shorter & grumpier: movie reviews
Dec. 30th, 2009 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacMonsters vs. Aliens
What's good about it: The character of Susan, an ordinary young woman who must face the challenge of having suddenly become: 1) a giant; 2) a monster; 3) a superhero.
What's bad about it: Everything else.
Julie & Julia
Loved Julia, hated Julie. And her husband. And her cat. And her cooking. From the moment, in her boring office job at the start, that she tells a caller not to yell who's not yelling, she's a giant snip. Later she turns out to be a creepy fangirl too.
Best moment: Near the end when she discovers that Julia hates her. Mrs. Child always had good taste.
The Rape of Europa
So the Nazis were mass murderers? Big deal. This documentary would have you know being the world's biggest art thieves was even worse. Why, it took the U.S. Army years afterwards to figure out who really owned all this stuff.
Yeah, all that theft and loss and destruction was a crime. But in context, the word for this film is "bathetic."
What's good about it: The character of Susan, an ordinary young woman who must face the challenge of having suddenly become: 1) a giant; 2) a monster; 3) a superhero.
What's bad about it: Everything else.
Julie & Julia
Loved Julia, hated Julie. And her husband. And her cat. And her cooking. From the moment, in her boring office job at the start, that she tells a caller not to yell who's not yelling, she's a giant snip. Later she turns out to be a creepy fangirl too.
Best moment: Near the end when she discovers that Julia hates her. Mrs. Child always had good taste.
The Rape of Europa
So the Nazis were mass murderers? Big deal. This documentary would have you know being the world's biggest art thieves was even worse. Why, it took the U.S. Army years afterwards to figure out who really owned all this stuff.
Yeah, all that theft and loss and destruction was a crime. But in context, the word for this film is "bathetic."
