BeLeafer
Well-known member
I'm not a huge movie watcher, as most of the stuff that comes out is pure trash, but I do like a good flick when I see one. I'm just interested in anything good or bad anyone has seen recently.
Lately, I've seen a goodie and a few bad ones.
Away From Her
One of the best movies I've seen in years. Absolutely brilliant and remarkable considering its Sarah Polley's first direction and script (both were surprisingly strong). The memory sequences in this film are spot on, imo. Very isolated and evocative images that I believe are pretty accurate to the way memory works. The narrative, while not linear, is brilliantly pieced together.
Atonement
Just an awful film from start to finish outside of some very good cinematography. It's nauseatingly post-modern with an almost non-sensical disjointed narrative, little character development and utterly nominalistic (the latter being something I detest in poststructuralism and all of its shallow reified pretense).
Michael Crayton
Okay if you're looking for some pablum, but boringly formulatic with the standard awful representation of professional women as evildoers.
Anyone else?
Lately, I've seen a goodie and a few bad ones.
Away From Her
One of the best movies I've seen in years. Absolutely brilliant and remarkable considering its Sarah Polley's first direction and script (both were surprisingly strong). The memory sequences in this film are spot on, imo. Very isolated and evocative images that I believe are pretty accurate to the way memory works. The narrative, while not linear, is brilliantly pieced together.
Atonement
Just an awful film from start to finish outside of some very good cinematography. It's nauseatingly post-modern with an almost non-sensical disjointed narrative, little character development and utterly nominalistic (the latter being something I detest in poststructuralism and all of its shallow reified pretense).
Michael Crayton
Okay if you're looking for some pablum, but boringly formulatic with the standard awful representation of professional women as evildoers.
Anyone else?