Christina acts better than she sings. There, I said it!
Not to go all pedantic, but this really isn't burlesque per se...it's just a musical set in a burlesque, so I hope people don't get the wrong idea. It's very shallow and unsophisticated pop music throughout. And it's well done, if you like that sort of thing! And yes, it's as predictable as porn. Perhaps more so. You sort of knew what you were getting into.
But really, Christina, cool it with the god damn melismas. We get it. You can do it. Now stop.
This is a fantastic and necessary follow-up to any viewing of 1996's The Island of Dr. Moreau. Helps to explain the madness of that turd while rewarding you for sitting through the whole thing. Good times.
Filmmakers: If you're going to make a dumb action movie, make this. Smaller, faster, and less serious is almost always better. Nobody needs Transformers, ever.
Should be required viewing. Especially if it makes you uncomfortable.
I am automatically suspicious of anyone who tries to make excuses for many of the characters in the film. So, if you like controversy, consider that a selling point.
Props for originality of concept and flawlessness of execution (both technically and from the note-perfect cast).
The end result? Eh. It probably speaks many volumes louder to people who spend their life devoted to the craft of theater and film. GEE, I WONDER HOW IT GOT SUCH GREAT REVIEWS.
So I enjoyed my two hours in the theater, and I probably will never watch it again, and I'll be okay with that. Film students will jizz over it for years to come. So it goes.
Full diclosure: I hate the Romneys' politics and think that they would have made a disastrous first family. That said, this was touching. It's a reminder that these are still people. They're hopelessly out-of-touch, privileged, ludicrously rich people with terrible ideas for how to do right by the people they want to serve--but human beings all the same, who basically want the same things everyone else wants: to accomplish what they set out to achieve. For an hour and a half, you get to watch how a family of hard-working, god-fearing one-percenters try and capture the presidency while remaining true to their (imo, warped) values. Mittens is a spoiled son of a much more likable politician, but he knows it and comes across as a guy just trying his hardest to live up to daddy's legacy (sound like any other presidents you know?). His children come off as smug, spoiled little shits, but they're four bankers (and one doctor) who were born even richer than their father, so what did you expect? They're not villains or heroes. They don't grow and learn. They celebrate their victories and comfort each other through disappointments. On the whole, they're very boring people who also happen to have access to a vast amount of political power due to circumstances only partially in their control.
In politics it's so easy to get caught up in how loathsome a person's beliefs are and project a caricature of devilry onto them. But there are no devils here, and seeing that is something worthwhile. You'll either hate every minute of this, or be completely enthralled, and you'll know which one it is within the first twenty minutes.
Perhaps I'm giving the Coens too much credit, but I imagine that this is the sort of film they made either because they lost a bet or wanted to prove a point. It's still very much a Coen brothers movie, but all the characters are wealthy, aimless, vapid dipshits with no grounding in reality...
...much like every romantic comedy ever made. This one is at least honest about how reprehensible and unlikable all the characters are. Perhaps they are making fun of the target audience?
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DEAR GOD THAT WAS THE MOST DEPRESSING NINETY MINUTES.Movie comment on Jupiter Ascending
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Almost as good as The Phantom Menace!Movie comment on Burlesque
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Christina acts better than she sings. There, I said it!Not to go all pedantic, but this really isn't burlesque per se...it's just a musical set in a burlesque, so I hope people don't get the wrong idea. It's very shallow and unsophisticated pop music throughout. And it's well done, if you like that sort of thing! And yes, it's as predictable as porn. Perhaps more so. You sort of knew what you were getting into.
But really, Christina, cool it with the god damn melismas. We get it. You can do it. Now stop.
Movie comment on Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
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This is a fantastic and necessary follow-up to any viewing of 1996's The Island of Dr. Moreau. Helps to explain the madness of that turd while rewarding you for sitting through the whole thing. Good times.Movie comment on Drive Angry
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In 2011's DRIVE ANGRY, Nic Cage plays an irate ghost who has the following superpowers:1. Shotgun.
He wants revenge on some cultists, and by revenge I mean he wants to kill a shitload of them using his superpowers. William Fichtner also stars.
Pretty much a perfect shitty film. FOAR STARZ.
Movie comment on Crank
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Filmmakers: If you're going to make a dumb action movie, make this. Smaller, faster, and less serious is almost always better. Nobody needs Transformers, ever.Movie comment on Whores' Glory
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This is possibly the saddest god damn movie I've ever seen.Movie comment on Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
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Typical retread sequel trash. Having trouble recalling any of the jokes a few days later, much less any I laughed at.Movie comment on Ilha das Flores
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Devastating.Movie comment on Dear White People
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Should be required viewing. Especially if it makes you uncomfortable.I am automatically suspicious of anyone who tries to make excuses for many of the characters in the film. So, if you like controversy, consider that a selling point.
Movie comment on Deux jours, une nuit
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Fucking fantastic. I can't sing the praises of Marion Cotillard enough, but she absolutely crushes this one.Movie comment on Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
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Props for originality of concept and flawlessness of execution (both technically and from the note-perfect cast).The end result? Eh. It probably speaks many volumes louder to people who spend their life devoted to the craft of theater and film. GEE, I WONDER HOW IT GOT SUCH GREAT REVIEWS.
So I enjoyed my two hours in the theater, and I probably will never watch it again, and I'll be okay with that. Film students will jizz over it for years to come. So it goes.
Movie comment on The Revenant
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Strong first half marred by a considerably weaker second half, but a zombie movie that's funny for even half the length is a success of sorts.Movie comment on Mitt
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Full diclosure: I hate the Romneys' politics and think that they would have made a disastrous first family. That said, this was touching. It's a reminder that these are still people. They're hopelessly out-of-touch, privileged, ludicrously rich people with terrible ideas for how to do right by the people they want to serve--but human beings all the same, who basically want the same things everyone else wants: to accomplish what they set out to achieve. For an hour and a half, you get to watch how a family of hard-working, god-fearing one-percenters try and capture the presidency while remaining true to their (imo, warped) values. Mittens is a spoiled son of a much more likable politician, but he knows it and comes across as a guy just trying his hardest to live up to daddy's legacy (sound like any other presidents you know?). His children come off as smug, spoiled little shits, but they're four bankers (and one doctor) who were born even richer than their father, so what did you expect? They're not villains or heroes. They don't grow and learn. They celebrate their victories and comfort each other through disappointments. On the whole, they're very boring people who also happen to have access to a vast amount of political power due to circumstances only partially in their control.In politics it's so easy to get caught up in how loathsome a person's beliefs are and project a caricature of devilry onto them. But there are no devils here, and seeing that is something worthwhile. You'll either hate every minute of this, or be completely enthralled, and you'll know which one it is within the first twenty minutes.
Movie comment on Upstream Color
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Those who cry "pretentious" ought to reexamine their lives (and perhaps more importantly, their vocabulary). This is a great film.Movie comment on Dirty Girl
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Good art.Movie comment on Alferd Packer: The Musical
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Half South Park, half Monty Python. Hilarious, cheap, low-brow humor. If you're overcome with smarm you might hate it; otherwise, it's an unknown gem.Movie comment on Intolerable Cruelty
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Perhaps I'm giving the Coens too much credit, but I imagine that this is the sort of film they made either because they lost a bet or wanted to prove a point. It's still very much a Coen brothers movie, but all the characters are wealthy, aimless, vapid dipshits with no grounding in reality......much like every romantic comedy ever made. This one is at least honest about how reprehensible and unlikable all the characters are. Perhaps they are making fun of the target audience?
Movie comment on The Tree of Life
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Well, at least someone is trying.Movie comment on The Giant Mechanical Man
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Good acting spoiled by a really bad by-the-numbers script.Movie comment on Citizen Kane
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Well, this film was pretty good, but it's no Fantastic Four.Movie comment on Slither
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Good horror film for those of us who usually roll our eyes at mainstream horror flicks.Movie comment on X: First Class
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Mystique? Yeah, I'd hit that.http://www.collegehumor.com/picture/41130
Movie comment on Your Highness
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Watch it as they wrote it: high.Movie comment on Batman: The Movie
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Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb.Showing items 1 – 25 of 107