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Major League II (1994)
OK, as good as could be expected, but could never possibly match the originality of the first one. It was about what I expected in a follow-up: the plot lacked the originality of the first one, and the comedy was a little sillier. Wait, they’ve won the division twice. Shouldn’t…
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Minority Report (2002)
Cruise is OK, the precog girl was kinda cool. But I wouldn’t want to see it again. The story was very literary, dragged a bit.
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Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
The movie’s nice and long, bridging the other movies more effectively than any of the others. It makes other movies better as it does the most to connect them all and make characters in the other stories more complete (this is what I feel is one of the greatest problems…
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Long and involved, I wonder if it has to be that way. Not sure I’m totally comfortable with the whole “this is going to be a trilogy” concept. I believe they should be three distinct stories, not just one story split up into three chapters. I had the same problem…
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Panic Room (2002)
Foster and Forrest and the little girl are good. Yoakum is also surprisingly good. A couple of questionable lines of dialogue. Nice simple story. Hitchcockian, like What Lies Beneath. The moment where the cops ask the guy to show his palms so money flies away for dramatic eeffect and to…
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The Truth About Charlie (2002)
Not sure Wahlberg can carry a movie. Newton can’t, even though she does prove to be a bit more human than in Mission Impossible 2. What’s with the woman in black? Lots of twists, but who cares. When they prevent us from siding with any of the characters, they prevent…
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Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
Every couple of years, a foreign film trickles in and sweeps the nation. A cross between Princess Mononoke and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Was this a true story? Le Bihon looks like Mickey Rourke, and Mani looks fantastic for 38 (really?!). But what gave the white dude the seemingly supernatural…
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Black Hawk Down (2001)
Slightly long. Would have preferred to get to know one of the characters more (how about bana) and shorten it a bit. The cinematography is good, looks like people learned a few things from Saving Private Ryan. The gatling guns pretty cool. Now I have some historical perspective. I had…
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Made (2001)
Nice Swingers-like style. Wonderful writing by Favreau, but perhaps a bit too much of it. Vaughn gets downright annoying at times, especially during when the story stops just so that we can hear him rant.
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Great characters and cast and acting all around (Paltrow and Luke are mesmerizing). I’d like to see Luke do drama. Owen and Stiller work great together. Murray’s comedy is getting so obscure that it’s hard to see sometimes. Very sarcastic, mildly dark humor, like Rushmore. The film is even *shot*…
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I'm a photographer, web developer, travel enthusiast, and movie buff living in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.In the summer of 1993, I started writing reviews for every movie I saw and haven't looked back. I'm up to 2,375 reviews now. This makes me cool or a complete dork, depending on your perspective.
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