Reviews

It's really more important than you'd think , because Inglourious Basterds is mostly a very gentle movie and it absorbs these tiny visual details with each breath - and occasionally gets blood all over the nice scenery.

A lot of the movie rests on the music and District 9 really fails to deliver here , feeling manipulative and cheap when you hear the moaning synonymous with any movie plotted in Africa/Middle East.

The film is a drama about relationships at the core and for one that covers so much ground and concentrates on so many different characters , it pulls this impossibly grand scheme off and dissects comedy itself along the way.

Does using old footage of the actual actors , casting your actual wife and kids , while assigning roles based on actual life experience make a movie more personal and autobiographical - well by the end of Funny People , my answer would be "Duh".

The man is an amazing actor , I've probably seen a couple movies where I didn't recognize it was him - including Die Hard where it was him in character acting like someone else ...

It treads over the same ground the best of the genre do , but it holds it's own by avoiding glorification of thought provoking situations...

The sound also had occasional loud ambient buzzing and often very quiet music or other effects - it really didn't feel like I was watching a polished movie and belongs on the cutting room floor rather a projector.

I went into this movie with the sensibility that if you are a woman in a horror movie , you deserve everything that's coming for you - including multiple bonks to the noggin , and that's the attitude I got from the movie.

They've struck gold three times straight and best of luck to them in continuing their streak , but you already know about what qualities to expect from them - what about this movie ?

Since I'm trying to review all of the 2009 movies I see , I thought I should write a more full write-up on this one in preparation for it's American release later this year (I should probably mention the two above films have been out for quite some time and are just not being released in the good ol...