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Serendipity (2001)
Destiny should have steered me away from this movie.
There is a thing called trying too hard and this movie does too much of it. The story line is stereotypical boy and girl meet cute and then spend the rest of the movie trying to figure out how to make it work. This movie is based on the theory that a greater power namely destiny makes small little insignificant coincidences important. The problem is that the movie makes too much of these coincidences. I mean do we really need to see Sara touching the gum that Jon has stuck to the back of the chair. The characters are fine in their older versions but in the younger versions, Sara is scary in her obsession in the supernatural, and Jon seems at the verge of tears for the majority of the movie. Who would ruin a engagement for either of these people? The supporting characters are great though, Jeremy Piven is inspired as the obit writer friend of Jon's who goes along on his quest, Molly Shannon as the new age store proprietor who believes in nothing she sells, has the timing to make her character believable. Dan Cortese also does a good job in a role which has to be one of the worst characters to ever come out of a screenwriter's head. The role may not be much, but he works well with what he is given. All in all, don't waste $10 seeing this movie, discount rack at the local video store is the way to go.
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Quality effects + decent story line = quality movie, at least this time
I went to see this movie last night, primarily motivated by the hype and because I really wanted to see the graphics and the effects in this movie. I was blown away, the effects are as promised mind-blowing. The story is trite in a way, you can guess what will happen but then again like Titanic, the entire movie is about a historical event that everyone knows the ending of. The three hours don't drag which I would say is due to the skillful weaving of the movie, there are separate plotlines, but they are presented as a coherent single movie, which need each other to survive. The movie managed to bring me into the spirit of the time, I could get a sense of what the Americans would have felt at this point. Seeing the bombing raids, one got a sense of the outrage that would later allow events like Hiroshima and Nagasaki to occur. The enemy wasn't portrayed as evil which was good, they were just people doing their jobs, but you were also presented with the American side, which was that they were bombed without provocation. However I didn't get a sense that we ever learned why they were bombing Pearl Harbor aside from some comment about needing oil, just that they were. Other than that a great movie, one I would see again. One word of advice to people going to see it though, try to remember that the movie is a movie, a fictionalized account of real events, this isn't a documentary and so shouldn't be treated as such.
Perfect Assassins (1998)
Not Painfully Bad, but Pretty Close
I ended up watching this movie because well there was nothing else on and I recommend watching paint dry, grass grow, anything in fact other than this movie. The premise is intriguing enough in the beginning, there are assassins running around, and they are tied to this weird behavioral scientist. But before you get to the conditioning, you get perhaps the worst car chase in history, they appear to be going the speed limit, not really riveting action. The action scenes are boring, the plot relatively see through, you can guess most of what will happen. The ending however is truly ridiculous, as everything comes together in what has to be the stupidest conspiracy story ever. My recommendation don't waste your time.