Dalton
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As a guy raised by a single mother, I would like to give a solid "FUCK YOU" to Waitress. Dumbest message to a movie I have seen in years.
corianderstem said:Waitress
5/10
I was seriously underwhelmed by this movie. I am filled with meh.
More like: lots of awesome.Dalton said:I'm watching Eastern Promises right now. Blood. Lots of blood.
*browneyedgirl* said:How about Schindler's List?
Lancemc said:
How about it...
Lancemc said:Laz, I'll have you know I got into a bit of a debate on RT earlier where I was trying to explain the craptitude of the last 30 minutes of Schindler's List. You would have been proud.
RIGHT!Lancemc said:
How about it...
There are some powerful images — of scared and tired soldiers in France, of bloody wounds and shattered limbs in London — but the film’s treatment of the war has a detached, secondhand feeling. And even the most impressive sequences have an empty, arty virtuosity. The impression left by a long, complicated battlefield tracking shot is pretty much “Wow, that’s quite a tracking shot,” when it should be “My God, what a horrible experience that must have been.”
The main casualty of the film’s long, murky middle and end sections is the big moral theme — and also the ingenious formal gimmick — that provides the book with some of its intensity and much of its cachet. As the title suggests, “Atonement” is fundamentally about guilt and the attempt to overcome it, and about the tricky, tragically imperfect power of art to compensate for real-life crimes and misdemeanors.
lazarus said:I'm not above criticizing the technical aspects of a film mentally while I'm watching it, but I'm also not resistant to a story that engages with well-drawn characters and/or an involving story.
Plus, I imagine this film is up my alley anyway. Epics that are immaculately shot, taking place over long periods of time that deal with regret, etc.
Unfortunately Atonement isn't playing in this shithole I'm working in, so I'll have to wait.
lazarus said:Epics that are immaculately shot, taking place over long periods of time that deal with regret, etc.
No spoken words said:I'd like to see a long tracking shot of Laz as he wanders up and down International Drive, looking for a movie theater that plays Atonement.