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Notes: It turned out be some kind of vintage Japanese film noir and, for some reason, it also reminded me of ‘Mean Streets’ with these rather pathetic smalltime thugs doing seemingly nothing the whole day. I have to admit that I was actually surprised that it turned out to be a silent movie. Indeed, I have been focusing on older movies recently but, back then in the US and Europe, they had already started to deliver movies with sound for quite a while already. Anyway, to be honest, even if the mood was pretty neat, the damned thing did feel rather messy though. Indeed, the lack of sound was actually rather disorienting and the lack of actual plot didn’t help either but it is actually quite usual with this Japanese master though. On the other hand, there was actually something quite fascinating about how the actors managed to compensate the lack of dialogues with their body language. Indeed, in contrary to most silent movies, the acting was actually fairly subtle here. Furthermore, even if Ozu never really cared much about the plot, he always managed to deliver some intriguing and complex characters and this movie was not an exception. Sure, they might all seem stereotypical, much more than in his future classics, but there was something quite genuine about the emotions displayed.
“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but I thought I might as well check it out anyway. Well, I don’t think that the concept was such a bad idea but it didn’t help that the Farrelly brothers already did something very similar with ‘Shallow Hal’. The only major ” read more
“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since it was starring Sharon Stone, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I thought it was not bad at all after all. Indeed, I always had a weak spot for romantic-comedies and, for once, they went for a gimmick which wa” read more
“To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from the damned thing but, since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though I have to admit that the title did sound pretty cool, I’m afraid it was the only interesting thing about this flick though. Indeed, u” read more
Notes: Even though I have to admit that the title did sound pretty cool, I’m afraid it was the only interesting thing about this flick though. Indeed, unfortunately, as expected, it turned out to be another dreadful direct-to-VOD hack job from Bruce Willis. I mean, sure, it was maybe not the worse of the bunch I have seen so far but it was still a seriously half-baked thriller, that’s for sure. In fact, the worst scenes were probably the ones involving Bruce Willis and Megan Fox. Indeed, these scenes were just so cringe-inducing to behold and you might wonder what was the point of his character at all. Seriously, you could easily remove him and the story would work just the same. Willis basically had only a few scenes which were apparently shot during a single day of work and, yet, the guy was still displayed prominently on all the promotional material but it’s the usual swindle with these features, I’m afraid. Concerning Megan Fox, well, even though she dreads in her interviews the fact that she had been pigeonholed as a sex symbol through her whole career, after watching her in something so worthless when she was obviously displayed as a sex object at least in her first scene, it is actually rather hard to take care her seriously. Concerning Emile Hirsh, sure, he was maybe not as bad as Bruce Willis was but he was still hardly convincing with his pathetic mustache and it’s just sad when you think that he was at some point such a promising actor, especially after the critical success of ‘Into the Wild’ almost 20 years ago. 
“Since this movie has a rather lame reputation, I had some low expectations but, since it was starring Laurence Olivier, I thought I might as well check it out. To be honest, I have to admit that I had pretty much zero knowledge about Neil Diamond before watching this flick but it seemed that it was ” read more
Notes: Well, this was the 3rd short I saw with Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle and, even though I enjoyed more ‘The Garage’, it was pretty good as well though. The most interesting thing about this short, at least for me, was the fact that that, this time, Buster Keaton was not involved so Arbuckle really had to carry the whole thing on his shoulders. Sure, Mabel Normand, one of his frequent co-starts at the time, was also there to assist him but I think it was pretty obvious that he was the main draw here. Anyway, there is no doubt that the guy was really charismatic and his comedic timing was pretty much perfect. Concerning the movie itself, at least, there was more or less a plot this time around. Still, to be honest, it was narratively not really impressive but, except for Charles Chaplin’s groundbreaking work, that’s something that could be said about most silent comedies, I’m afraid. Anyway, in spite of its flaws, it was still a solid vintage silent comedy though.