Reviews for December, 2006

What Dreams May Come

Filed under W - DVD Movie Club

This is about the dumbest movie I’ve seen in the past year. It’s about a family, and they all die and go to heaven, except the mom goes to hell. So the dad, played by Robin Williams, goes on an epic journey to ‘rescue’ her from hell and they all live in heaven happily ever after. Except the mom and dad reincarnate themselves so they can live again. It was probably one of the biggest wastes of film in the history of humanity. They could’ve used that film to capture the eating habits of giraffes on the Serengeti, to capture babies being born or even to make one of those time-lapse photography videos to show the bloom cycle of a flower. Even though the film was nominated for a bunch of awards and everything, I still hated it. But I gave it a 2 on the flame scale despite its warped theology and several boring scenes that went on for like five hours, because the ‘living paint’ scenes, while dull, were pretty majestic-looking.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Filed under P - DVD Movie Club

After hearing that this film was far-fetched and difficult to believe, I sat down to watch it thinking it would be some overdone cheese-fest whose goal was to outdo the first movie in every possible way. Well, the truth is, it was - but it’s nothing more than you’d EXPECT from a Pirates of the Caribbean movie! If you’re not ready to suspend disbelief, to sit back and go along for the ride, maybe you’d rather have your feet bound to a moving vehicle and get tossed out the back instead of watching this movie. Then you’ll appreciate a good ride when you see it. Kiera Knightly was just as sexy as ever, even though she was a big slutbag - and not nearly as sexy as Captain Jack, but that goes without saying. This one gets a 4.5/5 on the scale since it was great but not quite as awesome as the first one.