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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31410 on: May 19, 2010, 06:35:20 PM »
Royal Tenenbaums > Ordet

(although my top 100 might disagree)

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31411 on: May 19, 2010, 06:48:25 PM »
It better.

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31412 on: May 19, 2010, 08:06:16 PM »
The Fantastic Mr. Fox



This was great for the first third.  After that it slowly started getting on my nerves.  There is not enough plot or message to this film to justify a feature running time.  It would be an amazing 30 minute short, but as a feature film it completely wears out its welcome.    

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31413 on: May 19, 2010, 08:35:15 PM »
It's sad. I'm finding way more interesting things to say about these films than the Kieslowski films.  :P

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31414 on: May 19, 2010, 08:38:06 PM »
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31415 on: May 19, 2010, 08:43:28 PM »
Yup.

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31416 on: May 19, 2010, 09:37:06 PM »
It's sad. I'm finding way more interesting things to say about these films than the Kieslowski films.  :P

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31417 on: May 19, 2010, 09:37:23 PM »
Julie and Julia [2009]


'Julie and Julia' is a completely generic, but all and all entertaining romantic comedy with a good acting turn by Meryl Streep.  There is nothing too original to be found here, and the conflict points are a bit muted.  It did benefit from doing a split story approach, as either story individually would have gotten stale.  It's a fine weekend watch, but is ultimately forgettable.
Rating: 3/5


9 [2009]


'9' is a movie that is all about atmosphere but fails on every other level.  I loved the environment which the movie takes place in, but unfortunately it is completely negated by the uninspired plot.  I did not connect or care about any of the characters.  They simply flowed through the movie, completely without development.  I was thoroughly bored until the end where I thought it finally was cohesive, only that it was completely contrived and uninteresting. It was based on a short film, and that is what it felt like, only stretched to a full length feature.  There is very little substance, and no heart.
Rating: 2/5


The Messenger [2009]


An interesting look at one of the most heartbreaking jobs imaginable, an Army causality notification officer.  The reluctant and unlikely team of Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery(Ben Foster) and Captain Tony Stone(Woody Harrelson) provide an interesting and engaging dynamic. Both Foster and Harrelson are great in their parts, and makes you wish more was done with their characters. It certainly has its emotionally filled moments, but there was a lot left to be desired.  It felt like the structure was there, but there was no meat on the bones.  If it were a fuller, more fleshed out plot, it could have been a better film, since it was all there tonaly.
Rating: 3/5


A Prophet [2009]


The highly touted French prison drama never hit home with me.  Perhaps it will require a second viewing for me to discover the greatness, but I couldn't get past feeling that this was simply a well made prison film.  Tahar Rahim did a fantastic job in his role, and there were moments of greatness, but it never struck me as a masterpiece.  The biggest disconnect for me was my lack of interest in Rahim's character Malik.  He deserved what he got, he was by no stretch a good guy, or one that I wanted to get behind.  And while I can support flawed characters in cinema, for some reason the presentation of Malik turned me off and kept me from getting enveloped in the drama.
Rating: 3/5


Twilight [2008]


'Twilight' is more of a craze than anything cinematically tangible.  It takes the wildly popular vampire romance, candy coats and shoves it out to mass appeal.  There many similar movies out there with the exact same concept and which executed it in far more interesting ways, and yet 'Twilight' is the undisputed winner of the vampire wars.  It knows its audience and it panders to it.  And boy does it do a good job of pandering.  All said, it isn't the most egregious teen sensation that could come about, and it almost has a 'so bad it's good' feel to it.  I didn't hate the movie experience, mainly because I was laughing at the over the top corny moments.
Rating: 2.5/5


Twilight: New Moon


The highly anticipated sequel to the teen girl vampire craze movie.  It's more of the same, only the pandering goes to a whole new level.  Director Chris Weitz knew his audience and was not afraid to milk every scene to maximize squeels from their young core audience.  I could dissect the flaws in the plot and character development but this seems redundent given the film is essentially the movie equivalent of a boy band.  It is more corny than the first, but still just as entertaining to watch as spectical.
Rating: 2/5
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31418 on: May 19, 2010, 10:15:54 PM »

Amateur* Hal Hartley, 1994

A bunch of characters in search of new identities: Donovan loses his memory and stumbles around New York, Huppert leaves the convent to write erotic short stories, Löwensohn tries to leave the porn industry and lead a better life. They all find themselves embroiled in a rather ridiculous genre exercise with yr torturers who hold business degrees (and talk about commodities). But, even with all the post-modern riffage, this thing is still full of heart of the greatest kind, treating its characters as both vessels for ideas, but still people (even with all their movie artifice). I don't know. In some ways it's more complicated and less inviting than Hartley's earlier films, but it's still really great. these are the good times that I've had.

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31419 on: May 19, 2010, 10:34:49 PM »
Twilight [2008]
Rating: 2.5/5


Twilight: New Moon
Rating: 2/5
???

I don't understand considering the first and second movies to be largely the same, much less liking the first better. I thought the first film was truly terrible...but famously gave New Moon a 4/5 in the same post as giving 8 1/2 a 1/5. Anyway, I guess I understand people not liking anything to do with the series, you have to think of it in a distinct way to see what level it is working on. The books especially are a quintessential portrait of teenage love and the evolution of love, with an overlay of traditional values which, not necessarily agreeing with them, I can appreciate how they are incorporated within the story. I can see myself and my relationships within the characters here (sometimes Bella, sometimes Edward, sometimes Jacob).