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All the Pretty Horses (2000)
Makes "Autumn in New York" look decent
In "All the Pretty Horses," Matt Damon spends the entire film searching for the meaning of life. I don't know about him, but I was too busy searching for the meaning of this movie.
What the heck were they thinking cutting the movie down from four hours to two? The result is a mucked-up version of the book that has its meaning entirely lost because there's so much going on, you'll easily lose track of what's happening and who it's happening to. I think something is going on between Damon and Penelope Cruz, or at least is for about 1/9 of the movie. Something is happening to a teen Damon and pal Henry Thomas meet along their journey into the Texas outback. Something is happening between Damon and the law, which is darn proud to admit just how corrupt they are. And something is happening between the audience and the filmmakers, which is a jolting realization that somebody thought trimming "All the Pretty Horses" down a few hours would not affect the way it plays out in the end. Fat chance.
The problem is that there is too much going on for such a short amount of time. The romance between Damon and Cruz happens so fast that you never believe for a second they fall in love, the subplot involving the troubled teen is so uninteresting that you hate the movie for going back to it as often as it does. And the way the people speak is so irritating -- I know this is the South, but did everyone have to employ Jem Finch of "To Kill a Mockingbird" as their dialect coach?
All in all, "All the Pretty Horses" is a pretty obvious example of why some movies ought to be longer, no matter how involving or uninvolving they are. Then again, it is always nice to see that lovely Texan countryside in the background....
The Crew (2000)
Funny but, like senility, short...
There are good parts and there are bad parts in "The Crew." The good stuff is that all four geezers in the movie are consistently amusing, Jennifer Tilly has never looked better (maybe her cleavage has something to do with that), it's good to see Carrie-Anne Moss in something other than "The Matrix," and the general level of humor is funny even though we've seen it a million times. On the bad side, it's much too short to make a lasting impact, poor Jeremy Piven is stuck in a thankless role, too many jokes are aimed at the same target, and too much time passes between major gut-busters. Still, Richard Dreyfuss and Burt Reynolds get their share of laughs, even though the cleavage gets all the attention.
The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)
Funnier with an audience
I saw this movie on a Thursday night at my theater in Coon Rapids, MN, and it was OK. Later, I watched it with a crowd and found it much, much funnier. Not that it wasn't in the first place. "The Original Kings of Comedy" is a raucous comedy that spotlights the final performance of the Kings of Comedy tour, which itself spotlights four African-American comedians who discuss racial differences, being poor and beating their kids. That last one isn't that nice, but big whoop! Nothing is to be taken seriously by these genuinely funny fellows, who we can only hope set a course for a follow-up tour so I can see them in person.