Movie Reviews pt. 1
I have decided to start doing short movie reviews here since I tend to get alot of new releases and I feel guilty about just watching them and not producing anything.
If you don't want to read a movie review, don't read on...
White Coats - Garbage 2/10 (I couldn't finish it) GOOD: Canadian actors may have been paid money. BAD: Everything else.
Tideland - Mentally stimulating 6/10. A kind of depressing movie directed by Terry Gilliam (Monty Python). This movie is kind of like the sound of wind getting caught between windows, at least that's how I felt watching it. Some cool new visual effects (not special effects) and a great acting performance by BC native Jodelle Ferland, but overall a dreary feel. If you like watching kids kiss you will be happy. GOOD: Performances by Ferland and co-star Brendan Fletcher (also of BC!), talking dolls, stuffed human at the dinner table. BAD: for me it was a bleek movie, ie painful to watch.
Miami Vice - Pretty good 7/10. Good macho acting stuff, wicked non-Hollywood ending. GOOD: John Ortiz's acting, a good young promising cast, written by Michael Mann of 80's gangster flick Thief. BAD: can't remember.
Wassup Rockers - Good 8/10. Modern-day story of tight-pants wearing Latin kids from South Central LA. They go to Beverly Hills to skate and shit happens. All the featured young Latino actors are great, everybody else sucks. The story is a little bit contrived, but overall interesting and well-paced movie by the same guy who did Kids. GOOD: the kid actors, the skating is real. BAD: all non-kid actors, dumb stereotyping.
District 13 - GOOD 8/10. This movie is pretty ghetto in terms of production and some of the acting, but makes up for it with the wicked freestyle running techniques featured ('parkeur' style?). Paris (2010) has built a wall separating a poor suburb from the main city, and one resident of the ghetto has to get in to disable a bomb (or should he?). GOOD: entertaining, excellent parkeur stuff, practice your french, learn about Paris. BAD: some of the acting sucks.
Ok that's enough for now.
BA
If you don't want to read a movie review, don't read on...
White Coats - Garbage 2/10 (I couldn't finish it) GOOD: Canadian actors may have been paid money. BAD: Everything else.
Tideland - Mentally stimulating 6/10. A kind of depressing movie directed by Terry Gilliam (Monty Python). This movie is kind of like the sound of wind getting caught between windows, at least that's how I felt watching it. Some cool new visual effects (not special effects) and a great acting performance by BC native Jodelle Ferland, but overall a dreary feel. If you like watching kids kiss you will be happy. GOOD: Performances by Ferland and co-star Brendan Fletcher (also of BC!), talking dolls, stuffed human at the dinner table. BAD: for me it was a bleek movie, ie painful to watch.
Miami Vice - Pretty good 7/10. Good macho acting stuff, wicked non-Hollywood ending. GOOD: John Ortiz's acting, a good young promising cast, written by Michael Mann of 80's gangster flick Thief. BAD: can't remember.
Wassup Rockers - Good 8/10. Modern-day story of tight-pants wearing Latin kids from South Central LA. They go to Beverly Hills to skate and shit happens. All the featured young Latino actors are great, everybody else sucks. The story is a little bit contrived, but overall interesting and well-paced movie by the same guy who did Kids. GOOD: the kid actors, the skating is real. BAD: all non-kid actors, dumb stereotyping.
District 13 - GOOD 8/10. This movie is pretty ghetto in terms of production and some of the acting, but makes up for it with the wicked freestyle running techniques featured ('parkeur' style?). Paris (2010) has built a wall separating a poor suburb from the main city, and one resident of the ghetto has to get in to disable a bomb (or should he?). GOOD: entertaining, excellent parkeur stuff, practice your french, learn about Paris. BAD: some of the acting sucks.
Ok that's enough for now.
BA
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