scottamir Reviews

Flight (I) (2012)

Moral Dilemma

[8/10 · 8 November 2013]

All the bad reviews that I read are essentially written in ego maniacal fashion. All the good reviews are by people who detect the societal moral dilemma within in the film. If you are a commercial pilot, and the crash is 20 minutes long, do not base your entire review on the plausibility of the crash, because believe or not, the movies is absolutely not about that. Neither is solely about his drug addiction. It seems to suggest how criminal lawsuits can be rigid to a man's story, only looking at facts, not giving weight to desperation versus mal-intent. Its an audience splitter. Have to write on more line to fill the requirement.

The Purge (I) (2013)

Gagged to purge, to purge, from watching the purge

[3/10 · 3 September 2013]

I feel like a movie that depends on a lack of common sense to create the entire situation is a very difficult start to swallow. Then uncanny timing of people saving other people at the very last second...unbearable. There were about five or six scenes in the last half hour of one family member/hobo saving the other family member at the last possible second. If you're power to your house it cut, and there is a gang of lunatics in the house...please do not walk aimlessly around the house with a flashlight. That is sure fire way to be noticed and have your life ended. If anything use the flashlight as a decoy on a chair and lie on the ground behind cover so that if someone opens the door they are prompted to fire at the flashlight or something. I'm not a cop or a bad ass...it just seems like common hunt or be hunted knowledge, you don't walk around a dark environment, lit up like a beacon lol There are layers upon layers of common sense lacking to make it a qualified story line. Aside from that, the "lunatics" were like limp wristed prep kids...the one thing that this movie taught me is that stabbing someone requires no strength or effort, you can basically dip the knife into someone. The scares were mostly predictable. It is hard to take a murder seriously when they are prancing around in the front yard. I don't know much about murders, i would like to think that they wouldn't hold hands and prance around the front yard. I'm usually not hard on movies about this kind of stuff.

There are movies that are unconventional in every sense, are way over the top too (maybe like a Tarantino movie or something), but they have some sort of style, "swag", culture, rhythm, I don't know. This just didn't have it.

The Girl Next Door (2007)

Mixed Feelings

[3/10 · 21 February 2013]

Its shot like a view for TV movie, or whatever its called. Not as brutal as everyone made it out to be, mostly because the brutalization is left to the viewer's imagination, they do not show the actual violence but show immediately before or afterward, or camera view is limited or obstructed, etc. I actually found the movie Sinister, for example, to be much creepier and more violent than this film. It is slightly gut wrenching because it is based on a true story, and you wonder about how inflicting that much pain is possible.

Sinister made me unable to sleep for nights, this might keep my mind running for an hour or two.

Spartacus (2010–2013)

Love it!

[9/10 · 2 March 2010]

I can't stand much of whats on TV. What I love about this show is the amount of sensuality and poetry it brings to the table, while not being sensory with respect to sexuality, violence, and ethics. I usually hate romance, but the romance in this movie is genuine, there are several forms of love and lust that are identified in the episodes. The fact that they have homosexuality in it despite possible conflicting interest--what would seem to attract small target audience--does suggest a good portrayal of sexuality at that time (Although i doubt that only a couple of them would be subject to homosexual lust because many of the mentors and mentees mated at that time).

As a previous rater stated, the characters have shades of evil and good. Their ethics seems to match what values were imbedded in the roman civilization. The reason there is so much blood and it over indulges is because the show not only explicitly includes sensual dialogue, but the way it is directed and the tactics of capturing violence and glory are not 2D and speak to its sensuality. Bottom line: if you are a passionate person, you will enjoy the dramatic dialogue and poetry, the sexuality, and the brutality.