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Reviews
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Takes itself too seriously! (and way too long)
The movie just keeps going and going and going and going and going and ... well you get the point, but apparently the director did not! There is no reason that this movie should have been 2 hours and 42 minutes long ... topping 3 gruelling hours if you include preview trailers and credits.
This is not a dramatic piece full of character development and intricate performances. For the most part, this movie is a fluffy light comedic piece with some action, good cgi effects, and a lot of blurry fight choreography. But the director and writers took the script way too seriously retaining much of what should normally end up on the cutting room floor. I was squirming at the 2 hour mark and was running out the door after the 4th ending.
Glue (2006)
Hmmm.... the concept was good, but the execution was tiresome
I just saw this at the Toronto International Film Festival, and although I had high hopes, I didn't love it. The concept is good and should have worked - i.e. the frenetic and disjointed experience of teenage realities in remote Argentina being translated cinematically by alternating concentration on both the mundane and the exciting, using a lot of guerrilla hand-held camera work, solarized post-production, random cuts and stop-motion editing of the film. But the end product appears weak... at one point my friend said "I don't think I can stand another abstract, hand-held, blurry, close-up - its making me dizzy." The pacing of the film is really slow too. But I agree with some of the above comments - there are moments that are very sweet/naive - a total immersion into the teenage experience.