Movies I Have Seen

. This list was started on the 17th July 1997

• SPAWN - 6/10 - Early December 1997 - Greater Union Macquarie Centre. Amazing special effects!
• LA Confidential - 7/10 - Saturday 15th November 1997 - Greater Union Macquarie Centre. LA confidential is a demanding detective thriller that will keep you thinking right till the end. It stars Aussies Russel Crowe (Go Russel Go!!!), Guy Pierce and Simon Baker Denny plus Kevin Spacey, Danny Devito and Kim Bassinger. An involved story with a lot of characters means that unless you pay careful attention the whole thing can slip past you. But if you can keep track of all the names it is a really entertaining flick.
• A Life Less Ordinary - 7/10 - Thursday 6th of November 1997 - City Hoyts Sydney. Thanks to the Drum Media for the free double pass to this preview screening of A Life Less Ordinary. Starring Ewan Trainspotting Macgregor and Cameran Grrrrrrll Diaz this was quite a bizarre yet entertaining movie. Ewan almost had as many whingeing lines in this movie as C-3PO does in Star Wars but a whinge is a lot easier to swallow when spoken in a Scottish accent as opposed to a metallic girly voice. If you ignore the fact that this movie was made by the same people who made Trainspotting (They are nothing alike and expectations often lead to a letdown.) and you are in the mood for a weird script and an easy laugh you're sure to enjoy A Life Less Ordinary. Oh Yeah it has a pretty funky soundtrack as well.
• Clerks & Chasing Amy (Double Feature) - 9/10 - Sunday 2nd of November 1997 - Valhalla Cinema Glebe. I couldn't think of a better way to spend Sunday night (Except maybe playing cards with Fatty, Gobbo, Nud and Mouth) then going to see this Double Feature with Heidi, Loz, Georgie and Scott. Kevin Smith (aka Silent Bob, and also the guy who originally worked in the QuickStop in Clerks, and also the guy who I think wrote and directed the movie) is a modern day legend. Both these movies are filled with absolute classic lines, and no matter how hard you try once you leave the cinema, you will never be able to say them as well as you remember them. Watching these movies back to back I was quite delighted to see how many interlinked references there were. I laughed myself silly even when I wasn't supposed to and Heidi got quite emotional during the more intense moments of Chasing Amy. PS Don't ever pass up an opportunity to see Clerks on the big screen. "I'm not even supposed to be here today", "They're a bunch of savages in this town", "37!!!!!!", "You got any balls down there??? Only about the biggest pair you've ever seen! Dingleberry!!"
• Contact - 9/10 - Saturday 1st of November 1997 - Greater Union Macquarie Centre. This movie came highly recommended by Benny and as he didn't tell me anything about it, I won't tell you anything about it (Well not much anyway). Contact was written by long time scientist Carl Sagan and stars Jodi Foster who once again is absolutely fantastic. Superb acting, incredible special effects and an amazing story makes this 2 and a half hour movie seem disappointingly short. The story is actually quite a simple one, but it has many levels and layers of complexity and subtlety, so that depending on your own personal perspective you will glean a different message from this totally engrossing movie. I would love to write more as this profound movie has opened up many avenues of thought in my mind but I fear it might affect the way you perceive the film yourself. One final thing I will say is that I loved the reversing roles of the scientist and the theologian. Awesome. "They should have sent a poet"
• Men In Black - 7/10 -Saturday 20th of September 1997 - Cessnock. It was Becky Porteus birthday so tonight was a night out with the Porteus clan. We took Heidis' Grandma with us, she hadn't been to the movies for fifteen years!! (The last movie she saw was The Man From Snowy River!!) Men in Black was a good laugh. It was basically Ghost Busters with aliens instead of ghosts. Will Smith was good as always and the special effects were sensational. I really liked the last 30 seconds the bit where you find out that the Universe is actually just a Spacey in some intergalactic game of marbles. Just a reminder :- Don't Believe the Hype.
• Face/Off - 8/10 - Saturday 6th September 1997 - Maitland. This is one of the best action movies I have seen. It was great seeing John Travolta trying to act like Nicholas Cage and Nicholas Cage trying to act like John Travolta. Mad gun slinging action, explosions, chase scenes and awesome special effects. Note from Heidi Beware the Hollywood ending.
• Sling Blade - 7/10 - Saturday 23rd August 1997 - Walker Cinema North Sydney. This movie has been highly rated by many of the movie critics,however it left me with a strange feeling inside. Sling Blade is an extremely sad and emotional movie, that is played out before your eyes at an extremely slow pace, enabling you to know intimately all the characters involved. At the films climatic ending I wasn't sure if I should feel happy or sad, angry or relieved, or mystified and bewildered, least of all who I should have these feelings for. A provoking film that has very strong characters. An interesting look at the difference between right and wrong through the eyes of a simple man.
• Absolute Power - 7/10 - Sunday 17th August 1997 - Maitland. Clint Eastwood is a champion. What makes this movie special is what the characters don't say. As Heidi said a few weeks back so many Hollywood movies are spoilt by crappy dialog. For once this movie didn't presume the audience were idiots and it made all the difference. Absolute Power was filled with a lot of really subtle jokes that must have been tempting to destroy with mindless dialogic. Luckily Clint as director made some clever decision and hence made a very entertaining movie. Classic moment was Clints facial expressions when he was locked in the vault behind the two way mirror.
• Thrill Ride - IMAX - 7/10 - Sunday 10th August 1997 - Imax Theatre Sydney. Some amazing scenes as you ride some of the worlds craziest rollercoasters.But just when you're really starting to feel as if your actually riding a rollercoaster they switch over into documentary mode and destroy the illusion. Very cool though all the same.
• Con-Air -7/10 - Sunday 20th July 1997 - Greater Union Macquarie Centre. This movie has been advertised for what seems like well over a year. Succumbed to the advertising pressure when we saw a Sky Writer advertising the movie at Soccer on Saturday. A big time Action spectacular. What makes this movie, is the awesome assembly of bad arse Cons (Played by a long list of very recognisable actors) and some well written lines. Once again though I think the movie was spoiled a bit by chucking in throwaway lines that make you think "Geez that's corny" and brings the magical curtain of the film crashing down around you. All I can say is "Thankyou for choosing CON-AIR" and "Sit back and enjoy the flight"
• Chasing Amy - 9/10 - Thursday 17th of July 1997 - Walker Cinema North Sydney. Saw this on the strength of Clerks and Mall Rats. AWESOME AWESOME movie. The central theme to this movie is a hell of a lot more serious than that of Clerks and Mall Rats but the dialogic is just as legendary. Banky is the most miserable character in a film since Cameran in Ferris Buellers Day Off. A must see.

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