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Comment on Shaun of the Dead by Genes

Genes — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:19:38 +0000

Have to say I agree. I really genuinely don’t see why people like this film so much. I wouldn’t say it was boring, but personally find its pitched awkwardly between comedy and drama without fully mastering either. Not very articulate, I don’t know what to say, there is just something wrong with it.

Comment on King Kong (2005) by richie

richie — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:28:40 +0000

My friend..you captured it fairly well…Might I add that the music fell short and that the orignal creators always thought that the first 20 minutes of the original could be taken out and they would still have a hit on their hands. Instead, Jackson makes it more tedious and drawn out. He also forgot one important thing..the MYSTERY aspect of the whole thing. An island, hidden away frozen in time ruled over by a giant ape who may or may not be the last of his kind…wow..sad, this is how we leave the King Kong movie in my lifetime…At least I have the orginal for warm & fuzzies

Comment on The Grey by Outdoorsman

Outdoorsman — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:21:41 +0000

Appreciate your review. Recently walked in the Canadian wilderness with its rocks, trees, snow, and grey winter skies. You can be sure that after seeing The Grey, there were wolves hiding in the shadows of the forest and making snuffling, growling noises just out of view.

Comment on A Better Life by Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:58:02 +0000

para que tipo de autenticidad es esta vouyeerista mamaguevo buscando o esperando? Lo quiere que los protagonistas llevar ropa mas colorida o montar burros?

Comment on Cool It by Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:20:09 +0000

Very nice review which intrigued me to see the film, but guardedly so…

Comment on Munich by James

James — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:34:04 +0000

I agree – Spielberg, generally, who is a genius at getting the audience into the moral and emotional perspective of a character, misses here. In this case,he has created in Avner a protagonist who, despite strong narrative pointers, remains something of an emotional enigma to the audience. I for one was lost. Despite having a strong interest in the September siege and looking forward to the film came away a little lost as to what the film was saying . I think we lacked an emotional link to Avner (he was simply told to do it and he did it – as opposed to it being demonstrated in some narrative way.).

Also it is the first time that I have found Spielberg’s films emotionally confusing: Golda meets Avner and there is this awkward exchange but it has the atmosphere of her asking him to make her a cup of tea. “You are more like your mother” – I get the backstory aspect but not the narrative point of the scene – she seems to sleight him but ask him to perform this most grave service. Maybe I don’t know enough about the Jewish faith but I was slightly lost – even though the story is, politics aside, a pretty straight revenge/standing-up-for-yourself tale. I think Spielberg is a fantastic director but lately, he seems to be missing his early “everyman touch”. Still, he can afford to sit at home and drink Cocoa and still cinematically achieve more than 90 percent of directors currently working. Everyone is allowed a little wriggle room. Just wish I liked it more.D

Comment on War of the Worlds by Adam

Adam — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:54:22 +0000

I don’t feel like Ray needed to pay a price. The ending worked in a self-logical way. After the first merciless encounter with a tripod, a man carrying his daughter runs passed Ray from an area that had just been nearly wiped out. Hope out of devestation. Ray is constantly trying to convince himself that everything will be okay when he knows it won’t. By the end he is devestated but whatever moticom of hope he’s scraped up with his self-reassurance is unexpectedly and mercifully rewarded.

Comment on Shaun of the Dead by Matt

Matt — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:27:00 +0000

Yawn of the dead? Really? You sir, are pathetic.

Comment on Millions by Nononono.

Nononono. — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:42:12 +0000

No.

Comment on King Kong (2005) by Rob

Rob — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:16:23 +0000

This is extraordinarily well written.