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redfiona99Jupiter Ascending continues to look just like my kind of nonsense.
Whoever did the advert for Selma deserves many awards. It is excellent. Even if I am mildly bemused by the number of English actors in it.
There are many things I don't get about 50 Shades of Grey, but I shall go with an obvious one. What about it screams Valentine's Day, because, his behaviour notwithstanding, there is no way most boyfriends are going to be able to compete with dude who can take you on a flight on a whim.
(Also, this is possibly because I have my own, entirely opposite, tendencies, but I'd run screaming from anyone with quite such pronounced control-freak tendencies. And also, during the advert, I found myself wanting to yell at the girl and say, "stop being such a doormat". But this is why I never read the books.)
I went to see Inherent Vice.
Important PSA: Do not go and see Inherent Vice. It is bad.
The best way I can describe it is if Garth Marenghi decided to branch out into 60s-set neo-noir, and then they did it as a proper film with some very good actors wasting their time on this nonsense.
The dialogue was god-awful. We're talking proper 'no human in the history of the world has ever spoken like this' awful.
The only actors who made their dialogue work were Benicio Del Toro (who was in three scenes) and Martin Donovan (who was in one scene). Everyone else had at least some moments of floundering. And while I would happily watch Joaquin Phoenix flounder for hours, a good, or even half-decent, film, it does not make.
But yes, confusing, unnecessarily dense, and also a really poor Sam Spade pastiche.
Avoid.
Whoever did the advert for Selma deserves many awards. It is excellent. Even if I am mildly bemused by the number of English actors in it.
There are many things I don't get about 50 Shades of Grey, but I shall go with an obvious one. What about it screams Valentine's Day, because, his behaviour notwithstanding, there is no way most boyfriends are going to be able to compete with dude who can take you on a flight on a whim.
(Also, this is possibly because I have my own, entirely opposite, tendencies, but I'd run screaming from anyone with quite such pronounced control-freak tendencies. And also, during the advert, I found myself wanting to yell at the girl and say, "stop being such a doormat". But this is why I never read the books.)
I went to see Inherent Vice.
Important PSA: Do not go and see Inherent Vice. It is bad.
The best way I can describe it is if Garth Marenghi decided to branch out into 60s-set neo-noir, and then they did it as a proper film with some very good actors wasting their time on this nonsense.
The dialogue was god-awful. We're talking proper 'no human in the history of the world has ever spoken like this' awful.
The only actors who made their dialogue work were Benicio Del Toro (who was in three scenes) and Martin Donovan (who was in one scene). Everyone else had at least some moments of floundering. And while I would happily watch Joaquin Phoenix flounder for hours, a good, or even half-decent, film, it does not make.
But yes, confusing, unnecessarily dense, and also a really poor Sam Spade pastiche.
Avoid.
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Date: 2015-03-23 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-23 03:29 pm (UTC)Martin Donovan is Christina Ricci's put-upon older brother in 'the Opposite of Sex' if that helps.
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Date: 2015-03-23 10:47 pm (UTC)I haven't seen that but I saw him in Ghost Whisperer as the main character's father and was convinced he was George Newbern until Google/IMDB proved me wrong.