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The Grandmother (1970)
Brilliant neo-surrealism
This film is a must-see for anyone interested in the world of surreal cinema. Combines fascinating visual metaphor with rich, vivid animation to create a disturbing ambience that draws the viewer in, like a fish caught on a hook. The music (provided by a collective of music engineers known as "Tractor") is like a grey canopy that wraps itself over your mind as you find that time and space and your life outside of a cold, flickering living room seem to fade into this backdrop of radioactive multimedia. Make no mistake about it, Lynch is an artist of the highest calibur, and in this gripping work he uses everything in the film as a medium to transmit his imagination to the outside world.
P.S. - If you like Lynch's style, I suggest looking into the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Luis Bunuel & Jean Cocteau. All of them brilliant artists in their medium.
Planet of the Apes (2001)
you think you're better than me...and you probably are!
Uhoh, big surprise...a big special effects movie with a stupid plot caused by misbudgeting (i.e - $50000000000000000000 dollars spent on special effects, and then they paid the writer in tuna sandwiches which he quickly devoured before returning to his cardboard-box home) see: Godzilla, Batman & Robin, Practically every Sci-Fi movie since Return of the Jedi. Mark Wahlberg was horrible (another big surprise...not!) the average door-to-door vaccum salesman would have been a better choice. Helena Bonham Carter (disguised by thick layers of polyurethane and "you can see all their mistakes on every close-up shot" make-up) was the only one who played their part well. She seemed oddly out of place, but made the movie a little more watchable. The ending was so absurdly stupid it gives me an aneurysm every time I try to think about it. The genius of it is: It's stupid on every conceivable level. It doesn't matter if you're Steven Speilberg or Steven Jones (the 80 year old crazy looking janitor at Homeland), you're simply un-able to like the ending at all. What's really sad is that this could have been a "good" movie. Wahlberg sub-par acting skills could have been overlooked if they just didn't add all the stupid scenes. If you choose to inflict this movie upon yourself then you'll know what I'm talking about. Certain things just didn't need to be there. Estella Warren, for instance. Her character did nothing of relevance at all. There was no romance between her and Wahlberg, she only had a few lines, but you could tell that they were trying to give the impression of romance, but it didn't work at all. And, despite the fact that she has lived her entire life in a desert wilderness being captured by Apes and forced to do slave-labor, and then escape, her lip-stick never fades! It's amazing! It seemed like a really "americanized" film though, all the way. But, if about 20 minutes of the film was cut (including, most-importantly, the retard ending) then I would give it like a 7 out of 10. But as is I'd have to give it a 7 out of 100