Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

I am still smiling. If you like stupid stuff, fart jokes and a bunch of stoners talking about shit this is a film for you. Essentially it's a paen to the friendship of the guys who play the people in real life. If you've seen any of the Evening with Kevin Smith features then you'll know what I am talking about. Essentially they're married to each other and there you have it.

Anyways, I thought it was funny, there are about 100,000,000 cameos in the film and while not provoking any deep thoughts it does show how a pair of friends can make an excellent team.

A-

Into the Wild

A sad movie that may have worked better if they had (as was done in the book) let you know the ending from the start, I really enjoyed this. As a kid this was my greatest fantasy, although 1) I would have not gone to Alaska, it's too freaking cold and 2) I think I could have managed to feed myself next to a river in the wilderness. I mean, it's not that hard to find bug as a last ditch effort to feed yourself, even if that's more protien than energy. Ah well

Beautifuly filmed and asks some hard questions, like do we need other people to be happy, why do we accept the "expected" path for our lives and why are people so mean to each other. Decent acting, although sometimes the main person was a bit too angelic. Overall this was an excellent film with some great ideas and quite entertaining for something as thought provoking as it was.

A-

Spawn

The acting kind of sucked, aside from the insane clown, but it was not a bad story at all. A B

Live Free or Die Hard

Stuff blows up. Old people beat up young women. Computers are everywhere. Stuff blows up some more.

B+

Monster

This was a painful film that portrays the life of a prostitue turned seiral killer from an empathetic point of view. Excellent acting but I am not sure I enjoyed it at all. No rating since the film was well done but not fun.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

I got this because both I'd heard it was good and I really liked Almost Famous. It was not as good as Almost Famous in my opinion, but if you like remenicing about the early 80's more then I do then you'd probably dig it. This film was aimed at the folks 10 years older then I.

Some funny parts and decent acting. Very interesting to see Sean Penn at that age.
This was a B+ movie, entertaining but almost entierly forgetable (except for Jennifer Jason Leigh's portrial of a girl who knows what she does not know, decides to do something about it and pays the consequences 

The Italian Job

So no deep people in this film and some bad acting (an unfortunate flubbing of a line I knew was going to be repeated eventually early is my main gripe) this film is interesting and has some great action sequences. Certainly worth a watch and it's actually pretty tame for a PG-13, I let me 9 year old watch it. Would have been a bit better if it had a twist at the end but oh well.

A-