this movie was an arena-sized disappointment. Boring as hell and a tremendous waste of Al Pacino and Dennis Quaid, to be sure.

and a little dull in spots, but it’s important to remember that it’s a biopic. It’s worth it just to see the amazing temprament and selflessness of this man.

but I don’t understand that. Not as good as the first, I thought, but certainly better than the second. Lots of cool fight sequences to keep the action going, a few side plots, AND they leave it open in case they want to make a fourth. I don’t think they’ll ever equal the awesomeness of the first one, but I still enjoyed it.

but a little too rappy for my tastes. I was hoping for/expecting an entire album more along the neo-soul sounds of “The Seed (2.0)”. And there are wayyyyy too many interludes happening here.

Not bad, but not really my tastes either.

There’s a lot of violence in it, and the meteor shower and the scenes of the carnosaurs attacking could really scare little kids.

Still, I thought this was a pretty well-done story. The animation was good, and I thought it meshed well with the live-action backdrops.

Too bad things didn’t really work out for the dinosaurs.

Anyway, it’s a cute movie for adults or older kids, and I found it to be a lot better and more interesting than Ice Age.

This is the least annoying I’ve ever seen the otherwise-atrocious Lili Taylor and the ubiquitous Julia Roberts. But maybe I’m just biased because of their Perfect Eighties Hair.

I can’t figure out how they even got the okay to name this after the original, because it’s not even remotely like it. Different school, different characters, ... the only thing that’s the same is that it’s about cheerleaders.

Badly acted through and through, and not in that way that’s funny, either. Not funny, not at all entertaining, just bad.

And yet I still plan to torment myself by watching the third one, just to see if it sucks even worse.

(the bonus was getting to see the sad path Bethany Joy Lenz/Galeotti could have gone if she didn’t have any actual acting ability, which fortunately she does. What a weird role for her!)

I used to like Metallica (up to and including the eponymous “black album”, which is why I thought I’d give this documentary a chance. Oh, but… FAIL. Maybe if they’d done this movie fifteen years ago about a much better album, it’d have been far less disappointing. Alas, alack. Here, let me save you all the trouble and sum it up for you real quick-like:

a) Lars Ulrich is a petulant little baby
b) Alcoholism and its subsequent stints in rehab which go a long way to tearing a band apart from the inside out are such rock and roll cliches. I mean, come on.
c) Man, does it suck to be Kirk Hammett in this scenario.

If you prefer to see these three points illustrated over and over again during the course of three hours… ehh. Maybe only the really hardcore fans would enjoy this.

I always have mixed feelings on Kirsten Dunst – I think she’s not a very good actress and she annoys me a lot of the time, but other times I find her charming. I can’t ever decide one way or the other. Her character in this was annoying through most of the movie – just a little too cutesey, and Ms. Dunst does a terrible southern accent. Why not just have her character have grown up somewhere else and moved to Kentucky, rather than have her do this awful accent?

Orlando Bloom is only a slightly better actor than Kirsten Dunst, but he did a more convincing accent having grown up on a different continent than she did living on the same. His performance was pretty dull, though, and fell flat for the most part.

Despite all this, I found the movie touching. Not until about the last 45 minutes of it, but I felt that kind of made up for the first part quite a bit. It reminded me of Garden State that way; inconspicuously thoughtful.

I find a lot of the older movies to be a little slow-paced for my tastes, but this one managed to really hold my interest. It’s about an understandably-strange, sheltered white girl who finds friendship and more with a slightly-older black man. In the 1960s.

Great performances all around, especially that of Sidney Poitier. But then, who has ever doubted the acting abilities of Sidney Poitier?