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Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
No sense of horror or even reality
This film is just so unreal. Like a pastiche of cliches about the art world. The ambiguous sexuality of Jake Gyllenhaal's Morf. Morf? The too obvious blending of characters for the PC conscious. The truly inexplicable physical attraction of Morf to Zawe Ashton's Josephina. Zawe Ashton may be a good actress. That's a question not a statement. But sexy she is not. Those legs? Oof! In fact those lumpy legs may have been more scary than the animated paintings. All in all a walk through of a movie. Oh yeah John Malkovich and Rene Russo picked up a paycheck too.
Mother! (2017)
Not Worth The Explanation
When you create a movie that absolutely needs to be explained to the viewer for them to understand what they have seen...that's a problem. If you watched this film and didn't google an explanatory synopsis of it then you are probably mostly confused with a small glimmer of understanding that you have witnessed some religious symbolism. That's correct. I doubt anyone who watched this admittedly visually interesting film understood 90% of what they saw in a cohesive manner when it ended. Bits and pieces struck a chord with me as religious allegories but by the end I couldn't tell you how they fit together and that was frustrating. Even the blog I read explaining the film didn't understand all of it. And it was a pretty thorough account of what I thought I had seen.
If I was only judging production and acting this might be a 9 of a movie. Jennifer Lawrence was great. But when the film makers know their audience won't understand most of what they viewed by the end of the film that just bothers me.
Thank God I borrowed this free at the local library.
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Excellent
Response to Author: Enyeez from Denmark
*** (Small) Spoiler WARNING! ***
- (You were warned)
The end scene is really slow and out of reality: Scene on a bridge on Christmas Eve, literally LOADS of cars on The poor bridge and John (Gere Character) knows erm.. well.. "SOMETHING"... I can't really describe it.. it's just , hard for me to see that - THAT many cars could be on The same bridge on Christmas Eve... but NO cars on The roads leading to The bridge. and they're only there "Because of a traffic-light Problem" there was at least one cop there.. and I bet ALL of them would have liked to come home that night. The cop just wandered helplessly back and forth on The bridge, soo unreal... The Police are Authority Figures.. if a Policeman can't get The cars moving.. no one can..
*** End SPOILER ***
Except Enyeez that is exactly what did happen in the real bridge collapse in Pt. Pleasant which this movie is based on. There was a traffic light problem which caused traffic to stall on the bridge and ultimately caused the bridge to collapse. The bridge was not made to sustain standing traffic for any amount of time. The bridge was built by safety specs dating back to the modelT which had an average weight of 1500 pounds. Because of the collapse LBJ had a complete revamp of the USA bridge specs brought up to date which accommodated more modern auto weights of between 2000 to 4000 lbs.
Frozen (2010)
Not Believable
The story line was better than I expected. It had a good premise. But some things stuck out so badly that I just couldn't believe what I was watching. Someone mentioned that this was filmed on location. Maybe some parts of it were. But what really bothered me the most was that this was a film about 3 people being in an extremely cold environment, hence the title, and yet I never saw their breath. Never saw their frosted breath. That really ruined it for me. Another thing is why did the girl, in this supposedly freezing situation, not put her ungloved hand in her pocket to keep it warm? Even worse she supposedly falls asleep in the lift with her bare hand gripping the metal safety bar and wakes up to find her skin frozen to it? That just makes no sense. She actually has frost bite on her cheek yet keeps her uncovered hand out in the open and even grabs cold metal with it? And leaves it there!? And finally when she just goes by the wolves and they let her go that seemed a bit much. Like I said a good idea but these things I noticed kind of ruined it for me.
Without a Paddle (2004)
Better and More Clever Than I Expected
The whole rating system is kind of skewed. Some people rated this film low because it wasn't Larwrence of Arabia but then it wasn't meant to be. It's like comparing actors when they play different roles. You can only really compare them playing the same role.
Anyway I went to the film expecting a goofy stoner type of mindless entertainment. Just a laugh. But I was pleasantly surprised that not only was it funny but some deeper thought had gone into it. The plot was more substantial than I expected, there were bits of philosophy sprinkled throughout which accentuated the positive side of life, and the cast was pretty good too. I'm not sure what inspired Burt Reynolds to play his character but he did it well as did all of the players.
But mainly the movie was funnier than hell. I almost embarrassed myself I laughed so hard during the first bear sequence. The image of Mott saying 'help' as he looked back while being carried off had me laughing way too high way too long but it and some other scenes were hilarious and I couldn't help it then either.
All in all a good film for the genre. And surprisingly while I think it appeals to the stoner crowd it's cool in that it incorporates it without promoting it though it doesn't avoid it either. In fact I was struck by the fact that the bad guys were red neck smokers and the good guys were dopey beer drinkers but apparently nothing more.
Lastly the film cleverly pays homage to other films throughout. Deliverance, The Matrix, and others are covered and probably a few I missed.