Posts Tagged ‘Chloe Sevigny’
February 13, 2010 - 11:33 pm
There is nothing wrong with this film itself. JR DR is, as usual, one of the best reasons to watch a movie. But, and this makes a difference, this is a long film - in 2h30m, there must be more action.
I do not mean car chases or filler as that, little else happens. Sure, there’s a great quality of Jake and Robert, but wow, I do not think Ruffalo as a cop who is as stupid as that is.
He really gives the character of his “real life” a bad name and there are about 20 minutes that could be cut from it are just, well, dumb. Sorry, but I think Jake as an artist to ‘nobody’, so as I think the cops are lazy SFPD (as described here). I want to love this film, is part of American history.
But I can not. In addition to seeing the fantastic Robert, who should be praised film, there is little to recommend this film. (He said this review contains a spoiler, but it’s just that I said Ruffalo’s character is silly, and I think I could tell.
Seriously, you and I could have solved this problem, 1h45m).
Tags: Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Charles Fleischer, Chloe Sevigny, Clea Duvall, David Fincher, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue, Drama, Elias Koteas, Gary Oldman, Ione Skye, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jimmi Simpson, John Carroll Lynch, Mark Ruffalo, Pell James, Robert Downey, Thriller, WARNER BROS Posted in 1, Uncategorized |
February 1, 2010 - 1:32 pm
Each new Woody Allen film in the last 15 years has been hailed as a return to form, only to be swiftly re-evaluated as cannon fodder for the arms of darkness, and “Melinda and Melinda ‘is part of the device bill.The processing is clumsily written and performed, and the whole premise is wrong
Anyway: This is not the same story in two versions, but two different stories.There is the pleasure you get from the film for Allen fans, like me, but I doubt that anyone can enjoy it, although the view of Chloe Sevigny intellectual references jets is good for a (unintentional) laugh.
Tags: Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Charles Fleischer, Chloe Sevigny, Clea Duvall, David Fincher, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue, Drama, Elias Koteas, Gary Oldman, Ione Skye, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jimmi Simpson, John Carroll Lynch, Mark Ruffalo, Pell James, Robert Downey, Thriller, WARNER BROS Posted in 1, Uncategorized |
October 16, 2009 - 5:53 am
MacCaulay Culkin is trying to establish itself as a credible actor for adults. I understand that, but this is just a poor movie, too “country” for its own good. Based on a true story, I can remember when the boys made their TV Drive
talkshow appearances. It is actually the excesses
of this film in order to spoil it.
I laughed at how bad some of it was. I can not believe that Seth Green could be so bad either. I did it with this stick in the hope that there would be some credibility to the final.
All that was left was a disappointment.
Tags: Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Charles Fleischer, Chloe Sevigny, Clea Duvall, David Fincher, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue, Drama, Elias Koteas, Gary Oldman, Ione Skye, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jimmi Simpson, John Carroll Lynch, Mark Ruffalo, Pell James, Robert Downey, Thriller, WARNER BROS Posted in 1, Uncategorized |
August 30, 2009 - 8:00 am
Absolutely fascinating account of the zodiac murderer who terrorized California in the 60s/70s. Fincher uses the extended run time using the editing so well adjusted and a star cast to keep public attention, which is quite clever as you share a wealth of information at all and even lost bits here and there the movie sucks you in and keeps you captivated until the end.
I liked how to avoid the usual clichés and instead gave him 3 perspectives different from hunting the murderer, uber-geek cartoonist gyllenhalls given more screen time and is charming and believable, Ruffalo police detective is taut and compelling brand But the film is stolen by JRS Downey’s performance as the journalist Paul Avery Jaded crumble under the pressure of hunting the murderer. In fact, the film may have benefited from having more of his character and the story represented. The film is also a portrait of murder, paranoia, incompetence of the police and the San Francisco era particularly well.
At the end left with questions, but thats really not all murderers are caught and locked up and resolved cases. Doesn’t that Finchers pleasing film, or go for something so different and surprising as ‘7 ‘- Instead one of the best directors Americas offers solid dramatic entertainment, which focuses on the plot and keeps you prey as it develops.
Tags: Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Charles Fleischer, Chloe Sevigny, Clea Duvall, David Fincher, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue, Drama, Elias Koteas, Gary Oldman, Ione Skye, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jimmi Simpson, John Carroll Lynch, Mark Ruffalo, Pell James, Robert Downey, Thriller, WARNER BROS Posted in 1, Uncategorized |
In response to someone who said that it seemed as if Fincher has made two films together and slapped me say that it has three main characters, all focused on at different times, and covers a lot of time in the fairly long history (and densa) Narrative time. This is a movie about all the information about technology on the evolution of the two in the second half of last century …
to the point where police departments are working together not a fax, because the other big-city kids have a fax machine, but the small town guys do not. This is, after all, perhaps why the murderer was never found. I think the broad sense of characters and splicing together of visual overlap, soundtracks, and in general the narrative thread is set to build a thing of the past through deconstruction.
Tags: Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Charles Fleischer, Chloe Sevigny, Clea Duvall, David Fincher, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue, Drama, Elias Koteas, Gary Oldman, Ione Skye, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jimmi Simpson, John Carroll Lynch, Mark Ruffalo, Pell James, Robert Downey, Thriller, WARNER BROS Posted in 1, Uncategorized |