My SO and I rented Random Hearts the other night. I figured: “Harrison Ford, how bad can it be”. Really, really, real bad, that how bad! This movie sucked. Two hours of “nothing happens”. What was the point? Kept waiting for something to happen. I hope they didn’t pay him millions for this one! Same goes for Six Days and Seven Nights I’m afraid.
We discussed afterwards about how could TPTB think that anyone would sit through the whole thing, yet alone think it was good (at $10 bucks a pop no less).
My opinion is due to the human race having many differing likes, dislikes, opinions, etc. (Which can further explain why some like Country music and some actually like Opera.) Same goes for books, TV shows, and sporting events. Well, you get my drift.
Which brings me to my question. As a varied group I would like to find out what your reviews of the following movies are. What I want is your true HONEST opinion – if you liked it then say as much (even if you’re probably the ONLY ONE on this planet who did). Some of these I haven’t seen myself but I wanted to provide a bit of a variety. Not to mention, they’ll be available as rentals (up here in the great white north) very soon.
Please review the following (the ones you’ve seen that is):
American Beauty - Kevin Spacey and Mena Suvari
Bicentennial Man – Robin Williams
Whatever It Takes - Jodi Lyn O’Keefe and Marla Sokoloff
Galaxy Quest – Tim Allen et. Al.
Magnolia – Tom Cruise
Random Hearts – Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott-Thomas
Scream 3 – Neve Campbell
Six Days and Seven Nights – Harrison Ford and Anne Heche
The Green Mile – Tom Hanks
The Sixth Sense – Bruce Willis
American Beauty - Brilliant, although I think Anette deserved the Oscar more than Spacey, and I’m not sure if the acting deserved the oscar more than the writing or directing
Galaxy Quest – Good Allen vehicle, but particularly funny if you yourself are a sci-fi geek. I swear, I recognized some of the people in the convention crowd shots, and I own some of those costumes myself…
Scream 3 – God, please, I didn’t see it, but just stay away from these films. The first one ranks as the worst film I’ve ever seen, and one of only two I ever considered getting up and walking out on.
The Sixth Sense – Not “horror,” but great ambiance - spooky. DON’T let anyone tell you the ending - it’s worth waiting for.
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Galaxy Quest – Tim Allen et. Al. Haven’t seen, but have heard it is supposed to be funny
Six Days and Seven Nights – Harrison Ford and Anne Heche Saw it. It was okay, not great. Should’ve waited for video. Would’ve watched it on video, even if I’d heard bad things about it, because I will watch anything with Harrison Ford in it. Harrison and the airplane put me in mind of a Han Solo/Millennium Falcon homage.
The Sixth Sense – Bruce Willis What can I say? Great movie.
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I loved Sixth Sense! I thought it was a great spooky movie. No real blood and gore, it scared you the old-fashioned way–indirectly by eating at your mind. I thought it was really great, but that surprise ending definitely leaves some pretty good sized holes in the plot.
I haven’t seen any of the others, but if The Green Mile novel is any inidication of the quality of the movie–it should be great.
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Just saw ‘Sixth sense’ again on video. Great f***ing movie. Hell of acting job by kid.
‘Galaxy Quest’ was hilarious. ‘American Beauty’ deserved it’s oscars. I wasn’t impressed with the rest of the films on your list.
I still say that ‘Fight Club’ was the best film of the year, though.
The Sixth Sense is at least a near-great and possibly a great film.
American Beauty is very good, but a little overrated. If you like that Dysfuntional Family Circus sort of film, you might like Magnolia a little better.
I liked Scream 3, but it’s the weakest of the series. There’s no point in seeing it if you haven’t seen the first two.
Galaxy Quest is a clever little idea. I’ve always said that I felt a little bit sorry for the cast of the original Star Trek. Can you imagine thinking that you would have an ordinary career as a good but not spectacular character actor, doing TV and film roles regularly, maybe if you’re lucky stumbling onto an award-winning role, but instead finding yourself the object of a religious cult?
The rest of the films didn’t get such great reviews, so I didn’t bother seeing them. (Well, The Green Mile got mixed reviews. Some thought it was good, some thought it was very hokey.)
Magnolia. Could a movie be any more boring? The characters were established in the first 45 minutes. The next 2 1/4 hours were utterly predictable step after utterly predictable step to its uninspired and inevitable ending. Oh! The little boy pisses his pants? Gee, I never would have seen that coming after his repeated pleas to relieve himself! The estranged son visits his dying father at the last minute? Who would have expected THAT to happen? The
trophy-wife admits that she married Jason Robards only for his money and never loved him, until he lay dying? Saw that coming the first time she appeared on the screen. The three hours of unadulterated torture was
relieved by a little interlude of zillions of two-pound frogs raining from the heavens. The acting was actually pretty good. But I enjoyed this movie only slightly more than I think I’d enjoy being slowly eviscerated with an exceptionally dull spoon. I’ve never walked out on a movie, but it took every milligram of my self-control to stay in the
auditorium. Magnolia? They should have named it Corpse Flower after the plant that takes seven years to bloom, and when it does smells like rotting flesh.
I sent the above review to a friend right after seeing the movie.
American Beauty. It was a pretty good film. Kevin Spacey was excellent.
Bicentennial Man. A very good adaption of the Asimov story, I really liked this movie. If you’re not a fan of Asimov fiction (dialoog over action; dry humor), then you might find it a bit slow.
Galaxy Quest. A funny movie, especially if you’re a ST fan.
Scream 3. Didn’t suck. Too much.
The Green Mile. It rocked. A powerful film. Again, some might find it a little slow.
American Beauty: best movie I’ve seen in the past year.
Sixth Sense: second-best movie I’ve seen in the past year. Will be considered a classic when people look back on this time in film.
Random Hearts: I’m with you. Could this movie be any more tedious, slow-paced and morose? I always wonder if accomplished actors such as Ford and Scott-Thomas know they’re in a dog even as they are filming. What a hopeless feeling that must be – bound by a contract and all. Didn’t ring true AT ALL that Ford remained obsessed over what his wife had been doing even after he found happiness with the Congresswoman.
Six Days, Seven Nights: Ehhh … I’ve seen worse movies. Mildly entertaining brain candy. What’s up with Harrison Ford’s movie choices lately? He needs to fire his agent.
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I’m with Sealemon. Fight Club was the most misunderstood film I have ever seen. It’s a very critial commentary on the loss of masculinity in post-modern America. Not to mention the rules of the Fight Club. My favorite was “No shirt, no shoes, no belts.” Yummy. But seriously, unless you’re a wimp around blood, rent it, and watch it VERY carefully.
American Beauty rocked (I keep thinking about the bag floating around in relationship to my life…the sign of a VERY good movie…)
Sixth Sense was clever. A bit over-rated at this point, but a good flick.
American Beauty moved me to examine my life in a way I cant explain. It was visually stunning throughout, a treasure to watch.
Green mile was just ‘OK’. My ass started to ache after the 2 hour mark. Too long,with a stupid ending with the mouse in the shed.
Random Hearts…oh MAN what a peice of garbage!! it peaked in the first 15 minutes, before the spouses knew about the crash…all down hill from there. I kept wishing that they would get on a plane and crash too.
Gonna rent 6th sense this weekend. (tried last weekend, but they were sold out.)
I agree. As an Asimov fan of many years, I simply could not ignore seeing this movie. Thankfully it was reasonably faithful to the original story, and maintained the underlying concept.
I would also make the observation that Robin Williams has demonstrated a couple of times now that he can do a “straight” role very well. Perhaps his best effort in a serious movie was “Awakenings”, a true story about a doctor attempting to understand and reverse catatonia in a psychiatric hospital. This role was played with a good deal of warmth and empathy, thus I regard it as one of the best films I have seen.
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The Sixth Sense was beyond overrated. It just didn’t grab me. I mean, the ads for the movie already told you that the kid sees ghosts. But you have to wait a solid 50 on-screen minutes before the kid even mentions it in the movie! Plod…plod…plod…
People who thought it was ‘spooky’ must not get to the movies much. The only reason it made such a big impression at the box office was that people went back a second time to pick up ‘clues’ they missed the first time. I saw the ending coming a mile away, so no need to see it twice here, thank God.
I think it’d make a better TV series than a movie. Think about it: kid sees ghost, ghost makes kid perform some task on its behalf…it’d be kinda like the old Friday the 13th series.
The Green Mile was good, although long. But, it had to be, or they’d have cut out quite a bit of the story.
Haven’t seen any of the others on your list, although I’ll probably have to give Galaxy Quest a rent when it hits video…I’ve heard too many people say it’s hilarious to doubt it.
American Beauty Truly one of the best films I’ve seen in a long, long time. It was artistic and touching in a new, and rather unusual, way. But, from what I’ve observed, it’s a movie you either love or hate. Bicentennial Man Mildly entertaining, I s’pose. Worth paying matinee price on a Saturday afternoon when there’s nothing else to do. A bit syrupy, a bit campy; one critic chalked it up to another film in which Robin Williams tries to make us all Better People.
Galaxy Quest was surprisingly hilarious. Much more intelligent and sharp than I was expecting. A must for anyone who likes Star Trek (or has ever even watched it much).
The Sixth Sense was creepy, and stunningly touching. It wasn’t the kind of movie I was anticipating would make me cry, but it did. I personally liked that the ghosts weren’t evil or scary in that they had ill intent; they were simply spooky because they were, duh, ghosts. By the end, the aren’t so scary.
I have managed to avoid the others. Magnolia is the only one I might possibly see.
Wow…I need to watch more movies…Only one I’ve seen is Sixth Sense…and if you REALLY watched the movie…(no clues here) it was not a surprise ending…saw it about half way through. Still a great movie.
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But seriously, unless you’re a wimp around blood, rent it, and watch it VERY carefully.