Road to Perdition

Posted by jonamerica on July 26th, 2002

For those of you that don’t know, perdition is the loss of the soul, eternal damnation, and utter destruction. To travel the road to perdition is then of course to head towards hell. Even those that aren’t religious can understand that the concept of heaven and hell isn’t far fetched if they are obtainable while on earth. After all, if the kingdom of heaven is at hand isn’t hell underfoot?

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Men in Black II

Posted by jonamerica on July 15th, 2002

Men In Black 2 was no less than what I expected, which may have been why I enjoyed the film. The jokes characters and special effects were the same, after all it was a sequel, but the movie’s plot did lack a little in the originality and department. In fact the movie is so standard fare I really have nothing more to say about it.

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Minority Report

Posted by jonamerica on July 8th, 2002

WARNING: This review contains MAJOR SPOILERS. Read at your own risk.

Spielberg has changed, no doubt, but with the release of Minority Report we see a glimmer of hope that Spielberg has returned to making movies that tell stories over making theological or moral statements. Continue reading »


Spider-Man

Posted by jonamerica on May 17th, 2002

Let me preface this review by saying that I only saw the movie once, opening night, which makes this bit almost 2 months late. But this does not limit my ability to remember those key points that I will chose to make.

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We Were Soldiers

Posted by jonamerica on March 8th, 2002

“We Were Soldiers” was entertaining, a bit thick with Hollywood sentimentality and at times slow.The main problem was the lack of character development, sure they threw in 3 odd jokes by a grumpy old man but that just wasn’t enough to make it stick. The movie turned good men that died for their country into cheap jokes. Continue reading »



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