i thought this was for movies too?

yeah, i've slacked on the 'reviewing' the movies i've seen lately.

sneakers. i preface this review with the disclaimer that most of this movie was watched when j was over and so i was a bit distracted. ANYWAY - i was drawn to this movie by the cast listing: robert redford, sidney poitier, ben kingsley, david straitharn, dan akroyd, river phoenix, etc. plus, it came out in 1992 and i missed it somehow! the plot was not so spectacular - smart fugitive told he has to right his wrongs by using the same knowledge that got him on the lam. only thing was he was set up and thus starts an even bigger 'job' to right his wrong that didn't actually right his first wrong. what i liked was the intelligence of the film. it was not a letahl weapon. BUT these superb actors were just not carrying it off for me. i shared this opinion with a couple of males and they were aghast - maybe i just don't have the right genitals to truly enjoy it. b-

step into liquid. i really wanted to watch this on a large screen tv with bad ass surround sound (wink k)but i'd been holding on to it for 2 weeks and it was time to send it back. though i lacked the optimal viewing equipment, i could tell this was a beautiful movie. the movie blurb says you see all kinds of people surfing and in diverse locations. check on the latter, not so much on the former. all the scenery was breathtaking. watching these (like 97%) men ride waves that "would not only crush a volkswagon but take it and bury it next to jimmy hoffa" was exciting for me. back to the diverse locations - i think the surfers of sheboygan, wisconsin were my favorites because...who surfs in wisconsin??!?! the movie was gorgeous, the interviewees were clearly excited and full of tales of righteous waves and also perilous adventures. i don't know why i have a fascination with surfing but i'm sure anyone watching this would get the teeniest inclination to go grab a board too. a

stander. (WARNING: FULL OF SPOILERS) i remember seeing this trailer and thinking i had to see this movie. i don't remember its coming and going but it must've been quick. my overall feeling after watching this movie was disappointment, a lot of it. the story, which is a true one incidentally, centers on andre stander- brilliant, young captian of the johannesburg police department in south africa in the 1970s. after he kills an unarmed kid during a demonstration turned riot in a soweto slum, he flips. he is distraught over his job and the apartheid system and so does the only thing a man can do in that situation: he begins robbing banks. not to sound cynical because his first roberry was after he realizes that the police force in johannesburg is not really set up for solving the crimes but committing them against the blacks. his first few roberries saw him giving the money to random black people on the street. it was admirable but then it went downhill from there. he's caught, leaves, does way more damage and then dies. i suppose it's unfair to say i was disappointed as this was someone's life but i felt the portrayl was uneven. i still wonder why he was always naked the first ten minutes of the film and other such queries. as i told j: i liked the minutes twenty through fifty and the last ten minutes. c.