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What Love Is (2007)
Talking About What Love Is
When I entered the the screening for this movie I expected nothing more than a love comedy aimed at couples probably too busy having fun to watch the movie. When I came out I felt as though I'd sat through an awesome stage performance where dialog is the driving force, the action.
Now perhaps some may snicker at the thought of watching a stage play on film when you could just watch it on a stage. But this I say is where the beauty and advantages of using the film medium come in. Closeups and careful editing are used in this film to help create action within the conversations occurring of the movie.
In What Love Is the camera isn't used to scream that "LOOK, here's Cuba Gooding Jr.... and LOOK here's Gina Gershon." Instead it's used to emphasize the key to this movie, the well-written dialog.
I do realize that I'm probably sounding like a broken record with the dialog this is what keeps it real and easy to relate to. Just think, how much of the communication in your daily life consists of the spoken word.
And again this is probably another aspect of the movie that may be frowned upon. But how often do we get to hear and see the actual thoughts of the opposite sex. The characters in this movie are the characters of our thoughts, and some of them are the voices we try to suppress, and the voices we never hear but only imagine.
I just realized that I forgot to add the bit about the movie being funny, but not in the slapstick sense. You've gotta listen and be attentive to get it. Listening is the key to understanding this movie and perhaps to understanding what love really is.
Couldn't all love use a little more communication, listening and attention?
Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Love it or hate it
With All do respect, I know not whether I love or hate this movie. It's like a guilty pleasure for me. On the one hand I think that it is absurdly ridiculous, planes flying out from Hawaii just to get one guy after "exhausting all possible options." I don't even know where such an evil idea would come from. yet it's such an original idea that it becomes a memorable one.
This is a "So bad it's good" kind of movie.
But, keeping an open mind about this movie, it is not one to be taken seriously. It's an escape from the real world.
Helping to transport viewers to this fantasy are the effects, which are well done. the animation of the snakes is done great, and the scene where Samuel L. Jackson shoots out the window, even though not possible, looks like it could happen.
If you haven't gotten a hold of the DVD, I suggest doing so and watching the commentary. There are some great lines in the, one pertaining to Samuel L. Jackson's work in Star wars
La cité des enfants perdus (1995)
reviewing a re-watching of it
It's been several years since I first saw this movie, I actually bought it on DVD years ago before even seeing it because the trailer intrigued me that much. If I remember the trailer there was no talking in it, only music and perhaps a voice over. Ron Perlman is seen walking through a expressionistic city with a child on his back. I fell in love with the darkness and strangeness of the trailer.
well fast forward to the present. I just watched it about a week ago at a friends house. I lent it to them for a while but they never got around to watching it. So there I was placing it in to the DVD player. My friends watched it for only 10 minutes and they had no interest in it whatsoever. One of them even said from the start, "I don't like this movie." sadly they did not even give this movie a chance.
and so I sat there alone in front of the television re-watching it for the first time in years. the thoughts of my friends comments ran through my head but I could not take my eyes away. There's originality in this movie, reminiscent of Amelie and the Triplets of Belleville. It has that kind of feel to it, only a bit darker.
The world is quite fantastical yet small. It always seems dark and smoky and the building seem to dwarf everyone. It's a tiny place yet full of so many interesting characters. Blind people who believe they see the light. A villain who just wants to have a nice dream. A brain in a fish tank.
And yet with all of this strangeness the plot makes it easy to relate to because it's reminiscent of fairy tales.
Just give the movie a chance. It's an experience with it's world alone. It's a world that isn't cookie cut with dragons and faeries and elves or one based upon this world.