holierthanpope Reviews

True Lies (1994)

James Cameron's masterpiece?

[10/10 · 24 April 2020]

Let's see what we've got here.

You can look at it as a Commando parody, and great self-irony, at that. You can look at it as "Mother's little helper" song evolution, and Lee Curtis does deliver 100% true drama of a woman feeling that her life is slipping through her fingers. Or you can see it as a beautiful story of two people living together for 15 years not with each other but with conventional masks substituting their true identities, and we see them going through a crisis towards really close sincere relationship. Both Avatar and Titanic ,as grandiose they may be, lack even half of this depth and multi-genre game.

T2 Trainspotting (2017)

Metafilm?

[8/10 · 14 April 2017]

Now for something completely different. Of course, I got emotional when the movie started. I got VERY emotional when *spoiler* ;). The whole movie was kind of a satisfying experience, but something felt missing.

It took me a couple of days. Then I realised that in fact nothing happened in T2 at all. The characters have been re-introduced 'most triumphant'ly, and just when they started to actually interact, 'the end' arrived. The whole plot from "Porno" was missing which would've been fine by me if it had been replaced with another plot, which it HADN'T. The movie... has no plot. Yeah, right!

Then it took me another while to understand why Mr Boyle would do that to us. That's when I finally added 2 and 2. And here comes a piece of conspirology. My debut in that genre, in fact.

We know that fans have been bugging Boyle for years with the sequel requests. We know that it had a lot to do with nostalgia. We know that nostalgia is quite unproductive unless we build on the past. And that's exactly what Boyle has shown to me. The stupidity of going exactly BACK. The movie was MEANT,CONCEIVED,PLANNED to be empty. To show the fans that when you require a rehash/replay/onemoregoatit, THAT'S what you usually get. So, in my opinion, it's a movie about sequel movies and nostalgia for the sake of it, in general.

Or, just a long trailer to T3.

Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974)

Must-see

[10/10 · 7 November 2007]

The guys absolutely kept me rolling on the floor through the 1st season, then I got used to their humor,and there were just stable laughs afterwards. Some episodes are more weird or language-based,some are Chaplin-like ,some are very smart and political,but with each one of them extremely well done.Never seen anything like it,being 29 already. Each actor has a range of personalities but every now and then they put on quite a different role and shock again. For instance,Cleese actually tends to be more aggressive,Idle is very English-joking,but can keep silence during the whole sketch to the same effect. I love the Circus!