mcdgames
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I'm being a little harsh on this movie. Actually, it's okay for mindless Saturday matinée drivel. Emphasis on the mindless.
The writers have, all throughout this franchise, seem bent on just throwing a bunch of hackneyed action and stilted dialogue at the audience with as much weight in the script as a cream puff.
They take actual legendary/mythological references, locales and characters and tailor make them to their own goofiness. Take the reference on Shangri-La, for instance. Shangri-la was invented by James Hilton in his pro-Utopian novel, Lost Horizon. Shangri-la grants immortality (or, as the characters in Lost Horizon discern) probably just extremely long life. There's a catch, though: once you leave Shangri-la, you age rapidly and die.
The action sequences are all over-the-top, and if you are an impressionable moron who likes bright and shiny things that are always blowing up, you'll like this.
I'm a fan of Brendan Frazer, but I think he's due for a better turn this this nonsense.
The writers have, all throughout this franchise, seem bent on just throwing a bunch of hackneyed action and stilted dialogue at the audience with as much weight in the script as a cream puff.
They take actual legendary/mythological references, locales and characters and tailor make them to their own goofiness. Take the reference on Shangri-La, for instance. Shangri-la was invented by James Hilton in his pro-Utopian novel, Lost Horizon. Shangri-la grants immortality (or, as the characters in Lost Horizon discern) probably just extremely long life. There's a catch, though: once you leave Shangri-la, you age rapidly and die.
The action sequences are all over-the-top, and if you are an impressionable moron who likes bright and shiny things that are always blowing up, you'll like this.
I'm a fan of Brendan Frazer, but I think he's due for a better turn this this nonsense.
This movie has been out awhile, and I just watched it on DVD.
First of all, the cinematography is just wonderful. Africa is one of my favorite settings. It's exotic and intriguing and always presents itself as a highly adventurous place. Kudos there.
The story here in Blood Diamond is very violent, reflecting the instability of African "nations." Of course, this instability is heightened by the standard Hollywood political claptrap that the world is being victimized and that some white Hollywood actor/writer/director/producer is going to set it straight by providing their take on the world situation. Let's face it, most of these people who put these types of movies together are morons who cannot give a good account of their own private, shallow lifestyles let alone depict and preach on how bad the outside world is.
Oh, if we could all be just like Brad Pitt and Angeline Jolie and Madonna and just go to Africa and adopt starving black kids. That's is so Christlike. Wow, aren't we angelic? So, the politics in this movie are just over-the-top, so much, in fact, that the movie becomes more of a self-absorbed white crusade to make the world "right", rather than a movie that details people caught up in a story about the despicable diamond market. Leonardo di Caprio goes through his tirade about how this evil works, in a bid to show how angelic his character is, when, actually, his character is the most despicable by far. Then, of course, we have the typical American beauty, Connelly, who appears just to somehow make a bid on how the white world is sooooooooo sensitive to the plight of self-destructive Africaans.
This movie is overrated and was promoted so well by the Hollywood propaganda machine, it actually was a hit. Garnered 5 Academy Award nominations? For what? Di Caprio's stilted accent?
First of all, the cinematography is just wonderful. Africa is one of my favorite settings. It's exotic and intriguing and always presents itself as a highly adventurous place. Kudos there.
The story here in Blood Diamond is very violent, reflecting the instability of African "nations." Of course, this instability is heightened by the standard Hollywood political claptrap that the world is being victimized and that some white Hollywood actor/writer/director/producer is going to set it straight by providing their take on the world situation. Let's face it, most of these people who put these types of movies together are morons who cannot give a good account of their own private, shallow lifestyles let alone depict and preach on how bad the outside world is.
Oh, if we could all be just like Brad Pitt and Angeline Jolie and Madonna and just go to Africa and adopt starving black kids. That's is so Christlike. Wow, aren't we angelic? So, the politics in this movie are just over-the-top, so much, in fact, that the movie becomes more of a self-absorbed white crusade to make the world "right", rather than a movie that details people caught up in a story about the despicable diamond market. Leonardo di Caprio goes through his tirade about how this evil works, in a bid to show how angelic his character is, when, actually, his character is the most despicable by far. Then, of course, we have the typical American beauty, Connelly, who appears just to somehow make a bid on how the white world is sooooooooo sensitive to the plight of self-destructive Africaans.
This movie is overrated and was promoted so well by the Hollywood propaganda machine, it actually was a hit. Garnered 5 Academy Award nominations? For what? Di Caprio's stilted accent?
This is an older movie, based upon the novel by Richard Matheson "Hell House" (and his screenplay). It is essentially a harsher look into Shirley Jackson's timid "The Haunting of Hill House" and the overrated 1963 "The Haunting" and it's unmentionable 1999 remake.
The story is simple: psychic investigators set up in a spooky house allegedly filled with outrageous disturbances based upon cannibalism, sexual vice, substance abuse, vampirism. They are hired by an eccentric billionaire afraid of dying and whom wishes to ascertain that there is indeed "surviving intelligence".
I've seen Roddy McDowell in a variety of trashy and silly nonsense over the years, but his earlier work is greatly admired; he makes a strong performance here as a shattered physical medium who is frightened of the house and only joins the others because of the money.
An excellent ghost story with a morbid darkness, LoHH is something to be afraid of. The first time I watched it I thought it was interesting. Subsequent times I now believe it is possibly one of the BEST haunted house movies ever made.
Don't see it alone.
The story is simple: psychic investigators set up in a spooky house allegedly filled with outrageous disturbances based upon cannibalism, sexual vice, substance abuse, vampirism. They are hired by an eccentric billionaire afraid of dying and whom wishes to ascertain that there is indeed "surviving intelligence".
I've seen Roddy McDowell in a variety of trashy and silly nonsense over the years, but his earlier work is greatly admired; he makes a strong performance here as a shattered physical medium who is frightened of the house and only joins the others because of the money.
An excellent ghost story with a morbid darkness, LoHH is something to be afraid of. The first time I watched it I thought it was interesting. Subsequent times I now believe it is possibly one of the BEST haunted house movies ever made.
Don't see it alone.