Josh Hartnett

O (Two-Disc Special Edition)
$14.98
This movie was different from the original picture othello. It has different scence in this picture. Mekhi Phiffer and Julia Styles play a very awsome role in this picture. Well, i receive the two-disc special edition but it's all good. The movie was on point, i'm not saying it's the best, but on point. Thanks Amazon.


Dee Smalls
Decatur GA

40 Days and 40 Nights
$7.99
Josh Hartnett plays the male lead Matt, in this "movie". Hartnett's other roles are quite variegated and some of his greatest roles are in Lucky Number Slevin, Sin City, Black Hawk Down and The Virgin Suicides. The female lead in this movie is Erica, played by Shannyn Sossaman, most noted for "A Knight's Tale", but has also been seen in One Missed Call and Rules of Attraction. Josh Hartnett's character makes a para-religious vow to abstain for 40 days and 40 nights from all sexual activity to get his ex-girlfriend Nicole out of his system. He, of course, meets Erica in the middle of his vow and has real trouble keeping his vow as they fall for each other.

There is little good to be said about this movie. It does have a few larfs, it has a couple of jerky, gratuitous shots of naked breasts. Its soundtrack is modern and kinda catchy. Overall, how this got a R rating, I'll never know. This is strictly PG13 fare.

This movie is disguised appeal to abstinence and prudery. It has some objectionable material. An anti-arabic phrase is used, a the female lead has a stupid conversation with her roommate "He's treating me with consideration, like an equal." "Kinda sucks, doesn't it?" "Yeah, it sucks." WTF? I'm not uber-feminist, but the entire movie seemed to be a religious, pro-abstinence, idiotic farce. It had some thinly veiled misogynistic messages, although they were against society's grain of misogyny. It's humor was strained and threadbare. It lacked any real insight into people or relationships. It had a catholic priest making out with a nun. What purpose did that scene really serve? This movie presupposes that everyone is an idiot. I really am left without much comprehensible to say. A big disappointment for the careers of Hartnett and Sossaman.

Pointless.
Absurd.
Borderline Offensive.
Juvenile.

That about sums it up.

In related news, Maggie Gyllenhaal, an excellent actress, played a lackluster supporting role in this movie. She shined as best as she could, but got mired in the absurd script.

I had this DVD sitting around and felt recently encouraged due to the enormous success with "chick movies" I felt with "He's just not that into you". Which is an actual movie, not a piece of crap hiding in a genre. This movie's a big pass. If you need something kinda thin to prop up that wobbly table leg, this DVD might be perfect.

August
$28.98
The Bottom Line:

Weaving an unmistakable atmosphere of gloom over the story of an arrogant dot-commer attempting to keep his dying company afloat several months after most other such companies have collapsed, director Austin Chick elevates August into quite a little modern tragedy; it was panned by critics but between the electric performance by David Bowie in the film's final act, a wonderfully sour Rip Torn, and the aforementioned direction by Chick there is a great deal to like in this already-forgotten picture

3/4

Wicker Park
$14.98
Now, Lets be honest folks. You're in what we used to call a record store, looking for a film with some mystery, some action, some suspense; you know few of the current group of stars and up-and-comers, few of the current (last 20 years) crop of movies, and you come on a DVD whose blurb on the front cover reads, "dangerous, sexy thriller" , whose back cover includes the words, " a sizzling, action-packed noir thriller that will leave you breathless" . Isn't it reasonable to expect at least a little bit of "dangerous", just a particle of "thriller", perhaps not a "sizzle" but certainly a sputter or two, maybe not packed with action but with at least some movement, and as for "noir", at least a bit of grey or a smidgen of charcoal. Did we get any of this, not on your life. At the end of the first hour of excruciating absence of even a whimper never mind thrills, I began to figure we were in for a very, very slowly developing Hitchcockian ordinary people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances type of film; by the end of the film, I was still waiting.
Forewarned, you might enjoy this mirthless romantic travesty. Don't get me wrong, There is almost no evidence the creators sought for comedy. I just want to give them the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps a mild ha (not ha! ha! ) would be elicited from some easily pleased viewers but, on the whole none of the players seemed to be directed to show some flair; no, I take this back, there were a few minutes at the very beginning in the dance studio where a rehearsal was briefly shown-that had a soupcon of sizzle, no more, but more than anything else in the film.
Now, being forewarned by the Amazon reviewers, knowing what you were to see, and wanting it, you might enjoy yourself. Perhaps, if you are familiar with one or more of the stars and live to see him or her perform in anything, you might enjoy yourself.
I am still waiting for some danger, thrill, or sizzle...but, I have given up on finding it on this disc.