Movie Review Thread

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 10-25-2006, 08:02

Over the Hedge: I thought it was going to be a little kids movie but it's not. Was really funny.

**doc_bean** · 10-27-2006, 22:15

Eurotrip (2004) a semi sequel to Road Trip, which was definitely one of the better teen movies (one of my guilty pleasures

) of the last decade. Eurotrip is, however, not nearly as good. It's essentially 90 minutes of making fun of stereotypes (both about Americans and Europeans), it does have its moments, but the situations keep getting absurder and absurder (not in a good way) and it just becomes incredibly unbelievable, even within its own reference frame (I thought not another teen movie managed to be believable in its own reference frame, except towards the very end, for reference

). It's more a series of (often bad) jokes than a movie. Still it's probably better than the American Pie movies...

EDIT: CAP has an awesome endorsement of this movie though:

Other than a subjective comment that this celluloid cyanide is not worth the time it took to make it, I have nothing to say about this film. The listing in the findings/Scoring section tells enough. I will tell you that I left after 49 minutes. The findings and scoring apply to just the first 49 minutes of the film. And I cannot imagine how DreamWorks got connected with this putrid sex flick. Randomly selected R-rated movies in the comparative baseline database of movies earned CAP influence density figures between 0.75 and 2.1, the higher the figure the more dense the assaults on wholesome morality. Maybe the CAP Influence Density of 4.96 earned by Eurotrip in just 49 minutes is enough to convince you to stay away from this one.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 10-27-2006, 22:18

Noooo Eurotrip is awesome...maybe it's aimed more at Americans.

Scotty doesn't know...

**doc_bean** · 10-27-2006, 22:34

Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

Noooo Eurotrip is awesome...maybe it's aimed more at Americans.

Perhaps, I felt my knowledge of the actual places and culture kinda ruined it. I thought it was pretty decent until Bratislava. There were some decent moments there, but the sexual open mindedness of Europeans was getting a bit overplayed (the club owner), the incest thing was just gross and after that, the Hitler kid in Germany might have worked better if the scene had been a bit shorter and the Vatican part was just too ridicoulous.

Scotty doesn't know...

Oh yeah, that part does make the movie worth seeing ! If you have nothing better to do and it's on tv

**Puzz3D** · 11-01-2006, 17:03

The Blue Light (1932) written, directed and featuring Leni Riefenstahl is an allegory about man's encroachment on natural beauty. It's a simple story and somewhat slow moving, but told in an artistic visual style with impressive cinematography and lighting. The final act picks up the pace and is very well done, and features climbing scenes presented in a very effective montage style. The freestyle rock climbing looks quite dangerous to me, and Leni Riefenstahl appears to do all her own climbing just as she apparantly did in Arnold Fanck's "mountain" pictures. This movie doesn't usually get good reviews because up until now it hasn't been generally available in a good quality print, but the recently released DVD has a good image quality German sound version with English subtitles. I was hoping that a blue tint would be used to show the blue light, but that wasn't done.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 11-02-2006, 17:37

Brick: Really awesome. Like Dashiell Hammet except set in high school.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 11-04-2006, 05:41

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for make benefit glorious nation of kazahkstan

Excellent. He manages to keep up the humor throughout the movie. Also, quite a lot of it is unscripted.