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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9/19 8:48am Subject: Film Releases & Trends of a Decade Retrospective: The Naughties- Jan/Feb '02
	Glad you liked Spy Game; I thought it had a brilliant frame story. The fact that the main character stays in one building for two days and still manages to pull everything off was just brilliant. And Stephen Dillane got on my "actors to watch" list with his performance as the villain. Brilliant. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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The2ndQuest Title: Manager: -Literature -LACWAC -Games Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 9/20 11:16pm Subject: Film Releases & Trends of a Decade Retrospective: The Naughties- Jan/Feb '02
	And to finish up the '01 comments- I watched Frailty tonight and it is a very good low budget psychological horror flick. I sorta expected part of the twist (hl=black]Adam[/hl]), but the rest was quite good (though I think the thing with Fennton's "trophies" wasn't well explained- i don't see that transition happening for the character as told- he could have easily been left the fall guy, er, demon without him becoming a serial killer after his years long struggle against a serial killer). -----signature----- "When your future self tells you to do something, YOU DO IT." K'Kruhk, 140 ABY:"Why haven't I come forth earlier to share my Jedi knowledge with Skywalker? Well, it's kinda a long story, see, I had this freaking sweet hat..."
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The2ndQuest Title: Manager: -Literature -LACWAC -Games Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 9/22 9:34pm Subject: Film Releases & Trends of a Decade Retrospective: The Naughties- Jan/Feb '02
	March & April 2002 Notable releases: (listed in release order) March: -40 Days and 40 Nights -We Were Soldiers -All About the Benjamins -The Time Machine -Ice Age -Resident Evil -Showtime -Blade II -E.T.: Special Edition -Sorority Boys -Clockstoppers -Death to Smoochy -Panic Room -The Rookie April: -Big Trouble -High Crimes -National Lampoon's Van Wilder -Changing Lanes -(Frailty hit wide release here- my bad) -The Sweetest Thing -Murder By Numbers -My Big Fat Greek Wedding -The Scorpion King -Jason X -Life or Something Like It T2Q Comments: -40 Days and 40 Nights: Josh Harnett goes through the hardships of avoiding sex for 1.25 months. I think I know why people hate Josh Harnett. -We Were Soldiers: Even though I talked about tiring of war films, I still found this one interesting and a pretty decent war movie. -The Time Machine: A not entirely successful remake, though it's mainly the last portion of the film where it falls apart, IMO. The early portions are quite good, though. -Ice Age: Holy crap on a stick! Has it been 7+ years since this came out? Sheesh... it seems like only yesterday we were greeted by those great Scrat shorts that evoked the greatness of classic Looney Tunes, and then met by a not-bad-but-not-great film featuring them. I haven't seen the sequels yet but this was obviously successful. -Resident Evil: Some people will hate this, but for what it is (a B-movie inspired by Aliens) I rather liked it (except for the terrible Licker CGI). It may not be a great zombie movie or even a good adaptation of the RE games themselves, but it's fun. -Blade II: Best of the series, IMO. Managed to keep things fresh and continued the rise of Marvel. -E.T.: Special Edition: This was the first time I had seen the whole movie. I really didn't like it as a kid but was totally won over seeing it as an adult- the finale is a tour de force by Williams and by the end if you're not left with eyes full of tears you have no soul. The walkie talkie thing was dumb though. -Clockstoppers: Fun concept kids movie directed by Jonathan Frakes. Not outright great but not he worst kids movie you could watch. Though, I admit a certain affinity for the concept that harkens back to an episode of Duck Tales (woohoo!). -Death to Smoochy: Never saw this, but I have the feeling I'd love it. -Panic Room: I usually dig Fincher's films a lot, and while this is by no means a terrible movie, it does feel like it's lacking and is his weaker work. -The Rookie: Dennis Quaid surprised a lot of people with this movie, and I think the movie surprised a lot of people- afterall, how on earth could a G-rated live action Disney movie be anywhere close to good in this day and age? -Big Trouble: A film that got mostly swept under the carpet due to 9/11 and the nuclear bomb plot thread in the film. Regardless, this movie was fantastic- one of my favorite comedies and the second best thing Tim Allen has done for film in live action. Rest of the cast is great too. -National Lampoon's Van Wilder: Not a classic teen comedy but a middle of the road one that launched Ryan Reynold's greatness. -Changing Lanes: Good thriller, with both Sam Jackson and Affleck doing a good job here. -My Big Fat Greek Wedding: Never watched it all but obviously was a massive indie success -The Scorpion King: I had hopes for this. The Rock has a good presence and I felt The Mummy Returns was the best of that series. Sadly they focused on an uninteresting part of his story, essentially only validating the film if a sequel was made that actually told the interesting story (of how he went evil and tried to conquer the world, etc), but that sequel was never made. In fact they made a direct-to-video prequel instead, going in the wrong direction for the character's story, thus telling an even more uninteresting story about the character and avoiding the only thing audiences would ever care to actually see. That said, the movie has a couple decent moments, mostly at the end. The comic relief is worse than that in The Mummy, alas. -Jason X: Jason in Space! How can you not at least want to see that? It's crazy and over the top but I loved it. The highlight? The heroes luring Jason into a holodeck version of Camp Crystal Lake so that he'll be distracted while they attempt to escape the ship/station/whatever. The next shot in the holodeck? Jason using one dead teenage girl's body completely contained wrapped in a sleeping bad to beat another to a pulp. Overall Trends: Ice Age and Resident Evil launch successful franchises. Eddie Murphy continues to make awful movies with Showtime. Blade II continues Marvel's rise that's soon to explode. High Crimes is yet another Morgan Freeman/Ashley Judd pairing. -----signature----- "When your future self tells you to do something, YOU DO IT." K'Kruhk, 140 ABY:"Why haven't I come forth earlier to share my Jedi knowledge with Skywalker? Well, it's kinda a long story, see, I had this freaking sweet hat..."
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9/23 3:43pm Subject: Film Releases & Trends of a Decade Retrospective: The Naughties- Mar/Apr '02
	The Rookie is a four star film, I think, and so is Panic Room (which I actually think is one of Fincher's most astonishing technical achievements; what he does in that house with that camera is just astounding). And Blade II, while perhaps not strictly speaking a four star film, was just incredibly brilliant and gripping and jaw dropping (or opening); yes, best of the franchise, by far. It's the movie that really put Del Toro on my watch list. Ice Age was surprisingly fun. My Big Fat Greek Wedding was pretty cliched and flat and not that interesting. Murder by Numbers, a very by the numbers thriller with Sandra Bullock attempting to play a more or less sociopathic detective was . . . not good. Chris Penn was pretty good in a small role, but that was pretty well the only watchable thing in the movie. And I think I actually saw High Crimes, but I kind of remember nothing about it. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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The2ndQuest Title: Manager: -Literature -LACWAC -Games Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 11/13 9:52pm Subject: Film Releases & Trends of a Decade Retrospective: The Naughties- Mar/Apr '02
	May & June 2002 Notable releases: (listed in release order) May: -Hollywood Ending -Spider-Man -The New Guy -Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones -About a Boy -Enough -Insomnia -Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron -The Sum of All Fears -Undercover Brother June: -Bad Company -Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood -The Bourne Identity -Scooby-Doo -Windtalkers -Minority Report -Hey Arnold! The Movie -Mr Deeds T2Q Comments: -Spider-Man: Perfectly timed movie. It was the first summer after 9/11 and people needed an unbeat blockbuster. I caught this with the perfect, sold-out geek audience in Indianapolis at Celebration II and everyone had a blast. And that one "you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us" line was appropriately vicarious for the nation at the time. Though the armored Goblin design was odd, I still feel the movie did a better job at developing it's villain than Spider-Man 2 and not rushing into it, one reason I find it hard to choose between 1 & 2 since they both complement each others' flaws. -Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones: A big improvement over TPM. Where TPM was a strange beast whose individual components were decent-to-good yet when taken as a whole came never clicked well, AOTC has a much more solid through-line plot with Obi-Wan's investigation, and it helps the movie greatly. It does suffer from atrocious love dialogue that is distracting to the viewer as it suspends our involvement/disbelief (I'll never accept the strawman's theory that it was intentionally bad), and a couple redundant or unnecessary scenes.. Interesting that it's an example of a modern film (Gladiator, maybe Black Hawk Down too) influencing sequences in a SW film, as well as real life dictating a change to the film (speeders being forced to crash into buildings during the Zam speeder chase were removed due to 9/11). Conversely, it's noteworthy that while the SW film of the year did change things due to 9/11, the then-recent Star By Star SW novel didn't, despite closer similarities to the events. Oddly enough, it was the IMAX cut of the film that really sold me on it- since, at the time, IMAX projectors couldn't handle a film longer than 2 hours, AOTC had to be cut down by about 20 minutes to fit into the format. This forced them to trim some scenes, most of them needlessly talky ones (the Jedi and Palps talking before Padme's arrival, etc) or the horrific love dialogue (they managed to trim the love dialogue down to something that's not skin-crawlingly-bad, for the most part) which really upped the pacing and allowed the movie to tell it's story more effectively. I still contend that the IMAX AOTC is almost about on par with the OT- and it inspired me to make my own re-edit of AOTC using it as a basis (though I took the liberty of rearranging a few other scenes and swapping in one or two deleted scenes). Not to mention it spawned the excellent run of Clone Wars comics by Dark Horse, which are still miles better than the majority of material we've gotten out of the new series. -Insomnia: I was a big fan of Nolan's Memento, so I saw this one on that strength alone, as well as Williams' performance. Perhaps a bit too long and not as tightly paced as he previous and subsequent work, it did effectively draw the audience into the mentality of the character, making us feel like we had insomnia ourselves. -The Sum of All Fears: Pushed back to here due to 9/11 due to the nuclear bomb plot, the first attempted (and failed) reboot at the Jack Ryan series (another reboot is in the works) wasn't too bad. It didn't hit the high notes of Hunt for Red October or Clear & Present Danger, but it did have it's redeeming aspects (Liev Schreiber taking over the role of John Clark, previously played by DaFoe, was awesome). -Bad Company: Never saw it, but I clearly remember the ads for this and how it just seemed like the worst kind of overt "hey, look at us- it's a buddy comedy between an old white guy and a young black guy!" premise. Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock, really? -The Bourne Identity: I was never crazy for this series, but they are enjoyable. This one is so-so (but I do feel they got progressively better as the series went on) as it sometimes gets tripped up on overly complicated plotted and, IIRC, a couple similar looking actresses and actors. -Windtalkers: Never saw it but John Woo making war films is something that has continued. -Minority Report: Spielberg's return to Sci-fi is pretty solid with some great visions of the future (screen-free touch interfaces being referred to as "Minority Report controls" like that dude who retrofitted a Wii controller to function like what Tom Cruise does in the movie, and now we might be seeing potential video paper and clothing technology develop) and some neat sequences. I think the end gets a bit muddled, but it's still worth seeing. -Mr Deeds: One of the last really funny Sandler comedys that sort of caps off his string of hits. "You underestimate the sneakiness, sir." is constantly quoted by me and my friends. Overall Trends: Spider-Man, following the groundwork laid by Blade and the X-Men, changed the face of super-hero movies, and, as an extension of the sub-genre's continued popularity and massive success, has also changed the face of the summer blockbuster for at least a decade (factoring in the big tentpole titles in the works for the coming years) and likely for even longer. AOTC is hard to say it was part of any trend- it was SW, plain and simple. It's it's own beast. Bourne and, later, xXx, would find success in the demand for an "anti-Bond", which would eventually lead to the style of Bourne having a direct influence over the styel of later Bond films. Nolan's next film was a small project called Batman Begins, so his body of work eventually feeds into what Spider-Man exploded. -----signature----- "When your future self tells you to do something, YOU DO IT." K'Kruhk, 140 ABY:"Why haven't I come forth earlier to share my Jedi knowledge with Skywalker? Well, it's kinda a long story, see, I had this freaking sweet hat..."
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Obi Anne Title: FanForce RSA Europe Registered: Nov '98	Date Posted: 11/14 12:07am Subject: Film Releases & Trends of a Decade Retrospective: The Naughties- May/June '02
	I missed the previous post, so I have a couple of films to go through. March/April 40 days 40 nights - I hate it plain and simple. I don't think I can find any redeeming qualities in this one, and that's even if I factor in that Josh Hartnett is pretty cute. We Were Soldiers - I think that when this one came out I was bored of big epic war film, also Vietnam films have never been as interesting to me as WW2 (probably because WW2 is closer to home). So I haven't seen it. Ice Age - pure brillance according to me. I think I saw it three times in the cinema, even if that had do to with cheap tickets and my crazy Wednesday time table while studying in Ireland. It also had the last AOTC trailer attached to it. ET Special Edition - It's a classic film, and I hadn't seen the original enough to notice the differences between it and the SE. I had a very fun personal moment with this one. I saw it with my sister who confessed that she loved the film and had seen the original several times when it was released, and this is my sister who thinks everything that is remotely sci-fi or has antyhing to do with aliens is totally silly. (She hates SW) The Rookie - I was put up by the trailer and the Disney stamp, from what I read hear it might be worth watching. My Big Fat Greek Wedding - I didn't see it until some years ago, but it has turned into one of my favorite films. I think it's great. The two main characters are very believable, even if the surrounding cast has been turned up a notch to surreality. Also even if I'm not in any way Greek I recognise quite a lot of my own family in this film. There's a sequel coming/has come now as well. I'm more worried about that being just too filled with cliches though. May/June AOTC - I'm a borderline gusher, so I really liked AOTC. It has some serious flaws though, and I've noted that I get pretty bored when I watch it nowadays. Still it's the best costumes of all SW. About a boy - released in the UK/Ireland in April. A great film, showing that Hugh Grant can do other things than being just a nice guy in a romcom. It's a feelgood movie all the way through. The Bourne Identity - I didn't see it until after the Bourne Supremacy. In a way it feels a bit like ANH. It's a stand alone film that they managed to build a series around, but I feel that the other parts in the series are better. ******************** In all I didn't see many of the films released during this period, but on the other hand the ones I've seen I've seen several times. To me Ice Age is the real trendsetter, starting up its own franchise and also inspiring more of the "grown up" animation that would follow, especially with the Madagascar films. -----signature----- "That is the beauty of grand opera; you can do anything...as long as you sing it" Anna Russell
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 11/14 9:04am Subject: Film Releases & Trends of a Decade Retrospective: The Naughties- May/June '02
	Some great films here. Spider-Man is great and I think Insomnia is definitely the overlooked gem in Nolan's catalogue and one of Pacino's last truly great performances, maybe his very last (to date, at least). Bourne Identity, I loathed; I've seen none of the other films. They destroyed one of the greatest novels ever written about identity and truth. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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The2ndQuest Title: Manager: -Literature -LACWAC -Games Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 11/20 7:46pm Subject: Film Releases & Trends of a Decade Retrospective: The Naughties- May/June '02
	July & August 2002 Notable releases: (listed in release order) July: -Like Mike -Men in Black II -The Powerpuff Girls Movie -The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course -Halloween: Resurrection -Reign of Fire -Road to Perdition -Eight Legged Freaks -K-19: The Widowmaker -Stuart Little 2 -Austin Powers in Goldmember -The Country Bears August: -The Master of Disguise -Signs -Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams -Blood Work -xXx -The Adventures of Pluto Nash -Blue Crush -One Hour Photo -Serving Sara -S1m0ne -Undisputed -Feardotcom T2Q Comments: -Like Mike: Never saw it, just remember the torture of the trailer playing so much. -Men in Black II: A mixed sequel- it has some great moments to it, but also comes up below par in so many other places (poor Rip Torn is handled just awfully here). -Halloween: Resurrection: Never saw it, just looked bad. Sequel to H20 (and not 4, 5 & 6), last entry in the original Halloween series. -Reign of Fire: While this didn't outright kick as much ass as I would have liked it to (it had potential to be a classic) it's still very solid with both Bale and Maconahay doing a good job. The dragon effects are top-notch, and the post-apocalyptic retelling of ESB was a brilliant little touch. -Road to Perdition: Surprised it was based ona graphic novel, but an enjoyable drama. Not sure I'd want to see it more than once more, though. -Eight Legged Freaks: Zany and amusing. Another coulda-been-a-classic, but a fun flick to take a look at. -K-19: The Widowmaker: It's not Hunt For Red October, or even U-571. But it's one of the better movies Ford has done in recent years...though that's not saying much, sadly. -Austin Powers in Goldmember: It's grown on me a little, but I didn't care for this one as much as the first two (especially given how spectacular the second one was). I think it was the Scott Evil subplot that I felt, while a daring way to shake things up, just didn't feel right and went entirely against the character. -The Master of Disguise: A shame Dana Carvey never got a good movie to break out of Wayne's World's shadow with. This had potential and some ok gags that play to his strengths (that turtle thing is funny...) but, alas... -Signs: One of the few films to ever scare me (the hand in the basement) and my second favorite M Night film (after Unbreakable). It's just very effective overall, giving the common-person POV of an alien invasion. Funny enough, the end of the movie was telegraphed by the weather the night I saw the movie- a big thunderstorm was going on that night, and even in that packed theater you could hear the thunder and rain outside later in the movie when they were in the basement. At that point I assumed the reason the aliens went away was because of the rain/water I was hearing as part of the movie's soundtrack. Turns out mother nature spoiled the ending -Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams- continuing the series into crazier and crazier scenarios, this love note to Ray Harryhausen came off as so-so. -xXx: The final hit of the 3-hit punch that let Vin Diesel explode on screen, following Pitch Black and The Fast and Furious. And though Bourne may have barely beat him to the punch in a stylistic way, xXx was the film that showed the need for an Anti-Bond secret agent, and it did it very well (the opening sequence showing why the classic tux=wearing agent wasn't exactly ideal for the types of crowds found at a Rammstein concert ), taking a lot of iconic aspects to the secret agent genre and giving them their own spin that were identifiable to the character but also turned sideways from the typical cliches. Sure, some of the action sequences are really over the top (but then, the whole dirtbike explosion thing really isn't any crazier than Bond's dive-into-plane at the start of GoldenEye), but it had some fun characters, some really fun dialogue (the first nightclub conversation between Xander and the baddies and the chick has some classic stuff delivered ina way that really shows off Vin's charisma- "I'll have some ice- maybe you could chip some off your heart...if you can find it" ). It was very much the Anti-Bond that the Brosnan-era genre needed, though, sadly, Vin's career choices afterwards led the franchise to ruin in the sequel. Here's hoping the third movie can resurrect it as, ironically, what it set out to be the antithesis of, it's now likely the best hope for another taste of that Brosnan-era-esque secret agent action film style that has mostly vanished due to the Bourne influence on the Craig-era. -The Adventures of Pluto Nash: Poor, Eddie. -Blue Crush: For a minute there, I had to remind myself this wasn't Into the Blue. -S1m0ne: Another trailer that was played a tonnnnnn.... never saw the film, though. -Feardotcom: I'm pretty sure I saw this but don't remember it much. Overall Trends: MIB2 killed the MIB franchise for almost a decade (a 3rd "apology" sequel seems to be in the works now), Halloween: Resurrection killed the original Halloween franchise, forcing it to be rebooted, Reign of Fire continues to build to Bale's genre explosion as the caped crusader, Austin Powers either wore out Myers or tired him of the role, xXx would kick off an era of anti-Bond action though sputter later on, and M. Night would never make another good movie. -----signature----- "When your future self tells you to do something, YOU DO IT." K'Kruhk, 140 ABY:"Why haven't I come forth earlier to share my Jedi knowledge with Skywalker? Well, it's kinda a long story, see, I had this freaking sweet hat..."
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Obi Anne Title: FanForce RSA Europe Registered: Nov '98	Date Posted: 12:54am Subject: Film Releases & Trends of a Decade Retrospective: The Naughties- July/Aug '02
	This time period still suffered from being post AOTC, in that I haven't seen many of these films at all. Men in Black II - it's an OK film. It has its moments and well worth watching, even if isn't top notch. K-19: The Widowmaker - saw it years later, and mostly due to the Neeson/Ford combination. A very up and down film, but it gets better towards the end. If only they could have skipped the fake Russian accents. So, wow, just two films out of the bunch. And only one that I actually saw on the big screen. -----signature----- "That is the beauty of grand opera; you can do anything...as long as you sing it" Anna Russell
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9:05am Subject: Film Releases & Trends of a Decade Retrospective: The Naughties- July/Aug '02 - Date Edited: 9:06am (1 edits total) Edited By: Rogue1-and-a-half
	MIB II was absolutely awful. Just completely without wit. Road to Perdition was overrated at the time and is now slightly underrated, I think. It's worth rediscovering, but it still isn't the greatest film of the year or anything. On the other hand, Signs was great; at the time, it was the third absolutely five star film from M. Night and I remember watching it and just thinking that the guy was never going to stop being astonishing, that he was this generation's Hitchcock. That all ended pretty soon, but still, what a swan song, even if he never comes back to do a great film again. K-19 I find very underrated. Ford and Neeson are both great and Sarsgaard is just incredible. I like Bigelow's style and I found the film extremely tense and extremely moving. It's far better, in my opinion, than U-571, which was pretty rote. K-19 had plenty of surprises and it's definitely Ford's last great film. One Hour Photo also deserves a mention. Williams' performance is very good, quite disturbing. It's the film that really put Michael Vartan on my radar; he's extremely good in what should be an entirely thankless role, as the husband of the family Williams is fixated on. And then Gary Cole is extremely good in what amounts to a serious take on his role in Office Space, a completely unlikable store manager that's deeply threatening. And the direction was extremely good; it has a style and vibe all of its own. Great little thriller; if you haven't seen it yet, rent it. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Champion of the Force Registered: Dec '99	Date Posted: 10:03pm Subject: Film Releases & Trends of a Decade Retrospective: The Naughties- July/Aug '02
	Haven't seen many of these. Men in Black II - ehh, it's alright, but not a scratch on the original. Personally I think it would have been far better if they had continued to follow J and L (the chick from the 1st film) and somehow tied K back into it. Road to Perdition - good film, have never seen in since it left theatres. I should check it out again. It was also one of Paul Newman's last starring roles. Austin Powers in Goldmember - I love the Austin Powers films but after the fantastic 1st film the sequels had diminishing returns for me. The highlight of the film would have to be Michael Caine as Austin's father Nigel Powers. Scott Evil's subplot (as mentioned above) is just plain weird, didn't like the whole Dr Evil and Austin are brothers revelation and Goldmember is probably the least interesting character Myers has portrayed in the series. Signs - awesome, this is probably my favourite Shyamalan film. All downhill from here though. xXx - Vin Diesel peaked with this film and was for a brief period the coolest thing in Hollywood, pity he couldn't capitalise on it further. The Adventures of Pluto Nash - another stinker from Eddie Murphy. Blue Crush - Kate Bosworth's first leading role. With this film I think we're seeing the last gasps of the teen film craze that was dominating the late 90s/early 00s. One Hour Photo - Robin Williams' against-type role was probably the biggest deal regarding this film. Outside of Williams himself I didn't find the film overly special. Serving Sara - Matthew Perry once again playing a 'Chandler Bing' clone. It's bombing at the boxoffice pretty much saw the end of it - at least he still had a couple of seasons remaining on Friends. -----signature----- Without my ignorance your knowledge would be useless.
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