Random Film Thoughts: As we start a new...

[erikdean]

Hitchcock:
Schizophrenic, as if the director does not know if he wants to make a comedy or a drama. The film has it moments, especially in the beginning with jokes about the film industry has it looked in 1960. The editing is god-awful, sometimes it feels like a bad sitcom where you focus on a characters reaction to someones line for far too long to create some sort of comic effect.

Mirren shines above the cast with her performance and creates a dimensional character. Hopkins on the other hand phones it in, he doesn't do anything exciting, new or emotionally anchored. Just a caricature. Biel, Johansson and Collette are all three misdirected and doesn't come off well at all. Johansson and Collette are just average and Biel feels a lot miscasted.

The only good parts of this were the opening and the closing. Everything in between was fucking horrid.

[haqyunus]

The beginning of Birth is just perfection. In all regards and aspects. It is rare that one feels about a wordless and (apparently) narrative-less extended scene. I can watch it again and again and never get tired of it.

[erikdean]

The beginning of Birth is just perfection. In all regards and aspects. It is rare that one feels about a wordless and (apparently) narrative-less extended scene. I can watch it again and again and never get tired of it.

I listen to that piece like, five times a week. I ambushed Desplat a few years ago to gush about how much I love it. He was very nice about it lol.

[Kargo]

The twist is Guy Pearce is still alive .


I didn't understand this either. You invent time travel, but you can't find a way to get rid of a body? Although the idea probably is that if someone is completely erased, nobody will miss him/her, which of course is the case if you kill somebody and make the body disappear.

“Everybody in the movie has this nano technology tracking in their body and whenever there’s a death, a location tag is sent to the authorities from this tracking material. So they can’t kill people in the future. But if they send them back, that is not triggered.”

http://www.slashfilm.com/ten-mysteri...-rian-johnson/

[Aurelius]

Aha, I must have missed that. Thanks!

[raguabros]

That wasn't in the film, though, I'm sure they got it for a director interview or something.

[RRA]

Why does the Delorean need exactly 88 mph?

Why not 87? Why not 100?

[Zuranthium]

Don Askarian's Avetik was a dreamy experience! Wow, I was just floored by the images.

Where'd you see this? It only has 55 votes on IMDb, now that's obscure.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103741/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[cdmc]

Where'd you see this? It only has 55 votes on IMDb, now that's obscure.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103741/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I contacted the MUBI user who runs their World Cup for films.

[DirkDiggler]

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III goes on iTunes rental in 25 minutes.

[ladylurks]

My last film of 2012 was Rust & Bone.

My first film of 2013 was Bullhead. Double helping of Schoenaerts... yum!!

[Aurelius]

So first he was big, then he was bigger .

[Timmer]

I finally caught up to Super 8. While it's not a great film by any stretch, and the ending has so much schmaltz and OMGMEANING that it kind of ruins everything, it made me wistful for Goonies and E.T. And one of these days, Abrams is going to hit a movie out of the park.

[RRA]

I finally caught up to Super 8. While it's not a great film by any stretch, and the ending has so much schmaltz and OMGMEANING that it kind of ruins everything, it made me wistful for Goonies and E.T. And one of these days, Abrams is going to hit a movie out of the park.

Maybe. Until then, he directs good decent movies. And that's cool.

I think what he's lacking from breaking out is that he needs to not simply make a good rip-off but one that merely reminds you of them (and DNA can be visible) and mutates into something new, something different. I mean I'm reminded that Carpenter (who for the most part you could compare to Abrams in that regard) did that with HALLOWEEN. You can tell the influence from PSYCHO and even BLACK CHRISTMAS, but HALLOWEEN is friggin HALLOWEEN. Or in recent years, Nolan's TDK. Obviously influenced, wanted to be a superhero HEAT but set the new standard for that genre. Everybody either ripped off or ripping off HALLOWEEN and TDK. Are people doing that to Abrams' directed movies? I would say no, not yet.

But I doubt TREK 2 will be that movie, even though I'm sure it'll be good.

[Timmer]

Yeah, Trek 2 won't be his big breakout. He needs to do what Tarantino has been doing lately; continue to have his influences, but make something fresh out of them. Super 8 was alright, but it was WAY too close to Spielberg's '80s output.

[dyedred19]

'The Kid a With a Bike" didn't do much for me.

[Timmer]

'The Kid a With a Bike" didn't do much for me.

i thought it was decent, but of all of the Cannes films from the last few fests that I've seen, The Kid With a Bike has faded from memory the fastest. The Dardennes have done much better.

[ladylurks]

I really liked Cecile de France - thought she was the best thing about it.

[McTeague]

To me it's really been the opposite, it's grown. But that has happened with every Dardennes film I've seen, though, lol. I don't know, I¡d rank The Son 1st and then Rosetta, but after that I think Child and Kid are even. I haven't seen The Promise or Lorna.

[guany]

'The Kid a With a Bike" didn't do much for me.

I watched this last night, and I completely agree.