© 1999-2008 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-pat28 Recent reviews written by member pat28 en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_226143473284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - In the summer of 2002, I was sick as a dog. Having a cold in the summer is among the worst feelings that exist on this earth, so naturally I was having a very hard time sleeping. One night, I looked at my clock and saw that it was already five in the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~226143473284 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:15:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_226143473284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_226143407748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - Jean-Pierre Melville is one of those directors, like Akira Kurosawa or John Woo, that American audiences just "get." We understand his lonely gangsters, his gray streets, his love of violence and stylized action. It is from American artists, after all,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~226143407748 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:09:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_226143407748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_226141769348?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - It’s been long enough since this movie came out that those of you who were going to see this movie have probably already seen it, and have probably read enough conflicting and politically charged reviews of the film to have formed your own opinion on it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~226141769348 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:04:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_226141769348?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_226141703812?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - With talk of Iran's nuclear weapons program and its fundamental regime abound in the media these days, it is easy to see the nature of the country as represented by its government, something I feel people in this world do too often. In a more perfect... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~226141703812 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:01:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_226141703812?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_194087521924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) is largely regarded as one of the best movies ever made, and I'm inclined to agree. For Kubrick, it was bit of an embarrassment: reviled for its extremely graphic violence, the original version wasn't shown in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~194087521924 Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:30:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_194087521924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_194087128708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - The heist movie was invented in the fifties, with Jules Dassin's Rififi (1954) and Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob Le Flambeur (1955). Both movies focused on a central character who was middle-aged, rough around the edges, and the most honorable of thieves... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~194087128708 Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:28:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_194087128708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_194086276740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - Hitchcock's favorite movie that he ever made was Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Most people regard Vertigo (1958) as his best film, or perhaps North by Northwest (1959) or Rear Window (1954). Some have a soft spot for Psycho (1960) or The Birds (1963), two of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~194086276740 Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:20:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_194086276740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_194085883524?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - There is a classic Monty Python skit called "Sam Peckinpah's Salad Days" that involves Michael Palin being hit by a tennis ball and blood gushing -no, spraying - from his forehead. Though Peckinpah's 1971 movie Straw Dogs isn't quite that extreme, any... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~194085883524 Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:16:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_194085883524?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_194084507268?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - Elmore Leonard's name might not quite have "household" status, like Stephen King or Jurassic Park scribe Michael Crichton, but he too has had a wealth of novels turned into popular movies. Get Shorty (1995) and its sequel Be Cool (2005) are probably the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~194084507268 Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:11:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_194084507268?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_183798828676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - Shelving videos at the video store I work at last night, I made a discovery in the Classics section: the original 1949 “Batman and Robin” serials. I knew there was no way they could be good, but the artwork on the cover looked cool, I’m a huge... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~183798828676 Thu, 19 May 2005 23:03:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_183798828676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_181415480964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - “Rififi,” as the movie of the same name tells us, is a word that has no real definition. For certain, it is closely associated with toughness; a comparable modern term might be “hardcore.” Whatever its translation, it is a word with which the main... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~181415480964 Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:50:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_181415480964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_179697782404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - If every year has its own independent film success story-its own Little Movie That Could-then last year was no exception. Alexander Payne’s Sideways was an underestimated little comedy that ended up earning more than $70 million domestically. Despite the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~179697782404 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:37:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_179697782404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_178790043268?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - Having seen Sin City twice in the past two days, I can say without a doubt that it is the best movie so far this year. You might note that this isn&#146t too bold a statement, as the highlights of 2005 thus far have been movies like Hitch, but it is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~178790043268 Sun, 3 Apr 2005 13:05:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_178790043268?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_177506455172?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - Zatoichi is a series of Japanese films comparable to the West's James Bond series, if in nothing else, then in sheer size. Before Takeshi Kitano's 2003 Zatoichi film, there were over twenty-five in the series. His film is not really a continuation of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~177506455172 Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:06:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_177506455172?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_176805744260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - Rarely has there been an animated film more entertaining, more visually engaging, more genuinely heartfelt than Brad Bird&#146s &#147The Incredibles.&#148 This Pixar/Disney film, released to DVD last Tuesday, has the charm of a James Bond movie, the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~176805744260 Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:19:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_176805744260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_176774221444?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - There have been plenty of movies like Gilda, even if "There has never been a woman like Gilda!" The film has all the trappings of film noir: a narrator, a down-on-his-luck man corrupted by a woman, a plot full of sin and debauchery, strong sexual... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~176774221444 Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:40:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_176774221444?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_175315390084?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - The following review should also be appearing in next Wednesday's (University of Illinois newspaper) The Daily Illini. If one of you should happen to pick that up, know that I'm not plagiarizing anyone but myself. Since the review is my intellectual... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~175315390084 Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:06:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_175315390084?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_174392708740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - By the time Akira Kurosawa made Dreams at the age of 79, he had revolutionized the samurai film and directed some of the best movies ever made during a career that spanned several decades. I was introduced to Kurosawa through his violent epics, films... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~174392708740 Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:06:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_174392708740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_169925906052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - Zhang Yimou receives my vote for the most overrated Asian director of all time. I'm sorry, but while Hero and House of Flying Daggers may be good to look at, it's hard- nay, impossible to look past their many faults. House of Flying Daggers is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~169925906052 Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:29:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_169925906052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_164891299460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - Closer is a film that stays with you as you leave the theater; a film that changes your state of mind. It's one of the most emotionally brutal movies I've ever seen, and I'll probably thinking about it for the next few days. The movie begins when Dan... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~164891299460 Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:14:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_164891299460?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_164596125316?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - The first Blade was an awesome movie. Certainly it was not the best picture of 1998, but I would put it above the first X-Men movie when ranking superhero movies. It was fresh, somewhat original, had some of the coolest fight scenes I have ever seen, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~164596125316 Wed, 8 Dec 2004 17:18:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_164596125316?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_159504633476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - I miss this John Carpenter. That is, the John Carpenter who brought us movies like The Thing, Escape From New York, and Halloween. These three are not only classic movies, but are revolutionary to their respective genres. Halloween, as we've often heard,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~159504633476 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:51:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_159504633476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_156843609732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - I have to admit: I went into this movie with high expectations. We forget that George Lucas was the creative force behind the original Star Wars movies, and just blame him for ruining them. I, however, saw the previews for this movie and was reminded... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~156843609732 Tue, 5 Oct 2004 02:15:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_156843609732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_155230244484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - When you hear about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, you may assume that, like so many Jet Li and Jackie Chan movies, the movie is all about the fighting; that the fighting creates the story. Upon seeing it for the first time, you may determine that it is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~155230244484 Tue, 14 Sep 2004 02:06:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_155230244484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_152480616068?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author pat28 - Before I saw this movie, I read that it was so scary that you go beyond enjoying yourself and want to leave the theater. This is at least partly true, as on some level I did want to leave the theater. But I stayed because I was just having too much fun... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~152480616068 Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:19:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_152480616068?linkin_id=8003929