)
- Letters from Iwo Jima (9)
- The Aviator (9)
- Lethal Weapon (9)
- Vertigo (9)
- The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
- Iron Monkey (9)
- Apocalypse Now (9)
- Pan's Labyrinth (9)
- Wall Street (9)
- Boogie Nights (9)
Sunday, May 31, 2009
The All-Time 100
Drag Me to Hell
Not being a fan of the horror movie genre, I usually ignore whenever a new cookie-cutter slasher flick is released. But whenever a movie gets as good of reviews as Drag Me to Hell, I take notice genre be damned. In fact I enjoy it when there is a must see horror film because it always feels new to me. Because of this, Drag Me to Hell was well worth the price of admission.
Tyson
It is about damn time that we got a serious look at Mike Tyson. A man that batshit insane needed to have a legit movie based on his life years ago. Tyson even goes a step further by having Mike tell his own story in his own words. This documentary was mesmerizing.
This review may have concentrated on all the parts of the documentary that I found hilarious but the entirety of Tyson should be seen. This was a damn near perfect doc that told the story of Mike Tyson from his point of view and he wasn't shy about anything.
9 out 10
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Why? Every once and awhile I try to give movies I have no interest in but are popular a shot, so there is your reason for why I am reviewing Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. My opinion of Ben Stiller has not altered and nothing within these 100 minutes has caused me to rethink my position. This is as forgettable a movie that I will see in 2009.
I just want to move on to the next movie as soon as possible. Since I'm not a fan of Ben Stiller or Owen Wilson, this is definitely not the franchise for me. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian was not awful, I just don't care.
4 out of 10
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Terminator Salvation
There is only so much irrational crap I can take from a movie and Terminator Salvation crossed that line. Until the final moments there was your basic amount of nonsense going on but the conclusion just completely killed me. This is one of my favorite franchises (I base my entire fear of artificial intelligence on it) but whereas the first 2 movies are a couple of the greatest movies ever made; Rise of the Machines and now Terminator Salvation are just action movies and nothing else.
I really wish I can sit here and tell you that the action in Terminator Salvation was mind-blowing and worth the price of admission. But I can't so I won't. This was just an okay summer movie. The Terminator franchise should be so much more that this.
6 out of 10
Angels & Demons
I am so excited that a bloated overrated The Da Vinci Code gets to be followed up by a bloated overrated Angels & Demons. There were no significant improvements; this just felt like another version of the same movie. This franchise is shaping up to be a film version of 24, this guy is evil, cliffhanger, no this guy is evil, cliffhanger, no wait this guy is evil, cliffhanger, whew we saved the day, wait one more twist, credits.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Star Trek
Star Trek is a movie that I had lofty expectations for but did not believe that it would reach that high a level. Well after the disappointment that was Wolverine, getting this nice gift of a spotless summer movie reinvigorates my expectations for the rest of the summer. Who knew it was possible to make a Star Trek movie that instead of feeling like another episode actually worked as a blockbuster.
This is exactly what I'm looking for when the weather turns warm. I was hoping for something good when JJ Abrams was attached to Star Trek, but this topped even my highest expectations. Hooray for a new summer franchise that I can look forward to every couple of years.
9 out of 10
Next Day Air
Wow, Next Day Air was that next level of crap. I was hoping it would just be a dumb comedy but instead it was classified as a comedy only because it needed to be filed away under some genre name. The amount of times I laughed could be counted on one hand and the rest of the running time was just gangster movie clichés that the writers saw in other better movies.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
The biggest mistake I will make during this review is watching the vastly superior X2 while I am writing it. Then again if I wait long enough FX will be showing the abysmal The Last Stand so maybe then I will look more fondly at X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Sadly, the biggest sin of Wolverine was that it didn’t offend me enough to write an angry review. It was middling in every way.