Epinions Recent Reviews for wyrydernona

Never Will I Look at Coconuts the Same Way

Sat, 23 Dec 2000 11:58:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - SPOILERS AHOY (That is, if you haven't seen the trailer).

Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), lives and near-dies by the clock. He's a Fed-Ex croney who excells at smoothing out the wrinkles in package travel time, in getting rolling efficiently. He...

Lost Viewer

Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:03:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - I swear I will NEVER understand this movie NEVER EVER!I have watched this movie dozens of times now. Not only because I like it, but I'm also trying to make sense of it. I'm not getting that far, but it's not hindering my enjoyability level while...

I loath Saturday Night Fever, Leisure Pants, and Kael!

Fri, 8 Dec 2000 21:00:25 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - Pauline Kael is a crochety curmudgeon who lives at home with her cats, or at least that's what one might surmise at one's first perusal of her criticism. She gives the impression that she is a hateful, spiteful, bitter old woman. I personally find her...

Genetic perfection ruined their lives

Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:59:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - Vincent (Ethan Hawke) was born by natural birth, he didn't get any of the perks that genetically altered children get. He was thought of as a waste of space and chronically ill. He gets a younger brother Anton, who his parents seem to favor. Vincent...

Send a thief to catch a thief

Sat, 18 Nov 2000 11:15:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - John Robie (Cary Grant) is a ex-jewel thief that was known as the cat. We find this out when a newspaper is zoomed up on in his villa, an interesting way to find out the plot of a movie. He climbed up walls over roofs and disappeared in the night, just...

Modeling is a heartless profession

Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:51:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - Angelina Jolie portrays Gia, the first super model. She grew up in Pittsburgh, there are very vague details about her life as she was growing up. She gets discovered by accident, she wasn't trying for a modeling career. It shows how easy it is to get...

The last of the great romances

Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:35:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - Ralph Fiennes starts writing a book about Julianne Moore's husband Steven Rea. They meet at a party to honor her husband. They go out to dinner and to the movies. They don't say much during dinner they talk about the movie they had just watch and what...

One of the worst films I have ever seen

Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:56:14 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - New York Stories is a movie about artist living in New York. The film shows how frustrating life can be as a artist in all stages of a professional art career.

Lionel seems to want to commemorate his low moments. He creates a tension between...

The extremes of our everyday lives

Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:42:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - In the course of life people tend to fall into routines whether they like them of not, for American adults the routine usually includes a job that they hate. It almost always includes a spouse that has drifted away from them, due to lack of...

A realistic look at what life is like for paramedics

Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:55:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - The movie takes a realistic look at what life is like for paramedics. The stress that they go through on an average shift. They deal with junkies, suicides, homicides, accidents, and other various other kinds of health problems that are life...

Red Planet:The biggest unrealized movie

Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:29:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - In the year 2025, the earth is in such a dire effect from pollutants that the human race has to seek refuge on another land. Since Mars and the earth have a lot in common and have been thought of as being exact billions of years before, we plan on moving...

Keep your eyes wide shut

Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:47:19 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise play a couple that have been married for many years and have gotten used to each other, bored. One night while doing drugs they start discussing infidelity. Nicole reveals that she wanted to have an affair with a marine, she...

Psycho: Psycho: The Reason Why I Shall Shower No More Forever!

Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:45:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - Those expecting the movie, or the re-make, forget it. First of all, Marion is not pared, minced, and ginzu-diced, but has her head lopped off like a plump chicken (then we all go running around in fear, like, well, you know...). Also, Bates is the Chubby...

Lost Souls: You are Getting Sleepy, Sleepy...

Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:22:07 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - The cinematography in this movie was resplendent. Everybody seems to be bathed in an other-worldly hue. The movie was directed by Stephen Spielberg's cinematographer (Schindler's List), and it shows, heavily.

The plot is as simple as simple...

Lawrence: Lover of Men, in More Ways the One

Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:25:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - The real T.E. Lawrence was gay! If they had done the movie along the tract of that thinking, it might have come out a bit different:

LAWRENCE: Shariff Ali. There's something I have to tell you. For a long time I've been having these...

Vertigo: It's a Long Way Down

Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:17:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wyrydernona - Vertigo is the tale of a man (James Stewart), who, after a bungled police pursuit, is inflicted with vertigo (a form of dizziness that results when one is at great heights). Stewart is then summoned by a former friend to track the man's wife, who has...