Take Two

Monster’s Ball
Booooring. A one hour and forty five minutes yawn. Despite showing off Halle Berry naked, this film had nothing worth watching. Shallow and predictable story, seen-it-before American blurb characters.

Austin Powers: Goldmember
Well, we’ve seen it all before. After a while though, the crazy gags get to you and you laugh anyway. And, not to forget, there’s a lot of scantily clad, nice-looking young women to rest your eyes on for the male half of the population.

MIB-II
A pretty alien, a whole bunch of butt-ugly aliens and a Tommy Lee Jones in shorts. Sequels are always hard, but this film seemed to build up to some grand finale that never was delivered. Still, it had some ridiculously funny scenes, and I found it worth watching (despite Will Smith’s overly lame character).

One Night at McCool’s
Apart from a stunning Liv Tyler, this film really didn’t have that much to offer. The plot didn’t hold; it seemed thought out, although I think it was supposed to appear that it was improvised all the way through.

Ocean’s Eleven
This film is basically digging up the `grand-robbery dead-and-buried horse to kick it around some more, but it amazingly pulls it off. However, the film has the ugly American film syndrome that the ‘good guys’ (which—technically–are bad; they’re thieves) win everything AND the girl.

Some of the characters are so stereotyped that you really just have to laugh. A pleasant twist is that not everything goes according to the plans. However, so much goes wrong that it is amazing they don’t abandon all plans altogether. The near-mix-ups are very numerous and homogeneous — (iirc) all members of the team are involved in a troublesome situation, but only once each.

Rock Star
The key plot outline is a bit of a long shot. There’s quite a lot of great music though.

Supernova
Not bad. I quite liked this one, although the AI on board controlling computer got a bit annoying at times. However, I like virtually all Sci-Fi, so I may be a bit biased.

It has too much of the traditional Americanism though, the characters are stereotypes to a certain degree at least, and boy gets girl who initially hates him etc.