movie reviews!

here are some short movie reviews of what I've seen while being here so far:

shrek 2 (for the second or third time) - if you haven't seen it yet, you definintely should. it's animated, funny, and well worth watching. more than twice.

hoodwinked - the true story of little red riding hood? not sure about that part, but it was definitely funny. it's a bit of a modernized version of it, with some random twists and turns. quite funny comments and references here and there, kept me entertained throughout the whole movie.

premonition - sandra bullock is a housewife living a seemingly perfect life. one day she wakes up and gets news from a police officer that her husband is dead. next morning that she wakes up, she sees her husband in the kitchen having breakfast. realizing that something is wrong somewhere, she goes about trying to figure out what is what...
it's a good movie that keeps you wondering for a while what's going on and what's going to happen. we figured things out quite a lot faster than she did, but it was still nice to see how it ended. only disadvantage of this one was that I dreamt one of my friends was dead... :-/

next - nicholas cage is a magician that has the ability to see 2 minutes into the future, but if the events are concerning himself. however, he's able to see further into the future when it relates to a girl, whom he now spends his time and effort to find. at the same time, a bunch of french-speaking russians (?) have gotten ahold of a nuclear bomb and want to detonate it in LA. as FBI are trying to get ahold of him to predict what's going to happen, so do these terrorists, while he's trying to find this girl. interesting unfolding of events as they all find each other...
I don't know what to think of it... it's slightly ridiculous at times, as things work out perfectly for him when he's doing his things (obviously because he's already seen them happening). it got me laughing quite many times actually because of that. then there are also some animation scenes that are poorly done. and I think it would actually have been more interesting if he would have to choose between saving the world or being with the girl that he loves... now he gets both.