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Memento (2000)
Top Five of All Time
Ordering any "Top Five" list is a difficult call. At such heights, it borders on presumptuous to assume that one can actually distinguish Greatness from Greatness. It's a bit like the Seven Human Intelligences. How do you measure one kind of genius against another? Each is unique and unparalleled. Memento is in that club; somewhere very near the top.
Spider-Man (2002)
Jumpin' Genomics, Batman!
Back off, Batman, Spidey RULES!
Where radiation could only give the original Spidey super-senses, GENOMICS makes him totally real. Just wait till you see how cool the webslinging is portrayed; even BETTER than we imagined ourselves as young Sixties Spidies, four decades ago. For kids of the 60's and our own kids, the Spiderman movie fully delivers on both the comic book and Saturday morning cartoon dream.
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
High Quality Unadulterated Adolescent F-Fest
I'd like to find out if this movie uses the F word more than any movie ever made. Surely some hardcore statistician out there can let us know the top 5 F-movies of all time; JSBSB could be the new number one.
To this viewer, it appears that Smith exercises his increasingly impressive movie making skills in what has almost become a trademark humble and self-deprecating manner, by filling the screen with absurdly moronic idiotically juvenile content. In other words, Perfection for what appears to me as the film's desired outcome. What I mean is, Smith's expertise in the art and science of making a movie reaches an all time high, while he makes fun of himself (almost as much as he makes fun of Affleck) with the absurdity of the images and dialog on the screen. "You mean there's a script for this?" Absutively Posilutely Hilarious. The movie delivers everything Smith could have possibly promised, both to the studio and to the millions of loyal, if rather demented, Smithereens. I hereby nominate "Smithereens" as the official name of Kevin Smith cultists everywhere; let's hear some Smithereens theme music in "Return of Jay and Silent Bob." Moreover, anyone who can package and sell The Great White Buckwheat as a 21st century star of DVD and screen has definitely blown the naysayers and MoviePoopShooters (aka AintItCoolers) to Smithereens.
That said, if you go off this film with the intent of some high-brow deconstruction, I can only say one thing: Make sure you pay full ticket price to exercise your manifest literary rights, and "F yous up yous stupid a$$es." Well, that's two things; so sue me. I'd love to have the chance to countersue by having my lawyer jump up on the bench and rip a big old snoochie fart right in Judge Judy's face.
As much as I enjoy Smith's work, I fear that audiences may not get enough of the inside jokes to make this movie as big of a financial success as it should be; nevertheless, as a Pay Back Movie it's clearly a 10+.
Left Behind (2000)
If you liked Stephen King's "The Stand," you'll enjoy this.
If you liked Stephen King's "The Stand," you'll enjoy this fictionalized exploration of a fundamental Christian belief known as "the rapture." While no human being can possibly interpret this doctrine with 100% accuracy, the film does a good job of bringing some highly likely scenarios to the screen.
If you can accept the Holy Scientific Faith that "Once upon a time, all the matter in the 125 billion known galaxies existed in a single sub-atomic spec, for no apparent reason; and suddenly, it all blew up and here we are," then it shouldn't be much of a stretch to entertain the subjects presented in this film. If you know what speciation, taxonation, and macrogenesis are, and know the spotty record of each, then you'll find that this film's ideas are based upon substantive archeological records that are at least as sound as the evidence for those ideas.