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Cloud Atlas (2012)
An Astounding Beauty of A Film
What can you write about a film that makes you laugh, keeps you guessing, puts you on that edge of your seat, and riles your soul with the gracious magnificence that is usually only captured in such literary epics as this film is based. Let me first start with the soundtrack, for this, upon everything else, is certainly a grander type of music, epic in its scale, and moving by itself. The music that underlies this film is as powerful and amazing as each segment.
Let us look at the lives of these men and women, drawn to and from each other time and time again, some as tragedies, some as victories, some as beautiful and gorgeous renditions of purpose and grandness, all in life, all in the recurring pebble thrown into the pond causing ripples, time and time again, through time and history.
What grace and beauty... oh what wonder and power lives in these stories that make a film that is as beautiful as beautiful as a Cloud Atlas might be.
You have the story of Adam Ewing who wants to get home to his wife, while dying upon a ship, and making a friend. The story of a musician determined to create something beautiful writing to his love of this journey. There's the story of a reporter drawn into a story she never intended to discover. There's the story of an old man whose forced into a retirement home that seems to be right out of the psych-ward of One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. There's Sonmi whose story is one of revolution. And there's a final story for which is difficult to describe as nothing more than a futuristic Apocolyptica.
I know of no movie with such gall and no movie with such a wallop of suspense and perfected editing that you are never jolted, but, easily moved from laughing to sitting at the edge of your seat to crying to smiling to feeling an overwhelming sense of wonderment and life.
I will be seeing this movie again. I will be buying this movie when it comes out. I loved this film completely. It was top notch. A+++ You will enjoy it.
Meet the Browns (2009)
One of the WORST shows on Television
The route of good comedy exist with creating characters who actions relate to their environment. Tyler Perry doesn't understand that. None of his characters are ever explained, we don't know why they are so stupid, why they act so crazy, or why they are completely nuts. Take Arrested Development, a real comedy, with incredibly inane, stupid, crazy plots, and even more psychotic characters. Watching it however, you can believe these people exist, because they're actions are exactly what they're characters would lead you to believe.
But we're supposed to believe that these blue collar, black folks, are stupid, moronic, inane, exaggerators of every small thing, and derive comedy from it. Family Matters was real comedy, it used it average intelligent people, acting sincerely, only to be drawn out through chaotic circumstances through the superior intelligence, but below average social person Steven Urkle. Brilliant comedy. Where is that dynamic. He doesn't seem to understand the straight man in a comedy routine duo. And their outrageous behavior is accepted as the norm. It doesn't make sense. It's pathetic. It's horrible. He really should stop writing.
The Informers (2008)
It Just Wasn't Interesting
I am a huge fan of Bret Easton Ellis, I traveled two hours once where he was giving a book signing. I own all of his movies--and I'll probably buy this one, just to complete the collection--but this film wasn't interesting. Forget the people who say they are self-indulgent, narcissistic, lascivious, promiscuous, drug-addled twenty somethings, I mean, that's just the characters they play. Great directing, leads the actors to not look as if they are acting, but not in this movie. Gregor Jordan messed up. The characters weren't interesting, you can have movies where the characters are cold, detached, and live meaningless lives, and make them interesting, these characters weren't interesting, I didn't care what happened next. That's all I ask from a movie, engage me. The characters lives and acts can be pointless, but they have to be interesting. It's a rule. You can make a movie with no plot, but events must happen.
What we get with this movie is a moral play. Something happens that is traditional of the Hays Code in the 1950's, where, even if it the character's don't deserve it, if they ruin the moral compass, say a girl is promiscuous, she must be punished. This film is pointless, meaningless, it's everything the characters were supposed to be but weren't, and worst of it all, the film was uninteresting. With all the bad reviews, with Bret Easton Ellis bashing the movie, I went in with low expectations, and the film was able to be lower than than those expectations. And that's really disappointing, because when I first heard about it, before there was a trailer, before the characters were nailed down, when they were still talking about one of the Olsen sisters as an actress, I was thinking this film was going to be great.