I was waiting for you to start another movie thread
"50 First Dates" stank bigtime. It was so dumb I didn't stick around for the ending. The acting was bad, bad, bad.
"The Passion" was OK. Acting was good, but in general the movie was overdramatized. Watching Jesus get beaten up over and over really left me feeling more numb than moved. I think Gibson tried to focus on too narrow a gap of time in Jesus's life, and you really didn't get a good feel for who Jesus was and what he stood for. That's not a problem for those familiar with the New Testament, but for others it was basically a movie about watching a religious figure get beaten up over and over and finally crucified. Gibson did interesting things with the character of Satan: who was portrayed as a cloaked figure, a snake, and a band of violent children chasing Judas. My advice is save yourself some money and just wait for the movie to come out in video. It's not worth the $8.50 for a ticket.
On video, I saw "The Missing", "The English Patient" (yep, only just getting around to that one), "Intolerable Cruelty", "Pay if Forward", and "American History X". "The Missing" was interesting at the beginning but evolved into another western, portraying the Indians as bunch of no-good savages. Not being a fan of westerns, I was disappointed. "The English Patient" was good, but difficult to follow. It's one of those movies you probably have to watch twice to really understand everything that was going on. Intolerable Cruelty was so not funny; I was really disappointed. "Pay It Forward" was OK, and the ending really stank (there are better words to describe it but I'm trying to honor Laker Fan's language guidelines). The best movie of this group was "American History X", which I never heard of but a friend at work told me about it. It was well-acted, interesting, but had a real downer for the ending. But the sad ending seemed more fitting for this file than it did for "Pay It Forward".
