![]() Malcolm X $14.98 THE MOVIE WAS A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT AFTER READING THE BOOK(AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOM X BY ALEX HALEY). THE MOVIE HAD SOME GREAT ACTORS LIKE DENZEL WASHINGTON AND YET, IT WAS STILL VERY DULL. "DIRECTOR" SPIKE LEE RUINED A GREAT CHANCE OF TELLING THE AMAZING STORY OF MALCOM X. ![]() American History X [Region 2] $27.97 There is nothing new here just the usual Hollywood hype. Grossly exaggerating the threat of neo-Nazi's while ignoring California's minority gangs. More people are killed by gangs in one day than in the last 10 years from the nazi's. If you watch/buy this, just don't think. It aims soley at the emotional. ![]() American History X [Blu-ray] $28.99 There is nothing new here just the usual Hollywood hype. Grossly exaggerating the threat of neo-Nazi's while ignoring California's minority gangs. More people are killed by gangs in one day than in the last 10 years from the nazi's. If you watch/buy this, just don't think. It aims soley at the emotional. ![]() The Boondock Saints [Blu-ray] $29.99 Why all the talk about this movie? I watched this movie long after it became popular, barely got through it without trying to kill myself and desired to have all memory of it washed from my mind when it was over. The basic formula for this story: Stereotypical, hard-drinking Irish brothers + Russian mafia (what are they doing here?) + FBI trailing the work of vigilantes = Repetitive "plot" of this exceptionally boring movie. All these guys do is drink, play with guns and kill "evil" men they think God has appointed them to do so. Most of the action scenes are shown in flashback, after a charismatic detective played by the Greatest Actor in the World, Willem Dafoe, brilliantly relates to a dumb subordinate and apparently half-baked bunch of second string FBI agents, or something. Dafoe's character, who owns the best lines in the "film," knows the leprechaun assassins are responsible for all of this violence but must see something in them others don't; this might provoke a short discussion about vigilantism, but one that's been had before, and only by the most desperate of viewers trying to squeeze something out of this movie. Anyone else might proclaim the action scenes as "bad-ass" and the storyline altogether as "groundbreaking" but original this movie surely ain't. This is probably what happened: "Hey, let's make a movie about Irish vigilantes!" "Awesome! What happens?" "What do you mean? They're IRISH. And they're VIGILANTES. What else do you need to know?" "Um... okay, sounds good." The premise for the movie was one page long, the dialogue heavily-accented and improvised. Hell, anyone can write a movie. Turns out they made a sequel to this movie. "Hey, remember that movie about the Irish vigilantes?" "Yeah, that was great! Scathing reviews, totally awesome cult following though (primarily made of high school kids)." "Let's make another one!" "Okay. What about?" "Same thing." And who says they're running out of ideas for movies? |
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