Monday, March 15, 2004
Too Many DVDs, Too Little Work (the story of one Tama's weekend)...
Matchstick Men - Ridley Scott directs Nicholas Cage and Sam Rockwell in a quirky take on the art of the con. Probably the lowest budget film Scott's worked on for ages, but he hasn't lost his touch with the camera. Cage is impressive as the mentally unstable king of the small time con, complete with guilt-associated ticks. Rockwell is great. The plot is actually quite fun, although a little too focused on the pseudo-mandatory twist.
Willard - This film should have been a Tim Burton gothic masterpiece. However, first-time feature director Glen Morgan seems to have added 1 part Burton to 500 parts water to make this weak, tepid and flailing film. Crispin Glover tries valiantly to add depth to the film, but the almost gothic sets, the oh-so-predictable (nee cardboard) supporting characters and the most unthreatening "killer" rats in feature film history made this a very second-rate filmic endevour.
Undead - Made on the memory of the smell of an oily rag, this Australian made schlock-horror-scifi zombie film is just waiting to become a cult classic. From zombies to aliens to zen-like farmers with a Matrix stock of firearms, this film takes the cliches, mashes them together to produce a surprisingly funny and entertaining re-think of the shlock genre. Get a group of friends, a few bottles of wine, and you'll all be cackling along with this one.
Igby Goes Down - Fairly standard arthouse material; troubled rich boy, controlling mother, super-rich godfather, emotionless brother (who steals his sibling's girlfriend), and a potentially meaningful relationship which is never fulfiled due to the evils of drug addiction in the big city. Well put together, but nothing particularly new. It's nice to see that at least one Culkin sibling can act, though!
Matchstick Men - Ridley Scott directs Nicholas Cage and Sam Rockwell in a quirky take on the art of the con. Probably the lowest budget film Scott's worked on for ages, but he hasn't lost his touch with the camera. Cage is impressive as the mentally unstable king of the small time con, complete with guilt-associated ticks. Rockwell is great. The plot is actually quite fun, although a little too focused on the pseudo-mandatory twist.
Willard - This film should have been a Tim Burton gothic masterpiece. However, first-time feature director Glen Morgan seems to have added 1 part Burton to 500 parts water to make this weak, tepid and flailing film. Crispin Glover tries valiantly to add depth to the film, but the almost gothic sets, the oh-so-predictable (nee cardboard) supporting characters and the most unthreatening "killer" rats in feature film history made this a very second-rate filmic endevour.
Undead - Made on the memory of the smell of an oily rag, this Australian made schlock-horror-scifi zombie film is just waiting to become a cult classic. From zombies to aliens to zen-like farmers with a Matrix stock of firearms, this film takes the cliches, mashes them together to produce a surprisingly funny and entertaining re-think of the shlock genre. Get a group of friends, a few bottles of wine, and you'll all be cackling along with this one.
Igby Goes Down - Fairly standard arthouse material; troubled rich boy, controlling mother, super-rich godfather, emotionless brother (who steals his sibling's girlfriend), and a potentially meaningful relationship which is never fulfiled due to the evils of drug addiction in the big city. Well put together, but nothing particularly new. It's nice to see that at least one Culkin sibling can act, though!
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