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Locke (2013)
An experimental film with a great performance, and poor editing + direction
I went into this film like many films, without knowing anything about it, nor having watched any trailers for the film, to have as unbiased of a reaction to the film as possible.
Two things that I got from the film, are that:
1. Tom Hardy gives a great performance, and for this claustrophobic episode, he tackles some strong family issues, conflicts with his work as some sort of construction manager – which in turn, is his art, and issues with his dead father, which he monologues towards the backseat of his car.
2. This movie is not a film, rather, it's a stage play combined with a commercial for BMW. For that, it presents itself with the most minimal of a set – a highway and a car. For such a minimal film, lingering on the BMW logo for that long is distracting and completely unnecessary.
The problem with the film is that because it is such a stage play, there was so much space for pushing the experimental envelope, so-to-speak. We end up having to watch Tom Hardy rub his eyebrows for the 50th time in distress, a blurred out highway, or some view of the road.
Cinematography in this film is not very dynamic, nor does it react at all to what's going on in the script. The only thing that carries this film is Tom Hardy's performance, and that's a problem, because I would rather sit in a theater to watch this, rather than watch lazy camera work, lazy editing, and perhaps this writer should have stuck to being the writer, and not directing.
Bratz (2007)
sweet Jesus biscuits, that was bad
Well, let me start off by saying this was the worst movie I have seen in a very long time. My friends and I went to see this movie BECAUSE this movie had been awarded a full zero stars in the Chicago Tribune (and several other places).
The good things about this movie, is perhaps that the producers must have spent a lot of money hiring people and buying a lot of clothes. Some of the clothes were sure pretty cool, and if I were a girl, I'd probably wear them. One thing, is that I never understood when the phrase "Brat" ever became a good thing and how a high school teenager hitting on a 11 year old was ever a good thing.
The movie included such insensitive material, and the idea is very unoriginal. This is not to mention that the other Bratz movie that came out on the 8th of August now number 1 on the bottom 100 of the IMDb list. I don't understand how the Asian girl, becomes the mathlete/science team superstar; the Latino bratz girl has tons of Latino people in her house all the time, INCLUDING a Mariachi band and she and her mom start singing that very popular song that... "la coucou-ra-cha"... you know what I mean... song. Oh, also the girl who is awarded the scholarship at the end of the movie... because she "needs it"... can afford to go shopping all the time and has a big house as well? I actually only enjoyed it BECAUSE it was so bad, and because some of the scenes in the movie were just so awkward and hilarious. negative 3 stars for being that awful.
Bratz: Passion 4 Fashion - Diamondz (2006)
You guys are all voting on the wrong movie
This ones animated. Bratz: The Movie is the live-action movie. :D #1 on bottom 100 Bratz introduces some of the worst "teen" representations and seems to try and make people think that this movie is really about friendship but it seems that all this movie is based on is fashion and going shopping. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing bad about having a sense of fashion and going shopping once in a while, but the Bratz just take it to this entire new level where everyone has to be pretty and fit in to be able to do... anything. I just don't get it. The stories are full of random stereotypes and it's just written so poorly. I need some rat to wipe this bad taste out of my mouth.