Monday, June 28, 2010
We've always had a strained relationship.
Funny People - 6/10. Adam Sandler does a great job being himself. It's unfortunate they had him play second fiddle to Seth Rogen, who publicly humiliates himself for the duration of the movie. Doesn't develop naturally. Forces things. Emotions and stuff. Jason Schwartzman plays the same character from 'Fantastic Mr. Fox,' and I like that a lot about him.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
You can't market 'Murderball' to corporate sponsors.
Murderball - 7/10. Bros wheelchairing bros. Builds to a few emotional climaxes, none of which it is able to achieve. Otherwise entertaining.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that anymore.
Exit Through The Gift Shop - 8/10. Art is easy. Meaning, that's the bitch. Entertaining, mysterious, and manages to make more than a few salient points about art, street art, the art world, what is good, and who gets to decide it.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Forgive the intrusion, my lady –
I did not intend to offend your eye.
For I am vile, loathsome creature
and I have crawled in here to die.
For I am vile, loathsome creature
and I have crawled in here to die.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
The sewer lines run under this neighborhood, too.
Saw - 4/10. Great idea, poor execution. Should be continually remade until it gets it right.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
So even if the cards are cold and marked by the hand of fate,
play up, play up like a gentleman and a sport.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
They gotta tell you somethin'.
Monster - 8/10. Everyone does a real nice job. It looks and feels like it was made in the early '90's. I guess that's a compliment.
A war of escalation.
Get Him To The Greek - 8.5/10. A constant one-upmanship against itself. Seconds or minutes seem to be cut out of every scene that give the whole movie this wonderful sense of momentum. It's really very good and funny and both of the relationships in the movie approach real, or my preferred version of real. As an aside, I'm tired of movies extolling the notion that the people who seem really happy and live life to the tits-end are secretly very lonely and it's us poor plebeians who make hard decisions about love and life and finances that are truly bless-ed indeed.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
The problem is thinking it was yours.
Nine - 7/10. Unfortunately a musical. Daniel Day is poor as a stereotype. But then there is Marion Cotillard, who is just the purest thing. Cut around the bits that aren't about her.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Wherefore rejoice heavens, woe to earth and sea.
Drag Me To Hell - 6.5/10. Reveals Sam Raimi's strengths and weaknesses as a filmmaker. When he's stuck in a room, he is just a doll at creating a sense of claustrophobia and and impending craziness and the same scenario almost seems to force him to be inventive and fun. See: Evil Deads 1 and 2, which this, at its best, resembles. But he can't make it travel well. When he goes outside of a confined space or does anything that just serves to do something as simple as propel the plot forwards, it's... kind of like he gives up? Like he doesn't see the fun in it. It has to happen, so let it happen, just get me where I want to go. Where's my next set piece. He seems to say. With the way he makes movies. You get me? Couple that with a leading lady who isn't enough of an idiot, and you've got a movie that's too often boring.
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