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It's really late, but I wanted to get these movie reviews up before it gets even further from when I saw them on Sunday.
Rachel Getting Married.
This movie is so good. The film should've been nominated for Best Picture, in my opinion. It's the most incredibly powerful, real movie I've seen in a long time. It's shot on handheld cameras, and you just get this sense that it's a story about people you could know, among whom the camera tends to just find Kym, Anne Hathaway's character. What makes the film so great, in my opinion, is that the emotions in it feel real and run the gamut of family interactions. The arguments are frustrated and full of innuendo and pushing each other's buttons, but there's also real joy and love in the movie. I haven't felt so involved in a movie in a long time - there's one scene that's so awkward nearly everyone in the cinema was sinking in their seats. The story unfolds in a proper cinematic progression, but it feels natural - the family members make jokes about things we don't understand, and we get to know people not through exposition but through their actions. The music is fantastic. Anne Hathaway is very good in it, but the supporting actors are all excellent as well. LOVED this movie.
4.5 out of 5
Beyond Borders
This is the film that started Angelina on her human rights trip, I believe. I can see why in the first third of the film, when human aid and famine relief is the focus, but once the focus of the movie shifts from the desperation of the people who are in need to the Tragic Romance of Angeline and Clive Owen, complete with stilted, melodramatic dialogue and increasingly ridiculous situations, the movie completely loses any credibility. Which is a shame, because buried under all the romantic nonsense is a real message that deserves better.
2 out of 5
Green Queen
Rachel Getting Married.
This movie is so good. The film should've been nominated for Best Picture, in my opinion. It's the most incredibly powerful, real movie I've seen in a long time. It's shot on handheld cameras, and you just get this sense that it's a story about people you could know, among whom the camera tends to just find Kym, Anne Hathaway's character. What makes the film so great, in my opinion, is that the emotions in it feel real and run the gamut of family interactions. The arguments are frustrated and full of innuendo and pushing each other's buttons, but there's also real joy and love in the movie. I haven't felt so involved in a movie in a long time - there's one scene that's so awkward nearly everyone in the cinema was sinking in their seats. The story unfolds in a proper cinematic progression, but it feels natural - the family members make jokes about things we don't understand, and we get to know people not through exposition but through their actions. The music is fantastic. Anne Hathaway is very good in it, but the supporting actors are all excellent as well. LOVED this movie.
4.5 out of 5
Beyond Borders
This is the film that started Angelina on her human rights trip, I believe. I can see why in the first third of the film, when human aid and famine relief is the focus, but once the focus of the movie shifts from the desperation of the people who are in need to the Tragic Romance of Angeline and Clive Owen, complete with stilted, melodramatic dialogue and increasingly ridiculous situations, the movie completely loses any credibility. Which is a shame, because buried under all the romantic nonsense is a real message that deserves better.
2 out of 5
Green Queen
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Oh, the one the groom sang at the wedding. I thought it was sweet.
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