Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
August 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 52
- Adam (9)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (1)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (5)
- Jenny (3)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (5)
- Megan (2)
- Rumsey (4)
- Teddy (3)
- Thomas (5)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 35
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1)
- Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy (2)
- When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts (0)
- Eastern Promises (0)
- The Departed (0)
- Knocked Up (5)
- Little Children (0)
- Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (0)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (0)
- Transformers (0)
- Being Michael Madsen (2)
- The GoodTimesKid (0)
- Carefree (0)
- Music and Lyrics (0)
- Inland Empire (0)
- Why We Fight (1)
- Paths of Glory (0)
- Hannah Takes the Stairs (0)
- Superbad (2)
- Jesus Camp (0)
- Titicut Follies (0)
- Ultraviolet (2)
- Eyes Wide Shut (1)
- Seraphim Falls (0)
- The Puffy Chair (1)
- Red Dawn (1)
- Robot Monster (0)
- Touch of Evil (1)
- A Clockwork Orange (7)
- Les Misérables (0)
- The Magnificent Seven (0)
- Nighthawks (0)
- Slaughterhouse Five (0)
- Hot Fuzz (2)
- Sunshine (0)
- Rescue Dawn (0)
- The Wild Blue Yonder (0)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (0)
- The 11th Hour (0)
- Shanghai Express (0)
- Trasgredire (0)
- Faces (0)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (0)
- Viva Baseball! (0)
- Holiday (0)
- Cloak & Dagger (6)
- Oepidus Rex (0)
- Dead Man’s Shoes (0)
- Sunshine (0)
- This Is England (0)
- Sweet Smell of Success (1)
- Once (0)
Full Archive
Ultraviolet / USA / 2006
From writer-director Kurt Wimmer comes Cliché. Chocked full of enough Christian symbolism to make you vomit sacramental wine, Cliché is a romp through the shitty distopian future, in which a Hemophage named Violet must defend her race against the dictatorial reign of a pure-human government. Is this an allegory for the Holocaust, as the opening leads us to believe? Yes. Is this a story of religion’s hold over politics? Absolutely. Is this just an excuse to see Mila Jovovich in amazingly tight clothes? Definitely. Cliché is whatever you want it to be! Kick-ass sci-fi flick, futuristic tear-jerker, subdued hero-and-geek romance—you name it, and Wimmer has somehow jostled it into the storyline.
In all seriousness, this is a truly awful color-by-numbers revenge film, heavy with purpose but lacking in the will or creativity to express it. During many of the choreographed action sequences, Mila Jovovich ambles from one villain to another, unable to express any emotion besides complete boredom. (In fact, if you look closely, you can actually see her falling asleep mid-slaughter.) The special-effects is jumpy and overly blinding while, at the same time, not fully formed—the final shot, in which the camera swoops down over the teeming utopia, reveals that the entire populace is living in plastic Monopoly houses rather than fully-formed homes.
The only upside: An actress who goes almost unnoticed as the voice of a computer. When Jovovich’s Violet steps into the Ministry and her body is scanned for ammunition, the computer’s reply is simple and quick, with a hint of fun: “Number of weapons found: Many.”
by Adam Balz | Source: DVD
23 Aug 2007 2:26 PM | Comments (2)
rrho / 24 August 2007 / 2:28 AM / URL
Thanks. One of the funniest and most precise reviews of this fun little crap movie that I’ve read so far.
Dennis / 24 August 2007 / 12:18 PM
This movie is dreadful, but also rather entertainingly hilarious, albeit in concentrated spurts. My favorite bit is the shootout atop the building with the Asian gang. So funny…