thesundance14
Joined May 2002
Welcome to the new profile
We're still working on updating some profile features. To see the badges, ratings breakdowns, and polls for this profile, please go to the previous version.
Reviews43
thesundance14's rating
Ever go to a movie all full of hope and come home with your mouth tasting like it was washed out with soap?
Well this one this "Be Cool" is one of those.
I call these movies "need the work and the money" movies because I can't imagine how John Trivolta and Uma Thurman would be caught within fifty miles of this "turkey" unless they just needed the work .Surly they don't need the cash? Well,.... big jets cost a lot to operate I suppose?
But anyway this sequel to a pretty good flick of over 10 years ago, "Get Shorty",.... should have been called "Way Shorty" because that is what it is way short of the mark. It isn't funny it isn't interesting it is trite, it is covered in every known stereo-type known to modern film and it is too long.
Other that that I liked it!!!!
Vince Vaughn while over the top in the too often repeated bits, was actually funny in a few areas.
Cedric "the entertainer" had a few moments and made a very on the mark statement about how the use of racial epithets just don't cut it any more any where!!! but I think the guy actually has some talent and clearly a brain I'd like some one to use it in a real movie some time!
Christine Milian is pretty and talented. More of her and less of a tired looking Uma Thurman well I like Uma but she must have needed the work.
Now to John Trivolta. Wow .he tries to pull off the Get Shorty thing but Chile Palmer was more like "Chilie Pie". He is not tough he is not smooth he is not anything he is a caricature of his previous performances and that only spells one of about three things to me. One he needed the cash the big jet and all and that is OK but have some real style and just say "hey it was an "el stinko" but it was an airplane note! Or two .He is delusional and thinks this really is good work or three the producers have a picture of him and a donkey and .well .you get the point. I am not telling anyone I saw this pile of goo but I'll do you all a favor and allow you to save $20 bucks and go eat a pizza instead. You'll like it a whole lot better.
Well this one this "Be Cool" is one of those.
I call these movies "need the work and the money" movies because I can't imagine how John Trivolta and Uma Thurman would be caught within fifty miles of this "turkey" unless they just needed the work .Surly they don't need the cash? Well,.... big jets cost a lot to operate I suppose?
But anyway this sequel to a pretty good flick of over 10 years ago, "Get Shorty",.... should have been called "Way Shorty" because that is what it is way short of the mark. It isn't funny it isn't interesting it is trite, it is covered in every known stereo-type known to modern film and it is too long.
Other that that I liked it!!!!
Vince Vaughn while over the top in the too often repeated bits, was actually funny in a few areas.
Cedric "the entertainer" had a few moments and made a very on the mark statement about how the use of racial epithets just don't cut it any more any where!!! but I think the guy actually has some talent and clearly a brain I'd like some one to use it in a real movie some time!
Christine Milian is pretty and talented. More of her and less of a tired looking Uma Thurman well I like Uma but she must have needed the work.
Now to John Trivolta. Wow .he tries to pull off the Get Shorty thing but Chile Palmer was more like "Chilie Pie". He is not tough he is not smooth he is not anything he is a caricature of his previous performances and that only spells one of about three things to me. One he needed the cash the big jet and all and that is OK but have some real style and just say "hey it was an "el stinko" but it was an airplane note! Or two .He is delusional and thinks this really is good work or three the producers have a picture of him and a donkey and .well .you get the point. I am not telling anyone I saw this pile of goo but I'll do you all a favor and allow you to save $20 bucks and go eat a pizza instead. You'll like it a whole lot better.
Mike Nichols has made some really great films...my favorite is The Bird Cage...but Post Cards from the Edge was pretty good and of course "Working Girl" is a classic...but it was in 1988.
What possessed someone with the resume he has to make this "porno movie" is beyond me?
The drama...a convoluted mixed up flash back on top of flash back "hodge podge" was edited by a moron....and frankly someone paid a lot of bucks to get that cast together to make this thing.
The one scene that has some merit is the Internet chat line scene between Jude Law (Dan a obituary writer for a newspaper) and Clive Owen (Larry the dermatologist). The rest of the movie seems to be an effort to out shock that scene. It gets boring...redundant and less the scantily clad Natalie Portman in a bunch of scenes as "Alice" the stripper. I would have either left or taken a nap.
Honestly, Mike Nichols is way above this in film making. Take the "raw meat" and "raw language" out and you have some really "sick-o" losers trying to cope and you might have found a movie in there someplace.
But this...man I saw Nichols's name and this cast and I even saw some of the "four star" ratings (I usually use that as a barometer to not go to films)....but anyway...I was really excited about this film. It ...well it didn't make my all time "stink-o" for a few good things...but I could not recommend this to anyone with something better to do!
What possessed someone with the resume he has to make this "porno movie" is beyond me?
The drama...a convoluted mixed up flash back on top of flash back "hodge podge" was edited by a moron....and frankly someone paid a lot of bucks to get that cast together to make this thing.
The one scene that has some merit is the Internet chat line scene between Jude Law (Dan a obituary writer for a newspaper) and Clive Owen (Larry the dermatologist). The rest of the movie seems to be an effort to out shock that scene. It gets boring...redundant and less the scantily clad Natalie Portman in a bunch of scenes as "Alice" the stripper. I would have either left or taken a nap.
Honestly, Mike Nichols is way above this in film making. Take the "raw meat" and "raw language" out and you have some really "sick-o" losers trying to cope and you might have found a movie in there someplace.
But this...man I saw Nichols's name and this cast and I even saw some of the "four star" ratings (I usually use that as a barometer to not go to films)....but anyway...I was really excited about this film. It ...well it didn't make my all time "stink-o" for a few good things...but I could not recommend this to anyone with something better to do!
Friday Night Lights was not a very good movie. It didn't deal with West Texas football in anything like an accurate way...and frankly...it may fly in LA or with someone in the "East" that has a bunch of old and tired stereo types of the "hay seed" Texans...but folks I played for the Brownwood Lions....a bigger and frankly more famous "football factory" than Odessa Permian and I can tell you....this corn pone thing was a lame cross between Last Picture Show and Longest Yard meeting the Breakfast Club.
It is not reflective of Texas Football. It is not reflective of the "religion" that is West Texas football and the characters are shallow...thinly developed and make the whole event look like a brutal and half wit filled gladiator match. Trust me folks...it isn't and the only person in this whole movie that is remotely believable and not a well worn out soap opera character is the Permian head Coach played by Billy Bob Thorton. I'm sorry he will always be the slasher from "Sling blade" to me,.... and perhaps it is a credit to his art as an actor...that his last great performance still lingers in one's mind. His little buddy from "Sling Blade" is now the hard luck quarterback in "Lights" and except for some really lame dialogue that he is forced to say by really poor writing...he was passable in the role.
I was in attendance at the actual Dallas Carter/ Odessa Permian game in the Astro Dome in 1988 and...this rendition of the game is an insult to the Dallas Carter team and panders to the Mojo mystique of the Permian team in extreme excess. If I were one of the African Americans from Dallas Carter I would be repulsed as to how they were depicted in this movie.
But the movie will make a few bucks and perhaps someone will decide that they should do the "Brownwood Lions" story and I might get to be on Good Morning America....but if you are from Texas and "Know" what the tradition actually is in our state...skip this one and wait for the Gordon Wood Story...now that would be interesting...to a few of us anyway
It is not reflective of Texas Football. It is not reflective of the "religion" that is West Texas football and the characters are shallow...thinly developed and make the whole event look like a brutal and half wit filled gladiator match. Trust me folks...it isn't and the only person in this whole movie that is remotely believable and not a well worn out soap opera character is the Permian head Coach played by Billy Bob Thorton. I'm sorry he will always be the slasher from "Sling blade" to me,.... and perhaps it is a credit to his art as an actor...that his last great performance still lingers in one's mind. His little buddy from "Sling Blade" is now the hard luck quarterback in "Lights" and except for some really lame dialogue that he is forced to say by really poor writing...he was passable in the role.
I was in attendance at the actual Dallas Carter/ Odessa Permian game in the Astro Dome in 1988 and...this rendition of the game is an insult to the Dallas Carter team and panders to the Mojo mystique of the Permian team in extreme excess. If I were one of the African Americans from Dallas Carter I would be repulsed as to how they were depicted in this movie.
But the movie will make a few bucks and perhaps someone will decide that they should do the "Brownwood Lions" story and I might get to be on Good Morning America....but if you are from Texas and "Know" what the tradition actually is in our state...skip this one and wait for the Gordon Wood Story...now that would be interesting...to a few of us anyway