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December 18, 2003
Movie Reviews
So because I like movies and I have seen some good ones lately...
Pirates of the Caribbean
A fun and frivolous film about, you guessed it, pirates. Yes, it was fashioned after the ride in Disney World, but Johnny Depp really makes it fun as Cap’n Jack Sparrow. Good clean movie with comic action violence and some low cut dresses but that’s all.
The Last Samurai
A film about Tom Cruise’s retired Civil War captain and how he reforms his ways in learning the morals, honor, and code of the Samurai people in Japan. A little predictable but what from Hollywood isn’t. Rated R for violence. No sex or even hint of sex. There is half a kiss but it is cut off quickly and you can close your eyes through it if you want to. :J
Master and Commander
Another Captain. "Lucky" Jack Aubrey played by Russell Crowe chases a phantom French ship (we all like seeing the French lose) around the ocean while his doctor (Paul Bettany who you probably don’t know but played opposite Crowe in “A Beautiful Mind” as the prodigal roommate) tries to keep the sailors alive and discover a little more about our world. Good conflict between these two. Again no sex. You only see women for about 3 minutes and they are clothed. There is a boy who gets his arm amputated early in the film. They don’t show the cutting but they do show his face while it is happening.
The Pianist
Probably most of you have seen Adrian Brody in this WWII Holocaust movie but I just saw it last night. Every now and then you need to see a serious sobering movie like this. Love and loss, good stuff. There are some pretty shocking murders so if you are easily grossed out then avoid it, but again I think that we need to see at least a taste of the terrible reality of what happened. Finally there is also no sexual content that I saw. The DVD that I watched skipped several times so I missed small portions of the film but from what I have read and seen it is clean.
These are not the best movies that I have ever seen but I can in good conscious recommend them. They all have some violent aspects so if you are a young child or would be viewing them with a young child you might want to check out the web site I go to continuously and trust for my movie ratings Screenit.com
Also I watch a lot of previews so that I can avoid the stupid or trashy movies. Trailers.apple.com provides them in quicktime format that takes longer to download but doesn’t skip while playing. It is the site that I go to most often over windows media or realplayer.
Long post but I am sure that you didn’t read all of it. :J
Posted by paul at December 18, 2003 01:05 PM
Comments
For some reason Pirates of the Caribbean (the only one of those that i've seen) really hit my funny bone. I'm still laughing at it. I've seen it twice...
Posted by: Mat at December 18, 2003 10:37 PM
you should do this more often
Posted by: micah at December 19, 2003 01:08 AM
I would but I don't have the opportunity nor the money to see a lot of movies.
Also there just are not that many that get put out...
Posted by: paul at December 19, 2003 09:29 AM
This was a great post! I like the "no sex" parts.
Posted by: Ochuk at December 19, 2003 03:17 PM