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Archive for February, 2008

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) imdb yahoo rt metacritic mrqe bad link
stevesie

Posted on February 17th, 2008
liked it

on the downside this was annoyingly cutesy and the resolution felt much more manipulative and contrived than in darjeeling. but just like in darjeeling i couldn’t help but admire the joy anderson takes in his cutesiness and his resolution. nothing about the resolution was interesting, emotionally real, or emotionally satisfying to me, but […]

Xala (1975) imdb rt mrqe bad link
technical fetishism

Posted on February 13th, 2008

this was pretty horrible, but i was kind of distracted the whole time watching it so i made it through pretty easily. mostly it just needed some tighter editing. the dialogue and acting was bad but if there just weren’t so many shots of people walking to cars or the dude pouring his […]

Michael Clayton (2006) imdb yahoo rt metacritic mrqe bad link
stand the test of time

Posted on February 13th, 2008
liked it

i liked this quite a bit but i feel like it was kind of stretching a little too far for profundity.  mostly i just don’t see how the addiction theme tied into the sell-your-soul theme very well.  the sell-your-soul theme seemed more about conformity and success with your peers and there just wasn’t much there […]

Killer of Sheep (1977) imdb rt metacritic mrqe bad link

Posted on February 1st, 2008
liked it

there’s certainly plenty to criticize with the dialogue and acting and some clunky construction - the scene when he goes to buy the motor in particular, shot in a bunch of closeups with no sense of space and just wooden all around. but there are so many nice well-observed moments to overlook […]

i guess my main problem is just not liking the songs.  it’s just not a genre to my tastes and i don’t enjoy listening to them.  besides that they leave very little room for subtlety or nuance in the story, so it’s kind of a double whammy if you don’t like the songs so there’s […]