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The Secret Life of Bees
This movie had a few "feel good" moments, but just didn't go together well- and had too many subplots, that were completely unnecessary to the primary story (meaning, it should have stayed a book). Just when I started to focus on one subplot of the movie, it jumped to another... and another.. I couldn't concentrate, and found myself looking at my watch every few minutes. I'm not saying the acting was bad, because none of the actors were bad in this movie. They actually did very good jobs in their roles, I just thought that it was overly long, and just an un-necessary movie made from a much better book. Some books just can't be made into good movies And I do, appreciate feel-good type movies, believe me... but this wasn't good. __________________— November 18, 2008 4:29 p.m.
Tropic Thunder
"Tropic Thunder," the spoof of Hollywood war-movies and Hollywood moviemaking, was one of the funnier comedies I saw in 2008, the others being quite a bit different. The remake of "Get Smart" was relatively gentle and reserved; the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading" was irreverent and sarcastic; and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" was salacious but intelligent. "Tropic Thunder," on the other hand, is wildly outrageous, crude, vulgar, and most often over-the-top. In their own ways, though, all of these movies made me laugh, at least in part. They do their job.— November 18, 2008 4:25 p.m.
WALL-E
Not about high profile characters or big action (although there is some excitement both on earth and in space), WALL-E delights by entertaining and inspiring more subtly. Who ever expected that from any movie these days, let alone an animated one?— November 18, 2008 4:22 p.m.
None
For fans of funny, the movie gives 90 minutes of wild comedy that never seems to lose its laugh appeal. It gives us Spicoli's wild car wreck, Damone's coarse definition of "wuss" and a compelling argument for birth control, with Stacy's trip to the abortion clinic. Some dismiss "Fast Times" as exploitative, crass and irrelevant. And though they are right, those are the very reasons to love the film. If the haters can't see the intelligence behind the movie's vulgarity, they deserve to be derided exactly the way the stodgy Mr. Hand addresses his class: "What are you people - on dope?"— November 18, 2008 4:20 p.m.
The Fall
J.D. Salinger, among others, has worked this reality/fantasy divide before, and “The Fall” certainly takes you around the world. Singh shot his pet project in between commercial jobs, in more than two dozen countries. It has a rich premise and no lack of amazements. What it lacks in any sort of dramatic shape. It’s not enough to treat stylized violence and anguish with increasingly painful realism, as Tarsem does. And by the end of “The Fall,” you’re thinking less about the magic of storytelling and moviemaking than you are the perils of a talented director—he did “The Cell,” which was stylishly repellent in similar ways, though there’s no fancy-schmantzy serial killer here—giving himself all the creative leeway in the world and losing track of the audience in the bargain.— November 18, 2008 4:17 p.m.