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Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
i'm kind of shocked at all the reviews calling this a gold digger movie...
First off, yes it's over the top with sumptuous wealth, but so is sex and the city or the devil wears prada. second, you may not agree with the fashion but keep in mind it's suppose to be what singapore considers chic. most importantly SHE"S NOT A GOLD DIGGER. they like each other not because of the wealth, she only found out about it during the trip. it's not that deep of a movie. it's not about them being christian, because come on, the wedding took place in a church, nowhere else are they professing any jesus ideals.
people are overthinking or rather over judging it. it's a fun, rom com w/ over the top sets, but come on, we watch movies for over the top, not based on reality ideals. this isn't a criterion movie. this is fun escapist entertainment and it's okay to enjoy the movie on that premise. not everything has to make sense, in fact, if it makes too much sense this type of movie would be dull. this is a tongue in cheek movie, and the producers know they are using hyperbole when making these characters. people who are getting antagonistic about "values" need to watch more hallmark channel because they're moral high horse just makes them misread things that are just not there.
Blood Ties (2013)
Boring, Formulaic, Uninspired
This cast is great and it's my favorite type of film: crime, brothers on either side of the law, and a bit of romance on the side. However, this movie proves why Scorcese is Scorcese. He does the exact same kind of story lines and with the same top notch actors but he makes his long movies go by so quickly. This movie just drags on and on and you know what's going to happen before any of the scenes there's no surprises and I care nothing for any of the characters. The acting is fine, the actors did an okay job, but it's just boring. Hood gets out of town, falls for girl who wants him to do well. He tries, he fails, he turn back to crime. There's a past relationship and of course it teases him. There's a dying father, a cop brother who wants him to do good. He just can't handle life on the outside. There's nothing wrong with the story but the dialogue is cheesy and the movie just doesn't flow. It's like time slows down and I'm watching this frame by boring frame. Don't waste your time on this one and rewatch Goodfellas if you're hankering for a gangster film.
Bridesmaids (2011)
annie is a single girl with life going downhill, who's best friend is getting married and a new life that she feels doesn't include her as much. Antics ensue.
The movie is funny but it felt a bit slow at times, the laughs were there but some parts just kind of droned on. I enjoyed it tho, and I can imagine that if I were a women it might have even been funnier. It definitely had the Apatow production feel.
Story line in a nut shell: Annie is a single girl with life going downhill, who's best friend is getting married and a new life that she feels doesn't include her as much. Antics ensue.
Funny moments: Best moment of the movie: Annie is broke and takes the girls to a Brazilian restaurant that is a bit of a hole in the wall and they get food poisoning before trying on bridalwear. The girls all have it coming out from both ends, there was barf going into a girls hair and the bride poops in a wedding gown in the middle of the street while trying to reach the bathroom in another store.
Cliché but OK: Annie has sex with Mad Man guy who looks upon her as a sex buddy and he fracks like a jack rabbit and she gets with a dopey cop.
Other Funny moment: Annie drunk and on pills for air sickness acts loopy and gets thrown off plane in emergency landing.
Fat Lesbian like bridesmaid turns out to be straight and gets with ugly cia guy and have sex with food involved.
Annie rants at bridal shower after she is threatened by bride's new friend who is domineering.
Annie's roommates who are unattractive brother and sister with big hint of incest.
The movie works on the comedy level, but at 125 minutes it could carry the same weight with 30 less minutes.
rating: 7/10
Brighton Rock (2010)
promising first half, tedious second
Brighton Rock: The movie started with such promise it was mysterious: a man tries to make a call at the telephone booth, then a group of men surround him with switchblades and one of the blades drop and a guy picks it up and accidentally kills him. The guy who accidentally kills him, Hale, is then in jeopardy for his life and he knows it. Pinky who sees Hale kill the mysterious stranger chases after him. They are on the pier of Brighton Rock, Hale grabs a girl, gets his picture taken with the girl and one of Pinky's associates and then Pinky kills Hale. Next we find out that the mysterious guy who dies is Kite, Pinky's boss, Pinky attempts to take over Kite's racket but their's another mob in town. He tries to strike a deal with them at the same time as get the picture from the girl. The other mob betrays Pinky and he marries the girl to keep her silence. Up to this point it's all excitement, Pinky is handsome, Brighton Rock is picturesque, and this is the beauty of the 50's along the seashore with Vespas and beautifully dressed mod women and men in brat pack suits. The story then just drops to boredom from this point. The music stays ominous but the action dissipates. Rose's boss tries to convince her to talk to the poilice, the foolish girl doesn't want to, and Pinky goes crazy with mistrust. The question is why doesn't he kill her? It's tenuous to the plot that he keeps her around because she fears discovery when he already killed two other people and he believes she is unreliable. Further, why all the switchblades? Sure it leaves a quite picturesque image all this fighting with the dashing of knives, but wouldn't guns be more realistic? If you're such a bad ass wouldn't you rather shoot someone then swing a switchblade at them? The movie ends with Pinkie trying to make Rose commit suicide but her old boss stops it at nick of time, a struggle with Pinkie but he burns himself with the vial of acid that he keeps and falls off a cliff, Rose ends up in a sanitarium, pregnant.
It's odd the point that the movie fell off for me, it was when I checked the review on IMDb and saw it was a 5.7/10. I strongly disagreed at that point but then I see the truth of it. Take away the mystery and you get a slowly neurotically paced scene of breakdown that you can guess at the ending.
6.5/10