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A 1973 movie that's about a cop in the future living in an overpopulated era in 2022. I didn't realize this until I wiki'd it. The movie's visual and clothing of it's characters doesn't seem to represent that this is set in the future. I mistook the setting to be movie's date of release.
The movie was a bit strange I was mainly watching it for research on movies and culture of that time. I give it a 5.
World Trade Center
Boooooooriiiiiiiiiiing. But Nicholas Cage is hilarious with his one liners!
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Originally Posted by Depression Moon
I watched Magnolia today - never seen it before. I really enjoyed it. Great cast, great plotlines. I have to say that it's one of my more favorable Tom Cruise movies. I love Philip Seymour Hoffman and Julianne Moore in just about anything they do.
I give it an 8/10.
Easy A
It kinda tried a liiiittle too hard for my taste with the dialogue and stuff, but I love Emma Stone, she's really cute and I think she did an okay job. It kinda feels like Saved! had a baby with a John Hughes movie.
Overall decent movie.
Nick and Norah's infinite playlist, is a film that has simple plot devices; those devices are driven by strong, amazing characters.
I'm Still Here
It wasn't too bad overall. It didn't captivate me from start to finish, nor was it as funny as I thought it was going to be, but I don't think it really tried to be a comedy at all. It had some very good acting in it and a lot of the editing and transitions were very clever, but I can't help but feel the whole thing was incredibly forgettable. Though I'm open to the idea that maybe it was more of a case of me thinking that it was going to be a different movie than what it was.
6/10
I watched Get Him TO The Greek yesterday. this movie was smurfing awesome. made me laugh from start to finish. one of the funniest movies I've seen for awhile. And, I was never a big Superbad fan.
Let Me In
Just got back from seeing it, and was pretty much exactly what I expected. Very faithful to the original (Let the Right One In, a foreign film from a couple of years ago). Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl from Kick Ass) plays the lead girl and is a really incredible actress for being like 13. A couple of minor scenes were taken out, but were replaced by new ones and what I consider to be better development between Owen and Abby (Oskar and Eli in the original). Overall, definitely worth seeing, regardless of whether you've seen the original. This is not your typical vampire film.
The only thing "missing" from the remake that was in the original movie is (SPOILER)the more explicit hint that Abby/Eli is really a boy, though the "I'm not a girl" lines are still there. Either Abby is a girl or the producers just thought crotch-shots were too much for American audiences.
I'm conflicted about seeing Let Me In. I find it difficult to hold up to the value of it's predecessor, but I've heard mixed reviews. I might see it if I get a chance, if only because the curiousity of comparing it to the original is intriguing to me.
Today I watched:
- Crash. The other Crash - not the Sandra Bullock/Matt Dillon Crash. The weirdest-smurfing-:bou::bou::bou::bou:-I've-ever-seen Crash. Before I watched the film I knew a small bit of what it's about: people who are aroused by car crashes. The movie didn't really seem to have a firm storyline, and it seemed to subtley repeat itself over and over every twenty minutes or so minutes for two hours. Almost a little too weird for me, including one horrific scene - (SPOILER)vagina substitute. I don't have a problem with weirdness, though - the lack of a firm and progressing story is what disappointed me in this film.
- Blue Velvet. Third movie of David Lynch's that I've seen, the others being Mulholland Drive and Dune. Mulholland Drive is one of my favorite movies, so I think I unfairly put this one up on a pedestal to compare it to. It didn't measure up to the "what the smurf is going on" feeling that Mulholland Drive gives you, but there was definitely a weirdness and eeriness about Blue Velvet. I was hoping for some more mystery, but I mostly got what I wanted out of it, except for an explanation on how bizarre and erratic Frank's behavior was and more details on what was going on with Dorothy's family. I think that I'd maybe be able to understand it better if I watched the fully uncut version. I quite enjoyed it this one, and it makes me want to watch more from Lynch.
40 Year Old Virgin
I have no idea why I never watched this before now. It was really funny. Sam's mom was their boss. They tried to add too much drama near the end, but then they fixed by having him crash in the middle of the street. And that entire musical scene at the end was awesome.
4/5
I'm going to see Let Me In. Even if it's not as good, it will hopefully create a wider audience for the original. Although the only American remake I've ever liked as much as the original was Shall We Dance, mainly because it had great character actors and a fun sense of humor.
District 9
Starz was free for the weekend and this was on so I watched it. i never expected the movie to be so good. I don't want to spoil it for others so I'll put this in (SPOILER) The first half of the movie seems like you're watching a documentary and a real one at that. They did a great job on making something fictional feel like something real. The way the aliens background was explained and treated made it seem really alive. I had felt emotion for these creatures trying to surmise if they were against, with us, or were neutral to us simply trying to survive. The last one was actually the answer to that. The movie advances from feeling like a documentary into a filmed story when the guy (forgot his name) who seemed to be the lead officer in moving the prawn, when he passed out at his birthday party and woke up in a hospital with a prawn arm. The movie did a well and believable interpretation of a world where the aliens are the ones at the disadvantage and how we ultimately won't to use them or more as their technology for power and fortune. During the main character's transformation into a prawn he starts to change his belief on the species. Early in the movie he burned down a nest of their infants and later became attached to a prawn father and his son. The ending felt powerful and left mystery behind what would happen afterwards. The ending also reattached the former documentary feeling that was present at the start of the movie
All in all I give it a 10/10.
G.I. Joe:
Girlfriend and I wanted a movie that was entertaining despite any badness that would occur and we were unprepared for what we were getting ourselves into. We made it about halfway through before the "science" that they used started making us angry (her in particular) and we had to stop before we hurt our television or ourselves.
It was horrible beyond how horrible we were expecting it to be.
District 9 is mixed in with documentary style filmmaking to give that real feel. And yes Crash is pretty weird. The guy in that film is also in another kinky film called The Secretary.
Splice
3/10
I didn't really see anything happen in this film. It was the same conflict over and over. The thing wanting to get out and them saying no no no. Everything that occurred in this film was predictable to say the least even at the end (SPOILER) when the girl becomes pregnant with the thing's baby. What probably intended on being a shocking horror film failed at being a predictable, slightly amusing and possibly subtle take on why we shouldn't create test tube babies. The make-up was good at least.
The Experiment
4/10
Essentially a film trying to mush together a plethora of ideas. It's about evolution of man, but also about survival of the fittest, and about human similarities to apes, AND about strength in numbers, AND about psychosis, AND prison guard immorality, AND...yeah, just too many ideas in one film. Forrest Whitaker did a good job at making you hate him as the prison guard who takes authority in his own hands. At the end it all gets resolved in a tight little bow; which is not believable especially when there's two people that end up possibly dead'. They don't explain what happened to those two or what happened to the organization that begin the experiment. Major plot hole to say the least.
Let Me In
Actually this was good, about as a good as a remake can be when translated from another culture. The leads were excellent and credible and the atmosphere was suitably sterile and creepy. My main problem with it is the CGI effects were distracting at best. Let the Right One In had a more limited budget, but its practical effects were more convincing.
It's a welcome antidote to all the Twillight silliness. This movie explores the real consequences of love and acceptance of those that are different.