The Next Three Days

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This was an alright diversion. Just not that engaging until the actual jail break which wasn't until the last 10 minutes. It's a very awkwardly structured film, Haggis keeps introducing elements and changing tone and consequently the whole film feels like exposition because the film keeps changing it's mind about what it is.

Whats good about the Russell Crowe character is that he isn't an expert, he doesn't know how to use a gun, in fact he screws up a lot. When he puts his plan into motion he doesn't suddenly become a martial arts expert. It was kept pretty real.

I hated the music in this. The choice of songs and the score just grated with me. But that was a small thing, that probably only I would notice in an otherwise alright film.

The Hudsucker Proxy

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The Coen Brothers/Raimi love-in continues.

This is one of my favourites.I love the design and the style of this film. Everything from the set/costumes/structure/convention/dialogue and characters are styled in a very specific way. And I find it all hilarious. It recalls a classic 40's period film but with a slight satiric tinge to it all. And the score is just beautiful and lush, the main theme is iconic.

The film does some things that at first glance may seem very unusual but when seen through the eyes of 40's film conventions they start to make perfect sense. Why else would you stop the film dead for a dream dance number? Something I talk a great deal about in my Red Shoes post. The film even has a very literal Deus Ex Machina.

Tim Robbins is wonderfully naive in the role of the chump. Jennifer Jason Leigh is doing some hilarious Katherine Hepburn impersonation. Also it wouldn't be a Raimi-related film without The Chin! And as usual, the dialogue is just hilarious, witty and intelligent.

There is so much to love here. It is highly stylised but also very rewarding, if you can handle the ending. (I feel like I say that about a lot of Coen films.)

Tangled

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This is such a delightful film. I had to see it again in 3D. The lantern scene HAS to be seen in 3D, it's just heart stopping. Hell, I started swelling up just anticipating it.

This time through looking closely at the animation the detail in the facial ticks and hands and eyes are incredible. A lot of the animation is cartoonish and stylised but there are definite moments that are so realistic you can forget it was made frame by frame by hand.

The music has also really grown on me in between viewings. I'm starting to recognise certain things that Alan Menken like to do, like establishing a phrase and then during a repeat, breaking it up before the resolve with some dialogue and then repeating it from the start, which makes the resolve of the phrase more satisfying and definitive as an end. I do like that.

Go see this in 3D while you still can. All the kids have gone back to school so you'll likely have the cinema to yourself. And unless you are a horribly embittered person you will leave feeling better than you did when you entered.

The Emperor's New Groove

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YAAAAY! This animation is such a departure for Disney which is one of the reason why I like it so much. That and I think it's the funniest animation they've ever made. It's much more in like with a Warner Bros. cartoon with some very post modern self referential and absurdist jokes, so there's no way I can't like it. So many favourite lines and gags.

I also love the design, the angular characters and the great minimalist backgrounds. The animation is, of course, top-notch. Patrick Warburton and Eartha Kitt do some great voice acting as does the always reliable John Goodman and I must say this is the film I find David Spade the least offensive.

It's not a disney princess musical, it isn't based on some famous story or book, it doesn't have big musical numbers. All plusses in my book. It feels unrestrained and just plain fun. If you're a fan of disney animation and have missed this one, fix that.

Crimewave

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A Sam Raimi film I've never seen? Written by the Coen brothers?! Well that mistake has been fixed.

It's a crazy cartoon of a film, like most of Rami's earlier efforts. It starts out with some very 40's stock dialogue, every line is practically a cliche. After a few scenes of set up the action begins, and from then on there is practically no dialogue until the final scene, just a huge long cartoon of slapstick violence and chases. And there is a lot of great stuff in there.

The tone of comedy was a little hard to get into this early in the morning. It's completely stylised and over the top like Evil Dead. I'm not sure these actors pull it off that well though, except of course Bruce Campbell, he's born to do this stuff. But if you can get into the style it's an enjoyable and entertaining film.

Splice

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I love a good monster movie. This is a good monster movie.

I also love all of Vincenzo Natali's work (Cube, Cypher, Nothing and my favourite segment in Paris, je t'aime). Go and watch all his films now. I'll wait...

Cool huh?

I think expectations have a big part to play in your enjoyment of this film. If you are expecting a moral drama and character study kind of film you'll likely be disappointed that the premise ends so b-movie. If you are expecting a b-grade monster movie you might get annoyed at the slow development of character and all the time spent on the drama. It sits comfortably somewhere between the two, The premise and structure is that of good old fashioned creature feature but the acting and drama and characters development is well above the level one is usually accustomed too in such a film.

Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley are our renegade rock star scientists.They are both great. Sarah Polley was a bit of a hero in my youth because she starred in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, a film that was on constant rotation in our household growing up. It is the most unusual dysfunctional family melodrama that plays out between them and their creation.

Delphine Chanéac also must be mentioned, playing the creature Dren in the later stages of the film. The combination of digital trickery and her performance bring this character to life in a scarily believable way. Dren's character is just as complex and emotive as her two human counterparts so it is a testament to all involved.

We all know Guillermo del Toro loves his monsters so it's no surprise to find him involved as a producer. But even he admits he would never go as far as they do in this film. Things get pretty damn screwed up as emotions become confused and the boundaries of the relationships are pushed into new and horrific territory.

It's not my favourite of Natali's films but it is a great achievement for a low budget independent horror film.

Sanctum

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There have been quite a few Cave-themed horror films of late. This is a based-on-a-true-story drama though, so no fun monsters here. Unless you count the monstrous dialogue.

I can see why they didn't shoot piranha in 3D and went for post-conversion. Lighting on water and the sheen on wet skin causes havoc in 3D. The even the slightest offset between images is enough to shift the hot spots so they cause strange ghosting. Maybe nobody else notices. Underwater looks great though.

The other problem with a film like this and 3D is the lighting. Films set in dark locations aren't helped by the fact that the glasses make darken the image further. I don't know if it was intentional or not that they were brightening up the images with extra light to compensate for this, but when you are in a situation where the only light sources are clearly displayed in the frame it destroys the illusion a little to have entire backgrounds lit up by tiny light sources. The Cave suffered from this problem too. I liked the lighting in The Decent though.

ANYWAY how was the film? Umm, it was alright I guess. There are some hilarious character expositional lines shoehorned in at the start. The characters feel kinda stock, there's really only one note to each of them. They are mainly there to have enough people to die along the way. And apart from one at the start and maybe one at the end, the way each one of them dies is foreshadowed a mile away so there was never really much tension for me. The action was ok, the sequences were well put together but the whole thing was just uninvolving.

Antichrist

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A divisive film if ever I saw one. I've never had much of a strong view about Lars von Trier's work. From the few films of his I've seen I've like more parts of them than I haven't. I guess the same goes for this film. There are more elements in the film I like than I don't like, however there's just so much I'm not sure what to make of.

One thing you cannot deny is that the film looks great. The photography is very beautiful and stylised in some sections and then other times reverts to something closer resembling his dogma 95 films. Lots of slow-mo. It's pretty. The crazy sound design is also hugely effective and inventive.

Willem Dafoe and especially Charlotte Gainsbourg have some seriously heavy lifting to do here. They bring their A game and dive right into it, god bless 'em. I don't know if they had any more idea about what they were doing that I do now after having watched the film a few times but there's no denying their commitment. They are absolutely brilliant especially with such tough sells to pull off.

It's said this was a horror film. There's no denying that it is horrific. There are some great and very brutal acts of violence often involving sex as well. It's not for the faint of heart. There are also some vague occult/religious/supernatural/psychotic elements that teeter between disturbing and comical, depending on your mood and level of involvement.

That's my main problem with the film. The plot and the themes and ideas in it are kept very vague. There's nothing concrete to grab hold of here. I guess it's like a David Lynch film, dreamlike and open to interpretation. But Lynch's stuff still feels purposeful for the most part. Antichrist just seems underdeveloped and disconnected. It's something about guilt and the evil of woman and their connection to nature... or something. I don't even know how the title Antichrist fits in with what happens in the film.

A tough nut to crack. And one most people would get impatient with and leave for something more digestible. I ordered the U.K. Bluray because it had a commentary which I watched this time through. The tech talk was interesting but the rest of it basically confirmed my suspicion that it's just a rorschach test. So if you feel like the test is for you, by all means give it a try. There's plenty to enjoy (as much as you can enjoy torture and self mutilation) but don't expect to come away with easy answers.

Dante's Peak

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I was the at the perfect age when this came out. This film and Twister impacted my life hugely and made me want to get into special effects and film making. It probably should have been Jurassic Park but my older brother saw it and got scared so my parents forbid me to see it in a cinema. I will never forgive any of them for denying me that experience.

I remember seeing this film a couple of times at the cinema. Not as much as Twister, which I still like slightly more. This was a huge fx film for 1996 and they hold up admirably by today's standards. Probably because they didn't rely on the CG that was available at the time and instead shot a lot of miniatures and live action elements. In a disaster movie, you want your disaster to look great, and that's certainly the case here.

Comparing this to the bigger scale Roland Emmerich disasters we have a much less corny dialogue, a smaller group of characters that we can actually take the time to invest in and a disaster that doesn't top itself in the first act and then doesn't know how to end. Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton make the unlikely couple and I think they are the nicest, normal characters I've seen either of them play.

Roger Donaldson does a great job directing. Some of the earthquake sequences are shot with nothing but long lenses which makes deciphering what is going on a bit tricky. Perhaps wide shots of the destruction would have revealed their limitations. But the performances and the pacing and the look of the film are all fine.

The other thing I absolutely adore about both this and Twister is the music. Here James Newton Howard provides a majestic and ominous theme and John Powell scores the film. It's a bloody great soundtrack and I sometimes find myself randomly humming the theme.

The Tommy Lee Jones movie, Volcano, came out around the same time. I'm not sure if that got a big release in Australia. If it did I missed it at the cinema. But I was already loyal to Dante's Peak when I eventually rented it on VHS. This film has a more classic disaster film feel to it, which I love.

I can't remain unbiased when reviewing films like this, the nostalgia factor is too high. A lot of people think these films are stupid but I will have none of that. They helped make me the person I am today and for that I love them dearly.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

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It's no wonder I hardly remember this movie from the first time I watched it when I was younger. It's a wonder that a movie like this even exists. Is this based on an existing property? It feel like it is but I think that's exactly what they were going for. a Doc Savage/Flash Gorden type of thing. It's utterly bizarre and pretty damn funny.

It stars Peter Weller and John Lithgow, (both of whom recently showed up on Dexter) Ellen Barkin, Christopher Lloyd and Jeff Goldblum. I'd also like to note Clancy Brown as Rawhide.

Peter Weller is so straight as the lead. In fact the whole film is done straight you could almost thing that everyone involved was taking the film completely seriously. But the story and characters are so far out hilarious and ridiculous that that would be impossible. It's no wonder it bombed at the box office but then became a cult classic.

It's a strange little curiosity and it was good to watch it again after so long. But I think I'll need to wait another 5 years before I feel the need to watch it again.

Body Heat

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Hmm, the trailer wouldn't embed. It's a pretty interesting one too. But the main reason we are here is because John Barry has passed away. I went out and got Body Heat on bluray to watch tonight. His music is so important in this film, I think really drives the whole thing. Apart from his many James Bond scores the only other works of his I can recall are Day of the Locust, The Black Hole and Somewhere in Time. All great stuff.

Listen to that track, it immediately sets you in the mood for a modern day film noir which a whole lot of steamy sexyness. The film is drenched in sweat and humidity and fog. It looks like it was shot for black and white and just had colour seeped into it. It's a classic set up, girl and guy fall in love but she is married so they plot to kill the husband, but is the girl just using the guy to get her way? Well yes of course she is. They always are, but it's just great. There's a few twists and turns and some neat suspenseful moments.

William Hurt and Kathleen Turner are great (and rather naked) in this. Also I forgot what Ted Danson looked like before he got that awesome head of white hair. He's quite funny in this. I completely didn't recognise Mickey Rourke at all. Wow.

But for me, it's the music that makes this movie stick together. It pushes the mood in just the right way and sets and upholds the dark sexy tone. I love the soundtrack to this. It's a great loss to the film scoring community.

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

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What an unexpectedly disturbing film. I stumbled onto this one because I read about it in a recent obituary for Susannah York. I didn't remember her from the Superman films and hadn't seen her in anything else. This film caught my attention because it was directed by the late, great Sydney Pollack. I haven't seen enough of his work.

I love films from this time period, especially the paranoid thrillers and bleak downer sci-fi. Here we follow a bunch of characters during the 30's depression, hoping to win some money in a dance till you drop competition. The spectacle quickly escalates and drama ensues. The good kind.

This feels brutal. And exhausting. Which works well for the ending which they foreshadow through a series of flash forwards. It's one of those films where you know this can't end well and every moment is leading toward some disaster. I loved it.

I'm starting to see the appeal of Jane Fonda. A few years ago I only knew her from Barbarella and Monster In Law but I've since seen this one, Klute and The China Syndrome which were all fantastic and highly recommended.

The rest of the cast are great too, the only other person I recognised was a young Bruce Dern. Check this one out.

Metropolis

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The Anime one.

Holy crap this movie is gorgeous looking. Absolutely stunningly detailed background and unusually fluid and realistic movement from the animation. No surprise Katsuhiro Otomo, of Akira and Steamboy fame, was involved. And like those two film the finale features mind boggillingly huge city wide destruction so lovingly rendered. It truly is a joy to look at.

Based on the manga by Astro Boy creator and all-round father of anime, Osamu Tezuka, this film is like someone mis-remembered Fritz Lang's classic. No surprise to find out after watching it that Tezuka saw the poster for that film, but not the movie, and then came up with this story as what he thought it was about. It features some similar imagery, A beautiful girl robot in a chair and some general civil unrest and social uprising and huge retro-future cityscapes but they are not the same film at all.

The character designs, like Astro Boy, look like something from the very early years of animation. Rather fittingly the music in the film feels feels like something from the 20's or 30's. It's great stuff.

As for the story, It's pretty good but, like my only problem with Akira, there a few scenes at the start where it gets bogged down in long political conversations where I loose track of what they are talking about and what is going on. It's all good at the end though.

I enjoyed this one, I don;t know why it took me so long to get around to it, but with the Anime convention on last weekend and the festival on all week on TV I though it's about time I caught up with some. I got a few more as well, so we'll see how I go.

Easy A

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Yay Amanda Bynes actually has something to do in this film! This teen flick is up there with Mean Girls for me. Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci are THE best parents in the world. In fact the film is populated with a plethora of great comedic adult actors. Thomas Haden Church, Lisa Kudrow, hell even Malcolm McDowell all have their moments. And as great as Amanda Bynes is in he prissy christian bitch role, this film belongs to Emma Stone who is fantastic in the lead.

This just has a great script. It's funny, has some great teen speak and isn't too cliche. In fact it goes out of its way to point out the conventions of teen films and has some fun with them.

This film has the most gratuitous use of 3D title tracking since the Fringe captions. Also, useless trivia, I was listening to the commentary this time in which they reveal there are oranges in every scene. Good for them.

Will Gluck's previous film Fired Up! is an under seen and underrated comedy. The trailer did that film no favours. If you haven't seen it, check it out because it is great. Thankfully this film got a lot more recognition. I had downloaded the script for it but held off reading until I had seen the film. They had obviously taken out all the bad language for a PG13 rating but really I don't think it makes any difference to the finished product.

His next film is called Friends with Benefits and comes out later this year. Not to be confused with No Strings Attached which looks like the exact same thing. Strangly enough one stars Natalie Portman and the other Mila Kunis. Have a look at the trailers, I know which one I'm looking forward to more.

The Fly 2

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Holy crap look at that writing team: Mick Garris, Ken and Jim Wheat and Frank Darabont! Great work guys. Great work.

Well it has a few nods to the first film, but the tone is entirely different. The first part of the film is the best, watching the spawn of Brundlefly grow up into a super intelligent Eric Stoltz. I don't know why he's super intelligent he just is. Then there's a bit of coming of age drama and first love but instead of human puberty we get some other fly-type stuff. And then the last half is just a B monster movie.

The film is like fly-lite. It's a much lighter tone, there are a few comedic moments shoe-horned in, unlike the first film where the comedy just came from the characters and, well, Jeff Goldblum. They also set up a happy ending. This isn't a tragic love story, it has a happy ending. all the bad guys get killed by the Eric Stoltz fly and then he swaps some human genes with the evil corporate scientist and turns him into a horrible mutant while he magically turns back into Eric Stoltz.

I guess it's a slightly above average monster movie. There's fun stuff in there too, but obviously no where near as great as the Cronenberg film.

Martin

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An older George A. Romero film I'd never seen before. It's his take on vampires is done as a more real world scenario and plays out like a strange coming of age drama except with an 80 year old that look 25. It's an interesting idea and it works for the most part. The grandfather figure that suspects his dark secret is rather annoying though.

It's more slow paced movie that explores the logistics of having to feed off blood in a real life scenario. It uses a rather cheap and out of place device to deliver the thoughts of the character though, he calls up a radio station and talks about his problems on air.

There are one or two kills that are alright I guess. It's an odd little film that hasn't aged too well but still has some interesting ideas.

Broadcast News

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I head this film's name being thrown around when Morning Glory came out. Having just seen How Do You Know last night I realised As Good As It Gets was the only other James L. Brooks directed feature I had seen before that. Shame on me.

Well it's way better than Morning Glory that's for sure. Again, it's hard to classify as a romantic comedy, it's not particularly comedic and no-one ends up with anyone. Hell, they even break up in one of the final scenes at the airport. Way to buck a trend. It's a drama first and foremost that has a lot of romantic comedy elements. But who cares about labelling films into genres, was it any good? Yes. Yes it was.

William Hurt, Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter are all great. You can get behind everyone of them, you want them all to succeed and you know that it can't happen. It's the same kind of love triangle set up as How Do You Know but with very different characters and set against the backdrop of a news show. And once again Jack Nicholson shows up in a few scenes.

This film takes some big jumps in time, there is a prologue of them as kids in school and an epilogue set 7 years later where they all meet up after the events of the film proper. Although it feels a little superfluous, the acting is so good we pick up the characters quickly and don't need to be told backstory, it does round out the film nicely and allows for a more melancholic ending, rather than the downer of the aforementioned airport scene that would end the film with these bookends.

The best thing about the film is the acting and dialogue. These people feel real. Even if we don't understand all the news terminology or technical issues they deal with, we are always grounded emotionally with these guys and become invested in the outcome of events because of them. Good stuff!

Big Fat Liar

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Ahh the early part of the 2000's, when Malcolm in the Middle was still pre-pubecant, where people still put Smashmouth and Fat Boy Slim on their soundtracks unironically and where Shawn Levy was just a TV director. If only he stayed a TV director.

Look, I'm a big fan of Amanda Bynes. Seriously, I think she's great. Unfortunately she is wasted playing the straight role of the comedy duo, a role that was meant for Lindsay Lohan, and shows, because it's a nothing part.

Paul Giamatti Is the villain here too and like in Shoot 'Em Up he looks like he's having fun playing the bad guy. Sandra Oh was the other standout playing Frankie Muniz's teacher.

The story is a simple boy who cried wolf riff. Shot on the cheap using Universal Studio backlots as Universal Studio backlots. Genius. That was probably the most fun part of the film. Getting a tour backstage while the characters have the obligatory cloths trying on montage and recognising all the famous props from other films. I want that miniature from the opening shot of the Mummy. And a velociraptor.

There's not much more too it than that. It passes the time while you are trying to get to sleep on a hot muggy night.

I Spit On Your Grave

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Like the Last House on the Left remake I think I like this remake better than the original. The original is pure exploitation parading under the banner of feminist empowerment, and I think but to a much lesser degree than the original Last House on the Left, it is a very grungy, cheap gratuitous film. And god bless it for that.

This time we have the exact same set up, albeit faster paced and with the inclusion of a new character, a sheriff. The character dynamics between the young thugs are essentially the same although their specific crimes are a little more unique which allows for a more personal revenge for each.

First half of the film is rape, second is revenge. Simple. Apparently being raped gives you super human strength and the ability to set up ridiculously elaborate traps that thematically fit the crime of the victim. But who cares when the resulting carnage is worth the lack of suspension of disbelief.

Sarah Butler play our heroine. She does a fine job with a tough physical performance. It was particularly fun seeing Daniel Franzese show up playing the polar opposite of his character from Mean Girls. He also had the best death IMO. Problematic, because his was the first and they never managed to top it for me. But I'm probably in the minority, I'm sure more people would rather have their eyes pecked out by crows than have their dick cut off and shoved in their mouth. Oh it's all so symbolic.

It's nicely shot, the pace is faster than the original but still keeps a relatively slow build at the start. If you're into it or if you like the original, it's definitely worth a look. But lets not pretend it's anything but very well made exploitation.

Teknolust

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The synopsis for this film is more interesting than the film proper. I'll admit the only reason I considered giving it a watch was Jeremy Davies, Tilda Swinton playing multiple robots and some kooky low-rent sci-fi concepts. Well I got that so I guess I should be happy.

Although the HD photography make it look cheap (which it most assuredly was) the design and style of the rooms and the various "Self Replicating Automatons" played by Swinton is great. There's not much more to the rest of the film though. So seek it out only if you feel the need.

Side Note, early Klaus Badelt music was interesting to hear, but mostly comes off like bad 80's synth.

How Do You Know

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This was very good actually. I sound surprised, I should expect more from James L. Brooks but that trailer really puts you in the typical romantic comedy movie mode. Which this is I guess, but it's better than average. It doesn't have those horribly cutesy characters, the comedy relief best friend, the a stupid sex scene where they knock over all the furniture, stoping someone at the airport or in the rain or any cheap gags you come to expect from film of the genre. It has the schmaltzy ending but I was won over enough by then not to care so much. And the cliches they do follow seem more... earned.

Unfortunately what the film boils down to is will Reese Witherspoon choose Paul Rudd or Owen Wilson. The choice is obvious. Paul Rudd hands down. So the film looses points for any dramatic tension there. But they smartly added the outcome of this choice to affect if Paul Rudd or Jack Nicholson will go to jail for some vague business wrong doing. Unfortunately they don't really deal with the ramifications of this part of the choice we just know, leaving the theatre that this ended unhappily for someone but we should be happy that someone found love.

So for Paul Rudd fans this is a must, he's never been more adorable than in this film, and for everyone else there's plenty here to like. As usual all the funniest bits are in the trailer but there's enough drama and other stuff to just push it up from being another romantic comedy to an above average one.

Miller's Crossing

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Ok I have now officially seen all the Coen's feature films (not including Crimewave or any other film they didn't direct as well as write). And a lot of their shorts too. Once again the language and dialogue is key. It's beautiful. Also one hell of a fine cast doing great work. Which is the reason to see this film.

The world this film takes place in is one I have a hard time getting into. It's just a personal preference, I don't like gangster movies. But I did appreciate seeing Sam Raimi get shot to pieces.

This Is Not A Test

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That horrible video is the closest thing I could find to a trailer for this "never released theatrically" film. Wowzers. It's a very umm, student looking film. The acting is hilarious. The dialogue more so. No one in the film reacts like any actual person would at the news of an impending nuclear attack. Their polite conversation and their arguments are delivered in exactly the same way. And all the single close ups have far too much head room in the frame. Hilarious.

There are a bunch of characters, the cop, the grandpa and granddaughter, the married couple, the young hip couple, the crazy hitch hiker, the rebellious free spirited girl, the dog etc. As funny as I find the cop's voice I'd have t say my favourite character is Joe, the very straight, very white guy delivering beatnik dialogue.

I really don't think anyone would care about catching an escaped criminal or talking about their lives when a nuclear bomb is going to drop and kill them all. In fact no-one ever seems to be in much of a hurry about anything. They all take there time talking and preparing a truck as a bomb shelter. A group splits off to try and make it on their own. Another group shows up and causes a fight.

Thankfully the film is over a little over an hour after it began. And they kill the dog.