August 10, 2008

• Movies I've seen recently...

  
  Pineapple Express (2008)  A-

  A "Weed Action Comedy" is the genre that we're
  suppose to call "Pineapple Express" and it is actually a very fitting
  description. Amid a house brawl, a car chase scene, a gun
  shoot out, and the random dialog and scenes that fits well with a
  movie about people getting high, we've got ourselves a very very fun film to watch by the Apatow crew. Memorable scenes as simple as two people smoking pot, to one about trying to escape imprisonment, litter throughout the film. Seth Rogen and James Franco make an excellent team
  together, and the rest of the cast from Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny McBride, etc, are also great. There's a couple of things that aren't
  really wrapped up or explained in the film, but overall Pineapple
  Express will probably go down as a future cult "stoner movie" classic.

  
  the X-Files : I Want To Believe  (2008)  C+

  The real reason to watch "the X-Files : I want to believe," is simply to see David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their famous roles as the believer Fox Mulder and the skeptic Dana Scully respectively. Other than that, what we got here is another serviceable thriller mystery involving a psychic assisting the FBI on a case about kidnapped women, in what turns out to be for some really unnatural reasons. The fans are going to be disappointed at the lack of  the TV series' mythological story, and casual fans may feel indifferent about the drama involving the theme on following a belief as opposed to settling with the reasonable logical conclusions. Entertaining enough for what it is, but this is something that could have just been released straight to DVD or made as a TV movie.

  
  the Tracey Fragments  (2007)  C

  Pretentious and much too artsy for it's own good, watching "the Tracey Fragments" was a case of patience and endurance. I appreciated the visual and narrative style of it's segmented non-sequential split-screen format, made to emulate the fragmented mind / memory of a person, but I thought that was the only thing interesting about the movie. The story itself seemed too typically melodramatic as a cautionary tale about a 15 year old female teen outcast living a dysfunctional life, unsure of who she is and how she should act. This movie is only for people who wants to check out an experimental cinematic style, for actress Ellen Page who does the best she could do with the role given to her, and for the indie rock soundtrack that works well enough for the film.

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