http://nate.criticalblogs.com My Movie Reviews Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:52:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Apparently, this movie is in German, dubbed over in English. Which maybe explains why the theme song is only the title repeated over and over again. Yet even now it sings through my head.  When I watched the first hour of this with sixth graders the other day, I was ... http://nate.criticalblogs.com/2007/12/14/catchiest-movie-theme-song-ever/ This is the first of a series of reviews of movies I have only scene the first part of.  For two of them (this one and Neverending Story), I have not seen the second half because I watched them in class and only had one period.  I did like the first ... http://nate.criticalblogs.com/2007/12/14/ewwww-hes-eating-mice/ For some reason, I thought this movie was about the Oklahoma land grab. It turns out that it is just a wierd love story. The main thing that struck me about this movie was that almost nothing happens. In the first scene, they establish the flirtation between the two main ... http://nate.criticalblogs.com/2007/11/29/tap-dancing-cowboys/ I saw this a few nights ago and thought it was pretty enjoyable. It was nice to have a portrayal of the McCarthy stuff that played it a little cool. Usually, we get a story of someone brought before the commision and it gets a little melodramatic. Here we just ... http://nate.criticalblogs.com/2007/11/06/as-advertised/ I feel like this summer is the last great hurrah of Harry Potter. Even if Rowling comes back with some more stories, I can’t imagine they will be good enough to match the NOWness of coming out with a movie and the final book within three weeks.   I thought this ... http://nate.criticalblogs.com/2007/07/24/harry-potter/ This is a flawed movie. The plot is absurd and they spend way too much time in big rooms with generals. I thought they spent way too much time on the hacker/virus plotline, but the part where the DDR cousin crashes through the sliding glass door was one of the ... http://nate.criticalblogs.com/2007/07/24/you-dissappoint-me-once-again-starscream/ my initial thought at seeing teh previews for spiderman 3 was, “holy crap, there is going to be a lot of stuff happening here.” later i saw some other previews and heard some positive hype and thought “well, maybe rami can pull it off.” after watching the movie, it seems ... http://nate.criticalblogs.com/2007/06/05/villian-overload/ I saw part of this in a class the other days and it brought back a few thoughts I have on the movie. Primarily I remember being surprisingly entertained when I saw it in the theater. It is simply a nicely paced action movie with some interesting plot twists and ... http://nate.criticalblogs.com/2007/05/14/everybody-runs/ I thought this wa pretty interesting and well done. Patton was definitely an interesting character. I thought the scenes showing the germans being afraid of him were a bit heavy as was his hate of the russians. it seemed to voice a lot of cold war frustrations - why don’t ... http://nate.criticalblogs.com/2007/05/10/i-know-im-a-prima-donna/ I watched this while subbing for an 8th grade science class recently and was pleasantly surprised. Interwoven into a straightforward cop story/single dad story are a lot of pretty funny riffs on the human body. There are some real scenes of an unhealthy Bill Murray and some rapid fire Chris ... http://nate.criticalblogs.com/2007/03/28/you-want-osmosis/