October's DVD Reviews, Part II
Quick reviews from my Netflix queue and/or the library.



Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society, 2006
A much more sophisticated plot than anything you'd find in American animation, but I'm always disappointed this show didn't live up to the quality of the movies.  They set that bar so high, you'd need cybernetic enhancements to hurdle it.


Year of the Dog, 2007
A quirky film about quirky people you probably see every day... just not on film.  I liked it on the basis of that, even though it was short on material.


Children of Men, 2006
It suffers from a lack of ideas about where to go with the plot (warning: the ending is a let-down), but if you go in knowing it's more a portrait than a story, I think you'll appreciate one of the most amazing and thought-provoking pieces of cinema produced in the last few years.


Bobby, 2007
Pretty decent movie from that Estevez kid, believe it or not.  It isn't great, but it's pretty good in most spots.


12 Monkeys, 1998
Bruce Willis + Terry Gilliam + Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden by any other name = Awesome.


Alias, Season 4, Discs 5&6
This show has a bad habit of building up for a long time and resolving things too quickly to be satisfying, sort of like what I'd be like in bed with Jennifer Garner.


Jason of Star Command: Disc 2, 1979
It's incredibly dumb, but I love watching what they were able to accomplish with minimal special effects technology and a correspondingly primitive budget.


Monk: Season 5: Disc 3, 2005
Pretty much every episode is the same except the details of that week's case, and yet I somehow still enjoy it for reasons secondary to all the detective work anyway.


Sketches of Frank Gehry, 2005
Documentary about an architect who makes things you can't believe people paid to have built.  He definitely thinks outside the box though, which is more interesting than his designs themselves.


PICKS OF THE LITTER: Hands down, Children of Men is the best-directed movie I've seen in the last few months.  And 12 Monkeys is definitely worth a first (and a second) look if you haven't traveled back in time to that one yet.




Copyright 2007 Ale[x]plorer.
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