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Manhunter and Man-eater Red Dragon Movie
Thank you very much rupakq. I find it interesting that you're a film studies teacher because in the only film studies class I've taken thus far I recieved a C grade. Perhaps, I had a bad professor, I was a bad student, or maybe it's geographical. But much appreciated. Although I think my position on... Red Dragon has changed since I wrote this piece. -RandallRead More
Reviewed Kill Bill Vol 2 Movie
To Kill is to Love
(Updated Jul 12, 2004 11:33 AM)
Where Kill Bill: Volume 1 ended with a dizzying bang, a clandestine revelation and an uncertain future, Quentin Tarantino?s Kill Bill: Volume 2 finalizes on a disparate note, obviously more conclusive, and initially alarming but warming and appropriate all the same. Similarly divergent in ton...Read more
The Little Engine that Couldn't Seabiscuit Movie
You could argue I took a cynical approach to reviewing the film but I went into it unbiased (or so I remember). I didn't hate the film but I think the fact that a lot of people around me liked it for what I feel are the wrong reasons gave me an even more caustic attitude for it. Thanks for the comme...nt. -RandallRead More
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The Ending is True to the Book Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Movie
Great review. I also compared The Matrix and LOTR in my review in the sense that both were large, anticipated fantasy epics of 2003. And I definitely agree the former ended in a pale whimper and rather ignoble disappointment. I, however, felt the LOTR films were slightly better than the books as I r...eally enjoyed the emotion Jackson employed, which seemed missing from the books. Great job. -RandallRead More
The Travels of Schmidt About Schmidt Movie
Wow, thanks stuhancock! I really appreciate the compliment but I doubt mainstream journalism is the place for me. -Randall
The Ring and a ghost in the machine The Ring Movie
Thanks for the comment. But I didn't intend to say that it copied Seven so much as this adaptation shared similarities stylistically and in its seven day countdown. I'm not sure when Kôji Suzuki's original novel came out but the Japanese original (Ringu) was released in 1998 and Seven was in 19...95, so I'm not so sure your point works there. But primarily I meant Verbinski's visual style was rather similar to Fincher's in Seven. Also, I have seen a fair share of Asian horror movies (including Ringu), so I'm sure why would assume such a thing. But thanks. -RandallRead More
Reviewed Kill Bill Movie
The Reinvention of Chopsloitation
(Updated Nov 17, 2003 07:54 AM)
As quintessentially Tarantino as Quentin Tarantino can get, Kill Bill Vol.1 is also the film the most dissimilar to the manic directors past work (the genre-referencing and genre-defining crime trilogy that is Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown, which since their induction have g...Read more
Reviewed Once Upon a Time in Mexico Movie
Sloppy Thirds
(Updated Nov 17, 2003 07:52 AM)
With only its wonderfully caricatural final act and denouement as its principle virtues, one wonders if Robert Rodriguez is channeling only Sergio Leone's weave of showdowns and battles from his finales--and if by channeling we mean rendering homage yet again (in this third of his lone musician-...Read more
The shivering of timbers Pirates of the Caribbean Movie
Well, I'm not really a professional writer career-wise but you couldn't have paid me a higher compliment. Thanks, man. -Randall
Reviewed Seabiscuit Movie
The Little Engine that Couldn't
(Updated Aug 17, 2003 04:06 AM)
Nearing its first acts end, at long last, with the inevitable congregation of its main character trio (after an elongated intro mired by two marriages, a childs death, a rags-to-riches montage, the loss of innocence, isolation, depression, etc.), Gary Rosss Seabiscuit takes i...Read more
Thanks for the comments, glad to see you enjoyed the review despite the 'useful' rating. -Randall
Psychology and Smashing Things 101 The Hulk Movie
I'm glad to see we're in agreement, thanks for the compliments. -Randall
God has an anomalous sense of humor Bruce Almighty Movie
Thanks for the comments, this movie was quite the disappointment. -Randall
Uninspired flamboyance as insouciant blah The Recruit Movie
Thanks for the read and the kind comment. Much appreciated. -Randall
Reviewed Pirates of the Caribbean Movie
The shivering of timbers
(Updated Aug 15, 2003 11:50 PM)
Eloquently verbose, chillingly extraordinary and distinctly more authentic in eliciting that innate pirate spirit than any contemporary swashbuckling picture this side of Harlins Cutthroat Island and Spielbergs Hook (to an extent), Gore Verbinskis Pirates of the Caribbean: The Cur...Read more
Reviewed The Hulk Movie
Psychology and Smashing Things 101
One of the more or less highly anticipated comic book adaptations in recent memory, Ang Lees Hulk is also one of the more visibly deceitful and accordingly disappointing. A great sociological experiment, Hulk reveals volumes about the film-going populace in relation to itself, bad word-of-m...Read more
Reviewed Bruce Almighty Movie
God has an anomalous sense of humor
(Updated Aug 15, 2003 11:49 PM)
Manning its moral lighthouses with a creepy homeless man, mannequin-esque and complete with doomsday signs in hand (who later turns out to be something else, ironically, in the way of a Deus ex Machina, and just Deus), there’s little discovery of man’s possibilities with god-like pow...Read more
Reviewed The Recruit Movie
Uninspired flamboyance as insouciant blah
(Updated Aug 15, 2003 12:32 PM)
Roger Donaldsons The Recruit is a voluptuous Venus Flytrap of an espionage caper, complete with a monochromatic and appealing exterior of deceptive attractiveness, harboring more shards of twists than is perhaps warranted, wanted or needed, as most contemporary genre pictures sense is an ob...Read more
Reviewed Igby Goes Down Movie
The (unofficial) fourth in Wes Anderson's oeuvre
(Updated Apr 25, 2003 12:42 PM)
Burr ''Flock of Seagulls'' Steers’ Igby Goes Down is a quirky, ambitious and corybantic little thing to behold, retooling the Wes Anderson structure past the summits of inventive wit and into inventive cynicism. While kind of disowning Anderson’s sagacity for French New Wave (though ...Read more
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I review movies, go to school and work in a movie theater in the United States. My Review Site: ...www.cinephiliac.tk My Personal Site: www.randalljleong.com For an updated list of my favourite films: http://www.ymdb.com/user_top20_view.asp?usersid=10328 Some Favourite Music: The Beatles The Berzerker Charles Bronson The Doors Godspeed You Black Emperor Holy Molar Joy Division Led Zepplin Lightning Bolt The Locust Michael Nyman Naked City Nine Inch Nails Nirvana Radiohead The Rolling Stones Rudimentary Peni The Strokes Tom Waits The Velvet Underground. I love movies, writing, making my own films, listening to music, playing games and, of course, Nothing. I try to review movies under an amateur notion of auteurist theory.Read More
Name: Randall J
Hometown: c, CA
Education: college
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