Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Gemini Cricket]

It's been awhile since I've seen MD&G. I guess I should check it out again. I don't remember what I thought about it.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

DeNiro's performance in Mad Dog and Glory was just wonderful, and is worth a viewing. I didn't like Uma as much, but then, I always have mixed feelings about her acting style. Murray was well cast, except for the part where he has to act physically tough. I don't think I could see Bill Murray holding his own in a fist fight.

[Alex]

Mad Dog & Glory is one of those movies I need to see again. I saw it in the theater my freshman year of college so I was 18. And I hated it. But it was critically successful so I suspect I was just an immature punkass.

To me it is Uma Thurman who sticks out since the other two can act.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

DeNiro's performance in Mad Dog and Glory was just wonderful, and is worth a viewing. I didn't like Uma as much, but then, I always have mixed feelings about her acting style. Murray was well cast, except for the part where he has to act physically tough. I don't think I could see Bill Murray holding his own in a fist fight.

Uma's hit and miss for me. With a good director she can do good stuff. With so-so directors she becomes so-so.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Just came back from Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - Although it is much better than the horrible first film, this one misses the mark with horrible writing and acting. The only highlight is the better than normal special effects of the Silver Surfer character - Doug Rice is his name I believe - he was Pan in Pan's Labrynth and Abraham Sapian in Hellboy and did a find job as the S.S.

As typical with "comic book" movies, they failed miserabley keeping with the original story. They strayed so far off, it was so unbeliveably dumb and totally cheated the viewer of the best FF story out there - even more "classic" than the origin of the group.

If you've got nothing better to do but shell out $10 for this failure, by all means. I'd rather be in a 2 hour line for Nemo.

This get's 4 bornieo's out of 10 - only because of the Silver Surfer character.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Finally watched Life Aquatic. Gotta say, I'm baffled by the luke-warm reception it received. I thought it was a great movie. It had me engaged from beginning to end, the animation was inspired, the characters were tremendous.

I've seen all of Anderson's movies, and I really don't get the seemingly common sentiment of, "It was pretty good, but nothing compared to his others." Not that I'd try to dissuade anyone from saying such-and-such is my favorite Anderson film (I can't even really peg what my favorite is), but for this to be so universally ranked as his weakest...don't get it.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Finally watched Life Aquatic. Gotta say, I'm baffled by the luke-warm reception it received. I thought it was a great movie. It had me engaged from beginning to end, the animation was inspired, the characters were tremendous.

I've seen all of Anderson's movies, and I really don't get the seemingly common sentiment of, "It was pretty good, but nothing compared to his others." Not that I'd try to dissuade anyone from saying such-and-such is my favorite Anderson film (I can't even really peg what my favorite is), but for this to be so universally ranked as his weakest...don't get it.

For me Aquatic had some of his finest directing. The animation and music were astounding. I loved, loved, loved Willem Defoe. But I thought Bill Murray's character was a bit tired, I HATED Cate Blanchett (something I didn't think possible) and I thought

It does have one of the best action sequences ever filmed. Best and funniest! Angelica Huston seemed wasted. But then we were given Seu Jorge, who I think is wonderful, wonderful. His voice!

The Royal Tenenbaums really is my favorite. I think that and Rushmore really are perfect movies. Sadly, I'm in a small camp of Anderson fans who didn't get Bottle Rocket. Some parts of it I liked. "Cawcaw," being one. But something about the romance really, really, really irritated me, I think.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

For me Aquatic had some of his finest directing.
Angelica Huston seemed wasted.

That's how I felt about Tennebaum's, not enough of Angelica, and what was there was minor compared to what she could give. I simply adore her. That said, I loved The Royal Tennenbaums

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Life Aquatic was awesome! Easily the best Wes Anderson flick, to me. But I'm in the didn't-quite-get-Royal-Tenenbaums grouping.

Oh, and we watched Holy Mountain the following night and oddly enough, these movies are totally linked. HM was incredible, almost too much to handle, in a good way.

[Gemini Cricket]

Kinky Boots.
Good flick.