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Portland (1996)
One to be a classic
This movie is a classic to me. Being a younger brother, the interaction between the 2 brothers lives seem so clear to me. I can totally relate to this movie, and that makes me wan't to give it 10. The movies ability to touch me so, makes it so real, and the directors understanding of brotherly love and the life of the people in their situation is so insightful, it almost scares me.
That was the overall impression. A few scenes of a movie making movies worth remembering, makes it all worth while, and cements them as brilliant. A few of them is:
the background of the city, changing to a blood raging city, when Janus takes the pills, shows GREAT movie art. The crooner music playing in the background at an old lady's apartment, annoying Janus, is also a classic. And also, not to forget, when the younger brother breaks his arm, showing how little he cares and how much he has learned, define him as being marked for life, for his and his brothers sake.
Ohh, and when the younger brother tells why he ran away from the foster home, I just laughed my lungs out. Perfect comment.
A sad and wonderful tale of the choices of a family that failed.
One of the best movies I've ever seen. Period!
Falling Down (1993)
Started out o.k., but lost touch along the way...
I was very happy about the movie to begin with, trying to identify myself as having a REALLY bad day, and everything goes wrong. A single scene is a great scene, but a movie doesn't get thumbs up, for 10 minutes in a McDonald restaurant. Tarantino can make scenes in restaurants and cafeteria, but that's not all. But instead of portraiting a 'normal' person, the American style movie-making, not allowing anything out of the ordinary, makes the guy a complete psycho, and therefore not interesting anymore. any psycho could do the same things he did. that's not exciting at all. started out good, and wen't fast downhill after 30 minutes, and hit rock-bottom the last 25 minutes. worth seeing only to prove a point. not a good movie overall....
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
A remarkable movie
The Lord of The Rings, is made almost perfectly, and almost unimaginably true to the book(s). Small details are not a reason to badmouth the movie but in all it's perfect glory, some details are left out, to get a better feeling of the Fellowship, etc. The book describes Legolas and Gimli insulting each other to a degree that is hilarious, knowing about the Elven and dwarves disgust of each others races. But this insulting is left out in the movie, only mentioned by Elrond (the dwarves dug out evil because of their greed). Dwarves are greedy, and they dug so low that the Balroq came in place.
The movie is well made, and definitely worth a 9 on my scale. When the movie was over, I wished the 2 sequels would be shown right after, but waiting a year and 2 seems ridiculous.......