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Review of The Day After Tomorrow - Silly climate change

fortheinfo — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:51:34 -0500

The Day After Tomorrow is rated PG-13.

Plot: The plot is outlandish. Climate change hits with a vengeance. A hole in the atmosphere opens up and a vaccum is created where the cold of space is funneled down into earth. The instant cold acts like a super freezer and everything is frozen. It stars Randy Quaid as the father of Jake Gyllenhaal. I'm not a Jake fan, so I didn't really like his character.

Quaid plays a climatologist who is sounding a warning of future problems. In typical fashion, the government doesn't listen to him until tornadoes tear through Los Angeles, California. Yeah, tornadoes. Problem is it's too late to do anything about it.

Movie Review - Congo - When apes spoke and smoked

fortheinfo — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:47:31 -0500

Congo started life as a Michael Crichton novel. I've never read it, but I would suggest the movie ended up very different from the book. In the movie a group of people enter the jungles of Africa for different purposes. They are accompanied by one smart ape named Amy. Amy has grown up in a lab, been taught to talk and appears to be more human than ape. Oh, yes, she talks. This is accomplished by high tech bracer she wears that translates arm movements into words.

Yes, it's quite a technical marvel.

The plot of the movie revolves around this group of people. The group is composed of a college doctor (Dylan Walsh), a corporate doctor (Laura Linney), a mercenary (Ernie Hudson) and a treasure hunter (Tim Curry). The group comes together in a trip to Africa. The college doctor is attempting to return Amy to the wild, the corporate doctor needs to get onsite to find out what happened to a research team from her company, the mercenary is looking for a buck and the treasure hunter is, well, hunting treasure.

Movie Review - Out Cold (Teri Garr and John Lithgow)

fortheinfo — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:28:56 -0400

It's funny how movies come and go. Movies that aren't universally embraced by critics fall off the face of the earth. That's the case with Out Cold starring Teri Garr and John Lithgow. The movie was released in 1989, but soon everyone forgot about it. Had it not been for Showtime, I wouldn't have seen this excellent gem of a movie.

The movie involved two partners in a butcher business , John Lithgow and the great character actor Bruce McGill. McGill is the more relaxed partner that hits on every female customer that enters the store. This is a problem since he's married to Teri Garr. Well, problem might be too strong of a word since Garr is also having an affair. Garr decides she's had enough and consults with a detective concerning a divorce. The detective is played by Randy Quaid, and he brings a great edge to his role.