Danny Rovira (Dannyrovira)

Clerks R

This idiotic, unfunny, awful, boring, train wreck of a motion picture has to be the most overrated independent film ever made, and without a doubt one of the worst films i have ever seen in my entire life, how its director/writer Kevin Smith got a career after this, his first film is one for "Ripley's Believe It or Not". I am sorry but i cannot relate to two twenty-something potty mouth, white trash slackers who work at a convenience / video store, and bitch and whine all day long about how crappy their useless lives are, this is suppose to be entertainment? I could barely make it through watching this abysmal mess, i really do not understand some critics and moviegoers who like this movie so much as to give it cult status, really some of these so-called Kevin Smith fanboys need to get a life, but i guess there is no accounting for some peoples tastes. The direction by Kevin Smith is non-existing, the vulgarity in this film is beyond stupid and is overdone, with unintelligible raunchy dialog, i don't mine crude humor if it works well, but this is truly pathetic, this movie is about as funny as a hemorrhoid, there is very poor character development here, and the painfully wooden acting is so bad that it will make you cringe, the grainy black & white cinematography is sub-par, and looks like it was shot through a surveillance camera, i never brought into the hype of this film, and i am glad i did not waste my money in seeing this cinematic garbage in the cinema, i saw it on Netfix on my computer for free, so please avoid this atrocious film at all costs, if you don't, remember you were warned!!! Not Recommended.

J. Edgar R

Clint Eastwood's fascinating film biography of the FBI's ruthless founding director J. Edgar Hoover is meticulously produced and exquisitely directed by the legendary 81 year old Hollywood icon who delivers his finest, most ambitious motion picture since "Letters from Iwo Jima," Eastwood's flawless direction keeps you enthralled throughout this fascinating biopic, the film also benefits greatly from Leonardo DiCaprio's astonishing, virtuoso star performance that is undeniably impressive and compelling as Hoover, the man who created the Federal Bureau of Investigation and successfully ran the agency with an iron fist for almost a half century, changing the face of law enforcement in America forever. Dustin Lance Black's superlative, complex screenplay speculates on Hoover's amazing career, his personal life and sexuality, especially the never married Hoover's controversial tortured relationship with his associate director, the flamboyant Clyde Tolson, played brilliantly by Armie Hammer. Hoover became one of the most powerful and feared men in the world, not only because of the formidable crime fighting ability of his FBI, but also due to his talent for digging up dirt on the private lives of high profile people and politicians, using it for blackmail, he had files on everybody of any importance. Special kudos must be given to Judi Dench for her magnificent performance as Hoover's over-bearing mother Anne Marie Hoover, and Naomi Watts's excellent turn as Hoover's asexual loyal secretary Helen Gandy, but this is DiCaprio's film all the way and his show stopping performance is truly breathtaking, playing Hoover from a young man to a bitter 77 year old man, thanks to makeup artist Sian Grigg's awesome and incredibly realistic work on DiCaprio's face and body, there is impeccable cinematography by Tom Stern and a remarkable production design by James J. Murakami. Gripping and powerful, another career high point for both Eastwood & DiCaprio. Highly Recommended.

Apocalypse Now R

One of the most important cinematic achievements of the 20th century, a visually sumptuous and dramatically charged movie masterpiece. Francis Ford Coppola 's brilliant and controversial Vietnam war epic, about a intelligence assassin Captain Willard, played by Martin Sheen in a haunting tour-de-force performance who is given a hazardous mission upriver into Cambodia to track down and terminate with " extreme prejudice," a renegade officer who has gone insane Colonel Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando in a superbly effective performance who leads his legion of Montaghard tribesmen on random genocide missions, the trip up river becomes a mesmerizing odyssey full of surreal encounters, this classic film has some of the most remarkable scenes ever filmed, one of them being the famous Huey helicopter gunship attack on a Vietcong village, led by Robert Duvall in a monumental Oscar-nominated performance, as Lt.. Col. Kilgore who loves to play Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" as his fleet of helicopter gunships bombards the villagers, Kilgore's line that he "loves the smell of napalm in the morning" is one of the most oft-quoted lines in the annals of the cinema. Impeccable performances from the supporting cast that includes Frederic Forrest, Dennis Hopper, Samuel Bottoms, Albert Hall, Lawrence Fishburne, Harrison Ford and G.D. Spradlin, staggering Oscar winning cinematography by Vittorio Storaro, with a perfectly eerie and insidious score by Carmine Coppola & Francis Ford Coppola, and a magnificent production design by Dean Tavoularis. Francis Ford Coppola masterful direction captures the true hellishness and insanity of the Vietnam war, a truly unforgettable and stunning hallucinogenic movie experience, that earned 8 Academy Awards nominations including Best Picture and Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola "Apocalypse Now" is number 28, on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest films ever made. Highly Recommended.

Dirty Harry R

Director Don Siegel's landmark, trend-setting classic police thriller which is one of the most defining films of the 1970s. Clint Eastwood delivers a bold, charismatic performance in the iconic role that made him an international superstar as the laconic, hard-boiled, uncompromising San Francisco police inspector from the homicide division "Dirty" Harry Callahan, who's cocky cynicism and inset sense of self-justice makes his character realistic and likable despite his flaws, from the very first scene we get the impression that Callahan is the kind of guy who will go against the rules and do things his way to get the bad guys, often at the exasperation of his superiors. "I shoot the bastard, that's my policy" he tells the mayor and it sticks throughout the film, his dialogue with criminals is delivered behind the barrel of a devastatingly lethal foot-long Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum pistol, the most powerful handgun in the world, he taunts one wounded bank robber with the film's most famous line, "Do you feel lucky?," Well, do ya, punk?" Callahan is out to stop a psychopathic sniper and sadist named Scorpio, one of the most heinous villains in cinematic history, he is brilliantly played by Andy Robinson in a unforgettably chilling performance who has murdered a young women and has threatens to continue shooting innocent people, killing one a day until the city pays him the ransom of a $100,000, Callahan will stop at nothing to put an end to Scorpio murderous spree. Superlative supporting performances by Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon and John Larch. Brilliantly filmed on location in San Francisco, with energetic and stylish direction by Don Siegel, gritty and haunting cinematography by Bruce Surtees and a wonderful jazzy score by Lalo Schifrin. This is the original rogue cop movie and a milestone in its genre, but it is the powerful macho mystique conveyed by Eastwood's superb performance that makes this film so memorable. Highly Recommended.