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For Love or Money (2003)
The guy ends up a chump
I'm not so much a fan of reality tv, more like one of those people who slows down in their car to see an accident on the side of the road.
I found For Love Or Money quite good, so let's take stock here:
It had: 1)Hot women 2)Plot twists, and characters with secrets from one another 3)Some guy who was really quite dumb
You get to laugh at the guy, especially at the end. He had a choice, the girl who actually likes him, Paige, and the other one, the gold-digger, who obviously didn't.
And he went with the gold-digger! Ha ha. She played him like a fool. He just couldn't figure it out.
From the strangest place ( a crap reality show), comes an important lesson about men; how we behave, and the rules of attraction.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Overrated
I cannot see how a movie that goes for at least half an hour longer than it should have, has variations between wooden acting and over-acting (ouch, what's with the crying all the time?), with almost zero character development, become one of the 'greatest movies of all time'?
Am I taking crazy pills here?
The effects are great, and the settings are quite breath-taking. Yeah, same for Lawrence of Arabia. But in that movie the script was awesome, instead of over-blown, and trying SO hard to be epic and dramatic, and the whole thing doesn't seem to go on for a whole day, even though it is long.
Maybe it's just that there's a new wave of movie watchers pouring onto this site, who haven't really seen many movies, and don't know the difference: "Gee, I've seen Scary Movie, American Pie and LOTR III... I must conclude LOTR III is the best movie ever made in the world! By a mile"!
I mean the movie's quite good. Just not that good. The Dwarf made it more bearable. "That still only counts as one!"
7/10
High Fidelity (2000)
Conflict resolution is what I do...
(Probably spoilers)
I watched the movie when it came out with some mates and we all thought it was great.
A year later I read the book, and at that point thought I should carry it around on my person for any essential quick references. Then I realised that would be the behaviour of a nerd, and besides, my pockets just weren't big enough.
I mean the book's a 10/10, and the movie is probably a 9/10.
A lot of fans of the book were up in arms at the movie being set in the US instead of England, but after watching John (& Joan) Cusack and Jack Black's performances, not many were left complaining.
So where did the extra 1/10 go then?
Well, firstly the soundtrack. Did they run out of money? This movie had the ability to be perfect, and the soundtrack is really good, don't get me wrong- I just think they had the opportunity to weave in some of the greatest songs of all time, and instead just put in some good ones. We Are the Champions by Queen was a really good touch though.
Secondly, how about the softening of Nick Hornsby's book and the characters? They left out Rob refusing to buy some guy's entire record collection from an annoyed ex-wife, though probably a time issue. But they changed the end. In the book, he doesn't propose to his girlfriend; he proposes to the girl writing the column who he doesn't know that well.
Apart from that, flawless as a movie, and very good as an adaption.
The Wedding Singer (1998)
...and I'm reaping all the benefits...
Here are five really good things about this movie. (Spoilers)
1)Losing his mind! (eyes widen) And I'm reaping all of the benefits... (smiles, curtain closes very slowly in front of him).
2)They could have been people, they could have been guests at her wedding! (Pauses in obvious anguish)... they were cones!
3)Exaggeration of every aspect of the eighties for the sake of it. 'I bought you a 'CD' player, it cost me $700, but it has excellent sound quality', and a Rubic's cube; 'no-one will ever solve this thing'!
4)I mean won't you miss Miami Vice? No- Summer- repeats.
5)Continued foreshadowing of a ridiculous and contrived ending: Woman spontaneously turns around and says 'that's the sweetest thing I've ever heard'! 'You guys have got to help me'!
You won't waste any of the 2 hours watching this.
American Psycho (2000)
Classic
I've seen American Psycho perhaps 10 times; and it still rules.
It's funny, it's cool, and it's got a point to it. I saw it the movies with a couple of mates, and afterwards one goes to me 'so did he really kill all those people or not'? I replied 'it doesn't matter', with a sufficiently cold stare. They thought that was the most psycho line of the night. I was pleased.
I tried reading the book but stopped when I realised the guy writing it was essentially, a pretty sick guy. Really, why isn't that guy locked away? Lock him up. The violence in the book is thought to be there to enhance the message of the book, and to provoke some kind of distancing from the story itself. The point was made early on. It continues, maybe for noteriety, maybe because the guy is really that messed up. It's uneccessary.
The movie stays away from this. It tells the story the way it could be told, and is probably even more effective than the book. The monologues are fantastic and Christian Bale is excellent. I heard that Leonardo DiCaprio could have been Bateman for this, which would have been the next biggest shame; apart from of course the rest movies he has been cast in.
William Dafoe and Bale have great interaction together and I look forward to their scenes when I watch the movie again.
The music is great and whenever I get the chance I like to discourse about art/pop bands from the 80's to whoever will listen.
In conclusion, don't waste your time with the book, you'll just be appalled and needlessly so.
Check out this movie. It's excellent