Friday movie roundup – July 16
Go see “Inception” (review at Cinematical) because it is good and trippy and smart and you will like it, the end.
And if you have to see “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” — because you have children or something — eh, it won’t hurt.
For further reading material, “Eric’s Bad Movies” at Film.com is about “Bangkok Dangerous” (keeping with the Nicolas Cage theme), while “What’s the Big Deal?” is about “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” And perhaps you will also be interested in a Cinematical piece called “The Time I Got Obsessed with a ‘Raging Bull’ Inaccuracy.”
But go see “Inception,” and please do not speak to me until you have done so.
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July 16th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
You should do a companion piece where you write about Once Upon a Time in the West. I have a hard time deciding whether that or Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the better Leone film. I will say though that the opening to ‘West’ is my favorite credits sequence ever. Amazing how the director is able to tell a story solely with visuals, and no dialogue.
July 16th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Thanks for doing Bangkok Dangerous. I was looking forward to your review when the movie came out, but now is just as good.
July 16th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
I like your stories about truth, justice and correcting falsehoods. Part of what made your angry letters so good to read is that you pointed out the places that they were wrong, used poor logic, etc.
More like this please.
July 17th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
Is “Bangkok Dangerous” the most recent release (only two years ago!) ever covered for Eric’s Bad Movies? Just curious.
July 19th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Yep, “Bangkok Dangerous” is the most recent one.* I try to avoid movies that I reviewed when they were first in theaters, and that disqualifies almost everything released since 2000. “Bangkok Dangerous” was one of the few exceptions.
*It will not hold this title for very long, though!
July 26th, 2010 at 8:10 am
I took your advice. Even in a 40-year-old-hick-town-theater, Inception was awesome. (Not in the 80′s middle school kind of “awesome”, but the “I am completely in awe of this visual, mental, and artistic experience” way.
Thank you.