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The Thing Called Love (1993)
Very good movie so why no DVD release?
This movie is very good, it is straight and honest and true on human feelings as is miles away from the stereotyped musical comedies. Watching it is just a breath of fresh air.
The music is very good, the acting ranges form good to excellent, and director Bogdanovich displays real class touch in some scenes. Bogdanovich is very good at directing young actors, as it was very clear since his "Last Picture Show" movie of the early 70s.
The actors: Phoenix doesn't do much real acting but his presence has something magnetic to it and it's a real shame that he passed away, he would have become one of the greatest actors of today. Mathis is fresh, unmannered and straight, a real girl not a stereotype. At last! You can't say she's beautiful or sexy but man she has presence and personality, you can't but fall in love with her. Bullock plays the ingenue and she does it very well, even in this early movie she displays the acting qualities she became much appreciated for afterwards.
It is a real shame that "The Thing Called Love" hasn't been released on DVD yet. Paramount announced an October 26th, 2004 release which didn't happen. This must be a cruel joke as it's years that we are waiting for this release. Paramount executives, if you read this, please deliver this movie on DVD. I am sure that you won't regret it.
Morte a Venezia (1971)
More and more beautiful as the years pass by
"Slow", "slow", "slow"... I read many people complain "it's slow"... slow what? This movie takes its time. All the most beautiful things in life take time. When you make sex with your girlfriend would you try to make it last five minutes? No you would like to make it last the whole night. When you eat good food in a good restaurant would you like to finish it in two minutes? No, you sit down, enjoy the place, the food, the company and the wine. When you visit an art museum, would you rush through the rooms? No, you would move slowly, pay attention, and stop at the artworks that mean more to you. So why should a movie be different?
If you want speed, then eat at McDonald's, rush in the tube, watch TV commercials, and pay a prostitute for a 5 minute work.
If you are looking for real emotions, deep feelings and thoughts that will last in your memory and heart for a long time, then you don't want to miss this movie.
One caveat: don't go watching it for the gay theme. This movie isn't about gay love, if you look at it through this point of view, it will let you down completely. This movie is symbolism from beginning to end, it does not speak of what you see. It speaks of the struggle of the artist to reach the beauty, so close, always unreachable, and, like another reader perfectly commented, so inevitably connected with death, because the only perfection that a living being can ever attain, is in the death. If you look at the movie from this point of view, it will show to you for what it is: a complete masterpiece, from beginning to end.
King Arthur (2004)
double failure (myth and history)
This movie is a double failure: on the mythical literature side, because of no Camelot, no wizardry, no Guinevere-Lancelot love affair, just to name a few things, and on the historical side, because of wrong geography, wrong weapons, unbelievable situations (Roman legions in outer regions were constituted by many experienced tough soldiers, not by such a half dozen goofy chickens, and Saxons warriors were not idiots to walk tight to each other in rows of dozens over a frozen lake's thin surface. Not to mention the Roman noble family living in a villa placed outside the Empire's most outer defences, in a barbarian land!) I thought that Troy was bad, but this is even worse!
Troy (2004)
No respect for THE timeless Classic!!
Seeing Troy is unbearable to anyone who has a minimum culture. The way they turned THE most timeless classic of all times into a false cheap rubbish movie is unbearable. Everything is false: parts of story that don't exist, other parts twisted until betrayal, main hero characters killed when they were supposed to stay alive and spared when they were supposed to die, the plot completely changed to suit Hollywood standards, a ridiculous love story between Achilles and Briseis, Helen looking double her age, old wise Priam turned into a weepy war geek, Agamemnon and Menelaus (who were supposed to be middle age, nice looking Greek princes) turned into old red-bearded Saxon folks, noble Ajax turned into some kind of brute caveman, war formations that did not exist at the time, completely inaccurate clothing and armors. And I could go on. The only thing that is OK is Brad Pitt's casting. He's perfect with the muscles and blonde hair. But Achilles was supposed to have a shiny golden armor, not a black dull Gothic-like one.
The Invisible Circus (2001)
Too bad this movie cheats with the viewers
This could have been a good movie, with some intense parts and good play. Unfortunately, it has been ruined by the script, which for all time, tricks the viewer into believing that there will be some kind of final revelation, which never happens. This is what lets the viewer down and therefore ruins the movie.
If the movie was honest from the beginning, then it could have become a very humanly intense road movie, like the kind of '70s movies by Bogdanovich or Altman. But because of the stupid cheat, it only becomes a modest and failed whodunit.
The acting and sceneries are good though. Worth a view - but only to regret how a better film it could have been.
S1m0ne (2002)
Come on, this is a satyrical paradox!
I can't believe how many people judge this film negatively because of it's lack of realism and plot holes. Come on! This is a satyrical paradox! All exaggeration, unrealism, contradictions, are *intended*!
This kind of movie is not meant to be *believed* or to be realistic. It is meant to make you think. It is *brechtian*. It is provocative. It does not try to sell itself as something credible.
I seriously wonder about the intelligence and ability to understand culture of the people who criticised this film for this lack of realism. Those kind of comments only speak about the ignorance of the people who wrote them, who probably saw too many Hollywood movies and too little intelligent movies (and read too little intelligent books also).