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Skeletons in the Closet (2001)
greatest location audio ever
this film has the best location sound i have ever heard for a feature film. it makes the hidefinition video look all that much better!
Props to the cast for doing such a great job but this film is all about the dialogue, and it was captured perfectly. Kudos to the sound team and the directors
Full Frontal (2002)
great great great
this movie is not for the masses. it mixes styles used by the dogme95 directors, as well as the good ole hollywood style to create an amalagam of images and sounds.
SPOILERS
now by no means is this a dogme95 per se, it looks dogme 95, and at times had elements of films like, julien donkey boy (crazy catherine keener interviewing her co-workers so reminded me of werner herzog yelling at his son that he has to be a winner), FESTEN, with the party going on upstairs, and everyone assembling to come together, its almost as if this is what happened before festen, when everyone was getting ready to go to the party, and at times, totaly homages other dogme like mifune and idioterne.
i truly enjoyed all the characters, especially nicky katt and catherine keener. Myself being a filmmaker have had many conversations with actors like the one played by nicky, and from my perspective, seeing as many of the characters were somehow linked to the movie biz, have had versions of many of the conversations, the whole, I worked on the lighting crew line to julia roberts.
overall, i enjoyed the film very much, as I have every other film by soderburgh. He is a truly different and important filmmaker for are times. maybe the most important.
The Others (2001)
scary and .......
ok, this movie scared me, a LOT. it was excellentlt told, awesome cinematography, art direction, acting, the KIDS were excellent. I kind of take exception to a lot of people calling it slow, its too bad that in this MTV generation (i belong to it) people can't just get swept up into the story, instead of waiting for some special effects or an explosion.
The best part of this film for me however, was the editing, one can usually tell great acting when the cuts are few and far between, most of the time in order for an editor to "create" a performance he has to cut to the better, more powerfull acting from shot to shot, scene to scene, and this wasnt really the case.
good job to all, i enjoyed it, thats all i can really say.
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Quite possibly, the worlds worst movie.
I mean, even the credits were horrible. Theres gonna be spoilers, so if you dont want to hear anything about the movie, stop reading now. The movie makes no sense, dinosaurs talking....HA. Tea Leoni, HA. What was she thinking, my husband made a dinosaur movie, maybe I should. HA. I could understand William H Macy being involved, all those low bud. Coen brothers movies must be affecting how many zeros are in his bank account, and Sam Neil, WTF. BUT THE BIGGEST TRAVESTY, the writers. The team that wrote one of the best recent movies, ELECTION wrote this? I mean, the lost world was horrible, but this should have been straight to video, like the little mermaid 2.
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
just great
Wow, I was walking around the video store looking for something dark and moody and happily gothic and I found this awesome flick. much props to the director for making this one come to life. Awesome characters and performances, it was just very very cool. In modern day western civ art like this is usually thrown away and disproved, and in the wake of American Beauty which deserved all its awards, this tells a more intense story for those of us under 21. Although I understand and admire all that American Beauty did to the film biz, it played to the adults who while watching never realized that they have dug themselves into Lester Burnham's very situation and were living that movie themselves while at the theaters. This movie was more cautionary and gave many an idea of how not to live that life.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
I'll tell you why...
I'll tell you why so many people hate this movie and see it as senseless violence. It is because kubrick uses the audience to his own end. Kubrick said, I will make you feel bad for this violent miscreant, and you all felt bad for him. When he was being drowned by his former droogs you thought this was uncalled for, when he was attacked by that mob by the guy who only wanted to know if our young alex could "spare some cutter" you felt it was unfair for him. He had been reformed, he was "one of us now." But of course he never was. He was a young violent thug who never was mentally reformed. He had the want but couldn't do the deed. And when you saw him come back to the forefront at the end, as evil and violent and when the Ludwig Van came out, that beautiful music and this horrific violent thing was shaking hands, you relized how bad you yourself really was. And Kubrick did his job.
Traffic (2000)
Soderburgh
This is a great film. Being a film student now, and being taught about everything film proper, this film breaks the mold, Soderburgh spent 50 mllion bucks on a hand held no lighting shoot and pulled it off. It used the film medium to tell the story, it is told using sound and pictures. Good films allow film to tell the story, not have the story have to be told on film. This was such a great movie, the acting was tremendous, especially by Topher Grace and Erika Christensen. I really liked how Soderburgh did not insult the audience by using too many unnecessary cutaways and ended the movie basically in the middle. The drug war will never be won, why not watch a game?