Strong Movie Opinions

Because everyone in Los Angeles should have them.

SPIDER MAN 2
Great action scenes.  Totally generic everything else.  Spider-Man way funnier in the comic book.  Other characters should talk less and be in peril more.

FARENHEIT 9/11
Going to see this movie doesn't mean dookie if you don't vote against Bush and all his cronies.  That's my not-having-seen-it opinion.  If I did see it, I'm sure I would be compelled to not change my already-definite vote for Kerry.

BEFORE SUNSET
Kind of deep in that where-did-my-youth-go sort of way.   Ethan Hawke leers in like, eighteen different ways, and Julie Delpy utterly convincing as woman who keeps the conversation going be discussing herself.

ZAITOICHI
Excellent if you don't mind excessive violence and digital blood.  The last dance sequence is comprable to the Ewok singalong party at the end of "Return of the Jedi," but more moving.

DONNIE DARKO (DIRECTOR'S CUT)
Still great, but the first version was more emotionally involving.  Either version is the best American movie so far this century. 

KILL BILL VOL. 2
Many people in this movie should have been slain earlier, before given the chance to launch into their five page monologues about gearing up to say something.

A DAY WITHOUT A MEXICAN
Yay, a DVX100 movie!  So cool, so indie.  Very original, in that has-the-same-plot-as-Douglas Turner-Ward's-"Day-of-Absence" sort of way.

HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN
Sort of cool, except for the parts involving Harry Potter and spoken dialogue.

ALIENS
Dang, watching this movie now I'm reminded of the time when movies with ribcage-mounted monsters and military fetishization really meant something.  Oh, to be 9.

NEON GENESIS EVANGELION
Still the best narrative piece of art ever in the history of everything.  The live-action movie version of this is going to be monolithically terrible.