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First Impression: Talk about renting unknown movies…my dad rented this because he liked the name.

Afterthoughts: The movie chronicles William Wilberforce’s political battle to abolish the slave trade. The movie naturally played like a history lesson, which means a little too straightforward for my taste. Ioan Gruffudd did a great job as the lead. I know he’s been in quite a few American movies but he will always remind me of the Hornblower series, which I’ve never seen and only heard of because of Jamie Bamber haha.

First Impression: I wanted to see this when it came out, but never got to it until I found it in the library.

Afterthoughts: I think this movie is worth watching for the special effects alone. The constantly flowing and swirling really added alot to the feeling of euphoria. Once again, Keanu Reeves did his usual imitation of a wooden block but who cares, he’s nice to look at. And he looks like a stoner anyway (Hi Ted!). Other than him, I think everybody did a wonderful job in acting hilariously paranoid and drug-addict like. I especially liked Rory Cochrane’s character’s constant obsessiveness about imaginary bugs. One of these days I’m gonna check out Philip K. Dick’s books.

First Impression: I just love watching people do military training.

Afterthoughts: Wow, what a joke. The military discipline was not there at all. Uniforms and rifle drill on the first day? I do not believe supply and admin works that fast. Their bed making skill is a disgrace. They even have a token fat guy who kept failing PT a la Full Metal Jacket. As far as I know, Annapolis requires you to PASS its PT test before you even get in, and I highly doubt fat boy was able to do it. Not only that, James Franco and Jordana Brewster’s characters (the former is a new recruit while the latter is an officer) started eyes-fucking before you can finish spelling FRATERNIZATION. Where’s the respect for officers? I know Franco is hot and all, but as his superior you can’t just jump on him whenever you’re horny. (Spoiler!) When they had the Brigade boxing championship (like BSG’s Unfinished Business but more formal) I was actually waiting to see if Franco and Tyrese Gibson would end up like Apollo and Starbuck, hugging each other out of exhaustion (and love). I’m glad Franco didn’t end up winning the match though, that’s like Kara Trace beating Lee Adama in a fair match.

First Impression: Mike Myers just looks incredibly awesome in his Austin Powers outfit complete with British teeth.

Afterthoughts: The series chronicle the never-ending hostility between Austin Powers and Dr. Evil. In true Bond fashion, a new “Bond girl” is introduced as Austin’s partner in crime (and in bed…) in each film. It’s amazing how many characters Mike Myers can play – Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, Fat Bastard, and Goldmember. If you’ve never seen any of them, go rent them all NOW. You won’t regret it though the last one is slightly redundant and rehashes alot of the old jokes.

First Impression: It’s a movie about a b-ball playing dog, for god’s sake.

Afterthoughts: So I found this nifty little DVD inside my cereal box one day so I HAD to watch it because I’m incapable of resisting free stuff…no matter how shitty it is. The dog is a much better actor than Muniz, I’ll say, but then golden retriever is good at everything.