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Just a Quick Run-Down of the Movies I've Seen Recently...
- American Gangster ---- Denzel Washington always delivers, so I wasn't surprised that he knocked this role out of the park. I was surprised how well-cast the entire movie was, even Cube Gooding Jr. was great in this movie (when was the last time that was said?). ---- Spill-esque Rating: Full Price
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ---- First off, I'm tiring of this format, even by Judd Apatow. I was a fan of a few parts of this movie, but overall it felt long and rather unoriginal. The Beatles scene and Dewey's Bob Dylan stage are great, though, but still the movie dragged too much to say it was worth seeing on the big screen. ---- Spill-esque Rating: Rental
- Sweeney Todd ---- I would consider myself a fan of musicals, but still I balked when I heard how much singing was in this movie. I was, though, pleasantly surprised with the movie as a whole, although the kid can go right next to the DLP Mirrors girl and the Mazda Zoom-Zoom kid in the pantheon of creepy children. Johnny Depp was surprisingly good at singing and the dark humor of it all worked beautifully (by the way, Sasha Barron Cohen, nice work!). This was a musical that I think only Tim Burton could have done justice too. I even liked the Kill Bill V.1 style blood. ---- Spill-esque Rating: Full Price
- Juno ---- Before I start, what's up with all of the backlash that this movie has received all of a sudden? In any case, I loved this movie, and even moreso because of all the irritating flaws that it has that I somehow still liked. The soundtrack is indie-hip, the lingo is almost too hip, and every little detail is so thought over, all things that I usually find too much to bare. But it all works, extremely well, due to one of the best-cast movies I've seen in forever (until about a week later, but more on that in a bit). So yeah, I guess my rating will say it all. ---- Spill-Esque Rating: Better then Sex
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets ---- I mentioned that Walk Hard was long, but my God this thing was historically drawn-out. I nearly fell asleep through the damn thing, and the "action" scenes were pretty miserable and long (the end climax(s) could have been trimmed to about 10 minutes, at longest). Even more useless then the original, but without the campy attitude that the original had that made it at least worth the time it took to watch it. ---- Spill-Esque Rating: Some Ole' BullS***
- No Country for Old Men ---- I saw this one recently, after hearing all of the complaining about the ending. Before the ending, this movie was as close to perfect as possible, and the best Coen movie since Fargo. The ending was perplexing, and not in the sense that I didn't get what happened. I got everything that happened, I just didn't know why that ending was the best fit for the rest of the movie. Why, all of a sudden, do you take a masterpiece that is so carefully and painstakingly put together, and then make the ending a "do it yourself" project for the audience? It doesn't make sense to have the most important part of the movie, the hardest to make and the most crucial to deliver, non-existant. I still liked the movie, but just with the Sopranos ending (which again, was something that I got right away), I didn't get why that was the "right" ending, or an ending that would be so universally praised by critics. Simply, it felt like a cop-out, and the false-time edit that made it look like Chagurh was still in the room was a tease in the biggest sense. Did I want a shoot-out there? No, but Coens, that's amateur anyways. ---- Spill-esque Rating: Matinee
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