Review Months : April, 2005

April 2005 just does not seem to be a good month for reviews. I'm not saying the few reviews that have been posted are bad! I'm just saying that it doesn't appear that many movies are being watched, books are being read, things are being done, or songs are being heard. Maybe this is because Spring is here? Or perhaps because school is ending?

Recommend? Well, you may want to hold off until May, when I'm sure the reviews will be plentiful and... plentiful.

Movie: The Dreamers

References to old movies we've never seen, plenty of full frontal nudity, rioters doing battle in the streets with jackbooted policemen, lots of taboo sexual stuff, and opening credits set to Jimi Hendrix. Jarring but nice.

Recommend: Also, they speak in French about half the time. Don't worry, there are subtitles.

Movie : Kikoku

Whoa! This movie was good! It had lots of shooting, and funny parts too. One gangster versus many. Also, there were lots of scenes of Yakuza guys eating, which was what I was doind too (for part of the movie, anyway). So I was really able to identify with them on a very real level. Except they were using chopsticks. I thought, "If I were eating this burger and these fries with chopsticks, I'd be even more like a yakuza!" Whoa! In one scene, they even ate some Cup O Noodles, which I've had before!! They sell those at the grocery store!!

Recommend? Yes! Yakuza! Shooting! Food!

Movie : Once Upon A Time In Mexico

You pick up a movie and expect the Mariachi to go nuts, and you end up with a revolution of Mexico? And the CIA was up to something, maybe crooked? What? What happened here? Did you say 'Drug Cartel'? The chick in the Mexican Swat team is who? What? Somebody is swapping his face with someone else?

Director Robert Rodriguez took this film all over the place. I am estimating at least three viewings to fully get what he was trying to accomplish. I think Desperado was better, just because it had a simpler plot: Revenge. This movie had ten plots. Maybe twelve. Half a dozen too many, at the least.

Recommend? YES! When will they learn that you can't hit a Mariachi with bullets?!

Movie : Desperado

Who'd of thought that a Mariachi would be such a bad-ass... and so hard to hit! I mean, seriously, it is HARD to hit a Mariachi! Take a dozen machine guns firing point blank at a Mariachi, and you just can NOT hit him!

Wait, throwing knives will hit him every time... but not guns!

Recommend? HECK YES! I'm going to watch the sequel right now!