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Beer94
Film Freak - 685 Films Ranked
Member Since: Mar 28, 2009
Location: UK
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Status: Single
Recent Rankings
92 T10 The Artist (2011) - Jun 18, 2013
"A great homage to the silent movie era. It oozes charm and wit and the characters are great - I've never seen so much character in a dog. As soon as the film finished, I felt like shouting at mine for being so boring. The music is superb, the leads are incredible and it thoroughly deserves the praise it gets. "
82 T9 American Beauty (1999) - Jun 09, 2013
"I do admit I found it slightly overrated and pretentious, but the story is solid, the soundtrack is great and the acting is just sublime."
56 T4 Gyakuten saiban (2012) - Jun 09, 2013
"It's not often I am able to say I know the original well enough to judge an adaption to this extent, but I am now able to understand the point of view of many purists for other adaptions. That being said, it was rather competently adapted. A few plot holes and the story is pretty overcomplicated, which is much better explained in the game series. The pacing is pretty poor too, but seeing a life-action version of a game series that I love is still pretty amazing. "
65 T6 The Great Gatsby (2013) - Jun 04, 2013
"Luhrmann's attempt to modernise the story does come across overall as rather stilted. I can see how the purists would be annoyed at the lack of subtlety and how certain themes and characters are portrayed. As a cinematic piece however, the visuals, with some great editing in scenes, and certain performances hold this film together."
49 T4 The Wackness (2008) - May 29, 2013
"It was enough to vaguely keep my interest, but just flailed around mostly. If you manage to get through the boring stuff, the end actually lifts it slightly. It's a long uninteresting trip though. Some decent retro editing and lighting and acting is decent for what the actors were given to go off, but overall, another example of an indie film which comes off as slightly pretentious. Shouty intense Josh Peck just reminds me of his Drake & Josh days too unfortunately."
63 T6 Life of Pi (2012) - May 25, 2013
"The CGI is obviously amazing but everything else doesn't really match the technology, its structure and the narrative being its main downpoints. The religion aspect just seemed stapled on to give the film deeper meaning but just comes off as being rather pretentious. If it were more coherently explored, it would've lifted the film considerably. Overall, all style and not so much substance."
39 T3 Death Sentence (2007) - Apr 08, 2013
"I felt absolutely no emotion with any of these characters. In this sort of film, you need to have some sort of connection to really feel the pain and suffering caused and Bacon himself can't even save it. Yeah, the action is alright but if I didn't feel obliged to keep watching it to keep a friend happy, I would have turned it off long before it finished."
72 T7 Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - Mar 29, 2013
"When I heard Jennifer Lawrence had won the Best Actress Oscar for this film, I had to see it was deserved, and to an extent it surprisingly was! As for the film itself, it's good with it's sharp and slick humour but after a rather intense start, it starts to fizzle out into more of a usual rom-com which is rather frustrating. The shift in tone is probably meant to represent them bettering their lives etc. but it does feel a tad forced. Ultimately a forgettable film, but it's still pretty good."
71 T7 Brave (2012) - Mar 29, 2013
"A safe, average Pixar film which conjures up the usual emotions with its usual plot. It contains some rather surprisingly mature humour and also some good music, and voice acting (although it took me a good few times to register the name Merida as not them exclaiming "murder" every so often - damn Scottish accents!) but with its short running time, Brave will make you want and expect more and it doesn't totally deliver."
60 T5 The Silence (2010) - Mar 27, 2013
"A haunting tale which was interesting enough to keep my attention, but surprisingly lacked somewhat the emotional connection I expected. It's definitely a minimalistic thriller, relying more on subtleties in character to drive the story, which is refreshing, but at the same time, too "read between the lines" for me. Motivation and means of the crime were not fully explored which was odd but intentional. It's so different that I'm surprised I didn't like it. Maybe it needs another watch."
 
 
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