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Yume (1990)
plenty to ponder, and
We first saw "Dreams" shortly after it came out -- and much of what I observed/felt has stayed with me. Perhaps a couple weeks later I was running in a trail race, and when we went through a field of tall (native) grass, briefly I was in a painting (the van Gogh sketch). After having seen the Willem Dafoe portrayal of VVG movie just yesterday, I got to thinking about "Loving Vincent" how many people fawned over that movie, especially about being (the only?) movie in which each frame was painted over, a moving continual painting. And ... just last night I realized that THAT IDEA had come from Kurusawa's DREAMS. Did "loving Vincent" give credit to this earlier movie?
Also, the one dream ("Fuji") about a nuclear melt-down/disaster threatening the country ... well, maybe THAT was bound to happen but I can't help but think that this movie was about much more than it seemed.
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
if we could go back in time ...
It's too late now to have never made this movie. but if we could ! : --> we'd approach everyone involved in making it, and tell them (we're dictators here, everyone would do as we tell them to) NOT to make this movie. the world is now a (slightly) better place. the money not spent could be used ... um, to fix potholes in/on the highways, or start construction of THE WALL between the U.S. and Canada .
One on One (1977)
i'm in it!
during the game in which "Western" is blowing out the visitors, the camera pans the crowd, who look bored. I was picked to be one of the "early leavers" and I think it's because I coincidentally (I didn't know what the mythical U would be called) was wearing my WESTERN track shirt.
Also amusing, is that the crowd shots for the games were shot at CSU (Ft. Collins, Colorado) basketball auditorium in the winter. Since we were supposed to be in sunny southern California, we had to HIDE all our winter clothing -- hats, scarves, gloves, parkas. Quite a feat to get all the thousands in attendance to hide all that stuff.
Miami Vice (2006)
the emperor has no clothes!
betty and i watched perhaps 40 minutes of this and concluded that it was pretty darned incomprehensible, need i add "poorly written" (if any writing happened at all), mostly mumbling, loud thumping noises, seemingly endless random chasing around, directionless, one seemingly irrelevant scene after another, more mumbling, more thumping, like, what, if anything, IS THE POINT >! ? ! --> not that anything really NEEDS a "point" but hey! it would have helped if there was some plausible objective or something to IDENTIFY with but in a mishmash mushy movie like this i suppose whoever was involved with making it assumed and/or blindly hoped most people watching would just blindly hop on board and with clutches fully pressed to the floor in their brains just, um, be "entertained." okay, so most people myself included do enjoy the occasional, sometimes frequent entertainment, but in this case i would have liked a story! with coherent dialogue! and some semblance of an objective that the movie was rolling towards...
Don't Come Knocking (2005)
the emperor has no clothes
why does anyone bother making movies like this? the money wasted making it could have been donated to a feral cat spay clinic, AIDS medicine in Africa, or to help fund global warming research.
boring from beginning to end, well, the lead character's "escape" from the movie set was the most entertaining -- reminiscent of Rob't Redford in "electric horseman" -- most people i know would have a more meaningful evening sitting home playing cards. better dialogue, too.
the 'acting' on the part of gabriel mann was especially bad. and the so-called "music"? i have rarely heard a soundtrack so full of inspid dirges -- leonard cohen's stuff would be UPBEAT and melodic compared to this!
The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
goof
when the orson welles character challenges his son as to the authenticity of the 'treasure' he is digging up at the paul newman's rented old estate -- he looks at a coin and says something to the effect of "this coin was minted in 1910 -- and you think this treasure is over a hundred years old?!" if, as it is suggested, the coins were silver dollars, there were NO silver dollars minted in 1910! (the u.s. quit making silver dollars in about 1904 and did not resume minting them until 1921).
this comment will not be allowed until i have written 10 lines of text. hmmm... the way the characters talk in the movie seems somewhat constrained. and why would Mr. Quick so easily start to allow himself to be grabbed by the lynch mob (until his beau-to-be rescues him)?