The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) Uli Edel 6/10
This film is well made and easy to watch but never probes any deeper then the surface of the subject manner.
It's basically a dramatization (doco drama if you like) of the start and escalation of the terrorist movement in West Germany from the late 1960's until the late 1970's.
Maybe a 10 hour mini series which would have allowed the time to flesh the multiple characters out more then a 2.5 hour film can.
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I don't know, I guess I was expecting more from a critically lauded film. It seemed like someone's home movie made on the cheap. Michelle and the dog were good, but this was no Wild Boys of the Road or even Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, two superior films in which homeless boys and girls are forced to ride the railroads in search of a better life.
I felt the dog food theft was an obvious plot device. Like the kid says, people who can't afford dog food shouldn't have a dog. The irony is that she could afford the couple of bucks it would have cost a lot more than the $50 fine she had to pay instead.
I felt the dog food theft was an obvious plot device. Like the kid says, people who can't afford dog food shouldn't have a dog. The irony is that she could afford the couple of bucks it would have cost a lot more than the $50 fine she had to pay instead.
Not if she was going to be able to make it to Alaska.Big Magilla wrote:she is incarcerated for stealing dog food she could easily have paid for.
I loved this film, though I must confess that I think the circumstances under which I saw it helped- I got stood up by my friend who I'd planned to see it with, therefore increasing my sensitivity to her feelings of isolation and abandonment.
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Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt/008) - 3/10
A couple of days in the life of young woman drifter, played by Michelle Williams, whose car breaks down and whose dog disappears while she is incarcerated for stealing dog food she could easily have paid for.
Will the car get fixed? Will the dog be found? Will she find her way out of town? Will you stay awake long enough to find out?
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A couple of days in the life of young woman drifter, played by Michelle Williams, whose car breaks down and whose dog disappears while she is incarcerated for stealing dog food she could easily have paid for.
Will the car get fixed? Will the dog be found? Will she find her way out of town? Will you stay awake long enough to find out?
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Christopher Strong (Dorothy Arzner, 1933) 7/10
Katharine Hepburn's second film and her first starring role as an aviatrix loosely based on Amelia Earhart in which she established her knack for playing strong, independent, yet vulnerable women. Her clandestine affair with public figure Colin Clive presages her own later affairs with Howard Hughes and Spencer Tracy.
Ironically, Billie Burke who played her mother in A Bill of Divorcement is her romantic rival here. Helen Chandler (Dracula) is Burke and Clive's spoiled daughter and Ralph Forbes the upper class philanderer she marries against Burke's wishes.
Hepburn and Burke are perfect, especially in their last scene together.
Week-End Marriage (Thornton Freeland, 1932) 7/10
Pre-code gem with Loretta Young as a working wife whose career takes off as husband Norman Foster's declines.
Aline MacMahon gets the wisecracks as Young's sister-in-law. The jaw dropping ending, which today's audiences would laugh off the screen, must have had sophisticated audience members howling even then. A true artifact and one of Loretta's best.
Katharine Hepburn's second film and her first starring role as an aviatrix loosely based on Amelia Earhart in which she established her knack for playing strong, independent, yet vulnerable women. Her clandestine affair with public figure Colin Clive presages her own later affairs with Howard Hughes and Spencer Tracy.
Ironically, Billie Burke who played her mother in A Bill of Divorcement is her romantic rival here. Helen Chandler (Dracula) is Burke and Clive's spoiled daughter and Ralph Forbes the upper class philanderer she marries against Burke's wishes.
Hepburn and Burke are perfect, especially in their last scene together.
Week-End Marriage (Thornton Freeland, 1932) 7/10
Pre-code gem with Loretta Young as a working wife whose career takes off as husband Norman Foster's declines.
Aline MacMahon gets the wisecracks as Young's sister-in-law. The jaw dropping ending, which today's audiences would laugh off the screen, must have had sophisticated audience members howling even then. A true artifact and one of Loretta's best.
Illegal (Lewis Allen, 1955) 5/10
The cast (Edward G Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe and Jayne Mansfield) kept me watching this B courtroom melodrama.
The Big Steal (Don Siegel, 1949) 6/10
On location filming in Mexico is the highlight of this chase film with Roberty Mitchum and Jane Greer reunited after their previous collaboration in Out of the Past (1947).
Side Street (Anthony Mann, 1949) 7/10
Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell are helped in this film noir by striking NYC location work and great b/w cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. The car chase at the end is a highlight and brilliantly filmed.
Where Danger Lives (John Farrow, 1950) 7/10
Very underrated film noir with Robert Mitchum as a chump and Faith Domergue (what happened to her?) as the lying femme fatale. Claude Rains adds an interesting cameo appearance.
Tension (John Berry, 1949) 6/10
B film noir.....with Audrey Totter a highlight.
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The cast (Edward G Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe and Jayne Mansfield) kept me watching this B courtroom melodrama.
The Big Steal (Don Siegel, 1949) 6/10
On location filming in Mexico is the highlight of this chase film with Roberty Mitchum and Jane Greer reunited after their previous collaboration in Out of the Past (1947).
Side Street (Anthony Mann, 1949) 7/10
Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell are helped in this film noir by striking NYC location work and great b/w cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. The car chase at the end is a highlight and brilliantly filmed.
Where Danger Lives (John Farrow, 1950) 7/10
Very underrated film noir with Robert Mitchum as a chump and Faith Domergue (what happened to her?) as the lying femme fatale. Claude Rains adds an interesting cameo appearance.
Tension (John Berry, 1949) 6/10
B film noir.....with Audrey Totter a highlight.
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Better Things (2009) Duane Hopkins 7/10
Depressing and bleak Bresson-like drama in which each shot is framed like a painting.
Winner Take All (1932) Roy Del Ruth 5/10
Synecdoche, New York (2008) Charlie Kaufman 7/10
Gardens in Autumn (2006) Otar Iosseliani 6/10
Hansel and Greta (2007) Pil-Sung Yim 7/10
Depressing and bleak Bresson-like drama in which each shot is framed like a painting.
Winner Take All (1932) Roy Del Ruth 5/10
Synecdoche, New York (2008) Charlie Kaufman 7/10
Gardens in Autumn (2006) Otar Iosseliani 6/10
Hansel and Greta (2007) Pil-Sung Yim 7/10
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No I'm not a film critic and I did see these films over a 5 days period. Also I don't watch any television so I have more time to watch films.flipp525 wrote:My lord, you watch a lot of movies. I've been so busy lately, I think I've watched maybe 3 in the same number of weeks. Are you a movie critic or something?
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Transformers (Michael Bay) - 4/10
My God, this movie is fucking stupid. There are two stories in this film: A) a boy finds out his car is alive (SWEEEEET!) and B) Transformers fight for the sake of the planet. Don't care about B) nearly as much as A). A) is put in a choke hold by the ramping-360 around/boom out on a sea of helicopters over the desert that has been Michael Bay's career: a walking, waking handjob to the military complex. Which has so little place in this movie! I want A). I have B). I also hate that the Transformers talk and have names like Jazz and Bone-Crusher. If this is your childhood, I'm sorry. The leaps of logic in this film are too much. At least it's plausible that a box of pizza fell into the sewer and the Ninja Turtles began there love affair.
My God, this movie is fucking stupid. There are two stories in this film: A) a boy finds out his car is alive (SWEEEEET!) and B) Transformers fight for the sake of the planet. Don't care about B) nearly as much as A). A) is put in a choke hold by the ramping-360 around/boom out on a sea of helicopters over the desert that has been Michael Bay's career: a walking, waking handjob to the military complex. Which has so little place in this movie! I want A). I have B). I also hate that the Transformers talk and have names like Jazz and Bone-Crusher. If this is your childhood, I'm sorry. The leaps of logic in this film are too much. At least it's plausible that a box of pizza fell into the sewer and the Ninja Turtles began there love affair.
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