Wow. It’s so hard to make a movie that’s wholly original, and trusts the intelligence & attention of the viewers. This was a real joy to watch unfold… the joy was in the discovery of the story. Nothing is explained, you have to learn it all along with the characters. And even then, it doesn’t make much sense, but you have to accept it anyway. This movie is the dream I hope to have when I close my eyes each night.
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A Beautiful Mind
A beautiful film. For much of the first half, I wasn’t sure if I liked it… but by the end, I did. It made me wonder if I was sane… perhaps every waking moment of my life is a delusion, perhaps these aren’t really words I’m typing. Perhaps the commies have brainwashed me into thinking the cold war has ended and are simply using me as a puppet to transmit secret messages diguised as movie reviews to an armada of robotic aliens hiding behind the moon. Perhaps I’m not really living in an underwater tube city populated with glimmering gelatinous super-jellies. Perhaps if I just ignore reality, it will all just go away.
Blood Diamond
Brilliant from start to finish… While there were a few plot points that tried a little too hard, the excellent acting, direction and pacing made you overlook that. The charaters were all quite deep, and still fully developed in a short running time. However, you might feel about Leo DiCaprio, he earns his creds with stuff like this.
The Rocketeer
His legs would get fried by the exhaust.
Requiem For a Dream
Stunning and original (which, as a quote from me is neither stunning nor original). A sad and scary movie about the desperate places people can reach. I didn’t feel like crying at the end of this movie, though the end… and in fact the whole thing… was utterly depressing (which was a good thing). I just felt generally sad, perhaps questioning how far I was (or any of us were) from the state of the characters in the film. Pretty far, I hope. It was a difficult film to watch, but that’s exactly what made it so worth watching.
Labyrinth
David Bowie.
Hulk
I heard this thing on NPR where a couple snobby movie reviewers were discussing how movie reviews didn’t matter if enough marketing money was thrown at a piece of junk. They were using “Hulk” as an example. While I agreed with the premise, Hulk mostly received good reviews – it was a ridiculous example, and made the whole piece seem pretentious and stupid. I liked how the movie stepped slightly outside the predictable summer blockbuster good guy vs. bad guy formula. The bad guy dies halfway through, and the good guy isn’t really “good”, he’s just a guy. Throw in some crazy battle sequences and special effects to please the kids, and you have a good piece of entertainment.
The Hot Spot
The only thing I remember about this movie was that I saw it. Oh, and Virginia Madsen was in it & had a continuously “lusty” look on her face.