Chinatown
Starring Jack Nicholson and Faye
Dunaway
My father always says that he watches moves to
escape reality... This movie doesn't cut it by that standard. It was produced
in the 1970's but set in the ... you know, I don't know. The IMDB (Internet
Movie Database) has this movie in the top 250- at number
48.Okay, yeah, this movie was good and
I wanted to figure out what was going on... but I'm not sure that I did. And I
expected a happy ending. Movies like that usually have happy endings. Now, I
don't want to give it away (because that would be no fun!) but it doesn't have a
happy ending.I watched this film at
the local high school's Film Appreciation Club. My boyfriend wanted to go since
they were having themed food (Chinatown= Chinese food). I wasn't going to go
(It was tuesday night, and we all know that tuesday night is reserved
religiously for Gilmore GIrls) but Gilmore GIrls wasn't on that night. The WB
was showing some horrid holiday movie. Now, some holiday films are actually
good... like the Miracle on 34th street(the old one), It's a Wonderful Life, and
(of course) Muppet Christmas Carol... but the "made-for-tv"
holiday movies are generally just
cheesy.But this isn't a review of that
horrid movie that I didn't actually see. This is about
Chinatown.There was talent in this
film. It was a "Who-dun-it" ..sort of. There was more than one mystery to be
solved and I still don't know what was going on. See what college has done to
me?I give this film a 10.5. I find it
fitting to give it the same rating as The Day After Tomorrow. See, Kyle didn't like that film and I did. Kyle DID
like Chinatown (as president of that Film Appreciation thingy, he chose the
film) and I wasn't too fond of it. I'd say ... rent this and watch it with
friends. It's not one I'd like to
own.Oh yeah - not a kids movie. Some
questionable scenes. That and it's a (sort of) murder mystery.
Posted: Wed - November 30, 2005 at 09:08 AM
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