archive: domino

hey fellow cinephiles,

it's been a while. what can i say? i haven't stopped
watching movies. i just took a hiatus from writing.
if you're still interested, please let me know if you
want to stay on the distribution list. i can't
promise any regularity. all i can promise is that
i'll share my opinion when i'm in a writing mood.

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domino - directed by tony scott, starring keira
knightley, mickey rourke, et al... "my name is domino
harvey. i am a bounty hunter."

great action drama. go see it. violent, edgy, funny
at the right moments and even touching without being
too cheesy. keira kicked ass and the story line was
cool, even though exaggerated. i feel motivated to
build my workout room and buy that boxing bag i've
been talking about. and the coolest actors' credits i
think i've seen.

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history of violence - starring vigo mortensen and
maria bello. i don't remember who directed the film.
this film had so much potential and fell flat. the
good: vigo & maria are great. and i know this sounds
weird, and although the sex scenes were graphic, i
felt that there was honesty in them. what went wrong:
the film was too slow. i had expected a speed and
intensity like the movie "payback". no go. the worst
error was the ending. it fell so flat. my impulse is
to tell you to skip it. however, you decide if your
curiosity is peeked.

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upside of anger - starring joan allen and kevin
costner. it's not the easiest film to watch. a
friend peeked my interest when she said that she had
watched it and that the ending redeems the difficulty
she had watching the movie. i think she meant
witnessing all the anger and bitterness. although the
ending is redeeming, i don't know if it was quite
worth the time i devoted to watching the movie.

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the corpse bride - tim burton's film i don't know if
you call it claymation like "wallace & grommit". so
animated is the description i'm choosing. i don't
know if it was any shorter than "a nightmare before
christas". the film just seemed really short. it is
an interesting and dark film - big surprise, huh?
anyway, you could wait 'til the dvd. it's cute, but
not as good as "edward scissorhands" nor "a nightmare
before christmas".

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that's it for this edition.