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Movies like this tend be schmaltzy and corny, but I felt this film was able to eclipse that bar through both the performances and the dialogue. Jessica Rothe was terrific as a young woman struggling in the face of unimaginable adversity showing a tremendous range of emotion in the role. Harry Shum, Jr., while reserved in much of his role, showed off great depth in his ability to reach the core of his character's emotional journey.
While skipping a bit of the process, I did feel that this film sufficiently covered the five stages of grief. It's not easy to watch a loved one die, nor is easy to be the one dying. These stages are very real, something that most of us will go through at some point in our lives, and I felt that this film did service to this shared experience.
One scene I felt encapsulated the relationship between Jennifer and Solomon particularly well was at their wedding, when they were standing at the base of this large fountain discussing the potential outcomes of Solomon's treatment. Jennifer stepped up on the ledge of the fountain and jumped into the water in her flowing wedding gown. She asked Solomon if he was going to join her, and he stepped up on the ledge, as well. After a moment of looking at the water, the camera focused on this feet, as he jumped. It was a strong metaphor to show that Solomon was jumping in w/ both feet first into his marriage, his wife's care and support, his treatment, and his journey into the unknown.
All in all, I thought that this film worked on a variety of different levels. It's not an Academy Award-level drama, and it doesn't try to be. But, it is a solid love story about two young people who struggle mightily w/ something they know very little about, and in the face of all adversity, they found that their love for one another carried them through immense loss and heartbreak as well as could be expected.
I was expecting a little more from this film but I can't say that I am totally unsatisfied. It's not great but it's not a bad also. It was a sweet little coming of age film.
Adult World tells us the story of Amy, a young woman that just finished college and her biggest dream since ever is to be a famous poet. She spend a lot of her parents money on the pursuit of her dream, so her parents told her that she couldn't continue to live like that and she needs to find a job. After being rejected in some places she finally finds a job at a sex shop called Adult World. But she never gave up on her dream, she starts stalking one of her favorite writers persuading him to be his protege.
The main reason why I wanted to see this film actually was because I saw John Cusack's name associated with it and he has a great lunatic performance but who really surprised me afterall was Emma Roberts. She had a great performance, very natural and funny.
All of the characters have very unique personalities but I think the supporting characters should have had more time on screen and they were underused. One of the other problems with it is that at the end we feel like something was missing. Amy certainly learned a lesson but it leads us to a point that we're already counting on.
I feel like a lot of people didnt understand the movie. When youre blind you picture whats around you in your head, and you use your imagination..thats why when it was from her point of view,such as the pool scene would all of a sudden be a vast ocean.
She had surgery-literally everything she pictured in her head and lived like is completely different. She never judged it and was just experiencing it. She even wasnt dissapointed with what he looked like and still chose to be with him. Seeing colors, roads,shadows, the room, the city, sex from other perspectives, playing with the way we dress ourselves how you look makeup clothing hair color..she never got to do these things before.
The husband would pretend to not be there when she was blind so she would be worried.. He liked her being under his thumb. he watched videos of her over and over to feel in control. he faked a break in and stole the dog because he was jealous. he tampered with her eye drops so she would loose her vision again. she did sleep with another guy but she never experienced being attracted to someone physically before, if you recall the 2 other times she tried to have sex with her husband he couldnt handle it because he, once again, wasnt in control.
When the doctor told her they were tampered with she gained her vision back taking the correct ones and pretended to still be blind... reason maybe because it was scary finding this out or she wanted to know more about how he really was, maybe she still cared about him and wasnt ready to leave him. When she realised he didn't leave the house and was watching her and then finding the letter from assumably a kid in their previous apartment about him stealing the dog, i think that was her confirmation of it being over (because lets be real, thats messed up).
He found the empty bottles and realised shes been continuing taking eye drops.. So at the concert she looks him in the eye while singing showing him she sees what he's done and she's not blind anymore.
The ending after that I'm not 100% sure.. did he pass away? Did she ever get a hold of her babys dad? Who knows. I guess its more about her continuing her life independently?
There was art element to it that maybe some parts had more meaning that I'm unaware of, like the carcass the kid came across or the naked husband covered in blood. but overall it made sense. Could it have been more clear for the audience? maybe yes it would be loved more and have a stronger ending if we had more understanding, but not all movies are like that
lol i really really enjoyed this movie unlike most of the cmnts here xD n i think ik why ..
i watched the movie without even knowing the genre, i downloaded it n left it on my pc for a while b4 giving it a try, so i had no idea what it was n even -what ppl call boring- beginning got me off my breathe cuz i felt the thriller vibes that anything might happen anytime but in the same time i thought it was just a psychological dramatic movie ...
the rest was also pretty tight n kept my eyes wide open from the excitment n what's next.
the end was indeed predictable but yet still nice xd but the poster really spoiled it out thank god i didn't see it b4 watching it lol
also i think i e enjoyed it cuz (n mostly) i watch movies just to enjoy, not to act smart n be like " oh she should've just done that n this" actually i put myself in her place ... n i would've just set next to the body crying n traumatized waiting that someone might come n save me or kill me :) n i bet most of ppl would act the same so
Yeah! These Aliens are savage and should not be messed around with! So immediately it became clear to both me and my husband (which is saying something because he hardly picks up on any plot points) that Dan would end up meeting his daughter in the future plus having to watch her die and at the point in the movie where she actually dies I thought 'well how are they going to fill up the rest?' because it seemed pretty much done. Those big blockbusters would make this into a trilogy or something but they didn't and that's good because now you have this one movie that has a nice pacing, no filler dialogue or whatever. You jump right back into the action and it made for such a nice ending especially since now Dan gets to create a new future for himself and his family.
I watched the Netflix movie 'Awake' a week before this and it was garbage compared. Of course these two are very different in that this had aliens and the other doesn't but both create a world in which there is a large threat to humanity and in Awake they explained it all away poorly whereas here they delivered a solid plot that could work, that makes me think 'huh, well yeah, maybe this could happen in the future'.
This movie has everything I like. Aliens, time travel and humor. Why not a 10? Because I feel like at the beginning of the movie you are introduced to some characters only so they'd leave some sort of feeling when they die.
A nun (maybe Marilyn Mason) with bad gas, burps her way around an old convent, and is stopped with a large amount of water and some red Alka-Seltzer.
Remember how the minions in Despicble me were funny, & the announcement of them having theit own movie filled you mouth with... "oh FFS! They're comic relief, they can't hold a story!" Rants?
Well conjuring 2 had this awesomely creepy bastard Nun popping up & she was the best part of that film.
They announced she would get her own flick & you member those 6 spooky parts from c2 & think, yeah that could be really good....
Well it's not, it's nun too good, it's another minions movie.
Half way through it becomes a mini zombie movie, the thing the ghost wants could easily have been done on the first night, but it faffs about opening doors & pointlessly burying a guy. Our heroes, I assume are under a bit of hypnosis type of magic (but it's not shown, so maybe they are just daft selfish gits) just fuck off & follow the slightest noise.
None of the scares worked (cinema I was in had the audio too loud, so the loud bits were off the charts, scared my hearing will be affected).
The nun wasn't anything near as creepy as what she was in conjuring 2.
A god awful exmachina moment save comes in exactly when you expect it
'bells were attached to coffins incase of accidental premature burial" (hmm someones gonna be buried & ring the bell) this setup to someone's nasty underground entrapment shoots its load within 10 minutes! (what, don't they think the audience will remember this nearer the end of the film, where it should have been used?)
A ghost kid being followed in the cemetery had me giggling as it was like a bad game of peekaboo.
*warning Many Nuns get harmed in this film,
Quite hilariously & mostly at once
Okay... I have million things to say about this movie but I will try to keep it short. This movie made me cry many times. Movie had so many small but very meaningful and powerful scenes.
Relationships are hard, require sacrifice and if one side is acting selfish enough to hurt the relationship, you know it won't last. No matter how much you love each other, no matter what you do, some people won't make any sacrifices, give up on their dreams or care about other person's goals. You can't take your partner for granted and think they are gonna stay happy as time goes by. These kind of relationships are only good for one side, and you definitely lose yourself in time. One of the best lines in movie was also about this issue. This relationship was so real and relatable for me, and masterclass acting made it so much easier.
How are there no comments on this fucked up movie?
Birthday is a film about a dysfunctional family struggling to come to terms with the death of their eldest son in the Sewol ferry disaster of 2014. 2 years later, Jungil has returned from Vietnam working abroad in an aluminium recycling plant. He tries to reconnect with his family having missed the disaster presumably due to being overseas working. He returns to his 8 year old daughter and his emotionally crippled wife who hates him for not being there.
The movie has the most character development for Suho, which I suppose honestly is the best way they can do this film, however there are a lot of supporting characters and scenes to establish the backstory. Jungil tries desperately to talk to his wife who shuns him every time, his daughter warns up to him and Soonnam resents it. Soho's friends share a little in their grief and all the parents of the deceased kids also gather and eat together to share in their grief. Over the course of the movie the father is demonised as the mentally unstable mother refuses to confront her grief, leading to exceedingly erratic behaviour culminating in a meltdown late one night.
There are a lot of awful screaming, ugly crying scene sin this film. And terribly poignant scenes. One of my favourites is the father dreaming about one of his few memories of his son, camping together as a family. When he awakens tears run down his face as he leaves the tent in the same place they went as a family, alone.
Hope comes when a birthday celebration is hosted to come together to talk about memories of Suho. Unfortunately this is the most drawn out and boring, horrible scene. They put together a slideshow about Suho and played almost every slide. Then they read thoughts and letters and a poem. Everyone is ugly crying and wailing and the host asks them...why they're sad? Because their son and best friend is fucking dead. That's why? Couldn't they get promoted in another way to discuss their memories?
Anyway, I did really enjoy this movie but there were also some really drawn out stressful scenes. 8/10
I have so many thoughts, but the first is if you enjoy Korean or exorcism films you might actually like this. It's so dynamic and something I really appreciate is that the movie has parts in italian and english, not just Korean. YongHo is an mma fighter but he's not actually that muscular and his first opponent isnt as cut as I thought hed be. Actually I think YongHo gets more ripped halfway through the movie? The match takes place in america so the white guy is called john white of course. Lol
YongHo's dad died when he was young despite all the praying so he has forsaken god. This opens him to the influence of the devil, or in this movie, the "dark priest", a super hot Korean guy, hotter even than YongHo, worshipping the snake lord or something. He owns a nightclub like the one in the third john wick movie. Slick, black great use of colours throughout this movie btw. Especially at the end contrasting between the evil and good as yongho descends into the underground dungeon at the nightclub.
The music was nothing to write home about and the movie also imo has huge issues with decibel levels. All the sounds are normal until someone screams and its 3x the volume of everything else - beyond actually just being that screaming is loud. There were some great CG AND practical effects and the story came together quite well, except for YongHo battling with his hate of god. I really disliked the part where he chose to be influenced by the dark priest in the place of father choi and ignore his priest friend who he had bonded with over the course of the film.
It was actually genuinely scary in some parts. It doesn't hold back showing gore and violence and a dead kid even. However, I think for me the pitfalls are the ...on the nose devil signs and product placement. The dark priest runs a nightclub with a logo that looks like demon horns and snakes and his club is called Babylon. How was that not so obvious? And there are some blatant scenes showing the logo of the car the main character is driving, a starbucks cup and asahi beer. With tensions rising in korea between Japan aas that really well placed? Lol and I guess they needed funding from the car and starbucks to film internationally.
Also says theres a sequel coming with choi wooshik again so they can deal with the fact they just left that hand snake thing in the nightclub so anyone can go find it. Hope to see it. 8/10
VIP7I probably haven't watched as many, or as varied films as you would expect for someone who says they are a film lover, but I was never about quantity, instead for me it was always about quality.
Its also about the lasting impression a film makes on me, whether by completely blowing my mind, by using certain motifs like music, and scenery, or by making me feel something on a deep emotional level. Today Blue Valentine really hit me in the feels, and not the good kind either.
This film's tagline is 'A love story', and I feel this could not be further from the truth.
This film is so anti-romantic, that the most romantic moment in this film was when a decision about an impromptu hotel stay was being discussed, and hastily planned. The spontaneity by the frustrated male protagonist in a desperate attempt to rekindle a small spark that started the relationship.
Blue Valentine is told in two cross-cut linear story lines, and stars Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as middle-class married couple Dean and Cindy Pereira who are hopelessly trying to make a happy home for their adorable little daughter Frankie.
The story lines tell the evolution of their relationship from an awkward first meeting, and fateful chance second encounter, through to a courtship of bad decisions, and a marriage of convenience mostly to fit in with conventionality, then living in rural Pennsylvania.
While not much is known about Dean, other than he is from Florida and new to NYC, and an affable yet somewhat unfocused kind of gent. We do get a fair bit of insight in to Cindy's home life in the boroughs of New York, and the ineffectual role models for parents who share a fairly loveless existence.
I said this film is anti-romantic, and is so evident throughout the film. The sex scenes are devoid of emotion or intimacy, and is purely based on the physical needs of those involved, and the only love shown to anyone, is to their daughter who seems to be the only happy individual in this film of emotional bleakness.
Its been about 8 hours since I watched this film, and I still feel sad about it. I have put much effort into watching indie, or non-major studio films, and for the most part, while having sad, and emotional parts to them, they are often quite uplifting, and leave you with modicum of hope. Blue Valentine does neither, but this does not mean to say that it is a bad film. Quite the opposite, it is a very good film, with excellent performances, expert direction, and writing that achieves exactly what its meant to.
Do not go in to this expecting the Notebook, or I dunno, Love Actually. Expect more (500) Days of Summer without the lovelorn male protagonist, or hopeful ending.
