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The Butterfly Effect (2004)
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This may be an early example of the genre called Slipstream'.
Christopher Priest, the UK writer, termed the phrase. It describes this genre that attempts to move beyond the conventions of Sci-FI and Fantasy to tell stories. Other films would include Adaptation, books by J.G. Ballard and P.K. Dick. I think the lack of a recognized genre hurt this movie but, as usual, the audience is culturally light years ahead of the critics and it seemed well attended the day I was there better than you would believe from the bad reviews.
Critics could not read the movie and determine if it was not any good. But I thought was interesting example of a new "B" stream genre.
In the Cut (2003)
Horrible, horrible, horrible
Two hours of my life stolen.
What was an English professor doing living in a tenement and her sister living above a strip joint in a disgraceful New York that looked is it was flown in from the 70s?
What was the Cinematographer trying to do? getting the camera in focus did not seem to be a strong skill.
Who are these people? Do anyone care?
What were the oblique pretentious references to `To the lighthouse' all about? They went to a lighthouse in the end - I get it!
Where was the suspense?
What were Meg Ryan or Nicole Kidman thinking?
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
Has everyone lost their minds?
Horrible, Horrible, Horrible. No wonder no one in Canada would finance this script.
I guess it some how appealed to Tom Hank's "World View".
Perhaps someone should try "My big fat Mick wedding" or "My big fat Indian wedding" or even "My big fat gay wedding". Rather than try a TV show, the real franchise value here seems to be dumb humor around racial and social stereotyping.
The Heart of the World (2000)
Greatest Canadian film ever made
All the money that is wasted in Canada every year on worst self-indulgent, introspective, pseudo intellectual fake art films on the planet and one six-minute film schools the whole horrible mess for the rubbish it is. This is a gem - see it whatever you do and avoid everything else from Canada.
The Stone Tape (1972)
An interesting idea...
An interesting idea, ghosts are simply information stored in a particular type of stone that can be programmed to receive the information through the emotional discharge of the person.
I was a very junior programmer when I saw this show I can't comment what people today will think, but if you are in IT you may enjoy the concept.
The Last Train (1999)
A great throwback to the miserable '70s
If you liked any Quartermass, Threads, Village of the Dammed or books like "After the Rain", "Chalk Giants" or anything by John Wyndham then this is one for you.
Unrelenting post-apocalypse depression that I believe only works if you grew in the U.K. in the seventies. I liked it a lot.
The Ruling Class (1972)
The only film I know that had it's premier in Galway, Ireland...
The only film I know that had it's premier in Galway in the West Coast of Ireland. The movie has some good moments is a bit uneven and tries too hard to make its point.
It went over well with all the members of the Socialist Workers Party in town and it's general anti-English attitude made it a natural hit with all the locals.
Peter O'Toole was living in Galway around this time and drinking heavily on one on the local bars...
Peter O'Toole always had this very ambiguous attitude to the British. On one hand he always great in any part as an English aristocrat but on the other hand he was an Irish boy. This conflict always seems to compromise his career.