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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Mr. Peck at his finest
Gregory Peck was very very good in the film. I think it could have gone either way between him and Peter O'Toole.
After much consideration, I've decided Gregory Peck is my favorite all time actor.
He is so great, from this to the Yearling to Gentleman's agreement. He has done a fabulous job on all his work and is one of the greats. How unfortunate that he passed away last year, huh? Caring man who won the Oscar for this role.
Gregory Peck is so great; I wish I could've met him. It would have been a blast.
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
Tanner was such a bigot!
SPOILERS Tanner used epithets throughout the whole movie bashing Ahmad and Carmen, and the catcher for the Toros, who was a jerk himself. So watch for Tanner's slurs, especially in the hotel when he and Carmen fight for the bed and he says, "You dumb w**!"
The Hot Chick (2002)
kinda bad; I was disappointed
This movie wasn't that good. Rob Schneider falls short, and the girl who plays Jessica just is plain BAD!! Anna Faris DOES do a pretty good job, though.
The one person who holds this movie together is Adam Sandler. The Nelson Mandela prison joke was funny, but everything else fell flat....and HARD.
Overall: 4/10
Zoolander (2001)
How many of you didn't recognize David Duchovney?
I was a person who didn't immediately recognize David Duchovney (did I spell the last name right?) and I feel completely stupid. For a small part, I thought it was 3/4 of a good performance. It lacked some flair from Fox Mulder.
Although.....
"Who are they angry at?" "MUGATU!" "Slaves, Derek."
That was pretty good, even though it wasn't verbatim.
Who else didn't recognize Duchovney? Be honest.
P.S. A large apology to Duchovney fans. I like him also, but he needed a somewhat larger part
Family Guy (1999)
DA BOMB!
This show is so awesome! I love Mr. Weed (the name alone cracks me up) and Stewie. I love that line in "Brian in Love" where he says, "You're urinating!" Everyone on that show (I mean characters) is great, especially Tom and Diane.
I have a question for you guys (pardon if this was already asked by someone): What's your favorite flashback moment? Mine is the "Huck Griffin" moment; don't ask me why though.
My favorite episode is "Love Thy Trophy."
"Hey kids, I'm Santa Claus. Just practicing for Christmas." "But, you're white."
Anyway, the one guy who was really weird was the guy in the episode where they move to the South.
"Hey there, Muscley Arm." That guy.
All right. That's it for me.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
I'll say it again...
I'll say it again....LOTR SUCKS, BIG TIME! This ranks as one of my all time worst movies (yes, I've seen it, and I will NEVER see the third.)
This is an inane plotline, and the movie drags on to the point where I actually pulled my hair out and said "Thank You" when it ended!
No one knows just how much I can't STAND LOTR, any of them. Liv Tyler is the only good thing, except for Sean Astin and Elijah Wood. Orlando Bloom fails to live up to hype. He was better in POTC (Pirates of the Caribbean).
One way I can summarize my hatred: if I was offered $50 million, and all I had to do was watch it, I'd forego the millions.
And, no, I'm not crazy.
Return of the King shouldn't win Best Picture....or any other Oscars, actually. GO MYSTIC RIVER!!!! (This is the only other thing I had to root for, since Cold Mountain didn't get nominated for Best Picture or Director, which it should have.) TIM ROBBINS RULES!!! This is an all-time low for Ian McKellen, and I'd rather see him in X-Men.
Oh, and it gets much worse.
Dominic Monaghan (Spelling- I don't care)is perfectly cast....as a hopeless elf. And Cate Blanchett? Come on! She hasn't done anything good since "Elizabeth"! Peter Jackson wasted his budget on this film. It may take home Best Picture and Best Director for Jackson, but it doesn't deserve it. You know the guy who was frozen or something in "A Clockwork Orange"? That's the only way I'd see this movie...and then I'd plead insanity.
These movies shouldn't even be in the Top Ten.
WORST MOVIES 1. (tie) These three films and From Justin to Kelly. 2. These three movies 3. THESE THREE MOVIES!!!!!!!!> AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Feel my wrath!
Don't worry about spoilers, there are none worth writing.
But I'm far from done.
What was the spending budget? It shouldn't have been spent on a flea-bag flick like this. They should have spent it on something like "The Last Emperor" which is totally fabulous. But LOTR has no chance 35 years from now. Sure, I'm no psychic but there's a good chance. I mean, how many people actually admit that they still enjoy "Titanic"? That was also crap, BTW. I mean, COME ON!!! Gandhi was totally a better movie (sure, its from 1982, but it's a classic).
I WILL NOT BE SILENCED! I WILL HEAR INCENUATIONS! EVERYTHING WENT WRONG! (This is a Family Guy inside joke.
Several more things wrong with this movie: 1. Sean Bean should have been in TTT 2. How much of it was visual effects anyway? 3. Not even Elijah Wood can save this series. He's cool, but this was a terrible career choice. 4. And finally....What will Peter Jackson do next? An adaptation of War and Peace, for crying out loud?
Lastly...LOTR fans, I respect your views, but I have waited SO LONG to bash these films!
I won't be silenced!
Au revoir.
The Simpsons (1989)
this show is terrible
This show is as bad as the "Lord of the Rings" series. This show is just plain crummy and total trash.
The only good part is Krusty's singing.
"NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW!" "All the way Down!"
The Last Emperor (1987)
THIS MOVIE WAS INCREDIBLE!!!!
This is one of the best movies I've ever seen. John Lone and Joan Chen are fantastic, and Bernardo Bertolucci deserved Best Director.
#THESE ARE SOME POTENTIAL SPOILERS# This film has two distinctions: it won every award at the Oscars; nine nominations, nine wins!
Second: It has the distinction of being one of Peter O'Toole's finest roles. I haven't seen "Lawrence of Arabia," so I'm not saying "The Last Emperor" is his greatest, but it's one of his greatest.
Okay, that second one sounds lame, but give me a chance.
This is a fine film. I love Oscar-worthy films, and this one deserved Best Picture 1987. Bertolucci does a fine job with this film, which is a cinematic masterpiece.
(Some of you may find it ironic that I like this film and not Lord of the Rings. That's okay, we all like different movies.)
SPOILERS ARE IN THIS NEXT SECTION! BEWARE! DON'T READ FORWARD IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE ANYMORE!!!!
The acting is fabulous. Joan Lone is Emperor Henry Pu Yi, who goes to the throne at age three. The empress or queen declares him China's "emperor of 10,000 years" and sends him to the Forbidden City. He is not allowed to leave, but he seriously wants to. Reginald "R.J." Johnston (Peter O'Toole) becomes Pu Yi's tutor and buys him a bike. Pu Yi uses this opportunity to leave the city, but returns to find him a wife. In a classic scene, he is covered in lipstick with kisses from his bride-to-be. They marry and eventually leave the Forbidden City. Pu Yi decides to mingle with the locals, and conducts business with Hirohito and the Japanese in Manchuria, which is occupied by the Japanese troops and is called Manchukuo by them. Pu Yi gets incarcerated by the Japanese for the majority of the Second World War and more years afterwards. In flashback moments, his wife leaves him and wastes away and dies. After several more years, around 1956, Pu Yi is released into the streets of Beijing as Mao Xedong and the Communist powers overthrow the country. Pu Yi is a failing gardener who watches in horror as Xedong imprisons many of his cellmates from the prison. He returns to the Forbidden City one last time, where he spots a young boy. Pu Yi had a cricket as a child, and after many years, it has survived. He gives it to the little boy, then rests in his old bed. Slowly he takes his last breath and dies. Right at the end, a tour guide is explaining the life of Pu Yi.
MORE SPOILERS (Sorry, all of you.) This was the first PG-13 movie to win Best Picture (please correct me if I'm wrong!)
So this would be an excellent movie to watch. 5/5 stars, 10/10 stars.
"Throughout history there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a while, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think about it. Always."- Mahatma Gandhi
Radio (2003)
good movie
I really enjoyed this movie. Cuba Gooding, Jr. is amazing in the title role, and Ed Harris plays his character really well. I want to buy it when it comes out on DVD and VHS, because this is SO MUCH BETTER than The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Chicago (2002)
This was fantastic!
This was a fantastic movie! The whole cast did a marvelous job, Catherine Zeta-Jones won a well-deserved Oscar, but Renee Zellweger got robbed for Best Actress. John C. Reilly was amazing, I think he held much of the production together. And his number, "Mr. Cellophane," his one number, is my favorite from the whole movie.
Taye Diggs was a marvelous bandleader, and Richard Gere was just as excellent.
Another thing that upsets me: Why didn't Rob Marshall win Best Director? Roman Polanski is good, don't get me wrong, but Marshall did a superb job. He also choreographed it, so he deserves some recognition.
One more thing: this easily deserved Best Picture over Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
Family Guy (1999)
DA BOMB!
This show is so awesome! I love Mr. Weed (the name alone cracks me up) and Stewie. I love that line in "Brian in Love" where he says, "You're urinating!" Everyone on that show (I mean characters) is great, especially Tom and Diane.
I have a question for you guys (pardon if this was already asked by someone): What's your favorite flashback moment? Mine is the "Huck Griffin" moment; don't ask me why though.
My favorite episode is "Love Thy Trophy."
"Hey kids, I'm Santa Claus. Just practicing for Christmas." "But, you're white."
Anyway, the one guy who was really weird was the guy in the episode where they move to the South.
"Hey there, Muscley Arm." That guy.
All right. That's it for me.
South Park (1997)
totally great show
One of the funniest shows I've seen in a while.
Cartman, Stan, Kenny, and Kyle are great. One thing: is it true you can't get a platinum album with christian rock?
I like Mr. Mackey, and I can do his voice almost perfectly. He's great. "M'kay..."
Butters is funny in his naivete, too. He's willing to believe anything, like in the episode where Cartman built the bomb shelter.
I also like Twong Lu Kim, the guy who works at City Wok; he's really funny, and so is Nobunaga Hiroichi.
Maybe I'm wrong here, but did they make the joke in the movie that Saddam Hussein did his own voice? The Liza Minelli joke is really funny, and his high voice is great!
Does anyone know what exactly Kenny said in the first two seasons? I read in the trivia it was really crude, but it's hard to understand.
P.S. If you guys don't know who Nobunaga Hiroichi is, wait for my next message.
South Park rules!
Of Mice and Men (1992)
not as good as i thought it would be
It was okay,but it kinda fell short. The book is better than the movie (I've never seen the 1939 version) and the good part about the movie is that Gary Sinise and John Malkovich perform so well.
One problem is that the movie left out certain elements of the book, and the ending seemed too obvious.
Overall, not good, but not bad.
Gandhi (1982)
the best movie i've ever seen
This is without a doubt, the best movie I've ever seen.
Ben Kinsley is marvelous as Gandhi, and he has a wonderful supporting cast to work with: Candice Bergen, Martin Sheen, Sir John Gielgud (Oscar winner), Trevor Howard, Daniel Day-Lewis,
etc.
Rating: ********************* out of ********************
I love this movie!
Chariots of Fire (1981)
good movie
CAUTION: THERE ARE SPOILERS!!!!!!!
The movie starts with the British team running across the Atlantic Ocean, with Aubrey Montague (Nicholas Farrell) smiling as others run by.
Later, Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) and Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) run a race at Caius University. I think Eric Liddell won.
After Abrahams loses another race to Liddell, he enlists the help of track coach Sam Mussabini (Ian Holm in a fine role), who shows him several ways to make him faster.
At the end of the movie, Liddell and Abrahams have to join together on the British team (Abrahams is English, Liddell Scottish) against the Americans in the 1924 Olympics. They both win gold medals.
The movie ends with the funeral of Harold Abrahams, and the epilogue states that Eric Liddell had been killed in the 1940s.
This is a fine movie, with a superb cast (Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Ian Charleson, Ben Cross, Alice Krige, etc.), a great score by Vangelis, and winner of 4 Oscars, including Best Picture 1981.