What I find interesting about movies, other than the fact that 85 percent of them are crap, is that many directors seem to think they still need to sell the film with a flashy title sequence in the first 60 seconds after people have already hired a babysitter, bought tickets, spent $97 at the concession stand, and sat through twenty minutes of theatrical trailers. If Michael Mann ever…
There is a fine line between love of cinema, and pseudointellectual masturbation. “Clerks II” is certainly not the first film to walk the tightrope between the two… but it may very well be one of the few in which doing so lends purpose to the narrative. I didn’t think about it until after the movie was over, because one has to see where it goes to appreciate that, intentionally or not, it…
The glassy twinges of the soundtrack as the movie begins set a scatterbrain tone that gives one a frame of reference for Bob Arctor’s (Keanu Reeves) frame(s) of mind. Like some of his friends, Bob is addicted to Substance D—a refined narcotic that seven years from now is blamed for nearly all of society’s ills, of which the exact nature of the manufacture and…
If the words “Lesbian Spank Inferno” mean anything to you, you’ll understand precisely what’s lacking in this film. We’re reunited with the principals, Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), James Norrington (Jack Davenport) and of course, the ever-inebriated Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp). Just as soon as we see the young Swann about to be married to her beloved Will, colonial armies storm the castle, apprehending the two from crimes against the King. Oddly, the…
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