Mini-Review: The Coens have made something special here. Its almost impossible to explain the genius of it all. I don't understand all there is too understand (yet that is the point) but what has been weaved together is a man desperately wishing for everything to be explained. We have the same desire but more events keep occurring with even more consequences. Really you don't end up knowing anything, you just know something is happening.
Mini-Review: Disappointed. That is my reaction after seeing this highly acclaimed crime piece from Michod. It fails to be as gritty and menacing as it wants to be, runs at sluggish pace over the course of two hours with only a few fascinating developments. Even the story/plot/script is rather mediocre which is the main concern, its just not inviting, interesting and you hope the whole time the story's blandness will be interrupted by something actually worth your time.
Mini-Review: Just a beautiful film. Visually spectacular and a truly terrific score. I find myself pressed for words here. As its a movie so well crafted, really you have to experience it yourself to truly understand why it gets the praise it gets. Kubrick should always be remembered for what he did here. The entity that is film and film making peaks at 2001.. in 1968 of course.
Mini-Review: Behind enemy cliches. Black cliche down. Full metal cliche. Saving private cliche. The thin red cliche. Empire of the cliche. Cross of cliche. Cliche now. Cliche now redux. Das cliche. Band of cliches.
Mini-Review: Years later, the nightmares do not stop.
Mini-Review: sup oscars? nmu?
Mini-Review: A movie that can make fun of nuclear warfare during the height of nuclear paranoia while being deliciously amusing certainly fills out the checklist of being a black comedy. Stanley Kubrick has not only made a movie that was great for its time but also is still funny, smart and memorable by today's standards. The classic scenes, one-liners and performances from both Sellers and Scott launch this bizarre one of a kind movie into masterpiece status.
Mini-Review: Dreadful. I really hated this. It was boring. It was tedious. It was uninspired. WAIT LOOK OUT FOR THAT BLANKET! The atmosphere and horror was about as thrilling as that use of capitalization. Punching this film in the face would grant me much gratitude.
Mini-Review: Cars and guns and shit. But mainly shit.
Mini-Review: Nightmarish ambulances rush through the graveyard shift of the revolting city decaying within Cage's mind. He's haunted by ghosts. He's working in madness. He can't quit. We can't look away. We have the perfect soundtrack. The perfect camera work. The perfect actor and director. Genius at its darkest core.