What's with veteran filmmakers being so addled by the film business environment that they are compelled to make Hollywood satires?
Aka everyone go watch Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars in about a...
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What's with veteran filmmakers being so addled by the film business environment that they are compelled to make Hollywood satires?
Aka everyone go watch Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars in about a...
This was good. My friend who hates everything populist hailed it as the return of "an idealistic cinema" and "great science fiction to the big screen." I found it striking as a Midwestern sci-fi...
Galfiniakis was expert. I expect something big from him at some point, not to jinx it or anything.
This was a nice paean to the abilities of mediocre people aspiring to big, poetic things. Meta...
You're totally on point about how Fincher manages an array of performances (some nice and nuanced, others broad and overtly satirical) to create something telling and delicate, but I'm just honestly...
Eh. Don't get the fuss about his perf.
He had a number of great "He definitely did it" deliveries.
Fugit and Dickens were my MVPs.
Also, I swear I do not condone murder and craziness, but
Amy is awesome (within the context of...
West does his duty as a young, brazen filmmaker, plunders the Jonestown story verbatim in order to, with surprising intelligence, evoke the contemporary social landscape he surely notices around him,...
Think the first film is intolerable, so I reacted much better to this one. Car chase, kitchen fight, incredible. Ending incredible, with its melancholy suggestion of never-ending fight.
Compelling geopolitical drama, nice Shakespearean aspirations, great Young Republican ending resolute about all-out war and monocultural endgame (with a human/ape friendship fully realizing on such a...
This film really takes off with thesaurus joke.
Simple, unobjectionable story ridden enough with good gags and a climax that successfully and inventively ties up all the emotional arcs.
I...
Yeah, I did think that some tongue-cutting was supposed to happen. But the film somewhat confidently depicts Evans from the beginning as not the best or most natural leader.
I personally didn't...
The implausibilities are built into the thing (the film itself is an implausible blockbuster/polemic hybrid). It's pretty much all Gilliam although it shuffles about awkwardly pretending to be your...
Yep yep yep. Plus the ending:
"Please forget about me and trust that you were not just a quick lay that I'm now ditching with the utmost ease, and thus go on to be a better person for some vague...
Lol, it's a bit unnecessary. :)
They really did eff up the entire logic of the story, though. Which may be the point, but it's just too laughable, and Ducett's tacked-on arc is equally...
Spike Lee's bizarre, vivacious, nonsensical parody of Oldboy. Strip Korean action grand guignol into barely sketched Western self-satire and you get one good performance and meaninglessness all...
I'm sure it was cool and I'm sure if I just looked it up, but I don't even remember rocket punch. Random sword was coolest.
Okay, the story for this is more than a little basic, but that's also what makes it good: the future lies on the backs of a trio of people who want to "die" (via walking and giving up all his powers,...
This was the biggest load of balhooey.
Roth is contempo horror's one true campmeister. He's the Tarantino of horror, we need him. His biggest problem is a shortage of imperative to make his movies. But with probably two movies out in...
Mostly I just love their description for it:
Yeah, surprisingly worth it.
Thought this was quite enjoyable, its odd (whimsical) subverting of expectations and all. Prime 90s entertainment: enthralling, engrossing, very silly, very inventive. Clearly this is bound for the...
And he executes this knowledge with more distinction than others, is the point.
Nice, that was wild. It's like the Showgirls of immigrant dramas. A big magnifying-glass story of encompassing scope. Verhoeven's style is more equipped for the old-fashioned naïveté and freedom...
Incredulous even as some sort of fable (though apparently it's germinated from an actual plot-containing book, driven by humorous satire... bold oppositional move by Glazer; anyway, irate mainstream...