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Brick (2005)
This movie sucks
This movie is lame. It strains to be something that it is incapable of being. I gave it a five because the dialogue was complex and surely difficult to write, but otherwise it was mediocre as a detective story. Toward the end of the movie I found myself completely not caring about how it will end. Then on top of that you already know pretty much what the end will be since the movie beat you over the head with clues the entire time.
Concerning the obvious attempt to be a gritty, noir film that shows us all how a cop interacts with the seedy underbelly of crime etc. etc. COME ON! Are you kidding me? This is the kid from Third Rock! I am so not convinced that he's anything like Sam Spade. Also the dialogue, albeit consistent and well planned, was unnecessary. I'd even venture to say that this detracted from the gritty detective story that this film tried so very hard to mimic.
Miami Vice (2006)
Do not waste time or money on this crap
This move was seriously one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Whoever wrote the script to this steaming heap of dung should be lynched. I knew going in that it would be weak in some areas like character development and dialogue, but these kinds of movies make up for those shortfalls with action. This movie's action scenes were boring too though. This just goes to show you that you can put a superstar cast to work on a project, but that can't carry a bad film. There were so many loose ends in the movie that your head is spinning by the end and you just want to claw your eyes out. From head to toe this movie simply sucked. Editing, directing, writing, acting, even the costume department must've been getting high on set b/c Colin Ferrel was wearing the same shirt for like a week at one point. The only thing that was good about seeing it really was the laughs afterward ripping on it with my friends. We all sat around at Cold Stone ice cream shot and hysterically laughed at how incredibly stupid and lame this movie was.
Dark Days (2000)
Excellent
One of the best documentaries I've ever seen. It really changes the way you think about homelessness. The cast of real people in this film are refreshingly charismatic. I really didn't expect to be blown away by a film like this, but trust me it's really an excellent work. The fact that Marc Singer had the balls to venture into the cavernous abyss of the Penn Station tunnels for such a long period of time to make this film makes it even more admirable. For me this film to me really has taken the genre to its highest level because the director actually lived and survived with the cast of the film and literally became homeless himself, not to mention letting them take an active role in making it in terms of production. I really can't think of a truer way to shoot a documentary like this one.