Guns, a lot of guns
[Sheffield/Doc] Theo Anthony constructs a thoughtful film about new surveillance technologies that is actually an in-depth look at the human condition. Like his previous films, this is a fascinating critical journey through a society that has come to terms with the loss of privacy and has turned self-control into control of the other. A revealing and surprising documentary.
[IFFR] The Brazilian director exposes his static and theatrical staging, almost Brechtian, in a reflection on absences and fragmented narration. The chapters are used as ellipsis to tell a story of adultery. But Júlio Bressane is more interested in using the original text as an excuse to expose other stories, images within the image that show Brazilian culture and artistic work.
Really heartfelt story. My kids were a little freaked out when Sisu got shot in the heart and basically died for a while , wish that hadn't lasted so long, but still very emotional film at the end when everyone came back to life .
Definitely recommend, very classic Disney movie. Also no songs, so that's a huge plus for me !
I wish they had done a mini series with this IP. It has a lot of potential but the movie felt a bit rushed. Still really liked the movie, well done, good story even though it is quite predictable, but the world is great and I wish we could have seen more of it.
This is so bizarre totally different than I expected I mean I didn’t know what to expect but what the hell
It's nice to see that Ari Aster was into disturbing people from the start.
This short is amazing.
A different type of nightmare.
My jaw was on the floor for 28 minutes. Billy Mayo is absolutely terrific. His facial expressions tell a whole story we haven't seen off-screen.
Absurd, yet disturbing. Ari Aster is the master of making you feel unease.
Pirates of the Caribbean meets Indiana Jones.
Nice try, just entertaining, not a masterpiece.
What the hell did I just watch? There seem to be two separate plots in this ludicrous film, and they really don't intersect at all, which didn't stop the director from trying to shoehorn them together. The cinematography is passable and Chloë is engaging, but the sheer stupidity of the writing is truly incredible..
Ridiculous display of female empowerment that glorifies the participation of women in warfare. The director and protagonist have no problem supporting a project written by an alleged sexual abuser, but at least they claim to have rewritten the script. Regardless, this is an absurd outlandish action story underlined by a constant and unbearable soundtrack.
it's like Chloe wanted Sandra bullock's 'Gravity' awards.
in this at least, She doesn't have her abilities.
- The crying over the dead boyfriend was awful.
the voices on the radio are so annoying I muted them until she looked to be saying something important.
20 minutes in ... boring . I'm starting to write a review.
30mins.. I'm pressing mute, coz the chatter on the headset is fucking mind numbing.
CGI & composition of backgrounds are bad, so bad they remove tension from the 'stunt' scenes.
the soundtrack is great!
not for this film, as a standalone, definitely shouldn't be on this movie. it doesn't do anything for what you're seeing.
This movie really got to me. I was really cheering for them to be together. I thought Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson were perfect. Great soundtrack.
This was such a heart-wrenching story for the amount of time that it was on. I did not see the ending coming and it left me in tears. This short film doesn't have any dialogue but is instead told through the imagery and the music that accompanies it. This is extremely well put together.
I went into this expecting a stupid movie with hopefully a few laughs. I was blown away by not only how funny the movie was, but how well it deconstructed religion, faith, and reason, and how those all need to work together to make our lives better.
For people who thought this movie was stupid - sorry, but you're stupid. If you couldn't appreciate how well this movie showed the uncaring, awful universe - and why we need to tell ourselves stories that make us enjoy it for as long as possible - then you're just stupid. If you didn't see how this movie talked to atheists, how it presented a convincing argument for faith and religion, alongside the perils of both, then you're the one who missed something. If you couldn't see how this movie demonstrated science, reason, and skepticism, and why those are still not enough, then you're just stupid. It showed, beautifully, the power of mind altering drugs, and how some folks are just going to go ahead and do the worst of them, with no regard as to what others have to say about it. That's a reality that we need to accept, and need to stop pretending that we can make go away just by wishing it so.
Within this cartoon universe, the creators of this movie explore themes in a way that I've not seen done before, demonstrating the power of animated story telling applied to adult themes. Yes, the movie has crass humour, some of which falls flat but some of it is tear inducing funny. But if this movie doesn't make you think, it's because you're stupid.
Go see this movie.
3 Thoughts After Re-Watching ‘Brüno’:
Sacha Baron Cohen is the bravest human being in entertainment.
On par with Borat, but in a VERY different and a bit more extreme way.
My favorite part: “Has anyone ever told you you look like Enrique Iglesias?”
Brüno," surprisingly this was not as well received. I mean, you can have your preferences about it. I personally enjoy the film even more than "Borat," but I would say that on a technical level, they're probably on par.
First of all, how much of a testament is it to Sasha Baron Cohen's character acting abilities that he was able to fool all of these people into thinking that his character was a real person? All within only a couple years of starring in one of the most talked about comedies of 2006. Remember, this is just hair and makeup. He's not wearing a layered mask and putting on a fatsuit; what sells it is his performance. There's so many details in his performance that separate this character from Borat: his posture, the way he walks, how his mouth is held open when he's not talking.Again, he's able to use himself as a character pretending to film something completely different than what people actually think they're being filmed in.
And just like "Borat" was able to make statements on racism, cultural differences, and stereotypes; "Brüno" is filled with statements as well. But they were statements about homosexual stereotypes' fame in the fashion industry. Like how much of a statement is it that some guy with a camera is able to trick people into doing embarrassing things just under the premise that's it's "in right now?"
Do I seriously have to explain the statements they're making about celebrity media as they judged Jamie Lynn Spear's baby before birth?
To me, this movie was just as intelligent and satirical, and even more extreme than "Borat." So it really makes me think of possible reasons as to why it wasn't as well received. And there's a few things that I can thing of, right off the top of my head.
Firstly, I think it's no surprise to say that Brüno was not as emulatable of a character as Borat. No one wanted to do impressions. No one wanted to dress up as him for Halloween. There is definitely more of a social stigma when it comes down to wanting to portray a gay character. Comically racist is okay, but something about Brüno makes people uncomfortable. Which gives me even more respect for how fearless Sasha Baron Cohen's performance was.
In contrast to the people who might not like this movie because Brüno's gay, there were also a decent amount of people who didn't like this movie because they thought it gave a negative image to the gay community. Calling this movie homophobic is the equivalent of calling "Borat" racist. Making fun of a stereotype does not equate to making fun of a class of people. By exaggerating the stereotypes, is he not making a statement on how ridiculous they are?
Anyway, this is a well-made movie. Definitely check it out.
[Sitges FF] A proposal that deals with how the human being faces the unknown. The best thing is the claustrophobic atmosphere, and the description of the fears and frictions between a group of people who are surrounded by something incomprehensible. When the nature of fears is represented in the form of viruses, it loses interest. But it builds an interesting reflection on the human condition pushed to the limit.
Not bad little chiller but it could have been better. Could have been The Thing at sea. Instead, its something far more shallow.
It's odd, I write longer reviews for movies I don't like, but rarely for ones I love. I guess it's hard for me to express the feelings I get from watching a truly great work of art without sounding like I'm full of myself. Night is Short, Walk on Girl came out early last year, but I just caught it for the GKids fathom events in the theatre. Seeing Masaaki Yuasa's mug on screen for the after credits interview is an image I'll never forget. This Science Saru masterpiece deals with a lot of themes; the ever increasing passage of time that seems to go faster as you age, the dangers but also carefree excitement of adult life, love at first sight, etc. It's one of the craziest, but also extremely heartfelt journeys that I think a lot of us have felt in our lives at least once. Going back to American Graffiti or even Ferris Bueller, doing everything you see in sight to take advantage of the moment, because you have to leave and grow up. It's that crazy prom night you look back on with fond memories, remembering all the stuff you did, wanting to recapture that magic. Yuasa's fluid style really lends itself to this fast paced narrative, moreso than Lu Over The Wall, and the use of physical renderings to emulate emotions, like a court room scene symbolizing a conflict of emotions that's happening in a head, and flowers blooming from the stomach to capture that bubbly feeling you can get from drinking. It's hard to pick on scene I love the most, it's all so memorable, like one night, the entire journey is the best moment. The girl with black hair, mirroring her counterpart from The Tatami Galaxy, is just on a quest to become an adult, so she goes across town to different bars just drinking and meeting all these odd assortment of people. Each of them have their own strange romantic stories they're still a part in, and little does the girl know, she's in one too. The first three fourths of the movie is just a wild, crazy, silly extravaganza across the city, but the last half hour takes a more restrained tone as the girl starts to visit people who have gotten colds, laying in their beds, each of who's story has found some kind of end. Seeing the girl mature throughout the story is one of the greatest experiences I've seen on screen, and it's surprisingly funny too. If you're in the mood for just some crazy animation, but a story with all of life in it, you may want to pop it up, by chance.
What a fantastic film. Dustin Hoffman is great. Loved the soundtrack. Here's to you Mrs. Robinson.
The ending is super dark when you think about it.
More enjoyable than I thought. The music, visuals and location make a great atmosphere.
I’m not sure I can add anything to the existing critical consensus in reviewing this, so I will simply say that it is an astonishing film that contains just about everything I love about cinema.
This is considered one of the greatest films ever made for a reason. I honestly don't think I can add that much to the discussion, but here goes. I start watching it and always think I'm not going to like it as much as I remember. I'm not crazy about the opening due to the pace, but I feel like it is perfect once you progress further. Getting to know the different samurai and watching them interact is just really entertaining. Each is so distinct and relatable in a different way. Frankly, the story is wonderful and I love when they did it again in the American west.
Then there is the technical side of things. This does not feel like it belongs in the 50s at all to me. The film is shot so distinct and beautifully. I really love the way the rain battle looks in the end. The dark color of the water on the ground just looks so great to me, like a chalk drawing or something. And the theme music makes me think it is something I listen to in my car all the time, even though I hadn't heard it in a few years since my last watch. It immediately becomes a classic tune to me.
So yea, this is up there for a reason, and I say you should certainly see this before you die. Just remember to set aside a good 3 1/2 hours before you start.
In skimming some of the reviews of this movie I think that some people became a little too focused on the details and may have missed the bigger message. Were parts of the movie wrapped up into neat little (implausible) packages? Surely they were. I haven't seen AOL chat since You've Got Mail. A couple of the scenes where she eavesdropped on others were a little too conspicuous. I suspect the director chose these simplistic deliveries to make the movie a little more accessible and to keep the run time down to a tight 84 minutes. Once again, those scenes were only tools to the bigger message.
While much of the movie was simplistic I think that it did something that is extremely hard to do: it dealt with the sensitive topic of religion in a way that was not too heavy-handed. Full disclosure: I am a humanist and an atheist. I think part of the human experience is just that - being human and experiencing all that we can. As the woman in the bar neatly says, we're all just trying to figure out our s***. I feel sorry for those that never get the full experience because they are looking upward. The film also did a great job of exposing the hypocrisy of so many of those that tell us what the invisible man in the sky wants from us while not walking that walk themselves.
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Neither bad nor good.
Doesn't take sides explicitly but obviously points to hypocrisy of attitudes towards sex
i just watched this movie for the second time and it's still fantastic
