From the quirkiest of the quirky, Steve Buscemi premieres his first film with a nuclear blast. The cast, which most have gone on to really big films, all artfully create the character study which is what Tree's Lounge really happens to be. Each cast member should be awarded an Oscar for how real they portray this sad set of characters. Like a step into the daily wrongness of a typical craphole which can be anywhere in the USA, Buscemi's breakout performance as the alcoholic ice cream man captures a rawness of how a man can be degraded so swiftly in the morays and questionable social structures that permeate our culture. Brilliantly written, Buscemi makes the assumption of just how relationships are all based in fear and the fact of this fear is why the characters act out and react as they do throughout this film but as we all do in the real world as well. When looking for a slice of life that reminds us just how not to be, Tree's Lounge is the perfect example. This film is a triumph.
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Trespass
(1992)
it's just fun, so don't be foolish and judge it further
28 August 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Anybody that wants to go ahead and be critical of this film is an idiot, plain and simple. This film, and it's stars had to know going in that this was a film made for people looking for brain candy. It is good brain candy too! Treasure hunters encounter a gang of rappers and wannabe thugs and of course the guy least likely to get anything comes out on top..what could be better for a Friday night movie than these guys, hidden treasure, and a whole lot of ebonics? Whe it comes to Bill Paxton and Bill Sadler, these guys have been in both serious and comedic films, and their demeanor throughout this magnificent piece of pulp-film is not only engrossing and entertaining, but downright Oscar-worthy too. If only these kinds of films were ever considered for awards...aw gee!!!!
War of the Worlds
(2005)
Great movie. Scary, even though you know what will happen.
22 August 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Her's the deal with this movie - If you look at it closely, it is Spielberg to the "T". With that in mind, elements of almost all of his films are evident throughout War Of The Worlds, and I haven't looked that hard or analyzed every scene, but did arbitrarily notice certain aspects from his other films, of which I loved all of them - even the Columbo episode...But anyway there's something to this movie. IT SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME. I watched it by myself. I knew everything that was going to happen being that I must have seen the original version a gazillion times in my life, but adding the Spielberg aspect is why it became scary. Spielberg has the ability to make sci-fi film scary because of his realistic approach to what makes people tick and what makes them fall apart or what pushes them to heroism. He achieves using that as his greatest ability as a fantastic director. The film taps the instincts and emotions of anyone that can recognize that all of the issues that were the scariest elements in the film translate directly to common disasters that have occurred in recent years. War, terror, airborne illness, brutal abolishment of societies in sweeping and quick successions, etc. The film is great.
Anyone could have played Cruise's part so that is a criticism in fact. But he is who he is, and I have enjoyed everyone of his films too, and that is too bad, maybe someday he'll join the human race again.
Again this film is scary as heck, but great.
Anyone could have played Cruise's part so that is a criticism in fact. But he is who he is, and I have enjoyed everyone of his films too, and that is too bad, maybe someday he'll join the human race again.
Again this film is scary as heck, but great.
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