Sometimes you watch a film and you have no idea what to think. I mean, we’ve seen enough films to know a bad film, and this did not meet that criteria. We’ve seen some great films, this isn’t wandering in that pack. We’ve seen films that were just there and this was more than that.
Was it good, sure. Was it bad? Well it was too long, but it wasn’t bad.
Some films take more than one viewing to really appreciate and you get more out of it with each viewing. Of course, rarely am I going to watch a difficult film multiple times when the run time clocks in at 2 hours 25 minutes.
So there were some interesting stylized performances. There were some performances that were over the top – stylized or not. The body tattoo on The Rock was impressive. The scar on Justin Timberlakes face was gnarly. The zepplin in HD was really beautiful. The story was not as confusing as many people would have led me to believe, but I did feel I may have missed a couple things by not reading the prequel comic book first. It was never enough to keep me from the story but it may have been interesting.
So all in all I am not sure how I felt about this film. Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it, felt it was more than just ok, but don’t have the inclination to give it another watch. I guess I will wait for Richard Kelly’s third film to see how I feel about him as a director.
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Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who’s stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
Many familiar comics from the mid 80s from Boston are interviewed. You know the faces, but I didn’t know they were from Boston.
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Documentary covering what came to be known as “The Boston Gold Rush” of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Boston stand-up comedians like Dennis Leary, Steven Wright and Colin Quinn burst upon the national scene, giving audiences a taste of the hard-edged social and political commentary that came out of that city.
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Remy is a young rat in the French countryside who arrives in Paris, only to find out that his cooking idol is dead. When he makes an unusual alliance with a restaurant’s new garbage boy, the culinary and personal adventures begin despite Remy’s family’s skepticism and the rat-hating world of humans.
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An adolescent lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free, his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help bring him back.
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In the police investigation of a brutal crime scene, one man was at the center of it all: legendary porn star John Holmes.
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This movie focuses on the attempts of a psychiatrist to prevent one of his patients from committing suicide while trying to maintain his own grip on reality.
Film about a sad man who is losing everything. David Schwimmer is actually pretty good in this.
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A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it’s too late.
The story of Abbie Hoffman. Great performances by Vincent D’Onofrio and
Janeane Garofalo. Though I still prefer Janeane’s performance in The Cable Guy.
Gritty, but interesting.
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Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI’s covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left. The skeptical reporter interview’s Anita, Hoffman’s wife, a single mom on welfare in New York City; Hoffman’s attorney, Gerry Lefcourt; and others. As they talk, we see Hoffman’s career in flashbacks, from early civil rights organizing through the trial of the Chicago Eight. While underground, as mental illness takes its toll, he meets Johanna Lawrenson, and an odd family develops: Abbie, Anita, their son, and Johanna. Will vindication ever arrive?
