Category: 2001 Movie Reviews

Chopper

Based on the true story of a legendary Australian criminal who wrote a best-selling autobiography in prison while serving a murder sentence. Eric Bana is the guy that played The Hulk and Hector in Troy. He’s famous in Australia as a comedian. I didn’t know that. Anyway, this movie came...

The Devil’s Backbone

Creepy ghost story taking place in a Spanish orphanage during the Civil War. When I added a bunch of movies to Netflix, I had some foreign films here and there. Unintentionally, three of them showed up at the same time. By the time we reached this one, Jer was...

In the Bedroom

A family deals with their grief after their son is killed. Ok, I was warned about this movie. I knew it would be slow but jesus! It was slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. It was that slow. So slow I think I might have fallen asleep or I could have just been staring...

A Beautiful Mind

A brilliant mathematician deals with schizophrenia, falling in love and doing secret work in cryptography. I didn’t want to watch this movie for the longest time. I thought it would be too sappy and it wasn’t really true to the guy’s life. I think the bad part of it...

Donnie Darko

Fed told us that we had to watch this movie and I must say that Fed has excellent taste. This movie was awesome. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a emotionally disturbed kid that has hallucinations of a six-foot tall bunny rabbit named Frank that tells him to do things. He’s in...

Black Hawk Down

Covers the covert operation in Somalia in 1993 with Army Rangers and elite Delta Force. I never had the urge to see this movie when it was out in theaters. A bunch of people at work talked about it before it came out and they couldn’t wait to see...

Dragonflies

Another movie that I took nice little naps through but did try to watch the entire thing. I think the main problem in this movie was I fell asleep during important parts....

Minoes

Minoes is from the Netherlands. A cat drinks from a strange barrel and then it finds out it has turned into a human being. A reporter is on the verge of being fired since he is too shy to find out any stories to write about. Minoes (the cat...

Amelie

A sheltered young woman wants to help others acheive their dreams. Amelie is about a young woman who led a sheltered life as a girl. When she is older she wants to perform good deeds and improve the lives of those around her. She is quite a dreamer and...

A Knight’s Tale

A Knight’s Tale Synopsis: A peasant turns into a knight. It was kinda cheesy with the guy from Dark City and his one eye that goes every which way but straight being a big jerk in the movie while trying to woo the girl that looked like Lisa Bonet’s...