Movies: April 2003 Archives

• Apocalypse Now
• Saving Private Ryan
• Star Wars -- Empire Strikes Back
• Good Will Hunting
• Twelve Monkeys
• The Matrix
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
• Das Boot
• Alien
• The Blues Brothers
• Independance Day
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Laurence of Arabia
• 2001: A Space Odessey
• MASH
• Ben Hur
• The Planet of the Apes
• The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
• The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers

These aren't in any special order, yet. I'll have to mull this list over more. Apocalypse Now is the number one by far, although I didn't care for Redux at all. You will also note, there are more than ten as well.

I went to see The Core", last night. I chose the movie because it was the movie that my wife would least like to see and I wouldn't have to wait too long for it to start.

It was truly awful, almost as bad as "Maid in Mannhattan" or "How to Lose a Guys in Ten Days."

I give it one star of four possible.

The characters were not likeable, the effects weren't too great, the story was contrived and predictable. I might have enjoyed it more if I had paid matineee prices, but even then it wasn't very good.

Problems with the story included the following.

• The whole government project that caused the core problem was little more than an afterthought. It should have been an important part of the story or left out.
• it was far too easy to figure out why the strange magnetic events were occurring.
• Building the "Virgil" was way too easy, it should have been long and complicated like in "Contact."
• People should have been bursting in flames in a 9,000 degree environment.
• The space shuttle just can't land in an LA viaduct. That was just lame.

What worked?

• The wierd birds in Trafalgar Square were good.
• I like the way the Golden Gate bridge and the Roman Coleseum were wrecked by atmospheric anomalies.
• I liked the hacker guy, especially as he was running a non-windows OS. Too bad the tech job he was given was totally bogus.