But Mr.Tilney...We musn't...(I assume that was somewhere in the book)
So I finished my undergrad "cutting people off with my less important thoughts" career with a thud by discussing the dissection of the Romantic in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. A class I enjoyed but didn't have time to care about and a book I'd enjoyed...but paid more attention to the movie.
But that's okay...I'm a film student, right?
So how does one celebrate such a momentous occasion?
CHEAP DOUBLE FEATURE AT 5th AVENUE!!!!
So yes, prepare for a double dose of movie reviews because I'm tired of writing useful, thought provoking things.
Paris Je T'aime:
This was the second movie but also the one I assume everyone has seen so I thought I'd review it first since it'll just be a fast ejaculation of my opinions...as so many of my conversations are.
It's the 25th best rated movie of the year on Rotten Tomatoes...not sure how I feel about that.
I don't like anthology films because they are so uneven and this may be the unevenest of all time. It manically teetered from watch looking to being totally in love with it but sadly not weighted well so it kind of bibbed and bobbed and jumped all around. But, yeah...expected.
That said there were awesome parts. It was delightful to see the Coen bros short (pictured above) simply because I don't think I've ever seen them do a short before. A lot of people thankfully focussed on shitty or messed up stories so you weren't choking of a beehive's worth of saccharine narratives. The audience burst into giggles in the Gus Van Sant movie when the gay hearthrob walked in but it still managed to amuse. Tom Tykwer just kind of did Run Lola Run 2 and the vampire one was way out of place but both were at least interesting in a movie that tended to focus generally more on performance rather than director's style. Nobody necessarily disappointed. Christopher Doyle is a cinematographer, not a writer so of course his was basically pretty nonsense. I suppose I kind of was choked Gurinder Chadra's lacked her usual smirk when dealing with race relations but I think being a non-white person looking at France probably leaves little room for smirking.
My favorite was Alexander Payne's. He managed his usual "make you laugh at someone then make you understand and emote with them" in a ridiculously short amount of time and definitely showed the "mad skillz" as a short practitioner more than the others.
But still, cute, whatever. It'll be good on DVD.
2 Days in Paris:
It's sad when a double bill loads the awesome movie first because it really pants' the other's chance of you loving it. Paris Je T'aime was good, but Julie Delpy's 2 Days In Paris was great. Also, sort of conflicting subject matter which made the placement of Je T'aime into kind of a joke.
Delpy's movie has a pretty simple plot. French Girl (basically Julie Delpy) loves Adam Goldberg (I can't even remember the characters name it's so Goldberg), they go on euro-trip, they spend two days in paris staying with her mom and dad, this puts stress on the relationship.
The movie gets the majority of it's laughs from Delpy's clear love-hate relationship with Paris. It's pretty but the cab drivers are asses who talk too much. There is family there but there are thousands of exes you don't want to see. Actually, it's mostly hate...I ran out of balancing things. This is where it diverges from Je T'aime. The yucks are as often at the expense of Paris and France as they are of Jewish or Americanisms...if not more.
The romance stuff flounders a little but overall it's just a simple comedy about being insiders/outsiders that's tightly written and well played.
You need to go just to see Julie Delpy's father play--I pray to baby Jesus--himself. He might have beaten out Depardieu for "Frenchest seeming man of all time".
It's an awesome movie. go see.
Now only two papers on Friday and I'm free....to stare into the abyss that is a life wasted on academia??? we'll see
Cam
So I finished my undergrad "cutting people off with my less important thoughts" career with a thud by discussing the dissection of the Romantic in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. A class I enjoyed but didn't have time to care about and a book I'd enjoyed...but paid more attention to the movie.
But that's okay...I'm a film student, right?
So how does one celebrate such a momentous occasion?
CHEAP DOUBLE FEATURE AT 5th AVENUE!!!!
So yes, prepare for a double dose of movie reviews because I'm tired of writing useful, thought provoking things.
Paris Je T'aime:
This was the second movie but also the one I assume everyone has seen so I thought I'd review it first since it'll just be a fast ejaculation of my opinions...as so many of my conversations are.
It's the 25th best rated movie of the year on Rotten Tomatoes...not sure how I feel about that.
I don't like anthology films because they are so uneven and this may be the unevenest of all time. It manically teetered from watch looking to being totally in love with it but sadly not weighted well so it kind of bibbed and bobbed and jumped all around. But, yeah...expected.
That said there were awesome parts. It was delightful to see the Coen bros short (pictured above) simply because I don't think I've ever seen them do a short before. A lot of people thankfully focussed on shitty or messed up stories so you weren't choking of a beehive's worth of saccharine narratives. The audience burst into giggles in the Gus Van Sant movie when the gay hearthrob walked in but it still managed to amuse. Tom Tykwer just kind of did Run Lola Run 2 and the vampire one was way out of place but both were at least interesting in a movie that tended to focus generally more on performance rather than director's style. Nobody necessarily disappointed. Christopher Doyle is a cinematographer, not a writer so of course his was basically pretty nonsense. I suppose I kind of was choked Gurinder Chadra's lacked her usual smirk when dealing with race relations but I think being a non-white person looking at France probably leaves little room for smirking.
My favorite was Alexander Payne's. He managed his usual "make you laugh at someone then make you understand and emote with them" in a ridiculously short amount of time and definitely showed the "mad skillz" as a short practitioner more than the others.
But still, cute, whatever. It'll be good on DVD.
2 Days in Paris:
It's sad when a double bill loads the awesome movie first because it really pants' the other's chance of you loving it. Paris Je T'aime was good, but Julie Delpy's 2 Days In Paris was great. Also, sort of conflicting subject matter which made the placement of Je T'aime into kind of a joke.
Delpy's movie has a pretty simple plot. French Girl (basically Julie Delpy) loves Adam Goldberg (I can't even remember the characters name it's so Goldberg), they go on euro-trip, they spend two days in paris staying with her mom and dad, this puts stress on the relationship.
The movie gets the majority of it's laughs from Delpy's clear love-hate relationship with Paris. It's pretty but the cab drivers are asses who talk too much. There is family there but there are thousands of exes you don't want to see. Actually, it's mostly hate...I ran out of balancing things. This is where it diverges from Je T'aime. The yucks are as often at the expense of Paris and France as they are of Jewish or Americanisms...if not more.
The romance stuff flounders a little but overall it's just a simple comedy about being insiders/outsiders that's tightly written and well played.
You need to go just to see Julie Delpy's father play--I pray to baby Jesus--himself. He might have beaten out Depardieu for "Frenchest seeming man of all time".
It's an awesome movie. go see.
Now only two papers on Friday and I'm free....to stare into the abyss that is a life wasted on academia??? we'll see
Cam
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