lucius_420
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I will not be watching this garbage. i mean besides the trailer. hard pass. the 1 star reviewers have some great commentary listen to their advice and do not support trash films like this with money, it enables the producers to think that they should just keep ruining classic films over and over again. only real reason i wrote this (haven't put up a new review on here in a long time lol and i think this is only the 2nd review i've posted where i did not actually see the movie, the other was Grown Ups) is because of some interesting connection i found. so this Witches is a wannabe 'remake' of a film i grew up loving, the original which starred Anjelica Huston, a film a dearly loved at that time. Jim Henson puppet factory doing the heavy lifting on REAL special effects. CGI today doesn't count as SPECIAL EFFECTS!! you know- how they used to have to use wires and explosives and robots and claymation and all together at the same time with early computer animation, that was real* special* effects*, not this junk they pump out by the truckload for kids these days with their brainwashing. no wonder people buy this BS propaganda and vote again for Trump after all the horror and indignity we've endured as a human species for the last four years. sorry for that rant, but i feel hollywood and in particular disney propaganda is directly related to people being so dumb and emotionally unstable in the USA. ok, so the real reason i am writing is because i noted they mention this "powerhouse actor" Stanley Tucci in here (never really cared for him) got his start in the movie Prizzi's Honor, which also starred guess who: Anjelica Huston!!! In fact, Prizzi's Honor was nominated for 8 Academy Awards and the only one that WON was Best Supporting Actress: Anjelica Huston (her only oscar) who does not even appear at all in the extremely horrible quality film trailer on imdb for that movie lol. I was just noting Stanley Tucci standing twice in the shadow of a great actress regarding Witches and Prizzi's. Yeah Prizzi's Honor was a great movie but not because of anything Tucci did. he's a pathetic actor, powerhouse my arse, as bad as Kevin James, just turn it off.
Oh sweet, I get to write the first IMDb review for this? I'm a big fan of their music and I am a musician myself. I viewed this movie and most of it was in French (could make out a few words) although there were a few people interviewed that spoke English (could definitely understand those parts better) and one guy who spoke Japanese (could not understand one bit but it was a short segment). Interesting look into the past of these musicians and their musical work over the years.
There was some really cool stock footage from their early days and i think the Coachella footage is probably pretty rare also because of how they had kept it a secret even from their manager and it is super awesome. I was hoping for more coverage on the Discovery album, and a little more about the Tron Legacy soundtrack (although they did talk briefly about conducting the orchestra and having it go with their music and the impact that had on their follow up FIVE Grammy Award winning album Random Access Memories! Which they talked about the making of a little bit, even though I really wanted to know more in depth about their interactions with Paul Williams another musician and composer whose music I am also a big fan of. Seems as though it had some audio clips of the music maestro talking but the film seems most likely not made fully with their cooperation as I feel this project would have been done with even more artistic style. Also I would bet that there could be Issues with copyright money on the tron legacy soundtrack which is why they glossed over it only briefly touching on the music itself. Watching the old footage and comparing it to the different stages over the years was a fun treat and I would definitely recommend a watch to anyone who likes their music. I would also like to know more about all the other European electronic musicians that were influencing the sound of Daft Punk in their earliest stages for reference to see the chain connecting the evolution 70s and 80s synthesizer boogie to 80s and 90s technological acid jazz to today's supersonic musical technological wizardry. Also would be more interested to hear the full account of their interactions with other musicians and producers when they came to the US but maybe that is being saved for another tale... another animated one without the chattering heads next time hopefully. Still, this film is decently made and pays tribute to a great influential musical group of the electronic music variety. ;)
There was some really cool stock footage from their early days and i think the Coachella footage is probably pretty rare also because of how they had kept it a secret even from their manager and it is super awesome. I was hoping for more coverage on the Discovery album, and a little more about the Tron Legacy soundtrack (although they did talk briefly about conducting the orchestra and having it go with their music and the impact that had on their follow up FIVE Grammy Award winning album Random Access Memories! Which they talked about the making of a little bit, even though I really wanted to know more in depth about their interactions with Paul Williams another musician and composer whose music I am also a big fan of. Seems as though it had some audio clips of the music maestro talking but the film seems most likely not made fully with their cooperation as I feel this project would have been done with even more artistic style. Also I would bet that there could be Issues with copyright money on the tron legacy soundtrack which is why they glossed over it only briefly touching on the music itself. Watching the old footage and comparing it to the different stages over the years was a fun treat and I would definitely recommend a watch to anyone who likes their music. I would also like to know more about all the other European electronic musicians that were influencing the sound of Daft Punk in their earliest stages for reference to see the chain connecting the evolution 70s and 80s synthesizer boogie to 80s and 90s technological acid jazz to today's supersonic musical technological wizardry. Also would be more interested to hear the full account of their interactions with other musicians and producers when they came to the US but maybe that is being saved for another tale... another animated one without the chattering heads next time hopefully. Still, this film is decently made and pays tribute to a great influential musical group of the electronic music variety. ;)
New York Times article praised it as artsy saying the film makers were trying to be innovative by putting a camera in a tree a long ways away from the actors so they wouldn't know where it was and there was no action choreography (something most Chinese films are highly prized for, there are a lot of really great under-appreciated Chinese actors and actresses who need more roles that could have been in this movie, you don't have to have Wushu wires to act good) So I was thinking that those ideas sounded more uninspired and lazy rather than innovative or ingenious and have been done before by other people in better ways. I just finished watching the movie (for free online ha ha) hoping it might actually be interesting in some way since I love artsy Chinese films. It's like a silent film for an hour and 45 minutes, there is absolutely no music at all except for 2 very short uninspiring pieces. There's only two decently captured shots of the mountains where you get to see a person standing above the clouds, the last one right before the credits was actually pretty cool when the cloud is drifting past underfoot, but that one minute is not nearly enough to make up for this atrocious turd! There was maybe two dozen lines of dialog, none of it delivered with any feeling at all, emotionless.
Even if you're trying to convey realism by having no theme music and showing nature photos, surely someone should have done some exclaiming or belching or farting or moaning. Shu Qi got started in film after being a porn star. She is cast in films because she has a pretty face but can she act? NO!!! Asia's worst acting "superstar" is a like an inside joke, maybe the producers that cast her all fantasize about her naked body that you can see online from her porno days. Lead actor didn't have any presence, reminded me of his previous role, the 45 minute love interlude in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon that everyone agrees should have been cut for continuity reasons and to shorten. This film cuts between things happening to show you pictures of trees and clouds, no epic music, no grand landscape shots. Should have used widescreen, the aspect ratio is showing more vertical and shrinking the horizon into a narrow viewpoint. Shots of still life should have been cut, actually this movie should never have been made. I subjected myself to cinematic torture and watched the entire thing hoping there might be some ART somewhere near the end... and nope, no art. The story is trite, supposed to be a political intrigue between two courts and an "assassin" who never kills anyone. There are 4 bland fight scenes that have no sense at all of mortality, no tragedy or comedy exists in this film, take some lessons from the Greeks like Shakespeare did and you'll go far. So basically there's absolutely no theatrics, no one is acting in any good way, no music to help the static nature of this pooping on screen. The director thought he'd be controversial casting a porn star in the lead role, sure would have been awesome if they showed us her boobs just once in this movie, might have made up for the boring crap. One side boob shot or a little bit of blood goes a long way, you don't have to be overly gory or show full frontal to tastefully add human context, allure, or excitement to a film. In the end...nothing happens. blah blah she chooses not to kill if there's a child present or the target is pregnant, and never faces any consequences for her actions or lack thereof. There were two shots where you are watching a maid fumble for 5 minutes putting the comb into a hairdo of someone I assume is supposed to be a villain, it's never quite made clear if there actually is an antagonist. You sit there thinking, that IS a fancy hairdo! Let's sit here for 5 whole minutes of silence admiring that fancy hairdo. Some of the costumes were nice, not fantastic. Made me think of "Curse of the Golden Flower" which is actually an under-rated film- even though Chow Yun Fat hammed it up, Gong Li did an absolutely stunning job as Empress Phoenix and the costumes were so stellar, every detail so finely nuanced, it made me proud to be Chinese even though I'm totally not Chinese. This movie makes me want to give the director a Bruce Lee style kick to the face. It's an insult to the legacy of the many decades of great art films from China. Anyone calling this a great work of art has no true taste for art films, pretentious is the right word. Reading that the director had 7 films that all awarded best director or best movie, but I looked at his list of films, and I don't recognize any of them, the judges were smoking crack, his promoters came up with a way to hype his new picture. You're gonna be bored as hell and wishing for some dang music. People calling it a "transformative journey that sucks you in and doesn't let go", you have no life and no heartbeat, no pulse, lifeless robots, celebrating mediocrity and the degradation of the film world. Assembly line paycheck for guys who make terrible movies from Hong Kong. Yes, not all films with big budgets are great, although if this film did have a big budget I'm really not seeing it, what did they spend all the money on? Hookers and booze? The cinematography is nothing special, lots of blurry things in the foreground, 2 short horseback processions across terrain would have been better if it was a WIDE shot because a wide horizon gives a grand epic feeling of vast space, a destination, a journey, these shots just felt hollow and apathetic.
Even if you're trying to convey realism by having no theme music and showing nature photos, surely someone should have done some exclaiming or belching or farting or moaning. Shu Qi got started in film after being a porn star. She is cast in films because she has a pretty face but can she act? NO!!! Asia's worst acting "superstar" is a like an inside joke, maybe the producers that cast her all fantasize about her naked body that you can see online from her porno days. Lead actor didn't have any presence, reminded me of his previous role, the 45 minute love interlude in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon that everyone agrees should have been cut for continuity reasons and to shorten. This film cuts between things happening to show you pictures of trees and clouds, no epic music, no grand landscape shots. Should have used widescreen, the aspect ratio is showing more vertical and shrinking the horizon into a narrow viewpoint. Shots of still life should have been cut, actually this movie should never have been made. I subjected myself to cinematic torture and watched the entire thing hoping there might be some ART somewhere near the end... and nope, no art. The story is trite, supposed to be a political intrigue between two courts and an "assassin" who never kills anyone. There are 4 bland fight scenes that have no sense at all of mortality, no tragedy or comedy exists in this film, take some lessons from the Greeks like Shakespeare did and you'll go far. So basically there's absolutely no theatrics, no one is acting in any good way, no music to help the static nature of this pooping on screen. The director thought he'd be controversial casting a porn star in the lead role, sure would have been awesome if they showed us her boobs just once in this movie, might have made up for the boring crap. One side boob shot or a little bit of blood goes a long way, you don't have to be overly gory or show full frontal to tastefully add human context, allure, or excitement to a film. In the end...nothing happens. blah blah she chooses not to kill if there's a child present or the target is pregnant, and never faces any consequences for her actions or lack thereof. There were two shots where you are watching a maid fumble for 5 minutes putting the comb into a hairdo of someone I assume is supposed to be a villain, it's never quite made clear if there actually is an antagonist. You sit there thinking, that IS a fancy hairdo! Let's sit here for 5 whole minutes of silence admiring that fancy hairdo. Some of the costumes were nice, not fantastic. Made me think of "Curse of the Golden Flower" which is actually an under-rated film- even though Chow Yun Fat hammed it up, Gong Li did an absolutely stunning job as Empress Phoenix and the costumes were so stellar, every detail so finely nuanced, it made me proud to be Chinese even though I'm totally not Chinese. This movie makes me want to give the director a Bruce Lee style kick to the face. It's an insult to the legacy of the many decades of great art films from China. Anyone calling this a great work of art has no true taste for art films, pretentious is the right word. Reading that the director had 7 films that all awarded best director or best movie, but I looked at his list of films, and I don't recognize any of them, the judges were smoking crack, his promoters came up with a way to hype his new picture. You're gonna be bored as hell and wishing for some dang music. People calling it a "transformative journey that sucks you in and doesn't let go", you have no life and no heartbeat, no pulse, lifeless robots, celebrating mediocrity and the degradation of the film world. Assembly line paycheck for guys who make terrible movies from Hong Kong. Yes, not all films with big budgets are great, although if this film did have a big budget I'm really not seeing it, what did they spend all the money on? Hookers and booze? The cinematography is nothing special, lots of blurry things in the foreground, 2 short horseback processions across terrain would have been better if it was a WIDE shot because a wide horizon gives a grand epic feeling of vast space, a destination, a journey, these shots just felt hollow and apathetic.