4/10
Why was this chosen for 2001?
Lots of acclaim and if I had seen it, I didn’t remember a thing (so this isn’t being considered a rewatch, even though I do think I have seen it once before).
There have been times I’ve watched a movie before (I can’t remember a specific instance) and there was like a really cool, thirty minute action scene and I’ve said to myself, this should’ve been the whole movie. That’s basically what Black…
6.5/10
Why was this chosen for 2001?
Rewatch. I think fondly on this one - and wanted to give it another go. It had previously been considered for the FMTG - but some films need a second chance…
There are some things about this I like quite a bit - and other things that just don’t seem to work.
Toward the beginning of the movie - it’s very compelling filmmaking. Rookie cop and squeaky clean Jake (Hawke) is having his…
When I was a kid, a neighbor lady used to take me and my brother to the movies. We didn't have a decent movie theater in the town that we lived, so we'd hop into her car and she'd take us to the next closest town - about twenty miles north. She took us to a theater called Cinema World, which my brother and I would jokingly call Cinnamon World. It was kind of a dive theater, an independently owned…
I had seen this once before and according to a combination of my memory and IMDB, I wasn't THAT crazy about it - barely remembering it and only having it marked as a '6' on the movie site. I actually took to it quite a bit more this time around and even wondered why I hadn't recalled this one more fondly. I was dog tired when I got off work (as per usual), so coming out of the shower and…
