Dragon Quest -124/10. Would seriously recommend tweazing out your eyes before watching this movie. To its credit, it was funny. Not sure it was meant to be.
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Dragon Quest -124/10. Would seriously recommend tweazing out your eyes before watching this movie. To its credit, it was funny. Not sure it was meant to be.
Inception - amazing (10/10) :D
Before going to see it, I was doubtful it would live up to the hype - but it did :nod:
Inception was good. 10/10 does the top stop?
Hitler: A Film from Germany - To call this film a masterpiece would be an understatement. And yet, it is an imperfect film. When Sontag called Syberberg's epic experimental 7 hour long film about Hitler "the most extraordinary film I've ever seen", she was not being hyperbolic. Francis Ford Coppola also was right when he considered it to tower above all other contemporary films.
Most films are equivalent to one or two pages of literature; this film contains volumes. Theatrical, epic, Brechtian, Wagnerian, brooding, self-referential and without narrative, this phantasmagoria on Nazi Germany consists of extended monolouges, philosophical inquiry, puppetry, circus-like theatricality, collage, pastiche, anything Sybreberg can use to portray his profound and dark vision of Nazi Germany and it's effect on Western civilization. This film is not a portrait of Nazi Germany, rather, it is a portrait of the Dantesque Hell in which the ghosts of Nazi Germany wander endlessly.
I could not begin to convey to you the ideas presented in this film. It is bitterly ironic to extreme measures and the viewer who is not thinking will mistake Syberberg's ironic sketches as an aestheticization of Nazism, while they are indeed scathing critiques of it in a uniquely non-liberal and non-humanist manner. It is a nightmare of history from which we are trying to awake, as Joyce would put it.
It seems that the measure of a good critic is if he can watch Hitler: A Film from Germany and describe what he has just seen. I am clearly not a good critic, as I can hardly convey the greatness and grandioseness of this film. I will quote one critic as to help me, Andrew Tracy:
"With the temperament of a Romantic and the sardonic irony of a Brechtian, Syberberg tries to break through the conundrum by having it both ways. Like Godard’s own television-spawned monument Histoire(s)du Cinéma (1988-98), Our Hitler is a messianic work unmoored from any faith in the sacred, a purifying work littered with cultural detritus, a noble work steeped in vulgarity. It valourizes and romanticizes the unifying and totalizing power of cinema, that “new child of the century,” even as it derides that very power as the enabler of banalization, repetition, and commercialization. It is a work forever conscious of the hopeless contradiction, the impossibility of its chosen task, even as that very impossibility heightens the urgency of what it is compelled to say, over and over again."
But Sontag is the defining critic on this film and her essay (wherever you may find it, it is not on the internet) will help you decide if you have what it takes to sit through this incredibly long film and appreciate its genius. Here is a wonderful video essay that gives you a little taste of the film, and is the best preview imaginable for such a long film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8sfBoid8_Y
So yes, I've thrown some gigantic statements at you, and some exceptional names, but do I think you should see the film? Indeed it is not meant as entertainment and the word experimental should be underlined, even though it poorly describes the films aesthetic. This film is clearly not meant for a common audience, it contains references and depends on an immense amount of literary, cultural, historical and cinematic knowledge. I would definitely recommend you the common reader to check out Sontag's video essay, but as to seeing the entire film, I cannot promise that even one of you will enjoy it much less understand it. I hope this does not sound elitist. Indeed I didn't understand parts of the film. It is a labyrinth at times seeming to take place in the mind of a dead Hitler and at times taking place in an underworld of hell.
This film is a monument of words. Indeed, no film I've seen has been more chatty. But there is pure poetry in those words and at times, pure genius. It is a cinematic Sublime and a creative feat in the history of art. 10/10
The Chorus (Les Choristes) -- French Sister Act II, sympathetic. 400 Blows Truffaut would have really liked this one.
Driving Miss Daisy - 9.34/10 I really enjoyed the character development but was a little confused by the time line, and there were a couple points that I wish had been further developed.
I think the last movie I saw was called "Zombie Strippers"...It wasn't that good but funny. I think I will give it a 5/10.
"Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World."
Not a particularly "great" movie by most standards, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself. 7.8/10
robin hood - piece of crap. ridley scott, burn in amateur midget gay porn movies' hell.
A River Runs Through It - Redford's early-20th C Americana.
Not bad, but missed the urine on the floor in the gritty jail scene (digitally deleted) which had been in the original issue of the film.
Wordsworth's Ode (on Intimations of Immortality) is nicely quoted in the film.
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes - I will never be able to see this film again. Ever, ever. It is the "bluntest statement about death" in all of cinema according to Jonathan Rosembaum. And my God, it is. Talk about a deconstruction of the idea of life, the soul, death, the body. This film will haunt me for the rest of my life.
Ok, so I have kids and the last Movie I watched was "Aliens in the Attic" :) It was cute. Definitely better than I thought it was going to be. Made me Laugh a couple of times. I would give it a 6/10. For me, If I was rating it for something that you were wanting your kid to watch I would say 8/10.
I just watched Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void a couple of nights ago as a midnight movie. 10/10. I was blown away. It's very dark and disturbing and completely original and tense and hypnotizing. Incredible experience. I can't wait to see it again in the next couple of days. I get chills just thinking about sitting 6th row center at the Nuart Theater and seeing the opening credits begin to attack me.
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I watched Robin Hood (the latest one, with Russel Crowe) a couple of adays ago, but I can't really pass any good judgement on it, since I wasn't feeling all that well. From what I did get in my somewhat confused state of mind, it was quite good, I'd say about 8/10.
I watched Fried Green Tomatoes last week. Very skillfully movie which has two separate stories woven into one hell of a film. I would rate it 9/10