Just saw Tree of Life for the first time.
Bad movie with the most beautiful sequence I’ve seen/heard since The Fountain.
I’d almost include it as a favorite film for that, but not quite.
Over the weekend I saw Beginners, Tinker Tailor and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Thus, my list is revised to…
- The Muppets
- Beginners
- 13 Assassins (forgot about this one)
- Young Adult
- Drive
Everything else was a little bit of a bummer. I hope to catch Take Shelter later this week before it vacates the second-run theaters.
13 Assassins was great. Man the final 45 minutes of that movie is some of the best ninja/samurai fighting around.
I saw Bellflower last night and hated it. It was almost unwatchable, with the tacky digitally colored “cinematography” and the fake dirty camera lens. The director seemed to be trying for a found-footage look, which makes no sense in the context of a non-found-footage movie. And if you are going to shoot some scenes through a dirty lens, at least keep the grime consistent. Besides the muddled direction, the characters and story were unpleasant and boring. At one point I shut it off, but decided to finish it anyway. I have no idea how this got good reviews.
Why would you say that “There’s a good chance most of you have already seen this”? Your post is the only one in this entire forum that mentions the film, I think.
I just did see it, and was very moved by it.
This is really quite good.
I was wondering what else Mr. Sideways and Election and About Schmidt had been up to, so I was checking out highly rated metacritic movies in his list.
I loved the actor who played Clay Davis in the Wire telling his fellow “insurance agents” in his best black-guy-white-guy voice that he was a big enthusiast of the HBO show “The Wire”.
He just nails middle americana, every time. Stellar casting, too.