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Vigilante
commented on
AndyGray's
article
Speaking for Space Whales: Characters Translating for Other Forms of Intelligence.
Great article man. You bring your point across very elegantly.
3 months, 3 weeks ago
It's all about the sex. But not in a good way.: Shame is a film about addiction. It is not a film about overcoming addiction, or about the consequences of addiction: it is simply about a state of being. Even its characters are just lenses through which the nature of addiction is explored. The best way to think of it is something like a fictionalised documentary. But as such films go, Shame is near flawless.The lenses in question are named Brandon ...
4 months, 1 week ago
Vigilante
replied to the topic
Community Showcase thread for Jan 14th!
on the Editing & Tools board.
I've done a review of The Artist. Liked it while it was running, but thought it left almost no impression.
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Vigilante
reviewed
The Artist.
Craftsmanship? Yeah. Artistry? Ummmm: The Artist is pure craftsmanship. And, as a silent movie made for a 2012 audience, it is also a pretty ballsy project. But what it isn’t, is memorable or thought-provoking. The Artist is one of those movies that sacrifices depth for mass appeal and tries to make up for it with a visual gimmick. Yup, that’s right. This is the silent movie version of Avatar.Not that I’m trying to shit ...
4 months, 2 weeks ago
I just posted up a review of Sherlock Holmes 2. It has less rhyme than the aforementioned retrospective post, but a lot more anger.
5 months ago
Vigilante
reviewed
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows .
arrgh. Arrgh. ARRRGH: These days I try not to hate movies. Mainly because there’s nothing more pointless: after all you’ve already lost the time and the money, and all those revenge plots will only waste more of both. Anger is a better response. Anger is good, because it forces activity. Hate is passive and lazy. It doesn’t force justification because quickly enough it justifies itself. Hate gets in the way, leaves you spluttering ...
5 months ago
I reviewed Another Earth , and some other dude has done so too.
5 months, 1 week ago
Vigilante
reviewed
Another Earth.
Wherin I explain complex philosophy via the medium of trousers: There is a possibility, silly as this may sound, that I read too much Terry Pratchett. I began thinking this blasphemy, because every time I saw an advertisement for Another Earth, I without fail thought ‘Oh. There’s that Trousers of Time film’. And honestly, the critical buzz that surrounded Another Earth seemed to endorse that flippancy. The film seems to have elicited barely more than a ‘meh’ from much of ...
5 months, 1 week ago
A second Hugo review! It got me the Siskel & Ebert achievement, too, which increases its worth a smidgen.
5 months, 2 weeks ago
A flawed celebration: Hugo is a much-needed reminder of the visual power of cinema. That means it’s something more than a visually striking movie. There’s been a fair amount of those this year, what with the tinted gloom of Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor, and the loving regard the camera showed to Melanie Laurent in Beginners. But Hugo is a step beyond such things. Hugo is beautiful, certainly. It’s also probably the first movie ...
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Vigilante
completed the Siskel And Ebert quest.
Siskel's partner for so many years would be stoked if you rated just a few more movies.
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Vigilante
reviewed
Take Shelter.
Is anybody seeing this?: I’m sure most of you know this by now, but, for those of you that don’t, I adore Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. Adore, in the sense that the first time I saw it I wanted to leap to my feet and cheer. Even after several repeat viewings, I still think of it as the height of character-driven narrative. Well, after my first viewing of Take Shelter, I figured I’d seen ...
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Explaining why I like Twilight: I want to talk about the id. See, Sigmund Freud, the crazy granddad of psychology, had a theory. The simple (and mercifully short) version is that the mind is broken up into three areas; the superego, ego and id, the last of these being a sack of basic animal desires and emotions. I feel this last part comes in very handy to explain the appeal of properties such as Real ...
6 months ago
I've written a fair few reviews recently, but my latest have been for We Need To Talk About Kevin and Tyrannosaur. The British film industry has churned out some goddamn masterpieces this year.
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Vigilante
reviewed
We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Next Halloween, I'm buying a bow: I’ll start this review with a warning. This one might get a little heavy. Don’t feel that this is so much my fault though: this isn’t just my “oooh, look at me, I’m a critic” tendencies popping up again. Well, it might be a little of that, but I’m still laying most of the blame on the film. We Need To Talk About Kevin (hereafter to be referred to as ...
6 months, 3 weeks ago
"Yes, Carpenter and Russell have said that the whole film is supposed to be making fun of 80s macho action films"Cool. And in that case it is an effective satire. However I contest the Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz comparison, because those films are satires of movie tropes, built around plots and characters that are actually engaging in their own right. Big Trouble is a satire of a character type, ...
7 months, 1 week ago
I want to ask: am I the only one who thinks Big Trouble in Little China is, with rose-tinted specs. only passable, and without them unremittingly awful? Firstly, its plot is rambling and senseless. And secondly, I assume the idea is we're supposed to like Kurt Russell because he's the central protoganist and everything, but he is clearly an incompetent fool, which not only makes him a waste of screentime ...
7 months, 1 week ago
Vigilante
commented on
Tom_Pinchuk's
article
The Fear Of Cheese: Are Too Many Movies Scared Of Going Over The Top?
.
The thing is, I wouldn't consider that Hollywood has lost the feel of the bombastic. I mean look at Michael Sheen in the latest Tron, or the recent career of Johnny Depp. Hell, you describe Dark Knight as realistic, with a character as over-the-top as Ledger's Joker? It's just that these days, the presence of bombast has become but a facet of a film, rather than the whole thing.
7 months, 1 week ago
Vigilante
reviewed
Tyrannosaur.
OCH ARRRR!: Of my fellow Melancholia audience members, the most memorable were this rather entertaining couple sitting across the aisle to my right. I say entertaining, because it was quite obvious that Lars von Trier’s excessive doom & gloom approach was probably not having the director’s desired effect on them. At least, that’s what I gathered from their howls of laughter at every one of his admittedly overblown set pieces. I personally ...
7 months, 2 weeks ago
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jackanderson
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The UK Box Office Report is not happening this week, folks. I'm burnt out, it's been a crappy week.
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litrock
5 days, 1 hour ago
I was on a podcast with some friends! What did I talk about? Movies, of course. Check it out if you care here: http://www.badlandgirls.com/2012/05/episode-17-clubbing-with-my-coven.html
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Alex
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New Cage! This week, it's the super rom-commy rom-com It Could Happen To You. The least Cagey Cage movie yet. http://t.co/Dwethru3
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Daniel_Newton
1 week, 3 days ago
Really surprised how good Mysterious Girlfriend X is. Tried it to see how weird it is and now it's probably my favourite this season #anime
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My @ollymoss Charmander print turned up today. I feel this is the start of a worrying pop culture art print http://t.co/IPk2msgr
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