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Now here's a film that's close to home for me. The story follows like a John Grisham novel. A young computer fanatic (Sandra Bullock) stumbles onto secret information about a political suicide. She copies that information onto a disk and from that moment, she is pursued by a charming government assassin (Jeremy Northam) and her whole life is erased by a secret organization, who want the disk. She gets help only from herself and her computer knowledge.An interesting thriller, with plenty of suspense. Bullock pulls off a challenging role quite well. Northam's killer is quite sly and suave. Dennis Miller has a very small part as Bullock's ex-therapist, who tries to help Bullock, but ends up dead. The film is interesting for the Hitchcock style of the person wrongly accused of a crime and trying to clear his/her name. Plenty of interesting moments and good acting, The Net is mainly for those who have a lot of knowledge about computers and enjoy suspense.
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The film that made Jim Carrey a star, It follows the only pet detective in Miami, as he searches for the Miami Dolphins' mascot, Snowflake, who's been kidnapped. He is joined by the dolphin's trainer (Friends Courteney Cox) and a police officer (Tone-Loc) in his crazy hunt for the dolphin. Extremely funny, but only for Carrey's non-stop mugging. He works well with animals and has some very hysterical moments. The supporting characters are pretty forgettable, such as Cox, who seems to blend in and out of the picture, and Sean Young, a usually talented actor, who is fed nothing but stupid lines and slapstick action. See it only for Carrey's performance and see his later films. He's improved much more since Ace.
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A weird journey through the life of one of Rock's legends Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer) and his band mates. From what we learn from the film, Jim was nothing but a drunken asshole, who slept with many women and did too much coke. He ruined a happy life with his girlfriend, Pam (Meg Ryan) and made everyone miserable. The film follows him from his humble beginnings in 1965, trying to start a band and sell his poetry, and goes all the way to his disastrous 1969 Miami concert, in which he was arrested for exposure.Oliver Stone recreates the sites and sounds of the sixties quite well, and Kilmer seems to be Jim Morrison, but we don't learn much about Morrison. Most of his life was a real bummer, to quote a certain hippie I know, and is a better musician than he is as a human. Still, if you want to experience life the Jim Morrison way, you should see this movie.
One final thing. I have failed to mention some other good performances by the supporting cast, that are overshadowed by Kilmer's performance. Ryan is perky as Jim's flaky girlfriend Pam. Kyle Maclachlan as Ray Manzarek, the man who should be known as the real founder of The Doors, and Kathleen Quinlan as a bizarre reporter, who Jim gets emotionally involved with. Perhaps you should see the film for the interesting cast and music. Otherwise, it's not worth shelling out $6.50 at the movie theater or $4.00 on video.
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If you really want to experience the 60's, here is the pinnacle of that era. Showing three days of peace, love, and especially music, it is one of the best documentary films ever made. We watch as millions of people gather to see some of their favorite musical artists, while trying to survive overcrowding, a rain storm and an extremely muddy field. We also take a look at the townspeople and there reaction to all of this, as they talk of the war in Vietnam, the festival going on around them and their opinions on the whole counterculture.The highlights are, of course, the music. All the artists are great. Richie Havens bellowing out "Freedom", while we find out (thanks to the camera) that he has no upper teeth. The Who giving a smashing excerpt from the rock opera Tommy. Joe Cocker wheezing his rendition of the Beatles "With a Little Help from my Friends". Country Joe Macdonald playing his "I-feel-like-I'm-fixing-to-die-Rag" while a bouncing ball flashes on the screen. And finally, the climax, with Jimi Hendrix's beautiful, electric guitar rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner", the only good version of a song that is truly bad.
The nice thing about this film is that it shows that one million people can get together and not cause riots. Scenes of children, police officers, bikers, army helicopters sending down blankets and supplies, the musicians and even a Port-O-San man show how they are all Woodstock People. I think that the recent Woodstock was just a block party compared to this touching festival. It's too bad that you can't go back to the garden.
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