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ChaosReigns
Movie Buff - 239 Films Ranked
Member Since: Oct 15, 2011
Location: CA, USA
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65 Juno (2007) - May 29, 2012
Mini-Review: A film that tries oddly hard to be cute; the passively childish twee hipster melodies linked with a pseudo-witty naive teenage lingo-plagued script didn't assist in it's likability. It undermined the seriousness of the human condition we call pregnancy; and presented it like it's a game of "Who-wants-my-baby?", which I guarantee convinced little girls out there that it's OK to get knocked up, because it will all work out. If your a condescending delusional teenage girl, well, you get the idea.
36 Elephant (2003) - May 29, 2012
Mini-Review: Van Sant attempted to bring something meaningful to the table with the film; but with the misconstrued plot coupled with bad amateur acting, the message that it was supposed to communicate was hopelessly lost. The execution had a cankerous lack of direction, misplaced and meaningless characters. It's sad because I thought it would at least drive the point home regarding the issue of high school "bullying", but it failed to spawn a sympathy for even the tormented kids. Stop trying to be cute V.S.
66 Kids (1995) - May 28, 2012
Mini-Review: Kids will be kids. Boys will be boys. And if a few of them gets H.I.V. in the process, well, that's the way the ball rolls. The teenagers portrayed in the film are as depraved and licentiously inane as they come, all lacking any parental guidance pertaining to sex or anything regarding healthy or sane living for that matter. Young virgins being deflowered by a seemingly harmless dweeb; copious amounts of and even somnambulic drug use and sex; Korine and Clark's degenerates maintain no limits.
99 The Tree of Life (2011) - May 26, 2012
Mini-Review: To use a rating system for this film does not begin do it justice; this film, transcends all realms of the known universe - in a temporal, philosophical, , astrophysical, and most notable, emotionally, in a elegantly laconic and tacit presentation. The immemorial wisdom that this film inundates to us is a propitious servitude to the soul; the recondite nature of eternity reveals it's incandescent omnipotence to our ordinarily myopic reality. This is, The Tree of Life.
90 Being John Malkovich (1999) - May 24, 2012
Mini-Review: Exemplifying the inadequacies of human discontentment with the self, the frailty of human nature and the ego, Kaufman and Jonze conjured up successfully the discomfort of this for everybody and anybody that has ever felt they wanted to be somebody else (which everybody has, if not, you're in denial). Absurdly harsh with the character's selfish tendencies to betray even the ones they love to not have to be themselves, despair and disillusionment are a key theme to the film as the tragedy unfolds.
75 Gummo (1997) - May 21, 2012
Mini-Review: Korine pulls the curtain to the bizarre, demented, freakshow of America that you don't see on your nightly news. It's like walking in the shoes of a child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Who knows, your inbred cousin in Kentucky might enjoy this one.
90 Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) - May 18, 2012
Mini-Review: The era of McCarthyism, another time in American history bridled with fear-mongering lunatics such as the vociferous Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who had an alacrity for demonizing the innocent. The film was inundated in with B&W, which without would'nt have been the same. You must give a pat on the back to Clooney and Heslov for entertaining a relevant part of American history that is even more pertinent than ever before. Overall, the film's message is the real accomplishment here.
80 Visions of Suffering (2006) - May 16, 2012
Mini-Review: Iskanov, a damaged and depraved young mind, has created a monster hailing from the despondent Post-Soviet Eastern Bloc. Illuminating the concepts of dreams becoming reality and the nightmarish qualities that might entail from the inter-meshing of the two worlds, he delves into the deepest abysses of the human mind, where the abyss gazes back at you with a furor of demonic intensity. As with my own experience, the rains do bring out ominous visions within slumber that defy the reality we see.
80 The Mona Lisa Curse (2008) - May 14, 2012
Mini-Review: Hughes not only showed the vapidity of the modern contemperary art scene, but the transformation of art from prized intellectual and philosophical statements of the world, to another tangent of the art scene which as been reduced to a capitalist status symbol. Disheartning to observe, but in it's truth is crucial to take into account.
61 Insidious (2010) - May 14, 2012
Mini-Review: A good attempt at an outdone and unoriginal premise, but it has redeeming merit in it's refreshing and somewhat creative effort to avoid inanity and delve into the aphotic realms of the supernatural. Particulary, astral projection, which is a subliminally impalpable concept that has been rarely explored in horror films.
 
 
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