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EuroTrip (2004)
It's a COMEDY, folks!
It's about time someone broke out of the prudish mold we've been stuffed in for far too many years. This comedy is a comedy that doesn't take itself seriously and thus is relaxed enough to be fun without having to worry about a PG-13 rating. It's a road-trip and it's fun. If you go to see a comedy and try to take it too seriously you're the victim of your own silliness. Go, see, enjoy. Laugh without worrying. Sure, it has its faults: a Coke can pops out of a machine and it is paired with the sound effects of an empty can rolling; Cooper's ice cream cone grows from one with a bite out of it at the door to the Vatican Museum; but WHO cares? This is fun! Relax, check your American hang-ups at the door, and enjoy a funny movie. Also, a great soundtrack. I'm still humming "Scotty Doesn't Know".
Age of Treason (1993)
Cute, clever, well done.
I'm not a purist. I don't care if they film the Bible and it comes out as "Top Gun", as long as it is a good movie. This is a good movie and doesn't deserve the bum rap it gets. If it were made in the US we'd have had James Garner in the title role instead of Brian Brown, but who cares. This is a clever story that is well filmed and acted and keeps promising more. It delivers via solid performances and great twists in the plot. I'd kill to have this on DVD or VHS. Watch it on TV and see what you think. I think you'll bemoan the fact this wasn't made into a series or a TV series, at least. This should have been one of those cult films only the acting is probably too good.
Blow-Up (1966)
A perfect study of society.
For those of you not lucky enough to have seen Blow Up as an adult in the 60's, read on and stop scratching your heads. Your brains have been washed enough to not even recognize the facts of life when they are presented as simply as they are here. Forget the photographer, the photographs, the sex. Get the message. A person sees something. He tries to confirm what he saw. Someone steals the evidence of what he saw. He tries to convince others he saw something. They can see no evidence and so don't believe. In the end he 'sees' something that doesn't exist but some others 'see' it. He is now back in society. You and I are not what we think we are, we are what others see us to be. Antonioni painted the streets black, the brick walls brick-red, and the grass green. The way we see them to be. The question you were supposed to be carrying out of the theater was will you "lie to yourself to become part of society?" Even the hippys of the 60's that espoused being free and different wore the hippy uniform. That, my friend, is society. You wouldn't know that because we lost that battle to the ultimate uniform wearers, the Yuppies.