Yeah, but you have to keep in mind that US was the last big market for this movie to be released. My GF and bro saw this movie 2 weeks back in India. I think now US will be the only major market to generate revenues, I think it will cross $1 B pretty easily.
Nice. Yeah I was so happy they had one theatre showing it in 2D. Apparently the opening space stuff is ridiculously dark in the 3D screenings. So stupid.
Wow. Donnie is a mildly disturbed genius trying to fit in in a private narrow-minded highly-Christian school, when he begins hallucinating of a guy in a scary bunny suit (he's on meds, and his shrink suspects he may be schizo). But, the hallucination manages to save his life...and so it begins. At first it seemed like it would be a pretty good movie, but it just got better and better, right to the end. Cast, color, lighting, music, the sardonic school environment, all the little character touches and plot twists...every little piece just fit together. This is one of the most hopeful movies I've ever seen, in a sense not unlike a good Philip K. Dick story,
but with suicide, attempted murder, accidental homicide, vandalism, and arson, like any good 80s-set high school drama should have
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Disappearance of Alice Creed - 6/10
A nice thriller, with good plot twists, and great use of confined space and the same scenery (most of the movie takes place inside of a small apartment). Some scenes dragged on, some went too far, and some foreshadowed too heavily and too soon, though. It's a good watch, for sure. If Blakeson (writer and director) has, or can get, some people around him to call out such things beforehand (an experienced hands-on producer?), I'm sure he'll be making some fantastic movies in the future.
Wow. Donnie is a mildly disturbed genius trying to fit in in a private narrow-minded highly-Christian school, when he begins hallucinating of a guy in a scary bunny suit (he's on meds, and his shrink suspects he may be schizo). But, the hallucination manages to save his life...and so it begins. At first it seemed like it would be a pretty good movie, but it just got better and better, right to the end. Cast, color, lighting, music, the sardonic school environment, all the little character touches and plot twists...every little piece just fit together. This is one of the most hopeful movies I've ever seen, in a sense not unlike a good Philip K. Dick story,
but with suicide, attempted murder, accidental homicide, vandalism, and arson, like any good 80s-set high school drama should have
.
Disappearance of Alice Creed - 6/10
A nice thriller, with good plot twists, and great use of confined space and the same scenery (most of the movie takes place inside of a small apartment). Some scenes dragged on, some went too far, and some foreshadowed too heavily and too soon, though. It's a good watch, for sure. If Blakeson (writer and director) has, or can get, some people around him to call out such things beforehand (an experienced hands-on producer?), I'm sure he'll be making some fantastic movies in the future.
I like both of these movies. I was actually just listening to a discussion on Donnie Darko and how it seems to have fallen out of favour recently after being massively popular after release. I'm hoping you watched the theatrical release and not the DC? The DC ruins the film as far as I'm concerned.
Wow. Donnie is a mildly disturbed genius trying to fit in in a private narrow-minded highly-Christian school, when he begins hallucinating of a guy in a scary bunny suit (he's on meds, and his shrink suspects he may be schizo). But, the hallucination manages to save his life...and so it begins. At first it seemed like it would be a pretty good movie, but it just got better and better, right to the end. Cast, color, lighting, music, the sardonic school environment, all the little character touches and plot twists...every little piece just fit together. This is one of the most hopeful movies I've ever seen, in a sense not unlike a good Philip K. Dick story,
but with suicide, attempted murder, accidental homicide, vandalism, and arson, like any good 80s-set high school drama should have
One of my personal favorite. I can watch this movie over and over again.. and really never gets old. Too bad the director looks like he never had success beyond this movie.
One of my personal favorite. I can watch this movie over and over again.. and really never gets old. Too bad the director looks like he never had success beyond this movie.
I like both of these movies. I was actually just listening to a discussion on Donnie Darko and how it seems to have fallen out of favour recently after being massively popular after release. I'm hoping you watched the theatrical release and not the DC? The DC ruins the film as far as I'm concerned.
Very good casting and acting. It's Hollywood, but it doesn't deal in the kind of death Hollywood deals with constantly, being guns, explosions, knives, cars, etc. It deals with the kind you're much more likely to get, i.e. cancer in one of its many forms. They went to some trouble to get a lot of details correct, evidently, about this particular kind of rare cancer, but some of the scenes were preposterous. I wouldn't see it again, myself. How much you like it would depend on your tolerance for the candy coating involved, IMO. More than anything, it's kind of a buddy movie. The DVD cover hyped it as a comedy, but I didn't find it funny.
I've never really been sure why people hold Spider-Man 2 to such high esteem. Don't get me wrong... I like the movie, but I guess I just found it good, but not stellar. Although, I also never understood the rabid, frothing at the mouth hatred over Spider-Man 3. I didn't like it as much as 1 or 2, but I didn't think it was that bad.
Although, I also never understood the rabid, frothing at the mouth hatred over Spider-Man 3. I didn't like it as much as 1 or 2, but I didn't think it was that bad.
IMO, SM 3 faced the same fate as Godfather 3. They both are decent had they been just stand alone movies. The first 2 parts were so good that they became the frame of reference for everyone, and for SM3 I don't blame Sam Raimi at all.. the producers fucked it all up.
Caught an early screening. Pretty good movie, plenty of laughs in between but it's a pretty "normal" movie compared to the pairs' other works. Not as much cinematography as I expected but man, Depp is the fucking shit
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John Carter - 4/10 I would leave during a 3 out of 10; I just barely held on hopes that it would get better. Too many plot holes. No, plot canyons.
Wtf, Disney? "Well, we can't do all the Martians using CGI. Hey, I have an idea, we'll have some actors playing the parts of Martians, but they'll be a separate race of Martians who look like humans. That way, we won't have to spend money for make-up artists." Immortals who can be killed by shooting them? Ummm. But the thing that annoyed me the most - jumping 1000 feet because he's used to gravity on Earth?? I suppose astronauts on the moon should have been able to jump about 3 miles then. But, despite being 1000's of times more powerful than anyone else, well, at least his leg muscles, his fighting wasn't overwhelmingly superior.
IMO, SM 3 faced the same fate as Godfather 3. They both are decent had they been just stand alone movies. The first 2 parts were so good that they became the frame of reference for everyone, and for SM3 I don't blame Sam Raimi at all.. the producers fucked it all up.
The first film from Whit Stillman in 13 years, the wildly original and iconoclastic guy who did Metropolitan, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco.
My guess is that a lot of OT probably wouldn't "get" or much like this film, but I found it's sly, intelligent, fey, archly whimsical humor LOL funny.
The woman I went with and I left refreshed and in a soaring good mood, as did several of the other movie goers at my local art house cinema, with whom we exchanged glowing reviews afterwards .
Unique and highly original. If you are at all intrigued, I recommend reading through several of the imdb reviews in my initial link above.
Not for everyone, 'tis true, but if it's for you, you'll be literally happy you went.
After a 13 year hiatus, Whit Stillman is back, though this is the first of his four films I've seen. It stars Greta Gerwig as the leader of a strange pack of college girls who take transfer student co-star Analeigh Tipton under their wing.
I didn't like it very much.
The beginning starts off with enough potential, decent number of laughs(well, more like chuckles) and it kind of plops along for the first half or so, but eventually the movie starts to drag and the humor disappears, leaving very little else.
Gerwig seems to be talking for about 90% of the movie, and while she is great, her character isn't. The dialogue felt stiff with all the characters(maybe by design, poor design) but her delivery and style didn't suit her character's rants. Gerwig and Tipton are the only two fleshed out characters, Tipton's the only one that seems real, and all the supporting characters have cringe-worthy moments, either because of the corny dialogue or amateurish acting. But it seems like Stillman loves all of that.
Stillman also seemed to go overboard with the messages he was trying to express, with absolutely no subtlety at all, rather with the characters saying exactly what Stillman wants us to feel. The result is a lack of caring and a lack of interest/entertainment in what we are watching, and it made the second half of the movie difficult to get through.
3rd time I've seen it. The ending cracks me up every time.
From wikipedia:
The Departed is a 2006 American crime thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay by William Monahan was based on the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs.[2] The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg, with Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, and Alec Baldwin in supporting roles.
It won several awards, including four Oscars at the 79th Academy Awards; Best Picture, Best Director (Scorsese), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing. Wahlberg was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
- - - - Drive 8/10
8/10. To classify it, a Pseudo Scf-Fi murder mystery. It uses "science" that is totally bogus but you totally get over it if you can accept it's slight tinge of fantasy that is mixed in. So close to being a 10/10. Biggest issue was the subtitles that impacted my enjoyment.
Positives:
Awesome cinemotogrpahy.
Interesting story
Negatives:
Subtitles suck. Translations were OK. Sometimes they were not on screen long enough.
Stillman is not for everyone, that's for sure. So, again, did you actually see the film you are now expounding upon?
Since all you did was quote a review, I'll see your quoted review and raise you a few:
Witty, quirky, and funny...and that's just the characters, 1 December 2011
Author: IDwasTaken from None
Few films recently have been able to capture my imagination like this one. With the glut of comic book films and remakes, very few people are making original films. I was not expecting much going into this film (I saw it at a festival). In fact I had not planned on seeing it, but it seemed "different" enough to warrant a watch. Well, I went in not knowing what to expect and came out with a big grin. I was happy I gave it a shot and was surprised by the other comment on here.
If you want to see something original, that has some break out actors, and is funny, then check out "Damsels in Distress." Days after I left the screening, I kept thinking back on the funny lines and comically earnest characters. Go in with an open mind and come out with a grin.
Delightful, quirky, intelligent fun, 9 February 2012
Author: charlie-schlangen from United States
It's clear that some reviewers "got" this film and some didn't. As always, Stillman delivers with marvelous, laugh-out-loud funny dialogue. This is so rare that that that virtue alone sets it apart from the majority of the drivel that passes for conversation in movie scripts these days. You can't tell me that there aren't some one-liners in there that you hear and just *wish* you could have uttered yourself if only you'd had the wit (Whit?).
The characters are all flawed, some lovably so, some not--just like life. You're not meant to like all of them, and it's part of the subtle, social observation of which Stillman is capable that the unlikable characters are not always immediately unlikable. Some characters learn from their mistakes and misperceptions, some do not. Again, like life.
Stillman's first feature in 13 years investigates the merciless social rules within a campus: it's fun, as wittily and entertainingly dialogued as his previous efforts, but way more off-beat and darkly screwballish. It almost plays as an intellectual version of cult favorite "Heathers" (it might be no coincidence if it also revolves around a bunch of co-eds named after flowers), sparing us the B-movieish third act of Michael Lehmann's film. Lots of fun, with a musical twist around the end that might be able to improve the film's chances to cult-ness.
I caught "Damsels in Distress" in Venice, where it was selected out of competition as the closing film for 2011's festival. Audience was quite appreciative, laughing out loud throughout the whole screening.
The film is brimming over with that unique, hilarious Stillman dialogue we've been missing for the last 13 years: cool people "lacking humanity", confusion over the spelling of the name "Zorro", and references to a time before anyone "started being nice to weird and unpopular kids". He's a wildly subversive writer, with a distinctive and fiercely individual viewpoint, seeing everything from a fresh angle.
John Carter - 4/10 I would leave during a 3 out of 10; I just barely held on hopes that it would get better. Too many plot holes. No, plot canyons.
Wtf, Disney? "Well, we can't do all the Martians using CGI. Hey, I have an idea, we'll have some actors playing the parts of Martians, but they'll be a separate race of Martians who look like humans. That way, we won't have to spend money for make-up artists." Immortals who can be killed by shooting them? Ummm. But the thing that annoyed me the most - jumping 1000 feet because he's used to gravity on Earth?? I suppose astronauts on the moon should have been able to jump about 3 miles then. But, despite being 1000's of times more powerful than anyone else, well, at least his leg muscles, his fighting wasn't overwhelmingly superior.
twas my own review I quoted. My problem with the humor wasn't that it was "hard to get"(I can see why the average movie watcher might think this, though I don't think the average movie watched would ever see Damsels), rather it was all too artificial and unfunny. The "jokes" that did work, if you can call them jokes, weren't very funny. Then you have the shitty characters and story
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