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^ Great movie
"The Big Blue" - 9.9/10
Astounding. A study in conciousness through the sport of free deep sea diving. Jean Reno. Rosanne Arquette with her clothes off. What's not to love?
Animal Kingdom - 9.5/10
What an amazing and quite unassuming film. I was totally sucked in to the brilliant characterisations of a family of working class criminals. The film is very suspenseful, but in a subtle way. You don't really notice what it's doing to you until the very end.
Animal Kingdom was the directors first feature film. I hope that it's critical success (winner at Sundance this year) doesn't go to his head.
Highly recommended.
"Winters Bone" 9.5/10
Wow. What a great small budget gem. A young girl, trying to raise her two younger siblings by herself (mom is mentally disabled and dad is....keep reading) in poor, rural Missouri gets a visit from the Sheriff who tells her if her dad doesn't make it to his court date her home and land will go to the bail bondsman. She sets out to find her father and learns first-hand, asking questions can be dangerous.
It's a very well directed, acted and shot story that never lost my interest.
You'll hear this title mentioned come Oscar time next year.
I just had to see this film after I saw this post. I was unable to find it at my local shop so I gave it a quick download. Let's just say I can understand why my local shop didn't carry it.
The film is overall too slow to mention. I mean, I like it when films don't rush their story but in this case I am even clueless what that story is. Does it tell the story of J? Perhaps of Pope? The weird grandmother? Nicole? Baz? Of course, you can say it was about the family, but even that wasn't worked out well. The whole film seems to be held together by sudden 'things'. 'Losse flodders' is what we call it in Dutch. I think it means blanks in English. It's the kind of ammo for your gun that doesn't fire a bullet but rather gives a loud bang and that's it.
Also, the characters were lifeless and hollow. Their actions were like losse flodders too.
Lastly, I think that this film could have been way shorter and that some scenes were totally redundant.For instance the opening scene in which J tells what's going on. What's the use of that if you don't follow through with it at all? What's the use of a scene in which you see the family of Nicole crying? What's the use of a scene in which you can see a police man pointing a gun at J's face? The use of J making noodles? There are too many scenes in this film that carry absolutely no message at all and don't contribute to the story.[/spoiler,] (CNTRL+A to read)
Wow, reading this back I think I really thought this was bad.I am usually pretty mild when it comes to critique. Anyway 4/10.
Lol, I thought the same thing after renting The Square from Netflix based on a critique here, maybe it's an Australian thing
I just checked that True Grit trailer out and it looks awesome. It has a lot to live up to concerning the original version, but I think is has all the ingredients in it to be potentially even better. I might even head to the theater for that one.
I also checked out the Animal Kingdom trailer and it looks quite good as well, so I will not write off the new wave of Aussie Cinema just yetand leave it in my queue.
Also to be fair to The Square I had it at home for a busy week and finally watched it when I was too tired so I could send it back. So that may be why I couldn't get into it.
I just checked that True Grit trailer out and it looks awesome. It has a lot to live up to concerning the original version....