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A Beautiful Mind (2001)
4 Academy Awards, huh? Guess they/re not as valuable anymore.
The media loved this one. "Russel Crowe", "Serious Role", "Film as Art", they cried. He must have greased quite a few palms for this one! It was total drivel! Geoffery Rush delivered a much better performance of a tortured soul in "Shine". Crowe should stick with ACTION flicks. He tried with Melanie Griffith/Meg Ryan(always get those two talentless blondes confused) in the lame hostage negotiator film, While Hubby's Away" And why is the unsupportive spouse in movies about crazy geniuses is always a short-haired brunette? This movie was worse than "Rushmore" and Ed Harris would have been better off doing a commercial for Payless Shoes.
Calling Bobcat (2000)
It looked promising...
I love comedies and I love independent films, but this was much too slow and the humor was extremely regional. I guess It would have been better if the main characters were likeable, but they were just typical gen-x slacker types, just like the people that have been causing trouble in high schools for forty years... I can understand High Praise for a young indie film-maker when it is deserving, but this is an extremely average film.
Proof of Life (2000)
Hey, just because your a movie star, doesn't make your garbage great!
First off, why would anyone be interested in "K&R" investment negotiators? I think two people got frisky and in their bed of lust decided to do the first movie that popped up, and boy were they screwed. Crowe: "I'm the best K&R hostage-investment-banker-negotiator this side of the legendary Josh Hopkins form The Netherlands, and If you choose anyone else to negotiate for your husband's freedom, I and God Pity you" Griffith/Ryan: (Which one was in the movie, I'm always confused on this matter) "Well hot damn, You're soooooooooo hotttt!!!! I'll bet you are the best K&R guy, because obviously, a balding girthy Hispanic man can do the job of a hunky Aussie like you!!! It's a shame that your the best, because my hubby gets rescued and we can't do it all over the Scorpion Mansion!!"
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Young wooden actors butcher the Bard
It is good that the classics have not lost their appeal, but to dishonor Shakespeare for the sake of a few quick bucks is shameless. Most of the actors delivered their lines like and elementary school English class forcibly reading the play aloud in class. DiCaprio gives a passable perfomance, but Danes appears to not even understand what she is saying (she might as well have been reading from a phonebook). I see nothing wrong with Modernization of these timeless tales, but this film suffers because it tries to hard to cater to the "spending power" of the EmptyV (MTV) generation. Comparing the powerful Merchant Families of Italy with teenage gangs is just ridiculous. The MacKenzie Brothers (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas) did a better job of retelling Hamlet in Strange Brew than these slackers do with Romeo AND Juliet.