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Reviews
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Supposedly good...
The cinematography was great. This film was beautiful to watch from a technical standpoint. There were really only one or two things I'd change (Those annoying split-screens!), and I really loved film speed was played with.
The acting was wonderful on all parts (Even Marlon Wayans, shock of all shocks!)
And I want to marry the score.
But I absolutely hated the movie. Why? Because I've never felt so emotionally manipulated in my life.
Black Circle Boys (1997)
So bad it's good.
Oh, the joys of telecinema. This is, on one level, one of the worst movies I've ever seen, not so much from an acting perspective as from a script/plot perspective. Supposedly based on a true story, it's more like a male version of The Craft, only with a gay Donnie Wahlberg. On another level, though, it's practically a parody of itself and all those anonymous diaries you find in the bookstore about kids who fall into lives of drug abuse and Satanism.
The movie is meant to be serious! And frightening! But it's more the sort of movie you'll want to get drunk with your friends and laugh at, particularly if you've got slightly twisted senses of humour
A superb good-bad movie.
And that Mabius kid's kinda cute.
Little City (1997)
Shoddy characterization = poor movie
I admit, I picked this up because I wanted a little Bon Jovi eye-candy, and didn't *really* expect the movie to be any good, but then I saw it had Josh Charles and Annabella Sciorra in it, and I think then I expected a little too much of it. Like a plot that *made sense.*
It wasn't so much the overall theme of the movie that I disagreed with as it was the fact that the characters themselves were pretty shoddy. By this I don't mean that they were caricatures (though many were, particularly Bon Jovi's Kevin), but rather that the characters did not even make decisions consistent with how they supposedly acted and thought. The ending, particularly for Kevin and Nina, left me feeling as though miles of film that explained *how* and *why* these things were happening had been left on the cutting room floor.
The acting was all right, and some of the dialogue was downright witty, but none of it was good enough to rescue a character-driven movie with flat characters and poor characterization.