I suppose that seeing The Taking of Pelham 123 wasn’t a total waste of time. The first half was good but the second half and the ending itself didn’t make much sense to me. The main character starts making decisions that I couldn’t figure out.

I wish Denzel Washington had found a more complete role. I haven’t seen him in anything for awhile. IMDB doesn’t have him in any roles last year which is a darn shame for such a wonderful actor. If you’ve ever seen ‘Glory’ or ‘Philadelphia’ you know what I’m talking about and you are probably as desperate as I am it see him in roles like those again.

In this movie, his character is likable enough. He isn’t weak or pathetic but he makes REALLY strange decisions over the course of about 2 hours in which the movie takes place.

John Travolta is the other big name in the movie and he does a good job playing a wacko. His performance reminded me of his role in ‘Face Off’ which I greatly enjoyed but somehow this wasn’t as riveting

Maybe I was just in a bad mood when I saw it. I think I should have picked a comedy instead.

Although I’ve seen this movie discounted as being formulaic (and it is) it’s a good formula and it is well used here. Since the time of ‘Speed’, I’ve been a fan of Sandra Bullock as a romantic lead and in this movie, she does her usual good job. She manages to turn herself from a woman thoroughly disliked by the audience (after all who could like a person who is mean to Ryan Reynolds with that beautiful baby face of his) to one who wins our hearts and makes us hope she gets her guy.

There is one particularly strange scene in which Betty White tries out some sort of Alaskan ritual that I think they could have left out and the movie would have worked just as well. The cast also includes Craig Nelson from ‘Coach’ and Mary Steenburgen (I know her best as the mom on ‘Joan of Arcadia’ but I hear she’s had some other roles in her time).

All in all I definitely recommend this movie as a pick me up kind of flick (which is what it did for me the day I watched it).

“The Princess Bride” is an excellent movie. It’s almost the perfect combination of romance, action, and comedy. The cast is perfect, the characters memorable, and the movie quotable. I was under the impression that every girl in the world loved this movie.

I’ve been proven wrong.

A girl I work with absolutely hates this movie. She despises it.

I though that was bad enough.

I also work with another girl that had never seen it before. After lending her my copy, she came back to say, meh? Really!

I guess there’s no accounting for taste and that nothing’s a sure thing.

Another worthy effort from my favorite movie making machine, Pixar!

I really never thought that talking dogs could be so funny but I nearly ripped a gasket when I heard one dog talking like Alvin of chipmunk fame. Unfortunately, my kids didn’t get the joke so it was just me laughing really hard at an otherwise half decent joke.

This particular venture had a couple heart wrenching moments but I resolved not to cry and actually managed not to (can’t scare the kids too much you know).

As usual there was a wonderful short at the beginning that drew several laughs and altogether this was a very nice film to watch. Of the 11 Pixar films out so far, I would put this one somewhere in the middle.