By KRIS AUMILLER
Columnist
KRASOIB@PSU.EDU
Maybe I just forgot, but I thought
that when the temperature dropped,
the good movie ideas appeared? Of
course they wouldn't.
Why would they waste good ideas
when you have no other choice but
to go to the movies?
Then again, a good movie does
creep through every now and then
Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, 1
Hour, 54 Minutes
Does anyone remember their
mythology?
This was a pretty cool story from
7' h grade.
Beowulf had 3 fights against a
monster, the monster's mother, and
a dragon.
Unfortunately, the dragon kills ~
him. Also, unfortunately for you,
I don't remember enough of Th
grade to say anything more about
the story.
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King Hrothgar (Hopkins) is in
trouble.
His beautiful new hall, Heorot,
which he built so that his men could
enjoy themselves, has turned into a
morgue.
The singing and carousing
have attracted the wrath of the
monster, Grendel (Crispin Glover).
Everyone is terrified of the
monster, but help is at hand in the
muscular golden form of Beowulf
(Winstone), who thankfully isn't
afraid of anything.
He is the "ripper and tearer and
slasher and gouger...
the teeth of the darkness and the
talons of the night."
Deliberately provoking Grendel,
Beowulf sets a trap.
After a brutal fight, he succeeds
in ripping off the monster's arm.
Grendel flees back to his mountain
where he dies.
But, just as Hrothgar thinks
its safe to go back into the hall,
Grendel's unnamed mother
(Angelina Jolie) who is, frankly,
considerably smarter and much
more devious than her son, and who
also happens to look like a golden
skinned, nipple-less version of
Angelina Jolie complete with high
heeled...um...feet.
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And, as some wise man once said,
the female of the species is deadlier
than the male.
Grendel's mother wants revenge,
and gets it, on several levels. This is
definitely a movie you would watch
just for the action.
Also, for the nice 3-D element that
they put it in. Unfortunately for
me, they didn't offer that for the
time slot I went to.
Just as I thought though, 3-D
artists still cannot quite get faces
right.
, Thecheeks . don't move on
the characters and they just don't
react quite the way that they should
We have the technology to do
everything that they wanted to do
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in the film that they could've used
real people. They would've left
out the 3-D and then I wouldn't
have gotten hassled for not seeing
it in 3-D. Also, I would like to call
the director and find out what the
purpose of Beowulf's character
being naked was. He is a cartoon..
RATING;
1 Y 2 Balls. It was a really bad
ass 2 hour video game cut scene
Nothing more special that.
Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden,
2 Hours, 7 Minutes
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Stephen King can help make a
good movie, like The Shining, or
a terrible movie, like Maximum
Overdrive
The first three previews for this
movie I didn't catch his name at the
top, and the movie looked a little
stupid.
However, the more previews I
watched after I found out King was
attached to the movie made it seem
better and better.
Also, the night before I went to see
the movie, a friend of mine went
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to see it and called and said, "After
seeing that, I really wanna kill
myself."
David Drayton (Jane) is an artist
living in Maine. After a violent
storm attacks his hometown, an
approaching cloud of mist appears
the next morning.
As the mist quickly envelops the
area, a group of people get trapped
in a local grocery store.
Among them, is Drayton, the
unbalanced and very Christian Mrs.
Carmody (Harden), school teachers,
and Drayton's five-year-old son.
The people soon discover that
within the mist lives numerous
species of horrific, unworldly
creatures that entered through an
inter-dimensional rift, which may
or may not have been caused by a
nearby military base.
As the world around them
manifests into a literal hell
on-earth, the horrified citizens
try desperately to survive this
apocalyptic disaster.
If trying to survive wasn't hard
enough, Mrs. Carmody begins to
"lead" a faction and convinces them
that Armageddon is upon them.
This is the first movie in a long
time that I have seen in a long
time that has been depressing
throughout. Not only was it
depressing, it ended perfectly.
A lot of movies are deeply sad
and then they have a cheesy happy
ending. Thank god someone didn't
fall into the trap of wanting to cheer
up the audience. The story was
great, duh, Stephen King. Thomas
Jane stole the show and made a
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The only thing that bothered me
is that the creatures looked a little
fake, but hey, it's a movie. It's a
definite must see.
RATING:
5 out of 5. Great movie with and
ending that sealed the deal.
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Bruce Willis, Justin Long, 2 Hours,
10 Minutes
(„007, ._
John McClane is back! Who isn't
excited? The three Die Hard movies
are definitely some of my favorite
movies of all time. There really
wasn't anything to worry about
either. All of the worries about
"Could he still do it?" were shot
down when I saw Stallone do Rocky
Balboa. Besides, they have nifty
special effects to make stuff explode
for Bruce. The only thing that
could make this movie suck would
be a bad storyline. Since they had
12 years to write it, I figured that
couldn't happen...right?
As always, McClane (Willis) is
the wrong guy, in the wrong place,
at the wrong time. While he is
watching out for his daughter one
night near Rutgers University, he
gets a call from his department to
go pick up a kid named Matthew
Farrell (Long) that just happens to
be nearby. When he tries to get out
of it, the captain says that the FBI
requested a senior detective. All
he has to do, is pick the kid up, and
drive him to Washington, D.C. so
that he can be questioned. When
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he gets there, an attempt is made
on Farrell's life. Superman, I mean
McClane, pulls him out and gets
him down to D.C. Through all of
this, Thomas Gabriel (Timothy
Olyphant) has hacked into the FBl's
mainframe and has implanted a
virus which has given him complete
control over everything in D.C.
that is run by a computer. So, that
means, everything. When McClane
and Farrell arrive in Washington,
they are waiting at a traffic light.
When it turns green, the car in front
of them goes and is crushed by
an 18-wheeler. McClane gets out
of the car and notices numerous
accidents and sees that every light
is green. Gabriel hacked into the
transportation system and can
change the system at will.
This was just an example of the
things he could do at the stoke of a
key.
I was so pleased when I got off
the couch. This was another "toe
movie" (I broke my toe this summer
and was on crutches for 6 weeks and
therefore didn't go to a theatre) so I
am just catching up now. This was
just as good as the original three.
Bruce Willis was amazing and
Justin Long killed right along next
to him
There was one stunt that I had to
say, "No way, never happen" to.
But, then again, the legendary John
McClane did jump off of the roof
of the Nakatomi building with a fire
hose and lived through it. Olyphant
was a great bad guy and seeing him
in action has made me want to go
see Hitman. Willis continues to
amaze me at 52. Then again, thanks
to Sly, he could make Die Hard 5 at
age 60
RATING:
5 Balls. Loved it. Bruce Willis
killed. Definitely have to go see it.
And if you haven't seen Die Hard 1
through 3, see them all!
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