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Pay It Forward (2000)
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The beginning was promising, interesting idea and some big names as actors. However, the longer it continued, the more it became dull and way too slow. Somehow Kevin Spacey didn't fit in his role, imo he's much better in more complex roles, like Verbal Kint or in Se7en. The kid was good, just like in 6th Sense and Helen Hunt was ok also. Some very good supporting cast thou, Angie Dickinson and James Caviezel especially and Bon Jovi wasn't nearly as bad as in U-571 and No Looking Back (those were horrible flicks anyway). Pretty watchable movie, too slow paced, but I bet most people will like this.
The Hurricane (1999)
There's another side to the story...
There might be *SPOILERS* ahead...
The movie itself is a solid Hollywood picture, but after reading some comments and checking out info about the case, I felt confused. First of all, I'm still not sure if Carter and Artis committed these murders, but there seems to be a lot of documents and articles which proves they did. I'm not going to go to details here, but check out for starters www.graphicwitness.com/carter if you are interested. One example: In movie Carter is sent to jail as a boy for stabbing a man implied to be a pedophile. In reality, he stabbed somebody in the face with a beer bottle while robbing them.
One thing I don't understand is why they changed the facts so much in this movie and still this was marketed as based on true story. This might have been a good movie if they'd just make it completely fictional, but probably it wouldn't have sold as much. The championship fight scene seems also to be completely wrong, (from the Herald Sun) The Hurricane typically claims racist boxing judges robbed him, but every sportswriter who covered the fight agreed he was beaten by a better man. On the other hand, if they'd make this movie true to the facts, imo this movie would have been much more interesting.
I think it's a shame that Hollywood takes out a tragedy where 4 people were murdered and makes a disgrace towards them and their grieving friends and families by twisting the truth to make this movie better selling and getting more profit.
All in all, if ignoring this, the movie was pretty ok, although a bit too long (there was many scenes that could have been cut out) and some characters were just plain ridiculous, Canadians and of course Lt. Vincent Della Pesca, who was almost the opposite of the real detective). Denzel was good, maybe not Oscar nominee-good, but isn't the Oscars usually awarded to those who make most money, not those who have the most talent :)
One more quote from Herald Sun By ANDREW BOLT:
Of course, it's quite possible Carter is innocent. But is he still the right man to preach to us about reconciliation? While on bail for his second trial, he beat Carolyn Kelley, the (black) head of his Carter Defence Fund, so badly that she took a month to recover. ``He's Satan, and Satan can fool a lot of people,'' she says.
My 5 Wives (2000)
Stupid film
This movie was so bad, outdated and stupid that I had rough times to watch it to the end. I had seen this Rodney guy in Natural Born Killers and I thought he was funny as hell in it, but this movie was crap. The "jokes" weren't funny, actors weren't funny, anything about it wasn't even remotely funny. Don't waste your time for this! Only positive things about this were the beautiful wives :) and Molly Shannon who I'm sure tried her best, but the script was just too awful. That's why I rated it "2" instead of "1", but it's definitely one of the worst films I've ever seen.
Pâfekuto burû (1997)
Boring and predictable
This movie is very slow paced and boring in the first 40 minutes and the end is predictable although there's some suspension. Animation is pretty good at best, but there's also lot of scenes that could have needed more work. Music is absolutely horrible, Cham's songs are very cheesy and annoying. Overall not the worst Anime I've seen, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't a big fan of Asian animation. I give it 4/10.
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
What a piece of crap
I can't believe some people went crazy waiting this film. It was very one-dimensional, boring, frustrating, predictable and I got the feeling that it tried to please as many people as possible. This is a product that was filmed to rip off as much money as possible with all other stuff (games, figures, t-shirts etc), not a movie. A piece of crap.