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A great movie but transparent ending. Still worth a watch and a recommendation.
Come on May 26th!!
I have mixed feelings on this. I mostly agree with @ketu except for the Blonde scientist (played by Catherine Lemieux); I find her abrasive and thoroughly unwatchable. When the monkey got her in the face I thought 'excellent, she's out' but no, not even a scratch (wtf, come on!)
Fringe was mentioned and I've heard elsewhere this compared to and touted as the next Fringe. It will never be Fringe. Fringe was lightning in a bottle. There is simply no potential chemistry here like it, and Walter is so unique in both character and performance. These characters are very flat and the nature of the contained environment leaves little development for our 'heroes' that won't slip into soap opera territory.
There was some good dialogue, the exposition wasn't grating, though the 'working with the ex-wife' is amongst the handful of clichés here. I like the main guy (played by Billy Campbell), I think his performance is quite good. I think the make up effects are good, the CGI monkeys were cool though some of the other CGI is a little wonky (the shot where they were walking from the helicopter to the complex was bad).
I'm hoping this show develops into something with some balls. It's seeded enough interesting points that it may, but stretching this out beyond a season (13 episodes?) seems like a push to stay interesting.
During the past month I've made a point to see all the movies nominated for the Academy Awards, Best Picture. Tonight, I am absolutely heartbroken that this wonderful movie received not a single nomination in any category. I tis just tragic!
This fantastic movie should have at least(!) received nominations for Best Picture, Best Makeup and Best Actor (Forest Whittaker).
Great movie !
24 will return in early May as tentpole event drama "24: Live Another Day", which will arc through the summer.
Wow. with this flick Pixar underlines its leading position in animation movies.
Great movie for the whole Family.
Real existing story with nice music and a lot of fun.
Enjoy it! Must see in Full HD and minumum 5.1
I read this comment about the movie which said "It felt like reading a good book, which is the highest compliment I can give to a film." and I couldn't be more precise .
One of the best episode of parks and recreation ever. Made me cry. They was happy tears though
Not gonna lie, I'm a little upset that the Morningstar incident didn't involve a veggie burger. That being said this might be one of my fave Parks & Rec ever. The last 10 minutes were just spectacular.
I was amazed by the amount of complete lack of interest I had of this movie. It is not often I see something this boring. Sorry. I know I am supposed to love it and think it's all inspiring but no. I didn't care one bit for any of the characters.
Stylistically gorgeous with great music and beautiful cinematography (dem colours) but the story and characters in particular were quite lacking.
I have to agree with MajorMercyFLush and stryjewski. This movie is a snorefest. The amount of acclaim it recievs saddens me when shallow drivel like this is going to be held as a blueprint of successful filmaking.
It's nothing more than a set of video game like sequences sans the interactivity that makes video games appealing. So you can't interact with it, and the plot is for the lowest common denominator. Where does that leave it in my books? In the trash.
One of the best compliments you can give to a movie is that it takes you and wouldn't let you go before the end credits. That's what Max Mad did to me. The whole movie is so intense that my eyes were glued to the screen. The cinematography is gorgeous and make a world come to life. The main characters feel real and you can rely to them. I like it when a main characters isn't the 'invulnerable' hero, so you feel more tenses in the scenes because 'it could go wrong for him'. All this is directed in a perfect way. All of the action is filmed with a steady cam, thank god! No shaky cam but steady and wide shots which make the action scenes a real experience. I have no real faults with this film, I loved it from begin to the end. So I would recommend it for everyone who wants an awesome 2 hours.
I saw it in the movie theater yesterday and I constantly had the feeling that I've seen it before. To me it felt like the writer took parts of several movies/genres and combined them. Add some special effects (lots of them) and the result is Lucy.
The whole thing together just didn't do it..
The Maze Boring.
If this were a book, it would go in the Did Not Finish pile.
If this were a book, it would go in the Did Not Finish pile.
If this were a book, it would go in the Did Not Finish pile.
This is probably the most charming character study movie I've ever seen; it really is delightful!
I agree that Greta Gerwig did an amazing job and really made Frances playful and sincere and sweet. The other actors were excellent as well.
The pacing of this movie also really stood out as exceptional.. there were so many fantastic little scenes sprinkled throughout the movie of her just interacting with someone or doing something simple, that really fleshed her out and gave both her and the audience time to process everything.
The soundtrack was used really well too. It was just a fun and wonderful movie all around :)
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This is that kind of a film that left me with a huge smile on my face. Just delightful!
Frances Ha is a lovely little indie film mostly about growing up. Frances is a very unique and honest girl, she tries to keep things in her life together and she wants to be a dancer but she not seems to find some stability in life. She is also very immature sometimes and that does not help too. So, we follow her journey in New York where she is trying to pursuit her dreams while other things are happening between the lines.
It's funny, touching and honest. Beautifully shot in black in white giving it an even more charming look.
Greta Gerwig is just brilliant! She really shines in this film with such a natural performance and I know that from this day forward I will always look at her and remember Frances. I guess I just love an awkward character like her.
Ends on cliff hanger. Starts new ep. 5 minutes in its good. next 40 minutes its quite disappointing. Ends on cliff hanger. Repeat.
You'd think the failures of M. Night Shyamalan would have taught filmmakers that a plot twist at the end of a movie isn't enough to compensate for a meandering and unconvincing plot. And, isn't the entire reason we, as a society, enjoy magic tricks the idea that they're physically plausible?
The movie has these moments where they explain the 'trick' of how the robberies were done throughout the movie, and they always play it off as "OMG did we just blow your mind???". But with even a small amount of knowledge of magic and some basic logic, the tricks are pretty easy to figure out (except when they use SciFi gadgets that don't exist). Also I don't understand why the four magicians did all those crimes. For the fun of it? Because the plot demanded it? Kind of dumb.
Pros:
* The first ten minutes
* The Redhead (when she doesn't talk)
Cons:
* Virtually anything else
The overdid everything with this movie, not a single actor is convincing, CGI looks pretty bad and kills all the tricks (what's the point of tricks if you have to resort to FX anyway ?).
The storyline isn't great either, AFAIK I can't say the ending was very surprising. At any rate the acting was so emotionless that I didn't really care anyway.
Action scenes are average but at least this movie won't make you fell asleep
Looked good at the beginning, but the ending was dreadful
I was dis-interested the whole way :[
