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RadkoMilanov
Reviews
Zeitgeist (2007)
Welcome to the present
If Dostoevsky was alive and browsing the internet he would make a website explaining Nietzsche's work. If Einstein was alive and browsing the internet he would make a website stating that everything is relative but in most cases that does not apply to Dostoevsky's work. Finally a simple everyday Joe would make a search engine that searches within the websites of those great minds.
Guess whose site will get the most visitors.
Sleep happily, dance and sing while you are awake!
An interesting production
Seen best without applying too much opinion...
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Redefining awkward beauty once again
Life hits you from behind with is quiet wisdom. Like in a western myth. You sit tight as you take a fall through your pit. You make others believe in this and that. Deep deception is what makes you a rat. You dig for oil, you make your epic. You get your money, you re-defy your ethic. Now you've got your power. Who will be your psychiatrist for the last hour?
A film is for the feel, a film is for the senses. Your role is to understand insane in some cases. Kubrick did it best without the least of pain. And now a little more in vain. Oh there shall be blood again.
Interesting trivia: Notice how in some moments especially at the end Daniel Day Lewis's voice is almost a true match with that of Sean Connery.
8/10
Signs (2002)
I can get no... satisfaction...Yea yea yea
There is a check well done besides all film - art criteria when Signs" is put on the test. And that is not a surprising fact, as we well know that its creator is a man with natural talent in this respect. However "Signs" lacks on the imagination side, imagination was focused on delivering brilliant visual scenery rather than intrigue. The plot was too closed in itself, the "topography" of suspense did not manage to tingle the viewer. Action built up then suddenly faded into dramatic moments that left suspense aside. This usually would not be a big deal but when one goes to see a movie with the thematic nature of "Signs" he not only wants to see good acting, camera work and brilliant images but also wants to leave the theater in owe, shocked and by that satisfied. That is what the movie lacks.
Apart from that this is a very decent film.
6/10
Contact (1997)
Good Epic Film...
My comment will be focused not on the subject of the film but on the films characteristics themselves. In cinema there are some main anchors points to which you can attach a film piece to and "Contact" is tagged to a very powerful one - an EPIC FILM. The difference between epic film "wanna be" and real epic films, is that the real ones seem to have been a part of your life once the credits start to roll. All of us know this feeling very well, as we have all seen "The Godfather". Epic films usually tend to go outside the realms of the genre they were meant to be. That is why you can not say that "Contact" is an action or an action flick, even though it has most characteristics of both. There is drama in there too but its not that either, it's an epic film. Camera-work is on a decent level. Effects are well done. The film was not ruined by intolerable clichés phrases or dialogs. The plot was a hard one to get through, if you don't know what you're doing but that is not the case with Mr. Zemeckis. No matter of how controversial the topic may be to the audience, it is and will remain, as one of the thumbs up films of the 90's archives, because as far as cinematographic arts criteria go it is surely above the mediocre.
A good example of an epic film.
7/10
Transformers (2007)
Transformation...
It is 2007 (some time ago we had futuristic movies flash forwarding to these years:)) and we need a new breed of action movies. Its time for what we called action flicks to upgrade to smarter and beta versions - dynamic action flicks - possessing all former characteristics but moving up in the cinematic arts scale. Michael Bay, deliberately or not, made an attempt at it with Armageddon. Mr. Spielberg, consciously understanding these "thin" moments in cinema, has got the feel for it. Furthermore, they all know that as with software production a final version, that everybody loves and most importantly knows how to use, takes a lot of time and beta versions. From the preview to the actual film - Welcome to dynamic action flicks version 0.1 "Transformers 2007". It is not a big surprise most other actions coming out until recently even though good production and so forth look like a versions 0.0. As in fashion you got to have the feeling, the feeling the ones who now it categorize it as close to psychic - the rest call it a feeling for the trend, the fashion, you've heard it.
Well it takes time but they are coming so we shall all have a nice time with future action movies , as copy cats don't waste time and will make us a good favor at least while the trend lasts then boredom again until someone gets the feeling
If interested in seeing how the above mentioned trend is starting to grow on the industry don't miss
"Die Hard 4"
"I am a Legend"
Probably "Hitman" as well even though I have not seen it.
Also heard there is a Van Dam action coming out that due to all this will be more decent than usual.
6+1 = 7/10 (6 for the film itself, 1 for the feeling ;))
10 Items or Less (2006)
Morgan Free ... Man...
A difficult project, a director's film, relying mainly on vision and dialog. Takes some nerve to work on a plot like this and succeed, but job is well done. Normal camera work but well brought out colors and settings - Mr.Kubrik God, Bless His Soul, would have liked the color choice of the car. Movie succeeds to carry us along its quite atmosphere with good dynamics and rhythmic pauses mainly focusing on the settings everyday feel, which is a popular element looked for by Oscar nominating juries.
Some People may wonder why this film is actually made what did it target and why they like it, and the answer to all the above - is in the questions themselves - to make you think and that's what's nice about it.
A strong focus on sensual ideas, human character, along with the above mentioned comments, makes this movie a success.
6/10
The Bucket List (2007)
Excellence without the cherry...
Here is a movie of magnificent statue... It is well shot. The lead actors are brilliant. There is that special ingredient that makes really good movies marvelous movies, movies that are hard to be categorized in one genre. It is a writers movie. Its all about the story, which as we know can make big budgets look dull and help petty cash produce epic films. My congratulations go to Mr. Justin Zackham! However for those who cherish cinematic power - like the one present in "The Bucket List" - there was something missing, something very tiny but of great importance. It was as if the best cooks in the world had dedicated themselves to making the best cake, taking care of ever little detail and at the end, had produced the best cake ever to be baked but had forgotten to dredge it with sugar powder. In reality it is a combination of things, sometimes they happen and you fall in love and sometimes they don't, nobody is to blame...
Hope that we shall see more works of this caliber in the years to come...
7/10 ( a direct 9/10 if the sugar powder was there;) )
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Just life...
Everyday idea, however deep and thoughtful. Well handled plot - audience is taken with ease through the portrayal of the script. Originality is added to the story thanks to the charisma of the actors Themselves. Well blended vision of the settings. Is best enjoyed when watched in a calm mood - film may be slow to the more dynamic movie oriented audience.
Emotionally the film will touch most of its viewers. Looking deeper for the films message, one will find that behind the plot lies a hidden "monologue discussion" - reaching in the depths, of the fact, that life is not a rigid harmonious cliché.
Overall a good piece of work.
6/10