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8 femmes (2002)
I found this bewildering 4 out of 10
I found this bewildering. It is fine that the film is presented as a stage production, however when they started bursting in to song and for me generally not good songs I was bewildered. If I was watching the local amateur production in our civic hall I'd have thought they made a good effort. As a professional film a bit of a poor show.
However it is French and they can have a more surreal approach to films that in the UK. I can't remember who did it and I do not care. If you have 90 minutes to waste you may as well watch it, although your time would be better spend watching "Read My Lips" or "The closet" or "Italian for Beginners" all much better films
At First Sight (1999)
About 80 minutes would have been sufficient not the 128 minutes
Here in Crete Greece there are many films shown during the night on TV so my wife and I use the users comments to decide which films to record to watch at a decent hour. Although this film only got a rating of 5.6 which we feel is the bottom end of a film worth watching the plot outline sounded interesting so we gave it a go.
Well I think that 5.6 is a bit too good a rating. 4.5 is better.
The basic story about a man who was blind from the age of three regaining his sight is fine. However about 80 minutes would have been sufficient not the 128 minutes forced on to us. It was dragged out for the sake of it with lots of valueless scenes included. Our DVD recorder automatically put markers every six minutes on a recording and after about 80 minutes we started zapping forward 6 minutes and watching for 30 40 seconds to keep up to date with the plot.
Val Kilmer's portrayal of a blind man was for him to smile incessantly throughout every scene, he seemed more creepy than anything.
When they enter the old abandoned building which Kilmer had not known existed before then, he was very confident for a blind man entering a new space. He steps gingerly forward without his stick in to what? Could have been an old uncover well and that would have been the end of him and the film. But luckily for him it was just good solid floor boards.
The father serves no purpose for being in this movie.
The little kid next door pops up for no good reason and gets pretty annoying.
It was OK to watch but perhaps I should have baked some bread it would have been better use of my time.
Goodfellas (1990)
After about 40 minutes we turned it off
Here in Crete Greece there are many films shown during the night on TV so my wife and I use the users comments to decide which films to record to watch at a decent hour. This film being 19th in the top 250 film was a must to record.
Without a doubt this is a well made film, with atmospheric photography and very good acting. The violence which we saw although harsh was artistic and thus a bit detached from reality. In fact we found the style of the film rather too artistic and atmospheric and after a 40 minutes we looked at each other and agreed we were bored by it. We could not relate to any or the characters in the film nor did we care what happened to them. So we turned it off and deleted it to make space for another film.
The Color Purple (1985)
I do not like Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey.
I do not like Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey. I was also put off this film by seeing that most of the cast are black, not for any racist reasons just I had a preconceived idea that it would not be the type of film for me. The reason I decided to watch this film was because of the comments by other people on this site.
I'm so glad I did. Although I found some of the early parts of the film unpleasant because of the treatment of the young girls it was important to the story.
An excellent film with both Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey showing what fine serious actors they can be.