Pre-review tweet: Watching The Road. I get the metaphor, but JESUS THIS KID IS A PUSSY. Man up, boy it's the end of the god-damned world.
Got it all (by which I meant I understood the metaphors at play). Did not enjoy the kid. Viggo was amazing. Destroyed beauty on display. Guess I need to read the book. 3.5 stars.
Follow-up: The visuals are simply incredible. And this post apocalypse is not the usual "just after the event" version we usually see, or the cartoonish quality of say, Mad Max. This is what the world would be if it ended due to some unknown global cataclysmic event.
The Road at Netflix
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Day Watch
Reaction one: Wow. 25 minutes into Day Watch. Not good. Looks frigging awesome, but a bad film that looks great is still bad.
Reaction two: Day Watch is so bad I gave up. Disjointed, fragmented half-ideas with stylistic direction are music videos, not feature-length films.
(I have never abandoned a movie before this one. That's how frigging frustrating it was.)
Day Watch at Netflix
Reaction two: Day Watch is so bad I gave up. Disjointed, fragmented half-ideas with stylistic direction are music videos, not feature-length films.
(I have never abandoned a movie before this one. That's how frigging frustrating it was.)
Day Watch at Netflix
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Mr. Nobody
Can you both love and dislike a movie? A beautiful film in search of a point, and someone to make it. 3-ish stars. Cinematography on Mr. Nobody is unbelievable, by the way. The depth of field was perfectly used. Visual perfection. See it in High Def if you can.
Followup: Okay, 3.5 stars. 3.75 maybe. My problem with this movie probably stems from the massive re-editing that went on. Without giving anything away, there is a thread in the film that basically doesn't exist anymore. It is given severely short shrift and that fact is obvious. It may as well have been completely removed altogether. Not only would that have cleaned up the errant, dangling remnants but it would have allowed a more cohesive movie. Which is a weird thing to say for such a non-linear film.
Jared Leto is unbelievably great though, and people should watch it just for his performance(s). It brings up huge numbers of questions about reality, the multi-verse, identity and more, and it's worth watching.
Mr. Nobody at Netflix
Followup: Okay, 3.5 stars. 3.75 maybe. My problem with this movie probably stems from the massive re-editing that went on. Without giving anything away, there is a thread in the film that basically doesn't exist anymore. It is given severely short shrift and that fact is obvious. It may as well have been completely removed altogether. Not only would that have cleaned up the errant, dangling remnants but it would have allowed a more cohesive movie. Which is a weird thing to say for such a non-linear film.
Jared Leto is unbelievably great though, and people should watch it just for his performance(s). It brings up huge numbers of questions about reality, the multi-verse, identity and more, and it's worth watching.
Mr. Nobody at Netflix
Friday, October 8, 2010
[REC]
Really enjoyed [REC], but then I rarely see a zombie/virus movie I don't like. This was well done though. Good bloody fun. 5 stars.
[REC] at Netflix
[REC] at Netflix
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