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heard of watchmen i know judge me despite my minimal knowledge of this apparently well loved comic series i joined my cinemasalem compadres at the imax midnight premiere as i looked around at the long line swerving around the lobby full of fans hoping to get their ideal viewing points our goal was middle middle noted their t shirts and complex conversations about character motivations and current day correlations i realized that not only have many people heard of watchmen but many people love watchmen when cinema employees passed the time by asking trivia questions about the comic i felt like i was at a taping of the price is right as hundreds of fans debated over how many nite owls there had been while holding up fingers and screaming to the emcee with each questions asked dozens of copies of the novel would fly out of bags and backpacks for reference and hands would zoom in the air each person desperate to prove his or her own devotion this is not a world i am a part of and i realize that alone is reason why i have no business critiquing watchmen as a story or idea without having read the graphic novel first i don t feel that i can comment on the film s content out of respect for all of the devotees i joined at the midnight premeire i couldn t do that i do however have a few cinematic based critiques of the film that i feel are well within my territory as an overall watchmen outsider my overall opinion of the film gratuitous everything about it it was just excessive too much violence too much blood too many naked scenes particularly of men but more on that later i m not a prude but my issue in this particular instance is that i felt the focus of the film overall was on the visual aspects instead of characterization and content we all know zack snyder can make film that looks awesome but at least 300 was a straightforward story the concept behind 300 was simple enough to have a basically visual focus from what i can tell from watchmen however the story seems too dense to share the stage with snyder s exessive visual bits the visual and cerebral were in competition for me and more often than not the visual won i know that as someone unfamiliar with the story there were things that went over my head and i felt like synder didn t let anything process with the audience before jumping to the next visual circus to completely distract us i m sure he was doing his best to fit as much information into the film as a whole but cutting out even half the times we were watching three characters just be naked would have given him at least 10 minutes for a little more story while we re on the subject of nudity i have to say synder s depiction of gender relations and women is pretty disappointing to me yes in both 300 and watchmen there is a long probably too long love scene where both couples seem to share a respectful relationship but in both films there are also incredibly unsettling rape scenes that completely demean women the female characters in both of these films are very strong and authoritative in pretty extreme ways one is a queen and one is a superhero for crying out loud doesn t get much stronger than that yet not even these women can conquer the almighty male s dominating presence it seems snyder himself takes issue with the idea that women are just as powerful as men and likes to remind his audience of where his particular gender preferences lie by not only beating and raping the women but buy glorifying and perfecting the male form by way of super jacked spartans and giant blue genitals he s giving the impression that he thinks men are way better than women as a gender the contrasting sex scenes present in both movies seem to say i love how sexy women are i just don t like when they think they re as good at everything as i am and that s a really lame impression to be giving off as far as acting goes i felt that everyone pretty much pulled their own weight in the film everyone seemed to pull off their roles well again with my elementary knowledge of these characters and there was nobody that really felt out of place or lagged behind in my opinion billy crudup carla gugino and jackie earle haley were the standouts in an all around strong cast i simply cannot write a review of this film without mentioning my utter disgust at the poor taste snyder displayed during the film s introduction i and america who has just welcomed a new president who will infuse hope respectability and change in this pretty damaged country did not need to see kennedy s face get blown off this i feel was snyder simply showing off as if the audiences are going to say wow look how great those special effects are you can actually see the brains flying out of one of our most beloved president s head awesome i found it completely inappropriate disrespectful and unneccesary it s one thing to feature excessive violence using fictional characters it is quite another thing entirely to gorify one of the most horrific events in america s political history for shame as someone unfamiliar with the story i had a lot of questions why were the superheros outlawed and if they were outlawed why was dr manhattan an exception where did these characters come from if these superheros were really just regular people why did they have superhuman strength were these characters good guys or bad guys even the otherwise all around good nite owl and silk spectre unnecessarily mutilated a group of muggers for no other apparent reason than they could all of my unanswered questions frustrated me and left me with the feeling that this movie is only meant for people who already know all the answers and is not trying to seek out new fans of which i was hoping to be filed under action drama hollywood theatrical leave a comment gran torino this post contains pg 13 language posted on january 9 2009 by godzillamonster vintage car vintage eastwood go see it let me start out by saying i loved this film i really did now that i have that out of the way this film is not perfect in fact it has some fairly irritating flaws flowing mostly from a script that could ve used another round of revisions clint eastwood s walt kowalski is a grizzled old racist korean war vet with about the crappiest family on the planet they re over the top stereotypical overindulged self centered middle class jack asses completely one dimensional without any hint that they re anything more than a plot device clunky as hell then there s this big info dump in which one of the hmong characters sue explains to walt and the audience who the hmong are i get that most people probably don t know so some info along those lines is necessary but the script dumps in all in one place an annoying piece of exposition in the middle of an otherwise well paced story a nit pick i suppose but it ripped me right out of the movie the script just can t keep from getting in the way of itself it seems to allow for complexity of character in some places and then falls flat by reverting to one dimensional caricatures in others it s fairly uneven and helmed by a less skilled director lead actor i think this film falls flat on its face but on to the good lest you forget i actually liked this movie eastwood is brilliant both in front of and behind the camera behind the camera he gets fine performances from his hmong cast members many of whom had never been in a film before they re not awesome performances but they re pretty solid i really liked sue portrayed by ahney her her performance was a little wooden in parts but she managed to be endearing and extremely likeable as she treated walt like a person rather than treating him like a category of person bee vang portraying sue s brother thao also performs admirably suitably capturing the awkward teenager who doesn t fit he actually manages a steady evolution throughout the film that can be tracked through his body language alone if you watched the movie without the dialogue it wouldn t be too hard to figure out what was going on with this kid eastwood himself is fantastic his character isn t likeable at all he s a shit but eastwood makes you care about what happens to him anyway even from very early on when all evidence of redeeming qualities is lacking walt kowalski is a guy with baggage a guy with a past and the gravity of it is everywhere it s there when he does something as simple as spit tobacco juice on the sidewalk or growl when he finds his beer cooler empty and sure he s channeling dirty harry here to a degree but i would be a touch surprised if he wasn t nominated for best actor for this role one other thing i appreciated about this film was that even though it s clearly a serious drama there were quite a few laugh out loud moments mostly stemming from some of the appalling insults walt dreams up for the other characters in the film you never know exactly what s going to come out of that guy s mouth good stuff i did trash the script earlier it could be a lot better but one thing it does well is depict the glue that binds people together i don t want to describe the glue that would give away some of the best parts of the movie away but i think gran torino will make attentive viewers ponder what sort of people they are and whether or not they have that gluey quality finally the car the car is a character too it like eastwood s character is an artifact from another era a surviving piece of a past that seems long gone and altered to the point of being unrecognizable and walt couldn t make his gran torino get 30mpg if he tried it s a gas guzzling heap of solid metal without automatic locks or windows sans air bags missing a fancy alarm system there s nothing safe about it it is what it is and so is walt he is what he is and he doesn t apologize for it when he finally embraces his hmong neighbors he s still a cranky old racist who honestly doesn t seem to learn a thing about acceptance from his neighbors even though he becomes intensely loyal to them and protective of them but i don t think walt s meant to be the guy who learns something we are and as problematic as the script is clint eastwood both behind and in front of the camera makes it work gran torino is rated r for violence smoking and naughtly language which includes swear words uncivilized terms for human body parts and a cornucopia of racial epithets filed under drama hollywood theatrical tagged clint eastwood gran torino hmong 1 comment changeling aka law and order starring angelina jolie posted on december 17 2008 by godzillamonster okay changeling hasn t gotten universally positive reviews and even though i thought the film was riveting i can kind of see why here s a film that was marketed as this dark mystery well there are certainly mysterious things that happen in the film that make the viewer think hmm what s up with that and i wonder how that s going to turn out but the film focuses on an actual kidnapping case that is more or less solved with a lot of the film remaining if one expects what the trailers promise a taut thriller one will be disappointed changeling more or less follows the structure of law and order the crime is solved and then we move to the courts where everything is resolved one way or another if however one goes into the film expecting a dramatization of the real life kidnapping of walter collins one will be delighted and here s why clint eastwood made a damn fine film the real life story is so incredibly appalling and takes so many bizarre twists and turns that a film based on it almost necessarily seems to go in too many different directions in fact if the story didn t have basis in reality it would almost be unbelievable but knowing that this stuff more or less really happened it s fairly appalling and it s pretty tough to look away it s also pretty tough to look i m glad i saw it but i won t ever watch it again not because it s bad but because it makes me feel uncomfortable in the same way that sherry baby and monster did along with those two films changeling left me wondering exactly what kind of crap world we live in monster and changeling especially because they re both based on real events and angelina jolie is the reason this film is so hard to watch a viewer could walk into this film having never thought about what it would feel like to lose a child but it would be pretty hard to walk out without having gleaned the horror of it from jolie s performance she s angry helpless frantic and completely bared and vulnerable as her deep frustration grows so did mine it s difficult not to go through this ordeal alongside her director clint eastwood deserves some of the credit of course but jolie once again proves that she s far more than a pretty face i have two gripes with the film the first is with lapd captain jj jones played by jeffrey donovan my gripe is on two levels first i don t think the guy is a very talented actor i watch his show burn notice but more for the ancillary characters played by bruce campbell gabrielle anwar and sharon gless in fact the first few episodes i watched i fairly well hated the wooden donovan he s grown on me in the context of the show but in this film he has this wildly vacillating irish accent well irish is my best guess and he s stiff as a board which i might buy if i hadn t seen him already playing stiff board in something else but in addition to donovan s annoying performance the character of the captain is fairly one dimensional as well it s difficult to beleive the real life guy was as much of a complete slime as this film suggests perhaps he was i m not going to say it s impossible but just one small indicator that this character has some small vestige of a soul would have been nice the second is that you ll leave the film questioning the motives of some of the key players and wondering what exactly happened the film doesn t tell you and there are plenty of possibilities to mull over the curious can easily discover what happened but that s extra work and i already paid nine bucks and spent two and a half hours watching this thing i don t think i should have homework but gripes aside i highly recommend changeling in addition to the kidnapping plot it shines a light on lapd corruption along with some of the indignities faced by women early in the last century superior supporting performances by amy ryan jason butler harner and michael kelley round out this compelling historical drama don t miss it filed under hollywood theatrical tagged angelina jolie changeling clint eastwood lapd walter collins wineville chicken coop murders leave a comment australia posted on december 13 2008 by justin snow australia is baz luhrmann s new opus featuring his muse nicole kidman alongside hugh jackman you might remember luhrmann from his super stylized films moulin rouge and romeo juliet and if you re expecting such over the top and over saturated eye candy in australia you ll be pretty disappointed luhrmann has been criticized for his gimmicky visuals 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