Dead Man Walking (1995, directed by Tim Robbins)

- Matt, the Death Row inmate, his hair was perfect throughout the movie; the hair on his head as well as his facial mustache and goatee.  Does the prison allow him to have and use his own scissors (ie sharp objects) to trim his hair?  Due to security reasons he's probably not allowed access to any form of knife, blade, scissors or any metal object that could be formed into such.  So the prison barber trims it everyday for him?

This movie was pretty good and I would pay money to watch it.

Apocalypto (2006, directed by Mel Gibson)

- they should rename this movie Deus Ex Machinapocalypto.  Jaguar's Paw (the hero of the movie) is saved once by an eclipse and then again by the sight of the arrival of Europeans on the beach.  How lazy and lame for a scriptwriter.  Jaguar's Paw didn't have to do anything.  He could've just sat down and played in the mud and the scriptwriters would've had aliens from outer-space come down and save him

- after the eclipse the captives are to be "disposed" of so they use them for sport.  So do they not need any more human sacrifices?  Ever?  Was that it?  And then afterwards when the hero gets away, the rest of the movie is basically an extended chase sequence.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.  The Road Warrior and Terminators 1 and 2 end in chases.  But those chases had more at stake (such as helping a whole group of people to escape and saving the earth from a robot apocalypse).  This was just one person (and his wife and kids I guess).  Not that I'm saying the just one person doesn't matter but it was really inconsequential if Jaguar's Paw lived or not on the grand scale of things.  Maybe if he went back to rescue his people, or not just his, all the people,  it would be more interesting.

I wouldn't pay any money to watch this movie.

Insomnia (2002, directed by Christopher Nolan)

- how many cabins does that author (Robin Williams) have?  He has an apartment in the city, but he also has two other cabins?  The one cabin at the beginning of the film by the beach where he killed the girl, and then another cabin at the end of the movie where he keeps his stuff?  I don't think he made a lot of money from sales of his books so I guess cabins are really cheap in Alaska.

- this movie has an underwater action sequence.  While chasing the suspect, the main character gets caught under some logs in the water.  He was under water for a couple of minutes, does a lot of physical activity trying to surface and yet still had enough air and energy to find his way out of the water and all this while wearing a suit jacket and tie and his shoes and being in near arctic cold water.

- earlier in the film the police talk about what sidearms they carry.  This includes their primary as well as their backup weapons.  But at the end of the movie during the shootout, neither of the police officers have a backup weapon.

- why did the hotel that the LA Police officers stay in have decent drapes?  I've only stayed in hotels in cities where the sun does not stay up for 24 hours but they still had pretty good drapes that blocked out the light in the morning when the sun did rise.  Why didn't that Alaska hotel have those drapes?  (Yes, I know the point of the movie is to not allow Al Pacino to sleep...)

This movie was pretty good.  I wouldn't mind paying for it as a rental DVD.

The Postman (1997, directed by Kevin Costner)

- so the bad general drafted Shakespeare/The Postman.  The general gave lectures to the postman and even invited him to his office to talk about stuff.  Smart stuff too, not just about the weather but how smart each of them was.  Then later in the movie, when the postman goes to negotiate with the general to not raze the town, the general doesn't recognise him?  Granted that the postman shaved his beard and mustache, but still, the general didn't recognise him?  That's lame.

- Shakespeare, before becoming the Postman, is running away from the bad guys in the rain, slips, and then he finds himself inside a US Postal Service truck.  The driver is long dead and mummified.  Shakespeare rummages through the corpse's clothes and find a lighter.  And the lighter still works?  It's been years since the lighter was last refilled with lighter fluid.  After all those years the lighter fluid would have long evaporated/dried out.  I don't think the lighter would work.  But this point doesn't affect the plot at all though so I'll let it go.


Don't pay money to watch this movie.