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Red Planet
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Hannibal
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by Shane
I've just checked your web site for a review
of the film "Hannibal". We got it out last night.
I wasn't very impressed at all. Jodie Foster
did the right thing by not appearing in it.
The girl who did was very wooden and one dimensional.
The movie was not atmospheric or scary. Hopkins
must need the money. It was so heavy handed
that it laboured every point. They tried to
giver Lecter a moral edge. He only kills corrupt
or nasty people in the film.
It was the same mistake they made with the fairly
recent "Dracula" with Gary Oldman. In the film
he's portrayed as a good man, driven to evil
by events. Rubbish! The whole point is both
he (and Lecter) are monsters, and beyond morality.
Seeing as I'm on a horror(ish) film rant, I'll
carry on with Kenneth Branagh's "Frankenstein".
The monster (Robert de Niro) couldn't carry
it off. The whole point of this monster, is
that you're meant to feel pity for it. Anyway,
Lecter isn't really worth it.
Red Planet
-
by Shane
A word of warning. Don't watch "
Red
Planet". It's awful. Five guys (plus
one female) off to Mars to save the world from
ecological disaster. They have a robot on board,
which will map the terrain for them. Just so
you get the point, when looking at things from
the robot's point of view, the words "Mapping
Mode" appear on the top right of the screen.
I said to my better half, "Don't tell me.
I bet this thing has a military mode".
Surprise surprise, it has. And when they crash
land on Mars, guess what? Yes, it gets stuck
in "military mode" and starts hunting
them. One of them (the pilot, I think) pushes
another off a cliff. I'm unsure why, as I was
at the fridge on a beer run. Perhaps is was
to save him further embarrassment at being in
such a crappy film. The woman from the Matrix
plays a heroic, angular faced commander. Terrance
Stamp dies a serene death. Val Kilmer must be
wishing he still got parts like "Heat".
Lots of "running out of air but getting
some just in time" stuff, and blasting
off in convenient old abandoned Soviet hardware.
Do yourself a favour and don't bother.
Magnolia
-
by Madpole
Not sequential
The film raises interesting question. DVD and
"Home watching" vs Cinema. For I cannot
imagine watching this film in cinema.. this
is "private" film and I had to stop
it every 10 minutes to have a good cry... I
would hate this film if I watched it in cinema...I
would have to walk out on it I feel.....
The film made me cry and laugh at the same time..
something I have NEVER experienced before....I
kept my keyboard safely away... but I .. it
was.. mind blowing experience... I never knew
that one stupid disk can have such effect on
me....
I do not want to say what film is about, particularly
that I do not know... there is no sequence..
I do not understand half of the "plot"
if there is plot there.... it is about HUMANITY
and COINCIDENCES... that much I did understand...
FORGIVNESS and ACCEPTANCE... and I have to shut
up here ..
See also:
Andy Zagozda on
Minority
Report
Andy:
The One
James Crosby:
Black
Hawk Down
Nicky Raper:
O
Brother Where art Thou and The Gift
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me a movie or DVD review
Cheers
- Jim
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