Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) - 3.5/5

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

I felt it was a good movie overall. Good action, but a bit disjointed: it
was hard to tell why they were doing what they were doing at times. The overall
goal of the story was obscured by little tasks here and there that may have
taken away from the whole. Also, I didn't think the acting was as good as in
the first one.

My expectations were low having heard several people say they didn't care for
it. I like having low expectations so that was fine and may have helped.

Home Movie (2001) - 3/5

A documentary about 5 people/couples living in unusual homes and locations.

Somewhat interesting and fortunately short. I think they do a good job of finding interesting cases to document, but ultimately I think they stay too shallow and not get into the core of these interesting people.

These people are living in places I wd love to live in if it were practical (well, may all except the cat people). I wd love a gadget house, a tree house, a house boat or a missle silo house! So cool.

These people are doing that and it takes very unique people to do it. However, I felt like the film didn't get deeply enough into them to really take advantage of the oppurtunity.

Hidalgo (2004) - 2.5/5

An unfortunately poorly told good story. Also, it was marketed as more of an action movie (so it seemed to me). It has some powerful parts, but has too shallow of a feel most of the time. It winds up being neither a good drama or action movie.