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Comment on Rio by Gnomeo & Juliet / Movies I Didn't Get

Gnomeo & Juliet / Movies I Didn't Get — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:49:51 +0000

[...] film, specifically, which Gnomeo co-writer/director Kelly Asbury handled), or say this year’s Rio, for instance, it pales. The Toy Story films wind up being emotional, hysterical, and mature enough [...]

Comment on The Art Of Darkness – Apocalypse Now & Full Metal Jacket by Armadillo / Movies I Didn't Get

Armadillo / Movies I Didn't Get — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:16:33 +0000

[...] While Restrepo‘s directors, Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, certainly deserve at least equal commendation for their bravery in making the film (they spent a year with their platoon, while Metz’s film covers only half that), it is precisely Metz’s more narrative-driven approach that draws the viewer in and makes his film all the more haunting. A viewer’s enjoyment of both films hinges to a great degree on their ability to be entertained by relatively unadorned reality, as much of the time spent outside of patrols and combat situations is whiled away in sheer boredom, so Metz is wise to present this reality with the gorgeous cinematography audiences have come to expect from fiction films. Whereas Restrepo‘s more traditionally documentary-style approach makes the experience akin to watching the news, Armadillo paradoxically feels more real because it is presented in the way most audience members have grown accustomed to seeing war: through the dark but beautiful visions presented in films such as Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) and Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987). [...]

Comment on Transformers – Michael Bay And The Cinema Of Subtlety by Birdemic: Shock And Terror / Movies I Didn't Get

Birdemic: Shock And Terror / Movies I Didn't Get — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:05:56 +0000

[...] I think I just may have found the absolute worst movie ever made. Though Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), my previous choice, is indeed the most mind-numbing and impossible to enjoy film I can [...]

Comment on Loving The Bomb – Technology And Conquest In The Films Of Stanley Kubrick by Movie Geek Manifesto / Movies I Didn't Get

Movie Geek Manifesto / Movies I Didn't Get — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:59:58 +0000

[...] I swear to Stanley Kubrick, if you bring your crying baby into a movie I actually care about – you know, enough to see [...]

Comment on Loving The Bomb – Technology And Conquest In The Films Of Stanley Kubrick by The Legacy of Silent Film / Movies I Didn't Get

The Legacy of Silent Film / Movies I Didn't Get — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:53:59 +0000

[...] first films to make extensive use of miniatures, paving the way for films like King Kong (1933) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). It was also the first film to feature a humanoid machine, or robot, and its theme of the [...]

Comment on Spoiler Alert! Some Thoughts On Twist Endings by The Legacy of Silent Film / Movies I Didn't Get

The Legacy of Silent Film / Movies I Didn't Get — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:53:43 +0000

[...] Night of the Living Dead (1968); and it is also notable as perhaps the first film with a twist ending, a clear precursor to later supernatural films from Carnival of Souls (1962) to The Sixth Sense [...]

Comment on The White Ribbon – Chaos In The Order by Dogtooth / Movies I Didn't Get

Dogtooth / Movies I Didn't Get — Fri, 11 May 2012 01:13:55 +0000

[...] Haneke – the brilliant filmmaker behind The Seventh Continent (1989), Cache (2005) and The White Ribbon (2009), to name just a few – but Dogtooth is more perversely humorous than even [...]