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Chris' Movie Questions: My MYSTIC RIVER Review
delalluvia:
'Cast Away' was very sad. Especially the end.
I remember watching the trailer, and people - me included - were like "Oh, deserted island, guy is stranded, a castaway..."
But when I actually went to see the movie and the title came up, it read "Cast....Away." and literally, the audience, as one, went 'Ohhhhh..."
That changed the entire mood and meaning of the movie.
I liked 'Gangs of New York'. Daniel Day Lewis was amazing. Leo IMO is overrated in anything he's ever come out in, except maybe 'Gilbert Grape'. Cameron Diaz was useless in this movie. Her part had absolutely no impact on the characters or plotline. The movie easily could have been made without her or instead with some no-name extra being the warm body/eye candy.
littleguitar:
--- Quote from: vkm91941 on July 14, 2006, 11:40:38 pm ---It's OK, in this case I think most critic's (R.E.) included were mesmerised by the transformation wrought by the make-up department and confused it for great acting. She's good and she's believable but she didn't make me forget even for a second that she was really Charlise Theron
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Could not agree more...
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: The CHRIS on July 14, 2006, 11:15:42 pm ---Cool...I'll check em both out!
Ok next is Monster...Charlize Theron in what is supposed to be one of the most incredible performances in cinematic history (Roger Ebert)...
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Monster was good, but what I was more interested in was the woman the story is about, Aileen Wuornos, who, apparently in real life, really was a monster. "Monster" (the movie) takes a few liberties with her life (there is a rape scene near the beginning which supposedly did not occur). There are two documentaries made about Wuornos which I have not seen, but would like to. The first one, if I recall correctly, covers the time of her trial and early incarceration. The second one is the last year of her life, before she was executed. The woman was mentally ill her entire life, but they say in the second documentary, to watch the transformation as she becomes stark, raving, mad is truly incredible.
Leslie
slayers_creek_oth:
Ok next: Our very own Ang Lee's The Ice Storm...supposedly very overlooked critically and commercially...good?
vkm91941:
The Ice Storm...Hmmmm excellent....Beware, this is one that will stay with you for a long time... This film IS pressure, temptation, collapse carefully dragging the viewer where you know you don't wanna go, but secretly can't help needing to find out the truth from the Truthteller, and you know you're gonna get the real magillah. Ugly, icky, and at times disturbingly stimulating. A+ The film was just brilliant. It really nearly broke my heart. Every performance is perfect. The direction by Ang Lee is deliberate and painful as he slices into you with the lives of those he makes you watch
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