spunkie on Ashes of Time wrote: Lucid lighting and moody photography, as no less can be expected from Kar Wai. He applies his trademark formula to wuxia genre, decreasing the fights (which are pretty bad). As always he got dragged in textures and visual possibilities. I started to believe characters in Wai movies don't fall in love, they are always in love searching for the subject of it. Childish but watchable.
I haven't even seen the original version, but this is a nice encapsulation of Wong for me.
djross on Close Encounters wrote: This is the film in which Spielberg portrays his own inner conflict through the character played by Dreyfuss: fantasizing himself as a misunderstood artist, he is in fact a pathological conformist. Hence, after a set of conspiracy-type scenes in which he is pursued by apparently unscrupulous authorities, not only do they turn out to be benign, but Dreyfuss dons a patriotic uniform and becomes a kind of vanguard representative of the government. It is, in a sense, Spielberg's "Tannhäuser."
Spielberg as auteur
aflickering on Slumdog Millionaire wrote:enlightened white boy danny boyle generously corrects our misconceptions about india with all the grit and nuance of a j-lo video. turns out those little indian slumsters are damn tough and honest or turn out that way in the end (daddy, i want one) - and whilst they may be in poverty, it's us greedy westerners, eyes and ears closed to the humbling power of destiny, who are in poverty of the soul. it exemplifies the very american paternalism it pretends to hate - it's smug, hypocritical trash.
Spot fucking on, but I could say that for most of aflickering's reviews.
shmendrek wrote:Constantine cost us fifty cents to rent at Family Video. There were two copies available, both of them "full screen." About halfway through it, the DVD started skipping and then came to a stop. I opened the tray and discovered that the back of the disc was covered in sticky, greasy fingerprints. The same thing happened when we went back and rented the second copy. None of this has anything to do with the movie itself, but instead speaks to the type of person who would enjoy Constantine.
aflickering on The Day after Tomorrow wrote:donnie darko finally loses mind completely after rabbit visions and bouts of mountain gayness - frantically hides from nothing
aflickering on The Reader wrote:somebody call an ambulance theres been a holocaust
melvin smif on The Matrix Revolutions wrote:At least we will still have wet rave parties when the world is taken over by supercomputers.
melvin smif on The Happening wrote: Imagine if you saw Signs and were treated to the horrible reveal 30 mins. in. You then watch as flying saucers cruise around ominously in the air never visibly doing anything just flying around. They are killing people somehow you know that but you never see how it just happens. Then they just leave because they feel like it.
cult_of_same on Being John Malkovich wrote:After 15 minutes inside me, you'd probably just end up with child support payments.
radicalohank on Milk wrote:Okay im all for gay rights, but im so sick of all these "I'm different and struggling movies". I am going to make a movie about a gay blind African mentally challenged transvestite that joins an all white basketball team in like the 1940's. The name of the movie will be Chocolate Milk and it will blow you all away.
Ahahahahaha.