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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.

Review of Battlefield Earth - John Travolta is an alien

fortheinfo — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:44:08 -0500

Battlefield Earth is a movie starting John Travolta, Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker. It's based on a novel by L. Ron Hubbard of the same name. The plot revolves around Travolta and Whitaker as aliens who exploit humans on earth to mine gold.

It's the year 3000AD and man isn't doing too well. We've been conquered by aliens referred to as the Psychlos. Travolta plays a security officer and his assistant is Whitaker. Humans are rounded up and forced to work mining gold. It's odd, but it seems gold really is a good, long term investment.

The Terminal - Tom Hanks lives in an airport

fortheinfo — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:36:59 -0500

One could easily make the argument that Tom Hanks is over exposed. Sure, he's a great actor, but all the movies. This is especially true when he plays oddballs. In The Terminal he plays Viktor Navorski from the country of Krakozhia. He ends up being trapped in a New York airport due to his passport being invalid. Yes, it was valid when he left his country, but by the time he landed in the US his country was overthrown.

I had no idea customs worked like that.

You do have to suspend some reality when you watch this movie. For instance, Hanks ends up living in a section of the airport that is under construction. No one really notices until it's time to complete work in the area. To the construction worker's surprise Hanks has done most of the work.

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 - French Kiss (Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline)

fortheinfo — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:06:54 -0400

An interesting selection as the first movie reviewed on this site. Believe me, I didn't choose it, it chose me. Chose me as in I Tivoed it and it was playing.

Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline star in this romantic comedy about a woman who is on a mission. A mission to France to hunt down her former fiance who thinks the grass is greener with another woman. The former fiance is played by Timothy Hutton, which is an odd casting choice.

The movie comes in at PG-13 due to language and sexual content. No breasts for those who are interested or not interested in that sort of thing. The rating is really due to cussing and adult situations.