Quick Film Reviews #21
Natural Born Killers
Though it was directed by Oliver Stone, Natural Born Killers has writer Quentin Tarantino's love of pulp and screen violence all over it. As a portrayal and satire of the violence and hypocrisy in American society - a hypocrisy it deliberately tangles itself up in - it's reasonably successful. Like most Tarantinto, though, you wonder how much there really is to it.
Waking Life
So, we've got this film with a load of monologues about existentialism and stuff like that. A character casually drops the name Kierkegaard. Steven Sonderberg makes a cameo. How can we make this film more art-housey? Let's rotoscope it!
Sunshine
I wanted to like Sunshine more. It's got a lot of good points, like unobtrusive technology, decent acting and great visuals. It's a film that clearly should be watched on the big screen. In the end, though, I found it a bit dull. It was the story that was the problem. It wasn't bad, it was just very standard.
Though it was directed by Oliver Stone, Natural Born Killers has writer Quentin Tarantino's love of pulp and screen violence all over it. As a portrayal and satire of the violence and hypocrisy in American society - a hypocrisy it deliberately tangles itself up in - it's reasonably successful. Like most Tarantinto, though, you wonder how much there really is to it.
Waking Life
So, we've got this film with a load of monologues about existentialism and stuff like that. A character casually drops the name Kierkegaard. Steven Sonderberg makes a cameo. How can we make this film more art-housey? Let's rotoscope it!
Sunshine
I wanted to like Sunshine more. It's got a lot of good points, like unobtrusive technology, decent acting and great visuals. It's a film that clearly should be watched on the big screen. In the end, though, I found it a bit dull. It was the story that was the problem. It wasn't bad, it was just very standard.