Shall We Dance? (2005)
Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez
My rating:

Watching Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez dance is like spectating my dad dancing with my girlfriend. I haven’t seen him play any movies for a long time, and last time I saw him he looked exactly the same as he is in this movie, maybe his meditation in Tibet kept him young.

Anyway, this is an exceptional movie. One day I know I’ll grow old and have a boring job and and boring routines in a boring life, but this movie reminds me that growing old doesn’t have to be boring at all. You can always find new passions, new things that will reinvent the meaning of happiness in your life. Shall We Dance is the question that will bring you there. It also brings a whole new definition to J-Lo’s beauty. So take the life in you and let it out.

7 Seconds (2005)
Wesley Snipes, Tamzin Outhwaite
My rating:

When experienced thief John Tuliver (Wesley Snipes) and his team accidentally make off with a Van Gogh during a casino heist, his girlfriend is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting.

He then bumps into a gorgeous cop (Tamzin Outhwaite) who gets tangled in the issue being accused as his accomplish. In attempt to clear her name she ends up helping John fight against the gangsters to save his girlfriend.

This movie has pretty good effects and a little bit of car chase and explosions, but I think Wesley Snipes has too much Blade in him that he fights like Blade. The story is a little long and winding and boring, I recommend sleeping through the middle 30 minutes or so, or pushing the fast-forward button on your DVD player. The bad guy is gay but he looks a little like my buddy Lee so I’ll let that go.

I didn’t really enjoy this overall but I like action movies and I like Wesley Snipes so I’ll at least give this three hearts, especially for the lovely acting of Tamzin Outhwaite. Weird name for a cute girl wouldn’t you say?

Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman
My rating:

It’s sad being poor, and poor people make me sad all the time, maybe because I know what it feels like to collect pennies for a burger. But poor people find the most amazing things to be happy about. Little things. The lack of everything in being poor is a good drive to search for a better meaning in one’s life.

This movie almost made me cry a dozen times. It’s like a cross between 8Mile and Rocky. When you have no one and nothing to count on, you rely on yourself and your own passion, it’s all you got.

Hilary Swank plays Maggie, a 31 year old wannabe boxer equipped only with her raw talent, unshakable focus and a tremendous force of will. She has nothing else, no one. One day she pops up in Frankie’s gym hoping that Frankie (Clint Eastwood) would take a shot at training her. Frankie is in the middle of a painful estrangement from his daughter, and he wasn’t about to let himself get close to anyone ever again. Maggie only wanted a shot, and someone to believe in her for once. Through her sheer determination Frankie finally took her in under his training.

The story portrays poor life and hardship. It has good moral values spread all over the place. It encourages us to think about our life and reflect on what we’ve done with it. When you die can you say to yourself “I think I did all right?” Maggie sure can, she had her shot and she’s happy despite what happens to her in the end.

This is a good movie with a sad ending. You’ll end up thinking or crying, either way it’ll make you feel that you can die and go to heaven if you can eat a good piece of lemon pie.

This movie starts off nice with a cute chick in tanktops sitting on the ground, blood in cheek, smoking Marlboro.

Devil’s Pond (2003)
Tara Reid, Kip Pardue
My rating:

Then it flashes backwards to her wedding day with her soon to turn psycho husband Mitch (Kip Pardue). Mitch then takes Julianne (Tara Reid) to a remote getaway of a deserted island for honeymoon. The island is in the middle of a beautiful lake which they have to cross by boat.

The first week goes by fast while the new lovers find bliss in the company of each other. But then Julianne starts to miss her mother and the city and wants to call it quits to resume their lives in town. Mitch tries to convince her to stay only to start a series of arguments that turn into nasty quarrels. She soon realizes that she had married an overprotective obsessive lunatic.

What starts off as a romantic honeymoon getaway turns into a nightmare when she finds out that Mitch has no plans of ever letting her go. Trapped on a deserted island with no communication to the outside world, Julianne realizes that only one of them will make it off the island alive.

Nothing beats kawaii Japanese warrior with blood all over her:

For 90cents I watched Azumi and Azumi 2: Death or Love. It’s amazing how guys like me can sit all day watching cute female assasins kill everyone on the screen. I can forget work, eat, sleep, even getting a real girlfriend.

But in the end why you die does matter.