WHAT I WATCHED with pleasure.THE HITS
Gladiator: serious punchy acting by Russell Crowe. Joachim Phoenix is creepy best.
Memento : time runs backward in this flashback thriller. Lurve Guy Pearce with the scruffy beard. Director Christopher Nolan
Snatch : Brad Pitt as the Left Hook wonder boxer, amid twisted plotlines. Funny.
X-Men: special effects raise the bar. For fans of sci-fi /comics.
Almost Famous: great story of boy following his favorite rock band on tour.
Traffic: Michael Douglas preserves his careful enunciation amid drug traffickers and multiple converging plotlines.
O Brother Where Art Thou: thoroughly charming story of 3 escaped convicts journey through southern Louisiana - George Clooney.
Meet the Parents: boy meets girl meets weird girl’s father who is ex-CIA. Quite funny, Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro.
High Fidelity: John Cusack, good actor, dark satiric book by Nick Hornby about music and relationships.
Erin Brokovich: Julia Roberts, true story of little guy against big insurance companies
Chicken Run: great charming animated film of a cowardly chicken teaching its tribe to fly
Chocolat: beautiful visuals, storybook feel story of the sinful effects of chocolate on a small town
Amores Perros: high voltage drama, multiple interconnecting plots, gritty action, great actors
Wonder Boys: unpredictable
relationship between professor and student. Michael Douglas and Tobey
Maguire. Great characters, wry humor, great script.
What Lies Beneath: murder and adultery as creepy as they come, surprisingly dark acting by Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas : Jim Carrey in crazy makeup, and great visuals for a children’s tale.
Shanghai Noon: Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson - incomprehensible East meets jaded West. Humor on speed. Do not miss.
WHAT I ALMOST MISSED .GLAD I DIDNT
Space Cowboys : hilarious dialog.
Small Time Crooks : Woody Allen, funny movie about amateurs turning crooks, robbed by professionals.
Bedazzled : Brendan Frasier in hilarious costumes, Liz Hurley hot as the Devil, lighthearted movie
Perfect Storm : unbelievable footage of the biggest storm of the century, and two men in it.
Red Planet: This
movie has more going for it than Mission to Mars. Val Kilmer redeems
not bad movie. Plus its sci-fi, couldn’t resist. Definitely watchable.
The Gift : Cate
Blanchett as a psychic helping a murder investigation. Very beautiful
visuals, even Keanu Reeves acts and Cate never looked so beautiful.
WHAT I COULD HAVE MISSED.CATCH IT ON HBO on a boring afternoon
Billy Elliott : boy who wanted to dance, growing up among coal-miners - tough luck, but feel good story.
Finding Forrester: famous eccentric author encounters brilliant waster teenager, Sean Connery wasted in a slow moving talkative film.
The Whole Nine Yards: Bruce Willis as gangster, and Matthew Perry(Friends) as wannabe gangster. Occasionally funny.
Pay It Forward : Earnest boy(Haley Joel Osment) wants to change the world. Bruce Willis. Very sentimental. Bring a towel.
Keeping the Faith : Edward Norton, priest, still in love with old school chum, fighting Ben Stiller for her.
Scary Movie : The spoofs are funny, but not worth theater bucks.
Hollow Man: Kevin Bacon uses super power of invisibility to play Peeping Tom on women.
Mission to Mars: Excuse
- its sci-fi. Gary Sinise goes on rescue expedition to Mars, and finds
instead benevolent(and comically elongated) aliens. Its not too bad.
(Contd in comments - told you this is a long long list)