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Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Fibncher remake) - decent film, probably on the same level of quality as the swedish original but with its own strengths and weaknesses. Better pacing, better visuals, amazig score. On the downside, the swedish version had a better relationship between Mikael and Lisbeth and a better version of the crucial photo scene. Both versions suffer from some shoddy plotting though but that comes from the source.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - brilliant. Everything, the acting, the music, the look, the scripting is utterly brilliant. yes its slow, yes there are no female characters, yes its complicated, but this is a real film from a real filmmaker. Pale Flower - Lots has been written about the French New Wave from the 60's . But the Japanese new wave from the same time produced equally as imrpessive films. This part yakuza/part noir/part political allegory is one of the best, the look and score are to die for and the long, detailed gamblign den sequences are hypnotic to watch. Letter Never Sent - Russian movie from 1960 about 4 explorers tryign to find diamonds in the Taiga and running into and trying to escape from a massive firestorm. I have no idea how this was filmed because the long, elaborate, tracking shots look like they, and the actors, go through very real fires. The visuals make it worth watching but on the whole, its a little lightweight to be anything more than decent. The original is better. Because Noomi Rapace is teh hotness. That is all.
Brazil (Criterion edition which is the DC I believe)
Ugh, surreal symbolism. It started really great but lost me fairly quickly. The two main characters were unconvincing to me. Nice setting and stuff everywhere and pipes though. Can't say I would ever recommend it or watch it again. Insidious - dumb, unoriginal, poorly shot and not even remotely scary. How does this stuff pass for horror or even thriller these days?
Insidious... is that the one where the dad goes into the other realm at the end to save the son? That was pretty cool, but overall just an average horror.
Audition is well overrated. I found it a bit boring. Brazil had awesome atmosphere and setting, but I don't know... not quite the cult classic I was expecting. The film quality seemed too poor? It's going back a while since I saw it though. I think my main impression after watching the remake was "it's still a cool story, but this isn't a particularly good telling of it". Must watch the original again (and re-read the story).
It looked awesome. The film sets were really well done. I don't buy Colin Ferrel as an action hero. He's no Arnie or Stallone. Take away the brooms above his eyes and he's nothing.
But I just went in expecting a new version, a reboot loosely based on ideas of the original, but not a successful remake. That way I enjoyed it. Pretend the original didn't exist, and this would be a very popular movie. But it wasn't the original... doesn't come close. Not having Mars, what the hell? Kate Beckinsale completely sucked as well. I like her, but not in the role of the action movie antagonist. No friggin way. Especially looking like she just stepped out of a beauty commercial all through the movie. "Pretend the original didn't exist,"
easier said than done when you go out of your way to include scenes that remind you of the original (three boob girl is one example). If you want your movie to be treated like a different adaptation of the same source, fine, dont then wink wink repeatedly to an earlier version just to cash in. Good sci-fi action romp. Some cool action scenes (car chase) and stylish city-scapes. Story was spoilt by being the same as TR, obviously, and the big tube thing wasn't as well used as it could be, but slick and spectacular enough to be good entertainment.
Moneyball - Fantastic. But I still dont get baseball or its appeal.
War of the Arrows - decent korean period epic with lots of cool action scenes. Midnight in Paris - Pretty charming little movie from Woody Alen. Was late at night and decided to leave it running instead of listening to music. It was actually a pretty cool little spy/action movie. Music was great. Big cast of a-list actors (not necessarily ones I like but nonetheless a-list), but it's an unknown chick that plays the lead role and dominates screentime. She was good though, an actually believable female action star for once.
I watched Schindlers List again the other day. That's a must-see movie. was good. Gina Carrano couldnt really act but had good screen presence and was ace in the fight scenes.
Jack Reacher
Brainless, overly-complex (yet shallow aka packing a dumb story into excited words and images), super-meaningful-dialolgs, yet kinda enjoyable to watch. I can't think of any movie with a good car chase sequence (as in more than just roaring and sliding and stupidly racing) right now.
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