The hulk, Bruce Banner (Tim Roth), is being hunted by the General (William Hurt) who wants the turn ordinary people to super soldiers. Bruce escaped to South America but was still tracked down. He met up with his old girlfriend, General’s daughter, and went looking for the University professor in search of the cure. The stumbling professor turned his rival into an “Abomination” monster and had the final showdown. Of course, he saved the girl at the end. Of course, there was a lot of fighting with advanced military weapons and between the two hulks, thanks to the computer graphic animation.

This movie is rather predicable and slow. The 1-hr-54-min movie can be easily cut down to an hour without losing any contents. The two hulks did a lot of damage to New York city, reminding me of the King Kong movie, especially coupled with a girl victim who fell in love with the Hulk. The lead in to another sequel is paved with the entry of Robert Downey Jr. at the end.

Netflix’s description:
“After the death of his estranged brother, John O’Hanlan (James Stewart) inherits a thriving business in Wyoming known as the Cheyenne Social Club. The virtuous cowboy and his confidant Harley Sullivan (Henry Fonda) trek across the open plains to Cheyenne, only to discover that John’s bestowal is actually a well-known brothel. Now, he must resolve to ratify his existing enterprise or discontinue the dissolute dealings.”

John went to Cheyenne with an idealism of being a property owner. Little did he know that this property is worthless without being a whorehouse. Thanks to the bad guy, Banister, who beat up one of his girls and he shot the guy with some luck. John became the hero of the town after shooting and killing all but one of the Banister gang. Upon hearing there will be more of the gang coming to seek revenge, he quickly gave up the ownership of the Cheyenne Social Club and went back to Texas to work on cattle.

For some reasons, Jimmy Stewart tends to play a goody, goody, virtuous man – probably inherited from his role in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Henry Fonda plays a talkative good friend who followed John around for 10 years. This movie has a little of the wild wild west shooting, horsing around with loose women (John’s girls), friendship, and the good old American individualism. Sherie Jones plays the leader of the girls in the brothel (whore house) with dignity and glamor.

Not a bad movie for a movie made in 1970. The conversation was interesting and funny. I enjoyed the move.

I didn’t hear good review about this movie so I watched this movie on DVD. As a person who grew up with Get Smart series in the 70’s, I was really looking forward to this movie but was disappointed.

Maxwell Smart was just a lowly intelligence analyst with a penchant for long, tedious details and who just lost 150 lbs in weight. He got promoted to agent 86 when the identities of field agents were “compromised.” He and agent 99 were sent to Russia to find out what KAOS was up to. He was then set up by Agent 23, performed by Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) and sent to jail, being suspected as a double agent. With his “smart,” Maxwell got out of the jail and flew to Los Angeles to save the President, where he attended an orchestra that had an atomic bomb rigged under the piano. After saving the President, he lived ever after with Agent 99.

Some interesting improved gadgets like the “cone of silence” was as broken as before. The others include the shoe phone, radioactivity meter watch and etc. Some of the funny scenes include the tango dance with an overweight woman, Bill Murray as a lonely agent hidden inside a tree trunk, and the jump off from a tall building with a high-voltage electric wire.

It’s not the same as “24” but comes close to its ridiculous plot. Of course, the lack of public enemy like KAOS, insinuating the “Russian empire,” makes the story not as believable as back in the 70’s or 80’s. This movie brought back some nostalgia about the 70’s but the current macro setting doesn’t lend well to a movie like this.

An illiterate “professional” Italian killer, Leon, found himself living with a neighbor’s young girl (Mathilda) whose family got murdered by a bad DEA cop and his gang. The man grew attached to the girl as he taught her to “clean” and learned to “live” a little from the girl.

The final showdown happened when the girl tried to kill unsuccessfully the man who killed her family but rescued by Leon, who cleaned out the DEA office in the process. The cops came back and converged on where they lived with full force. Though both came out alive separately through their smart, Leon was recognized by the bad DEA guy and took a bullet from him. Before he died, he blew himself up along with the bad DEA agent. Mathilda was taken care of when Leon “willed” all his earnings to Mathilda through his arrangement with his Italian boss.

This is an action-packed, gun slinging movie with some heart-warming, funny moments between Leon and Mathilda. The both are better off at the end. I enjoyed the movie a lot.

Boy’s job got outsourced to India. Boy went to India to train the people who will take over his job. Boy met a smart girl. Boy had a “vacation in Goa” and got to understand India and its people. Boy came back home jobless (gave his future Shanghai job to his subordinate) but a much better person, appreciative of culture and family values.

It’s a funny movie about an American man’s journey to a foreign culture. Some of the interesting subplots: got sick from eating shaved ice from a street vendor, hopped on a scooter car instead of taxicab, visit to the poorest part of the town and ate a meal with them, explanation of American idioms and how Americans use some of the merchandises, how Americans hate outsourcing but like the low-costs, Indian culture of arranged marriage from childhood, and etc.

Like the main character, I’ve learned a few things about Indian culture. There is some stereotyping of course but harmless.

Two high-school soon-to-graduate best friends went on the last adventure together to purchase boozes for a party to look cool in front of the girls. With the help of another friend, Fogel, who happened to have a fake ID with “McLovin” last name. The whole ordeal was simply hilarious and the dialog was truly honest and believable with lots of foul languages – just like teenager boys loaded with hormone would do to score with girls. The cops who rode with McLovin were not your typical cops; they were just as loose as your irresponsible teenagers – not quite as believable.

A couple of strange stories stood out for me:
– Seth ended up with a blood stain on his pants from dancing with a girl who’s having a period.
– McLovin got punched on the face while trying to purchase the alcohol drinks with a fake ID.
– Cops’ use of sirens, flashlights and other trickery just to appear to conduct normal police business.
– The boys stayed as virgins after getting so close to scoring.

This movie is hilarious and the plots are something most men can probably associate with and reflect upon during those crazy years with issues of college anxiety, self identity, and high sexual drive. Highly recommended.

This movie reminds me of Chevy Chase’s “National Lampoon’s Vacation” with a “bright” spin to it. The uncle tried to commit suicide and got fired from his job. The brother pledged a vow of silence until fulfilling his dream of entering pilot academy and hated his family. The grandpa got kicked out of his retirement home due to his sexually explicit behavior. The father, a public speaker/motivator who taught his children to be winner, not loser, ended up being a loser in cutting a public engagement deal, reaching his last financial straw. Everyone in this family has problems.

In order to allow Olive to enter Little Miss Sunshine pageant, they drove a broken Voltage Wagon from Albuquerque to California. Throughout the journey, they suffered several setbacks: transmission problem (requiring pushing to start the car and parking the car on top of hill), bad news on the father failed dealing, grandfather’s passing away in the back of the van, and the brother’s discovery of his color blindness, who prevents him from being a pilot, being stopped by a cop, and etc.

When they made it to the pageant, Olive found herself stood out like a sore thumb (too plain) without lots of glitters, costumes and makeup. The shocking thing is her last talent performance, which she learned from her father, turned out to be a the “super freak” strip-tease dance. To show their support, all the family members went up to the stage and danced to music. They were told to never enter another California pageant.

This is a hilarious and heart warming movie. The family member started out broken and at the end came together as a family. The sufferings are what make you learn and love. No pain, no gain.