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Sleepwalk with Me (2012)
For Comedians, By a Comedian (SPOILER)
Oh the trials and tribulations of an up-and-coming comedian. I listen to This American Life and find Birbiglia somewhat boring already, but this story goes too far. Only in America do we celebrate an out of shape and cowardly white guy because he's trying to hone his craft on stage. His beautiful, successful, and goal-driven girlfriend is left in his wake, and his well-meaning parents are treated like jerks.
This movie was bad. Do yourself a favor and avoid it. I am really surprised that WBEZ/Ira Glass/This American Life greenlighted this project because it's so narrow-minded and boring.
One highlight, though; I don't want to be a total negative nancy: the long follow shot of "Matt" as he checks into La Quinta is quite clever.
Knight Rider: Knight Rider (2008)
Sucked in between all the commercials
Wretched waste of time. I, too, am a child of the 80s. I had the K.I.T.T. Kit - my mom ordered it for me when I was 7 years old. I had a bunch of the toys, my brother and I would build Knight Rider cars and scenes out of Legos. But last night's show? Awful. Passionless. I dare say disrespectful. Some Ford commercial - apparently the overweight Edge "crossover" utility vehicle is as Fast as a GT500KR! And it stops on a dime! And the Edge didn't even need CGI! And I guess those GMC Yukons are real track stars, too. Other lowlights: KITT asks MIke if he's gay. Stanford suddenly gets relocated to Southern California (Northridge, specifically.) No "ski mode", no "turbo boost" or grappling hook. K.I.T.T.'s future is about as appealing as Val Kilmer's career. K.I.T.T. didn't do a damned cool thing. Didn't jump anything, provide any useful information, didn't transmit his voice through a watch - just a conspicuous Bluetooth-like headset. Weak. His cruise control couldn't even hold 200mph en route to Vegas, as promised. MIke Traceur becomes Ethan Hunt? And the FLAG truck is now a C-130 Hercules? I bet that Mustang is going to blend right in when they drive into Prague. Sheesh. What a joke. Was this pilot test-marketed to blind people raised on Keanu Reeves movies? Was this show written by a team of monkeys with typewriters while the rest of Hollywood was on strike? To the producers: your vision for the "Western for modern times" is not evident here. Give it up. Hoff: Go back to the "talent" show.
Inside Man (2006)
Possible SPOILER: Questions about continuity/fine details
Spike Lee's first crime drama in a while... clever the way he hid the faces of the hostage- takers with the masks and also kept the faces of the hostages from being sharply-defined. When they were on the ground after they rushed out of the bank, none of them can be identified to the audience as being on one side of the "crime" or the other. The audience is surely searching each person in a painter smock to find Owens' character.
What, Denzel doesn't count hostages when he gets the tour of the bank in the middle of the night? Clive Owens' character walks out of the bank basement in the middle of the day wearing sunglasses? And is going to smell terrible and still manages to bump into Denzel's character? The antagonist banker character does not look old enough to have been involved in the Nazis at an age where he'd be a businessman? What was his occupation with them anyhow?
Strange that the final twist involves Frazier presumably giving his fiancé a diamond that would have belonged to a family that died at the hands of the Nazis. Maybe the gem would have been taken in as evidence and later sold at auction to a third party, but....