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The Pianist

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I can’t decide if I really needed to see people graphically executed at random for about an hour straight, but I haven’t been able to put the image out of my mind since seeing it. Is that good? productive? I don’t know. A part of me wants to say that we’ve had enough movies about the horrible things that happened to the Jews in WWII, and there are all kinds of museums, books, TV shows, magazine articles, etc etc etc.. it’s really overload! There have been plenty of simlarly awful genocidal episodes in recent history that don’t get fair play – Cambodia, Rwanda, Tibet, etc. Then again, this movie was so well done that I can’t be at all negative about it. It’s a compelling story that was worth telling. The gradual descent into chaos was shown really well, one can’t pinpoint the time when things got completely out of hand, and I guess that’s just how it happens.

 

King Kong – 2005

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Sure, it was beautifully filmed and all, but I found it really one-dimensional. A movie that’s 3 hours long should have more than one storyline. Plus, there was almost too much action. I realize the movie was an action/adventure movie at its heart, but it should know when enough is enough. The action sequences just went on and one and on… like the insect thing at the bottom of the canyon. The movie also tried to say a lot of things without dialog. This can be a good thing, and is certainly better than having too much dialog (a problem with many other movies), but I thought the balance was off. There also wasn’t a lot of attention paid to small details in the movie. I can’t really explain it, it’s just a feeling I had. Still, with all those reservations, it was pretty good, and worth seeing just for the eye-candy factor.