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dolcevita wrote: Yes. They had it on so many screens there considering its a small theatre. Played every 30 to 40 minutes. Its New York, they love Woody Allen you know. I went at 12.50 pm after I got out of class on saturday, and I would guess the theatre was about 1/3- 1/2 full. But its not a huge AMC/LOEWS type theatre. But Lincoln Plaza Cinema (name of theatre) was really cramming in as many shows as possible. That certainly explains the $74,000 gross. _________________Visit My Youtube Account and here is what you will see.    and many more.
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dolcevita
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 Miss Congeniality 2
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Quote: Sandra Bullock is back with the second 007-in-stillettos installment of Miss Congeniality. Three weeks after discovering that her inner glam-girl doesn’t necessarily need to be antagonistic to her outer tough-girl FBI agent, Gracie Hart finds herself in Vegas... Everything about Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, reflects this new trajectory route. The scenes are kitschier, the clothing more gaudy, and the jokes more explicit and accessible. Hart’s new escapade is nowhere near as intriguing or entertaining as her first jaunt down the runway, but that being said, it isn’t atrocious either.
...Fuller is violent and disgruntled, but will lose her job if she doesn’t keep Hart on schedule for press conferences and TV screenings. Predictably, neither Hart nor Fuller are sympathetic towards each other, due to their alpha-female characters’ struggle to procure a sense of worth for further employment by the FBI. Even more predictably, their kooky attempts to rescue Bullock’s pageant friend and new kidnap victim, Cheryl, bring the two closer together. Hart and Fuller carry the entire movie, providing a good cop/bad cop scenario, and exchanging as many punches with each other as their intended suspects...
Ultimately, Miss Congeniality is the perfect extension of its supposed location. It’s as glossy, loud, and fun as a casino cabaret show, and about equally as intelligent.
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the only thing that i did not like about this movie, was that i thought it repeated a lot of the first MC in terms of plot...
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Beauty Shop
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Quote: ...Beauty Shop is not just boring; it also produces mildly regressive stereotypes of working class urban African American women and crusty wealthy white ones. Queen Latifah is her usual enthusiastic, sweet self as the heroine Gina who tries to chase her dreams. Unfortunately her character falls flat is the face of her situation.
...Pregnancy and sex jokes abound, and the characters of Gina’s Beauty Shop feel pointedly and forcibly contrived.
The clientele is even more stereotypical if that can be possible. Gina’s fans from Jorge’s salon follow her to the new urban joint and come fully equipped with eating disorders, eight thousand dollar breast implants, naiveté of their cheating husbands, and condescending attitudes...
Scenes from a famous radio personality waft into the salon room with “urban†talk of sex and life, and of course the edits are mixed into the salon’s noisy air. As though the infinite amount of already random banter wasn’t enough. Beauty Shop has its pleasant one liners, as its impossible not to have several comic situations in a movie with so many strung together, but they are brief moments of comedy that stand alone. The entire movie goes nowhere, unlike the predictably rising status of the salon.
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Sin City
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Quote: Robert Rodriguez knows Frank Miller’s books well. In fact, Rodriguez knows them so well, and is indebted to the comics so enthusiastically that his Sin City mirrors the look, feel, and lack of direction that episodic graphic series tend to lean towards. The further adventures of dark men in the dark city may work well on page after page for years, but as a two-hour package, Sin City has little drive outside of its visual sumptuousness. Sin City is the story of three different men who have common ties to one region of their abysmal, dirty, corrupt world, Old Town…where the prostitutes live. One must prepare oneself for a film where the warp of the narrative fabric involves sexual predators, paid hit men, corrupt government and clergy, and heroes who get numerous respective beat-downs, and the weft are women that wear more make-up than they do clothes. If the style suites you, Sin City will as well...
... Ultimately, Sin City achieves what it set out to do, pay homage to the dark, pulp comic that is its namesake, but upon reaching said accomplishment it does little to rise above those ancestral pages.
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Double Suicide
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Quote: Masahiro Shinoda procures an ingenious if rather drawn-out exploration of a pair of star-crossed lovers’ final days in his unique vision Double Suicide. Shinoda layers his story through the use of ever-present puppet masters, and the doomed merchant and courtesan lovers are rooted in an early 18th century puppet play. The opening of Double Suicide presents puppeteers sheathing themselves in black garments from head to toe. They grab their dolls and scamper towards the stage as Shinoda himself speaks on the phone to an assistant about choreographing a lovers’ scene in a graveyard. Though Double Suicide does not bless us with unique puppet work, it does create a direct parallel between puppets and the live-action production that does ensue by incorporating the phantasm puppet masters as they scurry between and assist actors throughout the entire story...
As the two lovers desperately flee to a more naturally depicted cemetery at the outskirts of the city, the shocking feel of reality lasts only as long as their exaggerated passionate exchanges. And when the puppet masters appear once more to help the two achieve their infamous act, the sense of contrived theatre quickly returns. Shinoda only allows for Jihei and Kohura to emerge in a new light for the brief moment of their most utter rapture before quickly reintroducing his layered storytelling. The inevitable suicide and the gratingly flat personas throughout Double Suicide would not stand alone, but Shinoda’s haunting and brilliantly layered story are the real stars of the film.
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Kung Fu Hustle
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Quote: The notorious Axe Gang wreaks havoc in 1940’s China but meets its match in a depraved nook called Pig Sty Alley in Stephen Chow’s sometimes aimless but often-hysterical Kung Fu Hustle. In Chow’s highly stylized movie, top hats are the tell-tale apparel of the axe butchers in a way that would bring tears to Martin Scorsese’s eyes, and the members of the Axe Gang aren’t the only walking comic stereotypes. Pig Sty Alley is full of misfits; a prostitute with buck teeth, hardy farmers and wheat carriers, a philandering landlord and his domineering screech of a wife. There is little privacy, less water, and even less money.
So when one day in a fit of false machismo Sing (Stephen Chow) and his obese sidekick pick a fight with the local barber, none of the Sty residents are all too fearful of losing their lives in an ensuing scuffle. When Sing calls in the Axe Gang for assistance, a massive clash reveals the identity of several incognito Kung Fu masters amongst the Sty inhabitants. The Axe Gang’s attempts to eliminate the masters are the foundation for Hustle. The clash also reveals Sing for the slightly wimpy schlemiel that he despises to be, and Sing’s experiences with the Axe Gang and the Sty residents are the heart of the movie...
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Smoke Signals
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Quote: Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire are neither good friends nor are they sworn enemies. They share a common past having survived a massive house fire in 1976, and they also live on the Coeur d’Alene reservation in Idaho. Director Chris Eyre’s groundbreaking film “Smoke Signals†follows the two high school youths as they travel to Phoenix together to collect the ashes of Victor’s father. Smoke Signals is the first feature to be written, directed, and co-produced by Native Americans, and while it has a fairly simple and straightforward story line, what makes Smoke Signals so rich is its dialogue heavy with inside humor, metaphor, and a deep respect for oral tradition...
The metaphors, including Fry Bread, are layered thick in Smoke Signals. They are a fairly simple construction, but what make their use so exceptional in Signals is the rays of distinctly familiar “inside†humor that Eyre and screenplay writer Sherman Alexie choose as illumination. They are not completely inaccessible, as the universality of plentiful fry bread is as palatable as manna from heaven, or the ever-multiplying loaves. Surely cognizant of the parallel, Thomas at one point cracks jokes about Fry Bread walking on water and rising from the dead...
The return home is full of aggression, Victor and Thomas’ first true fight, and a car accident. But by the closing minutes of Smoke Signals what ultimately remains are the very personal story of two boys and the memories they had of their father, and a small glimpse into the lives and contemporary situations of peoples often rendered only in melodramatic historic period epics.
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Blow-Up
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Quote: When David Hemmings’ fashion photographer Thomas finds his camera in his hand, and its lens trained on a couple fondling in the park, Michelangelo Antonioni finds his magnum opus Blow-Up. Blow-Up, a truly a magnificent film layered in complexity, humor, and scathing criticism of jaded 60’s pop culture, will never slip into oblivion in the collective memory of the film world. It is the hallmark of shifting storylines and introduced information; it is the crowing film of voyeurism and that action’s repercussions or lack thereof. Oft imitated but never surpassed in excellence, Antonioni’s Blow-Up fluctuates between exploring the relationship between two men, their cameras, and existential questions of perception and reality. Blow-Up is never explicit or dialogue heavy in its ruminations however, instead it blooms like faux-flowers at a photo shoot, all through use of a taught thrilling murder, enthusiastic mimes, and the picturesque lush self-indulgence of the fashion world...
The beauty of Blow-Up is that we, the audience, never knows the truth of the situation, or even if a truth exists. In a drugged-out haze Thomas returns to the scene of the crime only to find no evidence. The body has either been removed, or never existed in the first place. Blow-Up is riddled with introspection into this one critical point...
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The Interpreter
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Quote: One has to worry when a “political†thriller involves a completely innocent and well-intentioned Central Intelligence Agency, and where the only politically conniving character is the questionable leader in the midst of an ethnic cleansing spree. Yet these very points are the foundation of veteran Sydney Pollack’s The Interpreter. Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) returns to her interpreter’s perch to pick up a bag of ethnic instruments only to find herself eavesdropping on a conversation that puts her at the complete mercy of Central Intelligence Agency interrogations lead by Tobin Keller (Sean Penn). The movie begins with her innocent plea for help before launching into a potential assassination plot of a much-despised militant leader of a fictional African country...
The Interpreter can’t quite decide if it truly wants to delve into the dark underbelly of political intrigue, the character study of two alienated professionals, or the bullet and bomb action movie. So instead it walks the line between all three, offerings up a little taste of each without ever fully exploring one direction in a memorable fashion.
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Reeker
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Quote: Big on frights if not thought, Dave Payne’s Reeker has all the trappings of a solid horror film, but the many more creative suggestions Payne introduces into the plot unfortunately turn out to be Reeker’s shortcoming. Reeker’s suggestion at brilliant new interpretations of survival-of-the-fittest fail to fully come to fruition, resulting in Reeker’s scenes of gore and fright ultimately adding up to little more than a well painted canvas with nothing to say...
Reeker, by its second third is still full of shock-worthy moments, but they seem strung together as a series of adventures aiming to probe nothing more than survival and the courage of the audience. Payne is successful in building tension through well-timed appearances, interesting audio, and an occasionally creative turn of events for one character or another. His sense of timing, if not his sense of purpose, is strong. He produces a good show, capable of holding onto attention with his characters’ mix of uncomfortable gestures like clowns stuffed and trapped into a moving vehicle. Reeker’s ending is an even bigger spectacle, attempting at profundity or quickly covering its own plot holes. Either way, Reeker will certainly keep you engaged and entertained during the show if not for a particularly long length of time afterwards.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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...Hitchhiker’s guide definitely has its redeeming moments amongst the chaos. When Dent takes a space factory tour and sees how planets are created, Hellen Mirren’s whiny complaints as the super computer Deep Thought, and Marvin’s perfectly timed self-deprecatory remarks are all classic moments and characters in both the original text and the new movie.
The unfortunate fact that little holds these moments together makes them both more attractive and more wasted. Movies that string together great line after great line and still manage to incorporate an engaging storyline are rare. Hitchhiker’s Guide adds fuel to the suspicion that even a funny movie needs to stop and consider if its content supports any story that one could sit through for two hours. In Hitchhiker’s case, the question can be answered with a resounding 42.
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The Holy Girl
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Quote: Lucrecia Martel takes her careful time to dwell on the circumstances that culminate in the downfall of the middle-aged Dr. Jano. The doctor (Carlos Belloso) attends a week-long conference in an Argentine city; events which will change his life forever. Shrouded in the anonymity of being a stranger in a claustrophobic urban center, he makes improper advances on a random school-girl on the streets one day. The girl, Amalia (Maria Alche), when faced with his erection pushed up against her backside, envisions the opportunity as a calling for her vocation. She and her best friend, Josefina (Julieta Zylberberg) have been obsessively studying the themes of vocation and redemption at the Catholic all-girl’s school they attend. What ensues is Martel’s haunting, yet remarkably non-judgmental exploration of sex, faith, anonymity and maturation in The Holy Girl.
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bump for the weekend
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Crash
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Quote: At one point, Paul Haggis’s attempt to chronicle the experiences of several L.A. residents for a momentous 24 hours of their intertwined lives may have been well intentioned, but his finished production, Crash, is ultimately too simple, too expository, and reinforces too many negative stereotypes to be insightful. Haggis serves up a dish of cold lecture and overly verbalized racial friction in his directorial debut, while his grating tendency to collapse all personal issues into the “big race one†borders on offensive. The sincerity and severity in which the entire cast and production crew approached Crash are misleading. Rarely do such movies come along where the heaviness of the tone informs what is easily an absurd production. Crash joins the ranks of a unique cinema that has slipped through the cracks of proper criticism due to initial intent and sympathetic marketing. Crash, like its predecessors, ends up being counterproductive in its sermon on race and its ability to insult the intelligence of viewers everywhere...
His positive contributions, mostly having to do with Hanson’s desire not to file a police report on Ryan, Graham’s (Don Cheadle) professional decisions, and Graham’s relationship with his family are ruined by Haggis obsessive need to spell every single emotion out to his apparently dim-witted fans. That Crash probably attracted quite a film savvy audience in the scheme of fan-bases is further proof Crash has little merit both in regards to production quality and due to its doctrinaire and condescending treatment of subject matter. The situations feel packed together with little connection outside of the overbearing theme of “race,†which Haggis ultimately grounds to “human fallibility†in a regressive attempt to avoid actually challenging any principles of racial tension.
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Heh, a D.
My didn't love it all that much, either, but I don't think he flat out hated it. :razz:
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Mad Hot Ballroom
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Quote: Marilyn Agrelo doesn’t have to dig too deep into her pre-teen subjects in order to discover their character. Her subjects, ten and eleven year old children in New York’s public schooling system, wear their emotions on their sleeves and for the most part, are as unabashedly excited to perform for the camera as they are for the annual citywide ballroom dancing championships. Agrelo’s Mad Hot Ballroom is a decent and uncomplicated documentary about ten weeks and the ultimate dancing competition for eclectic sets of memorable students from three different school districts. Not quite on the level of such child documentaries as Spellbound or Hoop Dreams, Mad Hot Ballroom lives more for the moment and is less persistent about developing either a deep historic reading or a discussion on education and culture. The audience is sure to experience the tears and yelps of joy simultaneously with the documented green, red, and indigo teams; though little more. For Mad Hot Ballroom, that is enough.
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Walk on Water
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Quote: Eytan Fox’s Walk on Water is a film whose title aptly captures the tension and potential for suffocation its subject evokes. As a quiet personal story about a man’s grapple with life and death set against the backdrop of Israeli memory and turmoil, Walk on Water had the potential to sink through the surface and suffer from self-reflexive doubt and heavy-handedness. Instead, Fox procures the poignant tale of Israeli special agent Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi). As an assassin and spy for the government, Eyal goes about his business with little self-introspection or political criticism until he returns from a mission in Turkey to find his wife has committed suicide. In the dry fall-out after the event, Eyal buries himself in his work but refuses to seek psychiatric assistance. Within a month, his boss assigns him to trace the German grandchildren of an ex-Nazi whose whereabouts are unknown...
Walk on Water tackles many large issues head on, including Israeli national identity, the collective memory of the Holocaust, gendered culture in Israel, and of course, Israel's handling of Palestine. Rather than deliver a neat little expository package about the many situations however, Fox explores the many issues indirectly through his one agent’s psychological awakening...
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Hmm, I don't know. I rarely say this about any movie, but this one really looks like a flick I have no interest in seeing. Maybe because we have dealt with the whole "Israel" topic for a long time in my History class just recently, so I am a bit fed up with it  _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Revenge of the Sith
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...Revenge of the Sith is the pivotal episode that transitions from the past to the present, and in so doing attempts to compensate for the completely non-existent and unconnected stories of the botched Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. Sith is partially successful, and its shortcomings arise more so from Lucas’ desire to tie all loose ends and characters into a happy little bow upon the gift package, than from its basic storyline. Sith is simple. It does not carry any accessory characters, and in keeping with its modern predecessors, emphasizes the special effects extravaganza that is the digital age. Unlike the previous adventures of Anakin, however, Lucas has taken the time to at least competently build up the environment; matching the visual landscape to the actual story rather than forcing a random race scene into the plot just to showcase some digital finesse...
What can possibly be said about Revenge of the Sith that is not an amalgamation of comments from all five previous works? It’s a patchwork of the original vision and the newer errors. Sith tries incredibly hard reach for the stars, and fans will comfortably settle for that reach as a spark of old charisma. Sith is not a crowning conclusion to the most famous franchise in cinema history, but it is entertaining enough to trigger memories of Star Wars’ once higher ambitions.
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
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Take into consideration all rumors about target audience, as they are all in fact quite true. Director Ken Kwapis most assuredly made the coming-of-age stories in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants for young girls. With them in mind, the sisterhood’s respective experiences are actually quite creative and decent themes for a genre typically riddled with stale school popularity contests, catfights, and horrendous sex clichés. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is infinitely smarter, more progressive, and a much more intricately executed film than many of its predecessors. Sisterhood’s content is more akin to such films as Rob Reiner’s Stand by Me than it is such works as the recent Princess Diaries and The Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen...
For general audiences: B-
For target age group: A-
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Batman Begins
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Quote: Returning to Batman’s roots, fans of the DC comic heir-turned-civic hero will relish almost every minute of orphan millionaire Bruce Wayne’s rise first foray into crime fighting. Gone are the gaudy sets and ridiculously overstated emotions. Gone are the clear cut good guys and bad guys. In their place lies a city of steel and glass towers, iron bridges, corruption, redemption, and a cast that bring grit to a franchise in dire need of the fresh energy.
Batman Begins takes its sweet time building to a climax. But when a Mafioso head and a psychiatric doctor with potent hallucinogenic gas are only the pawns of the game…one can tell that the climax is well worth waiting for.
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Howl’s Moving Castle
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The imagery at times is admittedly and lovingly quirky, true, but it is also not visionary. England and the meandering castle are closed where they could be expansive; simple when they could be elaborate; redundant, repetitive, and uninspiring when they could have been invigorating, fresh, and dynamic. Oh yes, and if not to add insult to injury, the story of little Sophie feels an awful lot like that of Snow White’s.
While in 1937 a prudent, naïve woman pining away for her a love to come rescue her whilst cooking and sweeping random homes in the woods may have been in context, there’s no excuse or even mild interest in seeing the story repeated in 2005. Sophie simply enters the castle and proceeds to clean it as the primary viewing experience and dialogue of the movie...
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