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melissajane14 and her bf today, it was fun, we watched Firefly.
Fire drills need to die. My arm dead from holding Luke for twenty minutes and my back hurts too.
Movies:
Taxi Driver
Okay, and the next movie I'm renting is Raging Bull, because I need to get my hands on every movie De Niro and Scorcese have ever done together, right now. This was so good. I don't have any idea why I waited so long to see it. Creepy and internal and the perfect mood of growing frustration and isolation and just, wow. There's just this unease that permeates the movie - De Niro starts out so awkward and almost sweet, and just transforms as he becomes more and more unstable. And then the end, with him being hailed as a hero, is the most disturbing thing of all.
De Niro carries the movie completely on his own shoulders, and does it SO well. Cybill Shepard is good, Jodie Foster is kind of scarily good in a very difficult role (one which makes you wonder how much she was protected during filming.) The film belongs to De Niro and the camera completely, though - it's a journey into his head, a journey which Scorcese takes us on with effortless ease. He uses the camera so well; watching the taxi come out of the mist at the beginning like a monster in a horror movie, watching the world from the inside of the taxi like Travis does with the silhouettes against the lights, watching Travis become less and less centered in the frame as his mind becomes more fractured. And SUCH good music.
I don't like the washed-out colour of the blood at the end and the weird effects, which all add up to make the acts of really vicious violence just look kind of confusing and silly - it looks like he's covered in Ghostbuster slime, not blood. Not the greatest move right there, because it's such a shocking scene, it could've been done better.
That's literally my only complaint, though. Watching De Niro struggle to interact with other people, to fit into a society that he reviles and that he has no place in, is just amazing. I love that you aren't told what to think about the movie, that you're shown it - it's exactly what I want a movie to be.
9 out of 10.
Platoon
Oliver Stone may be a self-righteous asshole but the man knows how to make a war movie. This is a movie that doesn't glorify war but is still beautifully shot, which is an achievement in itself in my opinion. It's crazy and chaotic and genuinely scary, and it doesn't water down the atrocities of war committed by the soldiers like so many other war movies do. The things they do to the Vietnamese people are awful, and then you see the soldiers walking out of the village they've burnt with kids hanging off them left and right. Scary shit.
It's a crime that Tom Berenger was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this movie and Willem Dafoe was overlooked, because there's no way Berenger would've been half as good without Dafoe as his equally good counterpart. They totally stole the movie from Charlie Sheen, who is kind of eerily reminiscent of his daddy in Apocalypse Now, only far less talented. The image of Willem Dafoe dying is on every poster and on the cover of the DVD, and it still managed to make my heart stop in the movie. The voice-overs were kind of overly poetic, especially the final part - I preferred Jake Gyllenhaal's voice-over in Jarhead, and I still don't like being handed the conclusions on a platter - but the rest of the movie was so good it more than made up for that fact.
I don't know what it is about Matt Dillon's baby brother that he's always playing bastards. Also interesting to see baby Johnny Depp in a bit role (which reminded me of Orli's role in Black Hawk Down.) Speaking of which, I swear I thought this guy was Eric Bana for a second until I realised that it was completely impossible. And finally, OMG scary daddy guy from Desperate Housewives was the useless lieutenant! Okay, done now. I love playing spot the actor.
8.5 out of 10.
Yum.
You talkin' to me?
Green Queen
melissajane14 and her bf today, it was fun, we watched Firefly.Fire drills need to die. My arm dead from holding Luke for twenty minutes and my back hurts too.
Movies:
Taxi Driver
Okay, and the next movie I'm renting is Raging Bull, because I need to get my hands on every movie De Niro and Scorcese have ever done together, right now. This was so good. I don't have any idea why I waited so long to see it. Creepy and internal and the perfect mood of growing frustration and isolation and just, wow. There's just this unease that permeates the movie - De Niro starts out so awkward and almost sweet, and just transforms as he becomes more and more unstable. And then the end, with him being hailed as a hero, is the most disturbing thing of all.
De Niro carries the movie completely on his own shoulders, and does it SO well. Cybill Shepard is good, Jodie Foster is kind of scarily good in a very difficult role (one which makes you wonder how much she was protected during filming.) The film belongs to De Niro and the camera completely, though - it's a journey into his head, a journey which Scorcese takes us on with effortless ease. He uses the camera so well; watching the taxi come out of the mist at the beginning like a monster in a horror movie, watching the world from the inside of the taxi like Travis does with the silhouettes against the lights, watching Travis become less and less centered in the frame as his mind becomes more fractured. And SUCH good music.
I don't like the washed-out colour of the blood at the end and the weird effects, which all add up to make the acts of really vicious violence just look kind of confusing and silly - it looks like he's covered in Ghostbuster slime, not blood. Not the greatest move right there, because it's such a shocking scene, it could've been done better.
That's literally my only complaint, though. Watching De Niro struggle to interact with other people, to fit into a society that he reviles and that he has no place in, is just amazing. I love that you aren't told what to think about the movie, that you're shown it - it's exactly what I want a movie to be.
9 out of 10.
Platoon
Oliver Stone may be a self-righteous asshole but the man knows how to make a war movie. This is a movie that doesn't glorify war but is still beautifully shot, which is an achievement in itself in my opinion. It's crazy and chaotic and genuinely scary, and it doesn't water down the atrocities of war committed by the soldiers like so many other war movies do. The things they do to the Vietnamese people are awful, and then you see the soldiers walking out of the village they've burnt with kids hanging off them left and right. Scary shit.
It's a crime that Tom Berenger was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this movie and Willem Dafoe was overlooked, because there's no way Berenger would've been half as good without Dafoe as his equally good counterpart. They totally stole the movie from Charlie Sheen, who is kind of eerily reminiscent of his daddy in Apocalypse Now, only far less talented. The image of Willem Dafoe dying is on every poster and on the cover of the DVD, and it still managed to make my heart stop in the movie. The voice-overs were kind of overly poetic, especially the final part - I preferred Jake Gyllenhaal's voice-over in Jarhead, and I still don't like being handed the conclusions on a platter - but the rest of the movie was so good it more than made up for that fact.
I don't know what it is about Matt Dillon's baby brother that he's always playing bastards. Also interesting to see baby Johnny Depp in a bit role (which reminded me of Orli's role in Black Hawk Down.) Speaking of which, I swear I thought this guy was Eric Bana for a second until I realised that it was completely impossible. And finally, OMG scary daddy guy from Desperate Housewives was the useless lieutenant! Okay, done now. I love playing spot the actor.
8.5 out of 10.
Yum.
You talkin' to me?
Green Queen
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...that sounds er.... yes. right. moving on. XD
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I notice that, in your icon, nobdoy has Charlie. I therefore claim him in the name of Green Queen.
MINE.
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