Arc209 (Level 15)

I am mainly here for the Jude Law/RDJ chemistry. Plot not really the best thing going for it. Which is sad since it is a Sherlock Holmes movie but whatever. I mean I liked Jared Harris as Moriarty. Just the plot and some of the action scenes just didn't do it for me. Still I am interested to see where Guy Ritchie decides to go from here.

First off anytime I do not like a movie, I feel the compulsion to go back and watch it again to see if I maybe missed something, or maybe I was in a shitty state of mind to watch the movie. I don't know. Either way I was kind of disappointed by this and Tintin from Spielberg. In the case of Tintin, I just fell asleep while watching it, so that definitely needs revisiting. With War Horse though, it felt way too saccharine and something along the lines of a Lifetime original movie. All I know is when something happened to the horse the middle-aged lady sitting next to me was bawling while I sat stone faced. Completely not invested.

So apparently this is the film that the Departed was based on, except you know, a lot less cussing compared to the Departed. It was fun. Very much a Hong Kong crime thriller. Probably should watch it again just to be able to fully appreciate the comparison to Departed...but whatever you should watch it if you enjoy crime thrillers.

This is the fourth movie by Satyajit Ray. And to be honest I had to look at the wikipedia page to remember anything concrete about this film. I would like to delve more into Ray's work but right now the only link I can make is that this could be seen as Citizen Kane (end of days for a rich man). Not in the way the story is told but strictly the premise. So sadly this movie did not have a big impact on me :(.

So as I started in my comments on War Horse, I was disappointed by Tintin. I will say up front though that I did fall asleep in the theater and I think it was because I was up late the night before. And no matter how interesting the movie is if you are tired you will fall asleep. So in this case I am deriving my feelings of this movie based on the fact I fell asleep during it. In other words, I just need to watch it again to get a better grasp of how I felt about it. It definitely felt like a swashbuckling movie that I could enjoy from the bits and pieces I remember of it.