I can't believe anybody actually got paid for the music that continually plays. It is beyond repetitive. It could have been composed by HAL9000. It even rarely bother to change from scene to scene, or to indicate tone or mood changes. I watch a lot of Hallmark movies
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McBride: Anybody Here Murder Marty?
(2005 TV Movie)
Just a review of the series's music
24 June 2020
Simply one of the best
11 January 2020
Uncut Gems
(2019)
Feel like being tortured for two hours?
2 January 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Ever since Punch-Drunk Love, I've hoped that Adam Sandler would do another movie of substance where he doesn't just play a goofball. So, I looked forward to this with anticipation. However, I didn't expect to watch an amoral loser make a series of stupid decisions, each more ridiculous than the last, that would end in his death.
As he watches a basketball game where a ridiculous bet he has made could net him a million dollars and get him out of most of the trouble he's gotten himself into, I think we're supposed to be rooting for him. I couldn't.
This movie is so torturous that I checked my watch at one point, hoping my pain was almost over. We were only half way through. If I hadn't been there with a friend, I would have walked out.
This "protagonist's" actions are bad enough, but the first half of the film used the shaky-cam technique to the point of maximum distraction. Why? Maybe to reinforce the chaotic nature of this man's life? Didn't need it. His actions spoke loudly enough. He was a lout and deserved no less than his final fate.
As he watches a basketball game where a ridiculous bet he has made could net him a million dollars and get him out of most of the trouble he's gotten himself into, I think we're supposed to be rooting for him. I couldn't.
This movie is so torturous that I checked my watch at one point, hoping my pain was almost over. We were only half way through. If I hadn't been there with a friend, I would have walked out.
This "protagonist's" actions are bad enough, but the first half of the film used the shaky-cam technique to the point of maximum distraction. Why? Maybe to reinforce the chaotic nature of this man's life? Didn't need it. His actions spoke loudly enough. He was a lout and deserved no less than his final fate.
Ad Astra
(2019)
Scientifically Unbelievable
14 October 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I gave this more than one star only because of the acting, mainly of the on screen every minute by Brad Pitt.
If you have no good working knowledge of physics, you would probably be able to let the three or four absolutely improbable to effectively impossible events go by.
Aside from the above, there are an additional two or three plot points that seem to be only there to add some action to this mostly cerebral, emotional story.
I'll never get that two hours back, but at least I saw it on a major chain's flat price per month plan.
If you have no good working knowledge of physics, you would probably be able to let the three or four absolutely improbable to effectively impossible events go by.
Aside from the above, there are an additional two or three plot points that seem to be only there to add some action to this mostly cerebral, emotional story.
I'll never get that two hours back, but at least I saw it on a major chain's flat price per month plan.
Peepli [Live]
(2010)
Beats most of the American movies I've seen this year
16 August 2010
I'm a native American and saw this movie in a theater with maybe 30 Indians (sorry, I'm old enough to find multiple ironies in that sentence). Anyway, I went into this movie with no expectations. Though I've seen a number of Indian movies over the last few years, I knew nothing of this author or director. I laughed out loud more than I have for any Hollywood movie this year. My cohorts found it even funnier than I, but I guarantee you that you don't need to know that much about Indian politics or media to get most of this satire.
It starts with a farmer deciding to commit suicide to get his family the $2000 that may save his farm from foreclosure. From there, the media and government turn it into a circus, stepping all over themselves in their self-serving ways.
It suffers only in minor ways from a few slow spots and odd shifts in tone, but these are worth sitting through. It's currently showing here only at a suburban Atlanta theater that shows a combination of H-wood and B-wood. This should have been picked up by some American distributer when it showed at Sundance. Hopefully, enough people will see it and generate the buzz to get it to a wider audience.
It starts with a farmer deciding to commit suicide to get his family the $2000 that may save his farm from foreclosure. From there, the media and government turn it into a circus, stepping all over themselves in their self-serving ways.
It suffers only in minor ways from a few slow spots and odd shifts in tone, but these are worth sitting through. It's currently showing here only at a suburban Atlanta theater that shows a combination of H-wood and B-wood. This should have been picked up by some American distributer when it showed at Sundance. Hopefully, enough people will see it and generate the buzz to get it to a wider audience.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
(2003)
Almost over the top, but worth the look
9 October 2003
Samurai/Spaghetti Western/Charlie's Angels/Hong Kong Fui. With a lot of spraying blood, decapitations, de-arm-itations, de-foot-itations, de-tongue-itations, but no defenestrations, and, of course, a lot of laughs. Oh, and one shot that reminded me of the end of the Battle of Atlanta scene from GwtW. And at one point, I thought the ghost of Toshiro Mifune was in the theater!
The spaghetti western soundtrack, punctuated with familiar cop-show themes from the past, was a hoot!
Go see!
The spaghetti western soundtrack, punctuated with familiar cop-show themes from the past, was a hoot!
Go see!
Kundun
(1997)
Emotional Transportation
14 July 2003
Though I see a lot of films (usually 100+ in theaters per year), I can't say that I'm much of a student of films. I go to be entertained and/or moved. And Kundun moved me in a way I don't think has ever happened before.
I saw the film in the multiplex in Phipps Plaza, probably Atlanta's most upscale shopping mall. At the end of the film, when I walked out the theater exit into the mall, I was emotionally stunned. Scorsese had hypnotized me into the world of Bhuddist simplicity and wonder. Seeing the activity and commercialism (which I normally love) of the mall was a shock.
Peter Weir once said: "The true test of it is when you come out of a picture and you can't remember whether it was day or night when you came in." I think that barely remembering what country I was in shows that for me, this film passes that "true test".
I saw the film in the multiplex in Phipps Plaza, probably Atlanta's most upscale shopping mall. At the end of the film, when I walked out the theater exit into the mall, I was emotionally stunned. Scorsese had hypnotized me into the world of Bhuddist simplicity and wonder. Seeing the activity and commercialism (which I normally love) of the mall was a shock.
Peter Weir once said: "The true test of it is when you come out of a picture and you can't remember whether it was day or night when you came in." I think that barely remembering what country I was in shows that for me, this film passes that "true test".
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