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3 reviews for the price of one

17 Jul 2006

These aren’t really reviews, I lied. We saw three movies over the last week or so:

Pirates of the Caribbean: meh. I think that the rest of the world apparently finds Johnny Depp prancing around as a pirate a lot cuter than I do. It was okay, but not great.

A Scanner Darkly: Disclaimer: I haven’t read the PKD book. I found it to be slow and boring through the beginning and middle – sortof like True Romance, except not funny. The ending was good. The “animation” was a stupid, distracting gimmick that I didn’t care for.

Oldboy: One of the best movies I’ve seen in a while – and one of the most messed up. Highly recommended.

Comments

Sara — July 18, 2006 at 19:36 · reply

We LOVED Oldboy. It was visually stunning with one of the best fight scenes (the long one). The ending was so, so disturbing. Have you seen Audition?

cwage — July 18, 2006 at 19:38 · reply

No – any good? We wanted to go see Lady Vengeance while it was at the belcourt, but I think we missed it..

Sara — July 20, 2006 at 16:40 · reply

Audition is more horror. The only fictional movie I have EVER seen that has made me gag, and I’ve seen a lot.

I had heard that Oldboy was part of a trilogy so we’ve been looking into the other two. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Oldboy Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

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