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Reviews
The Bling Ring (2013)
Visual Masterpiece but no substance in the storyline
First of all you need to know that this movie was supposed to be my favorite movie of all time. I love Sofia Coppola's movies and I was obsessed with the Bling Ring (The real burglar bunch story) - because watching a lot of interviews of the suspects allowed me to see that there was a lot behind the stealing thing, and I think that Sofia overlooked the real substance of the story. Of course it's based on a shallow act - a bunch of teenagers who steal from celebrities they are obsessed with (some of these were B list reality TV stars) but at the same time this shallowness and this -celebrity culture- is something with so many fundamentals and it has been so deeply rooted in our current society that there is an actual deepness when you try to understand it. They were not stealing just to get some money, they didn't want any dress, they wanted THAT dress, the dress Lindsay wore to the Cosmopolitan shoot.
The visuals of the movie are great, the slow-motion scenes Sofia can capture so well did not disappoint (that take of the whole glass house with Israel and Katie Chang was breath-taking) but she could have gone deeper into these guy's minds. Marc was a very anxious guy and the transition from anxious-shy to burglar-pimp was not existent. I gave it a 5 out of 10 .. but I might have been too generous.
Community: Advanced Gay (2011)
Not that great
Afthe the chaos episode I wouldn't expect anything better. but this episode was particularly too "try-very-hard" written and the storyline just doesn't flow naturally. I love community because its all about smart nonsense .. but I coudnt find that in this episode, it had a lot of glitches and the idea of Pirece's father and what happens at the end with his father involving Jeff just doesn't quite fit with the whole story of community. Im an university student and I enjoy more when the situations involve the community college itself and this episode for me is just way out of the blue. however I'll keep loving the show no matter what .. maybe next episode is way better