11 reviews
They really don't know what they're talking about.
Hilarious Hard-R screwball comedy, smart, wonderfully acted, tight script, with funny improv from a lot of talented actors with solid comedy cred.
It's a party blowout movie. Bachelor Party. Can't Hardly Wait. Superbad. Old School. It's like that. A great way to spend a couple of hours.
Hilarious Hard-R screwball comedy, smart, wonderfully acted, tight script, with funny improv from a lot of talented actors with solid comedy cred.
It's a party blowout movie. Bachelor Party. Can't Hardly Wait. Superbad. Old School. It's like that. A great way to spend a couple of hours.
Not bad, if you have an imagination and can appreciate what the filmmaker is trying to convey!
A young father bored with life buys a red kite for his daughter. An encounter on the bus gets him thinking about the meaning of life...
Dated and unassuming, a fairly standard presentation, and features a young Michael Learned (or a lookalike) in an uncredited role. Course, nobody's credited here, there are no credits at all. I guess you take your Canadian government acting check and that's the credit you get.
Anyway, it's a short story in film form and not particularly deep, but makes a good point, in visuals vintage and pleasing to the eye.
A young father bored with life buys a red kite for his daughter. An encounter on the bus gets him thinking about the meaning of life...
Dated and unassuming, a fairly standard presentation, and features a young Michael Learned (or a lookalike) in an uncredited role. Course, nobody's credited here, there are no credits at all. I guess you take your Canadian government acting check and that's the credit you get.
Anyway, it's a short story in film form and not particularly deep, but makes a good point, in visuals vintage and pleasing to the eye.
A lot of people didn't really get this movie, and that's to be expected.
It all made perfect sense to me. "The Tree Of Life". From our nebular beginnings as atoms in the universe, through our very inception on this earth. And the birth of mercy, compassion, love -- when the dinosaur, instead of eating its vulnerable prey, allows it to die with dignity. The movie basically tracks the birth of compassion, or the way grace is born out of "nature red in tooth and claw". The way of nature -- selfish, egotistic, unloving...or the way of grace, which makes all life possible. It's laid out very clearly, and acted out by the family's story.
There are a lot of visuals that were hard to parse, of course. This is Malick we're talking about. Surely they have meaning to him, or maybe they don't. But there's so much poetry here, there's layers upon layers of meaning a sensitive and receptive viewer will pick up. It's all there. I can't imagine how any such viewer will fail to perceive the beauty that suffuses this film -- which is indeed the very theme of the movie.
It all made perfect sense to me. "The Tree Of Life". From our nebular beginnings as atoms in the universe, through our very inception on this earth. And the birth of mercy, compassion, love -- when the dinosaur, instead of eating its vulnerable prey, allows it to die with dignity. The movie basically tracks the birth of compassion, or the way grace is born out of "nature red in tooth and claw". The way of nature -- selfish, egotistic, unloving...or the way of grace, which makes all life possible. It's laid out very clearly, and acted out by the family's story.
There are a lot of visuals that were hard to parse, of course. This is Malick we're talking about. Surely they have meaning to him, or maybe they don't. But there's so much poetry here, there's layers upon layers of meaning a sensitive and receptive viewer will pick up. It's all there. I can't imagine how any such viewer will fail to perceive the beauty that suffuses this film -- which is indeed the very theme of the movie.
This movie is not a good movie. The script, by a totally inexperienced screenwriter, is a half-finished jumble of incoherent events, mixed with unfinished story lines, mixed with completely cliché plot points and dialogue.
Somehow the agitprop of bombs and etc., along with the jerky camera business (obscuring bad acting) has amazed people to the point of believing that there's some sort of meaning here, but there's really not. No meaning nor significance. It's not even a good exploration of meaninglessness!
It's an all around poor effort, and if it gets an Oscar, then the fix is in.
Somehow the agitprop of bombs and etc., along with the jerky camera business (obscuring bad acting) has amazed people to the point of believing that there's some sort of meaning here, but there's really not. No meaning nor significance. It's not even a good exploration of meaninglessness!
It's an all around poor effort, and if it gets an Oscar, then the fix is in.
This show got a lot of bad press, which seemed to be from people who either watched a few minutes of one segment, or didn't watch it at all but got their information from other reviewers.
I was ready to hate this show as being inauthentic and dull, but...well, a funny thing happened on the way to my bad review. I sort of forgot my preconceptions and got to know the characters. And I liked it.
There's quality writing here, and the show is nicely filmed and presented. It's a bit provincial, perhaps, and the angst of twentysomethings might be niche, but there's a lot here for everyone. And twists and turns and humor too. A fine way to spend your time...deserves a second season and a second look.
I was ready to hate this show as being inauthentic and dull, but...well, a funny thing happened on the way to my bad review. I sort of forgot my preconceptions and got to know the characters. And I liked it.
There's quality writing here, and the show is nicely filmed and presented. It's a bit provincial, perhaps, and the angst of twentysomethings might be niche, but there's a lot here for everyone. And twists and turns and humor too. A fine way to spend your time...deserves a second season and a second look.
A little off, but not in a bad way. I think the filmmaker honestly wanted to offer up something deeper than your usual fare.
I watched it because it started with Dvorak's 9th Symphony, 2nd movement, which is a beautiful piece of music. Hypnotized, I sat and watched the whole thing. It didn't let me down. Nice visuals, good sense of humor. The girls were attractive, especially the Italian girl he meets in the diner toward the end.
When the credits rolled, I was glad I watched it. It had some interesting ideas in it, and makes you think. I commented because it made me sad that the only comment was a negative one. Doesn't deserve that. I appreciate what writer-director John Ryman tried to do and what he did do, and enjoyed the result. It was a pleasant way to pass 90 minutes, and I'll probably watch it again.
I watched it because it started with Dvorak's 9th Symphony, 2nd movement, which is a beautiful piece of music. Hypnotized, I sat and watched the whole thing. It didn't let me down. Nice visuals, good sense of humor. The girls were attractive, especially the Italian girl he meets in the diner toward the end.
When the credits rolled, I was glad I watched it. It had some interesting ideas in it, and makes you think. I commented because it made me sad that the only comment was a negative one. Doesn't deserve that. I appreciate what writer-director John Ryman tried to do and what he did do, and enjoyed the result. It was a pleasant way to pass 90 minutes, and I'll probably watch it again.
This is the kind of film that gets under your skin. One of a small subgenre of Sci-Fi Westerns, its small flashes of inspired writing make it worth watching some night when there's nothing else to do. Cameron Milzer is particularly notable as a blackly comedic psycho-girlfriend, but Tim Thomerson and Melanie Griffith are no slouches themselves. Pleasant bleak visuals and an interesting score from Basil Poledouris (Robocop, Hunt For Red October, & the Conan films, as well as 60 other movies) make for a modest repeat viewability factor. Fun and stupid!