Don't Breathe
I listened to a really horrifying podcast once that i'm about 90% sure this film was inspired by. The guy wasn't blind but basically young people broke into the wrong persons house with horrifying results. The use of sound here was outstanding, at one point i got bored though, not sure why exactly i just got anxious for this to end; to the point that i was considering turning it off with 15 minutes left. Never had as drastic of a turn with a movie as this ever i don't think but at one point i just didn't want to watch it anymore.
Man, this was great. The first 20 minutes and random patches here and there stopped this from being a
. It took me a while to realize that the whole point of this film was that it's going to be horribly dated at one point: it pretty much is now and that's why i love it. Think i'd like it alot less if i saw this in 2011 when most of its references were fairly relevant coz it's not the point of the film to be anything other than a snapshot of this generation and how they were, even then that's not really the point: it's just supposed to be fun and i thought it was. The most fun it got was when it got really conviluted when it added time travel and whatever else. It's a big explosion of things that it finds ridiculous in films and i love it for it.
Sad i didn't like this more. I felt like i was an outside observer to the entertainment throughout because i knew it was there but i couldn't get into it, sadly.
I listened to Unknown Pleasures then Closer then watched this so of course it worked for me alot. Want to see
Control soon.
The last 20 odd minutes of this are outstanding, best film ever material. The rest is such a mixed bag though; Welles accent is incredibly jarring at first and alot of the relationships aren't that well developed. Those last 20 minutes and how great the film looks guarantees this a high rating though.
Stranger Than Paradise -
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This may be the most disappointing film ever for me. I was so ready for a
film after everything i'd heard about this and after how much i loved/liked both Dead Man and Ghost Dog. It's so so dull though, i get the point of everything and got the low-key jokes and just the subtle humour and sadness in the overall situation throughout but it was mind numbingly boring. Maybe it will work for me at a later date but for now i found this mostly very dull and at times difficult to sit through.