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The Inside (2012)
*sigh*
I just saw this film at Monster fest Melbourne, and must say when it started I was already annoyed by screaming girls and shaky camera work, which i was expecting as it is another "found footage" film that i am getting very tired of. But then the vagrants come in and I'm thinking, this is messed up this could be really sinister and nasty, and then it dragged on, and on, with silly little cliché glitches of the camera extremely similar to the tall man series on you tube. then the over used baby cry that is never fully explained or reasoned and also chuck in some witch craft and satanic symbols on the wall, and I'm just thinking. "what is this film." people ended up just laughing through out the movie screening. I think a movie where you never care about the characters to begin with then you are made to feel a bit scared for them, then hate them again, and then I just wanted the film to end, but it just kept going. A number of people walked out on this film screening, I stayed as I will try to give everything a chance and this is sadly just bad.
The Hunger Games (2012)
unoriginal in concept, but a rather enjoyable film.
I enjoyed this film, yet couldn't stop thinking of either series 7-battle royale-the running man just based on the storyline on it's own and the design just made me think of Dr.Seuss with a slash of Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga, and i think that if this movie becomes a mass hit without people really noticing the whole premise of the film, that we are all barbaric consumers. sort of a catch 22 situation there. But anyway, the movie was enjoyable, I felt moved and enthralled, suspense even, but it is sadly nothing all that special really, just another teen fad movie that will probably be rotting on a blockbuster shelf in 10 years time. i hope i'm wrong as i think it's a bit better than that but face it, it's where a lot of these new movies are heading.
Sleeping Beauty (2011)
unoriginal and flatly acted. pretentious.
this film was terrible and i believe Emily Browning is a horrible actress who's last two movies. (this and sucker punch) have got to be in my top ten worst movies of all time.
this movie is pretentious on so many levels and again boring, drab and in my opinion flatly acted by at least half the actors.
the storyline is also rather distasteful, not that movies need to be tasteful or anything as i also understand that film is just another medium for an artist to get there message across with. but in all seriousness this film made me feel a little sick, but i think the acting did that on it's own, especially how it seems Emily Browning just droned her way through the scenes.
Ghost World (2001)
changed my life.
this movie caught my attention when i was 14. i was going through an amazingly difficult time in my life, and this movie changed my view on everything. i had not read the graphic novel or even really heard about this film, which my mother rented and to be honest i looked at it and judged it as another stupid chick flick i didn't care to see. but my mum wanted to watch it, so i decided to sit down with her. from the first scene overlooking middle class America it struck me, as a well made movie. the character Enid, was almost a mirror image of how i was feeling at the time, and now when i watch it i almost see her as selfish, but i still feel a lot of emotions for her. now i see myself as Seymour (played by the amazing Steve Buscemi) me, myself being a somewhat excessive compulsive collector (of film not 78 records) and also not being able to get on with 95% of humanity. Terry Zwigoff is a master director who i believe deserves a lot more credit than he gets. this movie captures not just female teenage life, but teenage life wonderfully. i actually have a tattoo of this movie it means so much to me, i love it and always will have a special spot in my heart. i watch it twice a year and i don't get sick of it, in fact i pick up more every viewing. "i don't know what to say, i think it's a remarkable achievement."
Jack (1996)
funny as a child, poignant as an adult.
I used to love this movie as a child, i can remember renting it weekly at my local video shop. the fart scene in the cubby house always had me in stitches. now as a 22 year old, having sadly forgotten about this underrated gem, until i remembered it a few weeks ago and hunted for it on DVD. when hunting for some old videos i found a copy that must have somehow snuck into my video collection and i dusted off the old vcr player sat back and watched it. i laughed, i cried, i remembered my childhood. i think what Francis Ford Copella has done is an amazing achievement, it is truly hard for a movie to achieve what Jack does, it's fun for children, and adults who are young at heart.
but it also reached me on another level, it reached me on a level of meaning and emotion, it taught me life is short, in a way no other movie has reached me.
Powder (1995)
disgraceful
well, at first i enjoyed this movie to an extent, then found out about the director's (Victor Selva) horrible past. a confessed child molester, he compares himself to the main character of this film, this is how he felt in jail, well I'm sorry, an albino has a lot less choice than a dirty pedophile who actually molested a child while making his first movie, the horrible over rated clown house.
this movie would actually be good if the director did not write the main character based of himself, a dirty old man.
disgraceful director, and a bad person to even compare himself to an amazingly powerful character, this movie is mediocre, at best, it would be better if i had not have read the directors statements on this movie.
3-10 stars.
Clownhouse (1989)
A boring, poorly made movie.
I am a huge fan of horror of all kinds, this movie is poorly acted, filmed, written, and executed. the clown's just look like fat stupid stunt men wearing clown costumes and are not scary at one point in the whole entire movie. A story that has men escaping a mental asylum and wearing clown outfits, not original at all, not even a twist ending it's just a plane boring cat and mouse chase movie with no blood violence or charisma.
i found this movie terrible.
The acting wasn't the worst but it was still fairly boring and lacking, but i think this may have been from a poorly written script. also a seven year old boy should be old enough to realize hiding under a table is a little bit stupid. I don't mind a pointless movie once in a while, but when it is pointless on all grounds, i think it's terrible, there was no pointless gore, swearing, bad lines, or anything that can make a bad movie good, just plane boring director thinking his amazing, but is just boring.
1/10 stars.