All the New Movies That I Have Seen
1. 88 Minutes (2007).
My mother and my youngest brother wanted to see a movie for Mother's Day but unfortunately the one movie my mother had her heart set on seeing -- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -- wasn't out yet. So we saw this instead.
It wasn't the best movie we could have seen. In fact, I was already glancing at my watch long before the first half-hour was up. The movie was your standard serial-killer flick with the obligatory surprise ending and plot twists that wasn't really all that twisty. Add to that the fact that the flick starts off with what looks like a torture porn sequence for the PG-13 crowd and it's safe to say that it wasn't one of the best movies I ever saw.
Al Pacino has definitely done better work in the past. Let's hope he does far better than this in the future.
2. Iron Man (2008).
There was no way my mother was going to agree to seeing this on Mother's Day but I enjoyed it. The film is not so much Robocop meets Transformers, as one film critic put it, as it was MacGyver meets Charlie Wilson's War. I would not argue that this is the best superhero movie ever made, but considering the fact that it got me emotionally involved in the story of a comic book character I've never been particularly fond of in comic book form, it seems appropriate to say that it's pretty good.
Great acting by all the actors, including Robert Downey, Jr. and Jeff Bridges. Even Gwyneth Paltrow gave a good performance -- though she still reminds me a lot of Lisa Kudrow for some reason.
1. 88 Minutes (2007).
My mother and my youngest brother wanted to see a movie for Mother's Day but unfortunately the one movie my mother had her heart set on seeing -- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -- wasn't out yet. So we saw this instead.
It wasn't the best movie we could have seen. In fact, I was already glancing at my watch long before the first half-hour was up. The movie was your standard serial-killer flick with the obligatory surprise ending and plot twists that wasn't really all that twisty. Add to that the fact that the flick starts off with what looks like a torture porn sequence for the PG-13 crowd and it's safe to say that it wasn't one of the best movies I ever saw.
Al Pacino has definitely done better work in the past. Let's hope he does far better than this in the future.
2. Iron Man (2008).
There was no way my mother was going to agree to seeing this on Mother's Day but I enjoyed it. The film is not so much Robocop meets Transformers, as one film critic put it, as it was MacGyver meets Charlie Wilson's War. I would not argue that this is the best superhero movie ever made, but considering the fact that it got me emotionally involved in the story of a comic book character I've never been particularly fond of in comic book form, it seems appropriate to say that it's pretty good.
Great acting by all the actors, including Robert Downey, Jr. and Jeff Bridges. Even Gwyneth Paltrow gave a good performance -- though she still reminds me a lot of Lisa Kudrow for some reason.
Labels: 88 Minutos, Al Pacino, El Día de la Madre, Gwyneth Paltrow, Iron Man -- El Hombre de Hierro, Jeff Bridges, Películas Nuevas II, Robert Downey Jr., Superhéroes
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