We're just the substitute people.
I have seen so many good films recently aswell as some pretty dire ones.
The latest one I watched was Elizabethtown which I completely loved, in fact I think this might just become one of my favourite films of all time. I'm a sucker for a decent human feeling love story. I know there are a lot of people who have problems with this film, that it's got no direction, nothing happens, is a rip-off of Garden State (which I haven't seen yet) and is too similar to Crowe's earlier film Jerry Maguire etc etc. Sure Bloom and Dunst's accents are atrocious but they do really well with the parts they play. The scene with Bloom and the suicide exercise bike killed me (no pun intended) and when is Kirsten Dunst just not the most likeable girl in the world? Hell, I'd date her. There's something just so completely human about this film. Everything is in the details. She saves his life but doesn't even realise it. The scene where they talk endlessly on the phone and we cut in and out of the conversation is great, it's not important what they talk about, it's just the fact of these two people are reaching out. I love Claire's whole cute camera thing (hello, icon :D), memorising the moments. I do that, just not with the actions. I'm impossible to forget but I'm hard to remember. My favourite scene in the film has got to be after they sleep together and Claire is leaving the room and keeps making noise trying to wake him up, but of course being the typical man he's completely asleep. Then when she's outside and he catches up with her, she looks so relieved because she expects him to say something like "I love you" or "Don't go." but he doesn't, instead he tells her what a failure he is. It's so amazing, I swear that's human nature right there. The look on her face is right on the money. I'm so happy that they got together in the end because if they hadn't I might have cried, seriously. This is a film about a man who thinks he has everything and is consequently about to lose it but hasn't actually been living at all. I need to go on a road trip. Oh and one last thing, since it's Cameron Crowe, the soundtrack to this film is top notch. Check it out.
Ten days until I leave Makro, oh noes!
And why oh why can't I get that stupid Snakes song out of my head. Argh!
The latest one I watched was Elizabethtown which I completely loved, in fact I think this might just become one of my favourite films of all time. I'm a sucker for a decent human feeling love story. I know there are a lot of people who have problems with this film, that it's got no direction, nothing happens, is a rip-off of Garden State (which I haven't seen yet) and is too similar to Crowe's earlier film Jerry Maguire etc etc. Sure Bloom and Dunst's accents are atrocious but they do really well with the parts they play. The scene with Bloom and the suicide exercise bike killed me (no pun intended) and when is Kirsten Dunst just not the most likeable girl in the world? Hell, I'd date her. There's something just so completely human about this film. Everything is in the details. She saves his life but doesn't even realise it. The scene where they talk endlessly on the phone and we cut in and out of the conversation is great, it's not important what they talk about, it's just the fact of these two people are reaching out. I love Claire's whole cute camera thing (hello, icon :D), memorising the moments. I do that, just not with the actions. I'm impossible to forget but I'm hard to remember. My favourite scene in the film has got to be after they sleep together and Claire is leaving the room and keeps making noise trying to wake him up, but of course being the typical man he's completely asleep. Then when she's outside and he catches up with her, she looks so relieved because she expects him to say something like "I love you" or "Don't go." but he doesn't, instead he tells her what a failure he is. It's so amazing, I swear that's human nature right there. The look on her face is right on the money. I'm so happy that they got together in the end because if they hadn't I might have cried, seriously. This is a film about a man who thinks he has everything and is consequently about to lose it but hasn't actually been living at all. I need to go on a road trip. Oh and one last thing, since it's Cameron Crowe, the soundtrack to this film is top notch. Check it out.
Ten days until I leave Makro, oh noes!
And why oh why can't I get that stupid Snakes song out of my head. Argh!