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]

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

Could not agree more...

[MaineWriter]

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)...

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

[slayers_creek_oth]

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

And you aren't just sayin that becuase of a possible Ang bias that you may have?  LOL

[vkm91941]

And you aren't just sayin that becuase of a possible Ang bias that you may have?  LOL

Shhhhhhshhhh don't tell anyone!  lol    lol.. Um but seriouslyI saw this one before I knew who Ang Lee was and I was VERY impressed.

[slayers_creek_oth]

Ok so I watched Mystic River and LOVED it!  Tim Robbins and Marcia Gay Harden definitely stood out the most to me.  I've never been impressed with Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon was Kevin Bacon.  The end was pretty incredible.  Didn't see it coming at all.  Eastwood's second best (after Million Dollar Baby) IMO!  And it also helped prove my previous opinion that Clint Eastwood is a much better director then he is actor...again IMO!  Don't get me wrong...he can act...but I think he is more talented behind the camera then in front...

[mvansand76]

Ok so I watched Mystic River and LOVED it!  Tim Robbins and Marcia Gay Harden definitely stood out the most to me.  I've never been impressed with Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon was Kevin Bacon.  The end was pretty incredible.  Didn't see it coming at all.  Eastwood's second best (after Million Dollar Baby) IMO!  And it also helped prove my previous opinion that Clint Eastwood is a much better director then he is actor...again IMO!  Don't get me wrong...he can act...but I think he is more talented behind the camera then in front...

OMG, this movie is in my top ten of all-time favorites! So tragic, so intense, to have three of the best actors in ONE movie is almost too much to bear!