Friday, October 20, 2006
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Monday, October 16, 2006
Take for example 'The Departed', Hollywood's newest massacre of an asian movie, which she gave 4 stars for. Maybe if you'd never watched the original, you'd think the plot's pretty good. After you've seen the original, you'll wonder at how Hollywood managed to turn such an emotional and exciting movie into a bland fake-blood bath with loud music and the token pointless sex scene thrown in.
The only really interesting person in the movie was Jack Nicholson acting like a madman - but then again he's always acting as a madman (You might as well watch 'Anger Management' or 'Batman'). DiCaprio looks more like a prettyboy juvenile delinquent than Italian mafia. Matt Damon did quite ok with his usual too-smart-for-his-own-good face and passable acting, but just so-so. The female lead is completely negligible.
But besides adding no real value in this remake, there was also glaring evidence of shoddy research and plain stupidity. Basically, too many taunts about cock-sucking. You'd think hardened criminals would have grown up a little more so as not to resemble 12-year-old American
In the end, like Damon, you'll want to say "Oh whatever" too.
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Saturday, October 14, 2006
But I guess smokers shouldn't be affected much. They're probably used to having a cloud of haze swirling around them wherever they go.
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