Obviously Movie Day Today

Have seen snippets of about five movies today. First off the biggie of the day, the one in the actual theatre, Be Cool. Hmm, shall I try to do a review of it, or shall I just comment - the difference being, comments are straight off the top of my head, review has to be typed and retyped. We will see how it goes...

Be Cool is in fact not cool. Although I have not yet seen Oceans Twelve, from what I have heard that movie is/was a vanity project. Be Cool, in a phrase, is Oceans Twelve with a plot.

Good points are Vince Vaughn and The Rock. Vaughn, as the black talking white guy manager, and The Rock, as a gay bodyguard with acting ambitions, are laugh a minute when they are on screen. The movie maybe could have been centred on these characters. John Travolta looks like he is sleepwalking through this movie, Harvey Keitel does his usual thing, and Uma Thurman looks pretty. Very pretty in fact - there is a three to five minute love affair with Uma's string bikini early on in the piece. I love Uma's ass as much as the next guy, but perhaps the word gratuitous is appropriate?

As well as the in joke about R rated movies only allowed one F word in the entire movie. And the discussion of any good movies that have a lead character killed off in the first ten minutes. It just comes across too cutesy and too smart.

The set piece dance between Travolta and Thurman is a stop/go moment in the movie. Whereas their wonderful dancing in Pulp Fiction was an aside to the rest of a glorious story, this time around it seems the dancing is one of the main points of the plot. The movie slows to a stop to take in Uma and John and the Black Eyed Peas, and subsequently slowly pulls out of the gate again three minutes later. Yes, the characters like each other, but it could have been shown more entertainingly (as a purely movie sense, again, on the other side of the ledger, Uma in white jeans) than a straight dance routine.

Not a worthy sequel to either Get Shorty (for the plot) or Pulp Fiction (for the dance). See if you are a Vince Vaughn, Rock or girls in skimpy get up fan - no, it isn't just Uma. I could have waited for the DVD.

How is that for a review, back out of reviewer character now LOL. Tonight caught up with Kill Bill 1 and 2 - V rang just at the start of the Crazy 88 fight, just what I consider the best part of either of the two movies LOL, but will catch it later I am sure. I remember writing a review of sorts for Kill Bill 2, it might actually be in my early entries on this blog...

Also today were segments of Dr Strangelove (stopped the DVD because couldn't hear it over the thunder and the rain) and Return of the Jedi - now here is a good question for you jedi wannabe geeks out there, who is the better hottie, Carrie Fisher or Natalie Portman? Tough one I know, and just judge them on their ages when the movies were made lol.

Okies, onwards and upwards and will write more later :)
Pauly