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Doragon heddo (2003)
If I took a drink every time someone fell down, I'd be dead
What is really disappointing about this movie is that the art direction is so fantastic, it makes the inane acting so upsetting to watch. Seriously, 3/4 of this movie focuses on the main character stumbling around, falling down, and then waddling around on the ground like an invalid. None of the characters act at all rational, and yet they are all surrounded by amazing sets and brilliantly realized visions of the apocalypse. If only the director could have things move faster, or have people stop falling over. I thought to myself, "if I took a drink every time someone falls down to the ground, I'd be dead." It might make a fun time at a party of with some friends, but if you're looking to enjoy a good movie, I would skip out on this tumbling mess.
Skammen (1968)
Astonishing! Vanquishing!
This film offers one of the greatest experiences available to movie-goers. It is by no means a pleasant film, but offers realities and emotions the human mind may never have meant to touch upon. It opens pathways in how an individual thinks, and afterwards will change the person forever.
The first time I saw this film was in class, and immediately after seeing it I had to skip my next class and walk around campus in order to reset my body and mind. I felt devastated and, somehow unreal, as if I didn't exist. It was only a few months later that I was telling one of my friends about SHAME, and she asked, "Oh, is that when you were messed up after seeing it, and ran into me talking all strange about it?" I didn't even remember running into or talking to anyone at all while outside that day, I was astonished.
In plot terms it is the simple tale of a couple torn apart by war. There suffering is greater than that of the dead and by the end...there are no words to complete the image that Bergman creates. Its like a horrible dream which causes you to wake, altering your own reality forever. This film must be seen.
The Terminal (2004)
Booooo
Yes, that's all I can really muster for this stupid movie is one long, tired Booo. Do you like spending time trapped in an airport? I don't. Do you think Tom Hanks likes spending time in an airport? If you really really have to know, then go ahead and watch this movie to find out, otherwise I'll remind you of that time you had that delayed flight to Florida that had you waiting for over two horrible hours in that uninteresting and sterile airport. That's what this movie feels like. What's even worse is that Tom Hanks plays a Eastern European, so we have to listen to him babble incoherently in some made up language while breaking out in pantomime frantics with everyone around him asking, What!? So, once more, I reiterate Boooooooooooooo. If only I had some tomatoes to throw.