my god, this is pure merchandise from the first to the last minute. there is no charme, no surprises, even the typical wit of the planes/humans-setting is nowhere to find. not even the animators seem to have poked their usual bit of nerd fun out of it - nothing to find but bland clichés and annoying stereotypes. When the flick starts to present its own merchandising coffee pots, it starts to change from boring to annoying, and by the time a top-gun-rerun crept across the screen, I was honestly scared and bored to death at the same time - never knew it was possible. I give it a 2 for the nice racing scenes, though.
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Love N' Dancing
(2009)
very funny!
17 September 2012
forget the story (this kind of plot was filmed a thousand times before), forget the dancing (those who watch the movie because of it will judge by different parameters than I do), forget the lame camera-work and generic music - this is about dialogue and acting! I am actually thinking, the whole film is a parody about how special interest movies are made. the guy is deaf, but a dancer. so far so good. his former girlfriend is trying to win him back in a hilariously overacted 40's-femme-fatale-manner, while both of them look as imbecile as it gets. amy smart is admittedly a much nicer sight, but she peaks the top of her acting abilities with her performance of a stressed teacher (the students seem nice though, albeit a bit bored, which is understandable) having kind of an inner outbreak in the classroom, screaming and nearly dancing at the same time. I nearly fell off the sofa at that point. and when she came into the club, saying "wow, I can feel the energy!", I actually did. billy zane's stammering and overacting was also annoying and entertaining at the same time; like everybody else he was obviously left totally on his own (and to the unwillingly funny script) by the director, who seemed to have put all his efforts into the dancing scenes, and left the rest of the movie to his friends and family. not a very wise decision, if you ask me. so: one star for the dancing, one for the funny moments (if not on purpose), and one for the chuzpe to call this thing a movie. three altogether, and that's more than fair.
4:44 Last Day on Earth
(2011)
Willem Dafoe must have lost a bet.
15 September 2012
this movie reminded me of some student stage plays I saw in the late 80s: hollow monologization about semi-relevant stuff, overacting all the way; framed by improvised philosophy, sex and video snippets of VIPs talking. I was very pleased that at least nobody pooped on screen. I have the strong impression that ferrara felt the need to provide a lead role for his girlfriend (at least he got her undressed again, if just for the camera), and tricked dafoe into it by making him lose a bet. He was probably happy it was nothing even worse he had to obey after that drunk night. The film is available as DVD on demand to all 20 people that are actually interested.
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