Pearl Harbor

Probably the most marketing-oriented movie I’ve ever seen – Something for women + something for the men = big bucks! It’s like they were trying to make another Titanic or something. It was entertaining, but the whole end-thing was a bit much. Apparently that did actually happen, but I was watching the movie just waiting for the one guy to die dramatically – it was the only way to make everyone happy. They could have squished the plot a little bit and made a better and shorter movie. (he could have died at pearl harbor instead)

 

The Last Days of Disco

The latest of whit stilman’s movies. It’s much the same as his others – Metropolitan & Barcelona. It even ties together with Barcelona… sort of. It’s about a bunch of privileged rich kids who are just out of college. They spend their nights in the disco (during disco’s last days of course), and their days struggling with their lives (jobs, apartments, VD). What makes this movie (and whit’s other movies) so watchable isn’t the plot, it’s the dialogue. I find it hard to believe that anyone really talks like the characters in this movie (even ivy leaguers) unless they’re reading a script. It just feels good to hear all that useless wisdom and chitter-chatter being dispensed so eloquently.