Jimmy_Warwood Reviews

Deep Impact (1998)

Dumb and Far Fetched But Does Make You Go Hmmm

[2/10 · 9 August 2005]

The premise of 'Deep Impact' is the stuff our nightmares are made of: an Extinction Life Event, an asteroid headed to collide with Earth and wipe out all lifeforms. But jeez, the cornball stuff in this movie just makes you want to groan, all played out like a syrupy soap opera with cool but ultimately inaccurate special effects (read the Goofs section here at IMDb)... Little things that bugged me department: Jon Favreau is way too overweight here to be an astronaut! Robert Duvall is way too old to be that deep in space and how come the Russian astronaut doesn't get a teary goodbye from his family before they sacrifice themselves for the good of mankind! The scary thing about this movie is the very real possibility that something like this in real life could be kept from the public by our creepy governments.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

More Fun Than Laughing

[3 January 2004]

It's about time it was fun to go back to the movies. With all the gloom and doom reality crap we put up with out there or the trippy stupidity of far out idiocy like "The Matrix", "The Pirates Of The Caribbean" is like falling in love for the first time. Yeah, it has its faults but doesn't everything? The acting is top notch with flawless performers like Geoffrey Rush, Jonathan Pryce and Orlando Bloom not to mention the oh-so-fetching Keira Knightley but Johnny Depp as Keith Richards as a pirate is enough to make you watch this over and over again. Just don't take this too seriously and it'll slide into your top 20 movie list in no time. PS. When they make that movie about the Rolling Stones, who will play Mick Jagger to Depp's Richards?

Let's Spend the Night Together (1982)

Another Great Rolling Stones Tour!

[19 September 2003]

Forget what critics say about this one, it's a rock 'n' roll concert NOT

cinema verité and that's all I want from The Stones. Filmed at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona (outdoors segment) and

the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey (indoor segment) by

director Hal Ashby ("Harold And Maude", "Coming Home") in the fall of

1981 on the Stones' very successful Tattoo You Tour. This is the last tour to feature the basic meat and potatoes Stones lineup

(guitar, bass, drums, piano, sax) as every subsequent tour since has featured an musical entourage of 3 or 4 backup singers, big horn sections and

multiple keyboardists. The material is great although I wish they'd have

played "Gimme Shelter", "Monkey Man", "Street Fighting Man", "Bitch"

but hey, those songs were not performed on that tour so what are you

gonna do? I would have liked more backstage activity but then again that's what the

"C*cks*cker Blues" 1972 film by Robert Frank does to excess. "Let's Spend The Night Together" perfectly captures the Stones as they

were in 1981 in their late 30s and early 40s and is a must for any Rolling

Stones fan.

4 - 1/2 STARS out of 5

Vanilla Sky (2001)

What The Hell Was That ?!?!?!?

[2/10 · 27 December 2002]

My sister loves Tom Cruise and I 've liked everything Cameron Crowe's ever done. I got dragged Christmas Day 2001 to see this. It began, it was long and then it ended. All I could mutter as the end credits began to roll was "what the hell was that?" Now to be fair and to give ol' Cam a second chance, I watched it again twice in the last 2 weeks on The Movie Network. Sorry, this movie is a waste of time, dazed, confused and all over the place... I saw what Cam was going for but again WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?!?! TWO out of TEN.

Youngblood (1986)

Just Skate Away From This One

[1/10 · 27 December 2002]

The game of hockey I play and watch has something called "speed" which the actual hockey scenes in this limp movie never even come close to capturing. Add to that a storyline that is cliché, predictable and stupider than stupid with some of the lamest '80s music numbing your senses in every scene and you have "Youngblood". Oh, Keanu as a French Canadian, yeah, whatever. Gimme Dunlop, Braden and the Hansons anytime... ONE out of TEN.

A Christmas Story (1983)

Perfect Christmas

[10/10 · 27 December 2002]

Every single detail of this movie brings me back to those days when you were 9 or 10 and all that mattered was getting that special something for Christmas. Everyone had a Flick and a Scut Farcus in their lives. A great reminder and a perfect throwback to the way life used to be and should be again.

Deliverance (1972)

A creepy reminder of the ugly side of life.

[10/10 · 25 November 2002]

One of the reasons the 1970s are considered to be the best era of filmmaking. This gritty, suspense remains Burt Reynolds' finest moment as an actor and puts an idellible mark on any male's psyche.

I first saw this in the mid-70s on Cable when I was about 11 or 12 years old while living in south Florida. Needless to say, I never ever went camping or canoeing anywhere off the beaten path.

Having seen the movie countless times now as an adult, it still registers a creepy impact. The ugly side of life and the human condition can be just around any corner, anywhere, whether in the concrete jungles of cities or in the seemingly tranquil beauty of nature.

Chilling and unforgettable.

Strange Brew (1983)

A Long Perfect Beer Commercial

[10/10 · 23 February 2002]

Not for the serious film buff, obviously, nonetheless as comedic entertainment, this movie's perfect. Yes, Canadian bias plays into my affection for these two doofuses. It's too bad a sequel was never made.