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The Bling Ring (2013)
If you are reading this...
Sofia please stop. Just for a second and consider that for those of us who are less privileged than yourself - spending 10 Euros to see a film is a lot of money. Asking us to sit in and watch your film for 90 minutes
well that is also quite a lot of time to ask. We (yes it was a group of us) found your film to be lazy, boring and superficial.
At the start of the film it's declared that the film was based on a Vanity Fair article – which says it all. It felt like the vanity fair article, google, TMZ and YouTube were the only source of research for this poor script.
Sofia seemed to approach this film with the same degree of snideness and holier than though attitude that I'm sure that same article evoked. You cannot judge your characters negatively and then write about them. As a result what you get is a bunch of shallow, one dimensional characters like the ones I had to endure for so long. 'That's the point' – you may say – 'they are one dimensional, they are shallow'. Well I looked up Emma Watsons real life character on YouTube – she had much more depth than what Emma led us to believe and I was far more intrigued by her than what was presented on screen. Instead Sofia wants us just to laugh at these people - distance ourselves from them, put our behaviour above them as well, that's easy and it's wrong.
For anyone reading this I implore you to wait to watch this on an outlet that doesn't involve you wasting any of your hard earned money because it's not worth it. I can promise you that. The story is about a bunch of girls who seem obsessed in acquiring a celebrity lifestyle through any means. We follow them rob houses, post things on facebook, have silly conversations everywhere, driving, getting drunk and generally playing cartoon characters. Everything is so easy and inconsequential. The acting is so, so poor. The story is thin and lazily handled. Little effort, be it staging, pace, thought, editing has been invested into making this into any kind of legitimate film worth thinking about. It actually made me bored – then angry – hence why I am venting through IMDb.
We mustn't also forget that the director – Ms Coppola has a bag line – yes, a bag line with Louis Vuitton
erm
just be weary of this when you next go to see her many films about empty lives. I get that its best to write what you know – but do it in an interesting, profound, humane way – otherwise please don't bother.
Take Shelter (2011)
Longest Short Film I have Ever Seen
Undoubtedly this film is very slow. Towards the end the slow pace almost.... almost became unbearable. I get the film - well at least I feel I do - I almost get the point of it...what I don't get is why there had to be so much of it. For me, this would have been a great short, as it happens it ends up being a watered down version of a brilliant short stretched into a long - never ending movie. At one point I was trying to piece together what my life was like outside of watching this film ..'did I have a life outside of this film?'...I'm not sure because I think I've been watching this film all my life. The acting is brilliant, the premise...very good. The shots/images - well executed. I wasn't angry about it as I usually am when I am made to pay extortionate prices to watch films in the cinema and they disappoint me on some level...but I was a bit bored and after I left with my group of friends we talked about other films that we had seen the previous week...not a good sign.