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chronovoreWonderful Days: Japanese and Korean anime collaboration, seemingly targeting a remake of Æon Flux, except unbearably boring. The pacing was miserable for the first half hour, and the rendered CG/cell CG integration was half-assed, so I gave up. Not wonderful.
Behind Enemy Lines: Pretty good for a Top Gun which takes place mostly on the ground! Actually, that's unfair; Top Gun is just a love story about an emotionally stunted pilot and the minimal amount of combat in it is implausible, ill-defined, and only serves the pilot's emotional growth. Behind Enemy Lines is actually a war movie which at least attempts to make a point about international politics, and the validity of interference, at least where genocide is taking place.
The editing, though, is straight out of the Top Gun/MTV school of being artsy but without any particular need or meaning, so... failing at art. I was happy to have a 1.5x speed to rush though a couple of "montage" sequences which served no purpose.
Probably the biggest surprise was seeing GTA IV's Nico Bellic appear. I knew Nico was supposedly from the Croat/Serb ethnic region, but I didn't know that Rockstar had lifted Nico's appearance wholesale from this film's "Sasha." Seriously, it has to be intentional.
Gone in 60 Seconds: Almost entirely worthless action flick. This movie attempts to be playful, but it looks like it wasn't much fun to make; just a weird vibe. Robert Duvall pulls a fair turn as an aging mechanic, but everyone else is chewing the scenery. Giovanni Ribisi cannot act, at least he couldn't in 2001. A young, blonde-dreadlocked Angelina Jolie wears blue contact lenses and bounces around in a tank top, so watching it was worth at least that much.
Behind Enemy Lines: Pretty good for a Top Gun which takes place mostly on the ground! Actually, that's unfair; Top Gun is just a love story about an emotionally stunted pilot and the minimal amount of combat in it is implausible, ill-defined, and only serves the pilot's emotional growth. Behind Enemy Lines is actually a war movie which at least attempts to make a point about international politics, and the validity of interference, at least where genocide is taking place.
The editing, though, is straight out of the Top Gun/MTV school of being artsy but without any particular need or meaning, so... failing at art. I was happy to have a 1.5x speed to rush though a couple of "montage" sequences which served no purpose.
Probably the biggest surprise was seeing GTA IV's Nico Bellic appear. I knew Nico was supposedly from the Croat/Serb ethnic region, but I didn't know that Rockstar had lifted Nico's appearance wholesale from this film's "Sasha." Seriously, it has to be intentional.
Gone in 60 Seconds: Almost entirely worthless action flick. This movie attempts to be playful, but it looks like it wasn't much fun to make; just a weird vibe. Robert Duvall pulls a fair turn as an aging mechanic, but everyone else is chewing the scenery. Giovanni Ribisi cannot act, at least he couldn't in 2001. A young, blonde-dreadlocked Angelina Jolie wears blue contact lenses and bounces around in a tank top, so watching it was worth at least that much.
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Date: 2012-01-09 06:50 pm (UTC)people say korean cinema is awesome but i have never seen a korean movie better than like a C-.
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