First part in Kieslowski's Three Colours Trilogy, and what a start...
What can I say, this film has great acting, particularly from Juliette Binoche, the story is very well told, and last but definitely not least, the cinematography as to expect from a Kiesloiwski movie is nothing but stellar.
It's films like these that got me interested in film as an art-form in the first place. Definitely would recommend for Art-house fans, and despite one shot where a boom mic is clearly visible, fuck it! This is a 10/10 movie for me. Truly a film I could call mesmerising.
“It was easy for him because he didn’t believe it was comin, but it’s not gonna be easy for you, because you betta believe it’s comin!”
“I told you it wasn’t a toy, DAMN YOU!”
All I can say about this movie is that it is quite possibly the best 90s movie that's not from the 90s. (seriously, if you don't know the cast and crew involved, you could genuinely pass this off as an indie film from that era) Great acting by the cast, investing story about a young boy trying to fitting in with a group of skateboarders, cool soundtrack (as well as music score by Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor of NIN fame), and superb camerawork. If this film is still showing in a cinema near you, I highly recommend you go see it, as it will be definitely worth your time.
This is like a very edgy "Ready Player One", but is short enough to keep interest and makes the story worthwhile, where as a feature length version of this film would've probably been boring.
This show is absolutely awful, none of the episodes are really scary at all. I even thought that the last episode, which portrays one of the Queer Eye host's morning routine, but in the style of a similar scene from American Psycho, was going to be at least enjoyable in a 'Funny or Die' parody type of way, but even they manage to screw that premise up with so-called creepy music and typical 'horror' editing.
I wouldn't mind talking about the other 4 episodes, but I have nothing to say about them as all of them are just completely bland and predictable, the third episode is just a fancy montage of some gory and 'disturbing' images just glued together with absolutely no narrative whatsoever.
The only thing great about this series is it's incredibly short run time of just a few minutes over the 20-minute mark. Even the title of this series is a warning to those looking for a short series to binge-watch so that they don't end up wasting their time on this. However, if you do end up in the unfortunate situation of watching all 5 episodes, then don't worry as you'll probably forget them all after you decide to put on something else.
This is a film that manages to be artistic, beautiful, and horrific, all at the same time. It’s like a magnificent dream that turns into a madly-edited, sinister nightmare later on. Definitely recommend this to fans of Japanese films, Horror films, and just film fans in general.
The only media reference they left out that would have made the movie perfect for me would be VJ EMMIE ON THE MICROPHONE! “THE MOVIE’S ON!”
I don't think that this is a massively bad film, I'm sure it was groundbreaking to some people when it first came out ten years ago, but now with all of the cheaply made and dreadful bad "found-footage" movie copies that came soon after, it's probably lost some of it's impact when viewing it nowadays.
The things I like about this movie are the well-designed set pieces that we sadly don't get to see enough off, due to the "found-footage" format that is present throughout the film. Another thing I liked about this movie is how they decide to go with the "Jaws" approach, not showing much of the monster early in the film, to the point where we can see the creature staring directly at us through the camera lens in a later scene.
I thought the acting in the film wasn't great, as in Oscar-worthy material, but I think that it's not too bad to drag me out of the story either. All actors did a good and satisfactory job at portraying their characters. However, If I have to be nit-picky, I think that T.J. Miller is possibly the worst actor in the film, but we don't get to see him a lot in the film as he's the one documenting the action a lot of the time.
A few things I like to bring up, I have to give this movie credit for not "cutting-away" from intense moments after they happen or when they feel like they may be too much, so that there are very little moments of relief from the tension as soon as the first explosion is heard and all the lights go down. And lastly, the CGI in the film does look unrealistic at times, but I think it's acceptable considering the age of the film.
