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Sep 29, 2010 - 7:40 AM
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Cryogenix
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Re: Krull - One man's trash... I actually like the film. The locations, cinematography and effects are top-notch, the pace and action are smooth, exciting and different, and the score is the best fantasy-based one I've ever heard. It's cheesy and sometimes overly melodramatic, but I thought the acting was very good most of the time, and the story pulled me in - mainly because of the score. The only part that really bored me was the Seer's cave sequence. The music definitely plays a huge factor in making the visuals more interesting, and I don't think the movie would work with any other score. Of course, I say that because Horner did such a perfect job at capturing ever tear shed, life lost, battle fought and nuance of emotion the characters experience on their journey - 9
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Oct 2, 2010 - 11:25 AM
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The Village (2004) by M. Night Shyamalan -- I only finally watched this because my mother happened to rent it while I was visiting her, and it wasn't as bad as I'd expected it would be. Bryce Dallas Howard and Joaquin Phoenix do their level best to make it watchable, and Adrien Brody is always more convincing as a fool than as an action hero. The movie looks good, and James Newton Howard's score is fantastic. Unfortunately an ensemble of decent actors, particularly William Hurt, are wasted William Shatnering their way through Shyamalan's awful dialogue. Even more unfortunately, the movie just falls apart in the last half-hour, where the twist had me thinking not, "Whoa, I didn't see that coming," but "Hmm . . . how would the logistics works". The whole thing just didn't seem thought through, and the lies and deception involved rubbed me the wrong way. Still, I enjoyed it well enough even as I was troubled by it. (**½)
Iron Man 2 (2010) by Jon Favreau -- Watched it for the second time. I liked it better this time. I'll still rate it ***½, but I've changed the Netflix rating from *** to ****. Not only did the video correct some errors in the theatrical print I saw, which seemed to either be missing some frames or else suffering some technical problem, but the movie just seems a lot stronger after the abysmally awful genre competition from the rest of the summer! It still feels like it could have very easily been a much better movie than it was, but it's still enjoyable fluff. (***½)
The Killer Inside Me (2010) by Michael Winterbottom -- Based on the Jim Thompson novel, this movie is well-made but, in the end, unsatisfying. I recall it made some noise due to the graphic violence -- I guess graphic fist violence is more noteworthy than graphic gun violence? -- so if you're interested in that kind of thing it may be worth seeing. Casey Affleck is good as a polite, personable young deputy sheriff who's also a sociopath. He does one awful thing to get out of a bind, and then a number of other awful things to hide evidence and silence witnesses. But the movie doesn't go enough into what makes him tick, and the climax has one of those situations where nobody notices something they really should notice, and overall the movie is ugly and interesting but kind of empty. (***)
Ondine (2009) by Neil Jordan -- Neil Jordan gets back on track after The Brave One with this modern-day fairy tale. Colin Farrell gives one of his best performances as an Irish fisherman who pulls up a young woman (Alicja Bachleda) in his net. His precocious daughter (Alison Barry) believes she's a Selkie, and when his luck starts changing for the better he starts to believe the woman, who calls herself Ondine, might be more than she seems. But he's also scared -- he knows that fairy tales are both wonderful and terrible, and he knows that after a run of good luck the other shoe will eventually have to drop. This is a beautiful movie that never forgets it's a fairy tale, even when it's not. The ending gets a little too standard thrillerish, but it's not bad enough to ruin the rest of the movie, which is highly recommended. (****½)
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DVD transfer is quality as well. 