wow, there really are BRILLIANT movies in the world.... specially if you can see what the author must have gone through and what he wanted to portray, and how effectively it can be done...
now showing @ ster kinekor, south africa
since i started this page... i have watched... good and bad, in no particular order...
A
Destiny Of Her Own /
really good, real life fairytale.. bout the spanish inquisition,
courtezannes and poetry during the age of decadence in Venice. If
you love poetry you'll be inspired!!!
Shakespeare
In Love / pretty damn good.. cant remember much though but
i saw a lot of deeper intrigues i can't remember now..
Ever
After /
really good.. cinderella remake... and really well done at
that...
Antz / quite good, depth in there for all
ages.. really well made
Prince
of Egypt /
Brilliant! The best possible way of telling a bible story
Hercules
/ WOW!... The best
possible way of telling mythology
A
Bugs Life / cute,
but more of a kids movie than Antz "look, i'm a beautiful
butterfly!!!" =)
Very Bad Things
/ so gory i could only laugh.. sattire on religion and
death is basically all i remember. Not good at all.
Virus / probably the only Horror movie Ive ever
seen that was realistic enough not to make me laugh.. but still
very unlikely... or is it? hahaha...
Club
54 / sucked.. some
wastenut gets into some posh club. i did not even want to look
for anything good in it...
Go! / thought it sucked at first, but made me
reflect on things thats happened in my life quite well though.
quite good, enough to scare anyone off getting into any shady
deals and stuff... heh.. i doubt it... though :) maybe this will
be mythology in 3001.
The
Matrix / excellent,
had every facet I ever liked about other movies. You'll want to
watch it at least twice.. its worth it!! liberating to some i
guess...its one of those movies that you just think, WOW, why has
it taken so long for someone to make this??? Depicts reality as
relative as it really is.
Thirtheenth
Floor / I did not
want to watch this, I thought it would be some pathetic horror
movie or something. It turned out not to be that bad. Straight
after I watched it I did not think it was as WOW as matrix, but
as I wondered about it the next week or two, I started liking it
more and more. (Not that I did not catch everything when I
watched it, I just appreciated it more...) It's really cool the
way you notice some really subtle symmetries in the movie. I
think they should have made it more subtle, but then I guess some
people would not catch it at all. I even know people who did not
catch the point of Matrix.. knock knock anybody home?? :( maybe
they understand it better than me! hahaha
eXistenZ / pretty
much sucked.. a few really cool ideas, pretty gory though.
gameconsoles that plug into your spine and use your blood, and
needs surgery to be copied. As I said though, a lot of
potential... thrown away... the ending could have been made a lot
more powerful
Stigmata
/ powerfully made...
if you can realise where the inspiration for this movie came
from. wonderful camerawork.. look past the imagery and rather see
the feeling behind it.. and the way they connect inspiration and
feeling and the source of things.. and the church as an
organisation just like any other. But the bottom line is not one
that the movie is gonna teach you if you don't believe it
already...
Star
Wars I / worthy of
the oldies, if you havent made too much of the
psycho-hype-shit-crap-bull, theres enough magic in here..
Entrapment / first half was boring.
interesting commentary on relationships.. nice twists.
Meet
Joe Black / three
hours of flippin brilliant movie.. loved it, quite deep and
dark... dont get me wrong, it is good! I need to see it again,
though.
Elizabeth / Not a bad movie. Quite sobering,
actually, in a weird way. Makes you wonder about example, love
and sacrifice, and somehow, Zen Buddhism. Okay, maybe thats a bit
far fetched.. I cant remember why I thought that...
Notting
Hill /
AAAAaaarrrrrgghh.. Okay. Damn good. Damn funny.
Damn damn realistic. That chick really is a BITCH. She is so damn
damn cruel. And, it's just oh so frustrating that such a big DORK
can hold his pose, understand her motives, and not do to her what
she did to him. Ag, damnit. I guess it's worth it, though. Why do
some Guys have to apologise for girls' mistakes?
Austin
Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me / okay, i watched this at the end of Grahamstown
Festival, after not sleeping for 3 days. Hah. And it was SILLY.
but in a way that makes you act just as SILLY when you walk out
of the cinema. :) and i guess it's supposed to rip off a lot of
movies I haven't seen and some I have..
American
Pie / Oh gosh.. I
guess these are the five basic types of matrics. On a mission to
get laid. I guess it's realistic (and FuNNy as hell!!!) to a
certain extent.. but... it's just a movie.. I wonder how many
people's opinion of sex and relationships were tilted more to the
liberal side after watching this... and how many saw themselves..
or the different people they've been.. hahaha.. (or seen)
There's
Something About Mary /
hilarious comedy. really really funny and worth watching. I can't
even remember why I thought it was good, though. I just remember
the whole cinema cracking up in laughter...
Good Will Hunting /
hmm.. i guess everyone watching the movie is supposed to feel
like the lead character, while at the same time knowing they're
too stupid... i guess you could say its about passion, the things
in life you can't learn from others, and it's got a very cool
view on our university system and some fools that play by it's
rules...
White Lies / I only
saw the last half and... it's quite intense. People are cruel and
you will cry for the cruelty of our past. Letting go of some
things is probably the most liberating thing you can do.
The
Talented Mr Ripley /
Starts out like a good-will-hunting movie... until
good-little-Will kills his quite cool friend. And his friend's
friend.. and when he kills the third person people like me get up
and leave. Cuz theres still half an hour left and I don't care
how it ends, it's too fucked up already. This guy would kill me
too and I dont care what happens to him. So tell me, what
happened in the end... did he find perfect replacements for all
the people he killed and got away with it? I doubt it... did he
get caught.. aw please, how boring. Did someone decide to eat
him? One of his cool friends... perhaps? yeah well, in that case,
rather watch movies like...
Perdito
Durango / Voodoo
rituals, young innocent american teenager sacrifices...
promiscious mexican chicks and rough bank/grave robbers who knows
what they really want... and gets the counter at the bank he's
robbing to show him her breasts before he leaves... well, this
falls in the same category as quinten tarantino movies... or...
who knows. I loved it... and I usually hate these kind of movies.
I don't think I would ever watch it again, though. But... It was
good. Quite good. And quite FUCKING funny.
Human
Traffic / Hahaha...
finally a realistic movie about... I dont think there's too much
acting in here... about... sex, drugs.. and clubbing... in
england. And anywhere for that matter... Quite well made too. I
watched it twice. I would'nt pay to see it again, though. If
you've ever smoked a spliff... or dropped an E... and liked what
happened. Go watch it!!! You'll either love it cuz you see a bit
of yourself in there... or hate it for the same reason. Quite
chilish sattire.. also quite well portrayed.
Heheheheheeehheee.... Oh yeah...
videos:
Pulp Fiction, ive seen a few
times... and everytime the plot seemed different. I can't seem to
remember it.. I think I need to watch it again. One thing I do
remember is how they show that a bible verse can have two
opposite meanings. Well.. that is inbetween coke-deals and
murders... Probably Quinten Tarantino's most commercial movie...
if not his only..
Natural Born Killers... great
soundtrack.. watched it again the other day and it really is
BRILLIANTLY made! fuckit oliver stone is so flippin good!!! Maybe
a morbid topic, but the movie is about "the demon" and
"evil". In a "Good" way though!
i watched Mall Rats the other
day.. quite funny.. taking over a fucked up gameshow.. hahaha,
oh, and beat up the easter bunny. This movie is really really
really silly, and it makes fun of the really really silly things
in real life. Hmmm... it would SUCK if you're not in the mood...
Half Baked wasnt as good, but
here you get dope-smokers in situations where they HAVE to smoke
with cops... and it starts out with a really really accurate
scene of 4 13-yr olds smoking their first spliff. hahaha... but
also quite a silly stoner movie.
Star Wars IV,V,VI..
of course.. its pure fantasy unbound by the rules of (pathetic)
sci-fi
2001: A Space Oddysey.. i quite
liked it, you'd probably bore to death if youre not into Arthur
Clarke's type realistic, optimistic view of the future and origin
of things..
Holy Man i quite liked it, this
very spiritual guy who doesn't do anything for himself gets
pulled into doing ad's nd changes everyones lives by just giving
without expecting anything back... oh, and convincing his whole
audience to go outside and see how beautiful their lawns are..
hahaha. The bottom line is, it shows how any system steals
personality from people. The bottom line of this movie is
probably that everyone need to have everyone else around them on
TV. focus the idolisation they put into movie stars and rock
stars on those around them, rather!!!
Gia.. bout this (lesbian)
fashion chick in the 60's, who had very little going for her.
Quite sad, makes you think about life, opportunities... and
drugs.. the text at the end leaves you with.. argh.. a wonderful
yet horrible taste of nothing and everything. No!
In Gods Hands crap movie. DAMN
cool surfing footage!!! But the director got way too carried
away. Most scenes leave you feeling like a two-year-old watching
some way-over-your-head movie. Unfortunately, I guess the
director is the two-year-old. Something that was quite accurately
portrayed: Addiction. When I watched it, I realised, that the way
that the one main character speaks of surfing, is exactly the way
a lot of druggies and heroin addicts I have spoken to on the
streets of London, spoke about their drug of choice. Exactly the
same. You can really get hooked on anything.. and adrenalin is
quite an addictive drug. I guess life is about finding
constructive addictions. I would personally choose surfing above
anything. Except that island girl. The stupid fool in the movie.
Thank god it was not some romantic movie, though!!
Message In A Bottle / argh..
no.. depressing. you really don't need to watch this to realise
that you have to live in the present to make the best of what you
have. this is quite the opposite of a romantic movie, unlike the
name seems to imply. the miscommunication thing in the
relationship seems to comment on the 90's...
the old James Bond movies.. they
really are classic. I watched one the other day, and since I
was'nt in pre-primary school anymore, I could actually catch all
the witty comments and stuff. Wow, and the technology!! The
modern Bond movies just aren't the same, though.
Jackie Brown another Quinten
Tarantino thingy.. i would'nt watch it again, but it's as crude
as his other movies, I reckon. Depicts characters I'm glad I
haven't come accross... and hopefully never will... cuz if i do,
they wouldn't be able to stop change... hahahaha!!! yeah, well..
blaH!
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