So okay, here I am again expressing my inner Pua. The last few days, I've caught Casino Royale, The Goonies!!!, Thank you for Smoking, Elizabethtown and The Departed.
By the way, share lang. I had a dream na nasa CAT daw tayo, tapos nakatayo ako sa may basketball court sa guard house. Habang training, may narinig daw tayo na gunshot galing sa malayo. Tapos pagtingin ko sa white shirt ko, may dugo, so natamaan ako ng stray bullet sa likod tapos tumagos sa harap ko. Anyway, they attended to me and I came out alive. Share lang lol.
Anyway, let's start. Casino Royale was pretty good. It had a Batman Begins-style revamp to it and James Bond was edgier, I liked that. The chase scenes were pretty good too. And then there were the poker scenes. Grabe tawa ako ng tawa. Trip aces vs trip kings... aces full of kings vs quad jacks. Tapos meron pa silang analysis on who played better. Let me tell you Doyle Brunson would never have folded AK on an JKAKJ board... ever. Watching James Bond talk poker analysis was even funnier. Anyway good movie overall. I was thinking about giving it a letter grade, but let's not get overboard.
The Goonies rocked. Napanuod ko sya as a kid, but I had no memory of it whatsoever aside from the fact that I barely remember scenes underground, but since 2/3 of the movie was underground, that was pretty much a generalization. Anyway, I didn't realize Samwise was the lead kid, so that was a little funny. The fat kid was irritating, but it was generally a decent cast. Very fun movie even at this time and I can't wait till Glenn finds the Goonies family computer game for the emulator. Come on Glenn!!!!
Thank you for smoking was amaaaaazing. Great cast(Eckhart, Katie Holmes, Maria Bello, JK Simmons, Robert Duvall, William H Macy, Rob lowe). I loooove Maria Bello.. in anything she does. Sigh, I'm melting. Anyway anyway, it was a great satirical movie. Great acting, great plot, great direction... good movie all around. If not for the dream team cast in The Departed, I would have called this the best of the bunch.
And then, Elizabethtown. Sigh. So okay, I wanted a feel good rom-com cause it was the only genre missing from my watch list. Based on what I saw on trailers, it looked like a decent film, nothing spectacular, but it doesnt take much to get me senti anyway, so I finally decided to watch it yesterday. Wow, it sucked so bad. I didn't even finish it cause it was so bad. First, the plot sucked. There were too many unnecessary scenes. Kirsten Dunst played her normal rom-com character: Witty, talkative, confident, borderline irritating with a hint of vulnerability. However, for elizabethtown, she decided to ditch the borderline and started the movie with just irritability. The worst performance, however, goes to Orlando Bloom. Apparently, he can act like an elf or a pirate, but can't look like a normal westerner. His role was a city guy who goes to a midwest country to visit old relatives so he's supposed to look out of place. The bad thing was that he looked out of place in the wrong way, like he didnt' even look american. So it was just terrible casting and nothing that came out of Orlando Bloom's mouth was believable (again, he was supposed to be this simple down to earth guy, but he really can't pull that off).
Okay, end of rant.
Finally, the departed. Now here's a movie.
I cannot even begin to say how much this movie rocked. The writing was great, the plot was great. The direction was incredible. Easily Scorcese's best along with Taxi Driver. Add to that an amazing amazing amazing cast. Martin Sheet was great, Nicholson was great, Dicaprio is always good, Damon and Wahlberg held their own. Alec Bladwin is never bad in anything, so he's always a given. Wilson said that he didnt think much of it cause it was from a hong kong movie, but almost every story came from something. That's like penalizing Cruel Intentions because it was based on Dangerous Liasons. The Departed was unbelievable to start with and its cast just pushed it over the top.
So there you go. That was a lot of movie talk heh.
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