This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.
Buffalo '66
Well it's been a while since I've seen this. I've gotten behind on making my reviews for my movie list. So I think I'm going to start plowing through them and making them short and sweet.
There was something really different about this movie. Vincent Gallo's character was a total dick for most of it. I mean he got crapped on a lot yeah, but it was hard to be sympathetic with him. At the same time, by the end there was a lot I could identify with.
Really weird how Ricci's character seemed to comply with him so much. She was obviously just as disturbed and ready for a change. I have to comment on her revealing outfit. It was nice. That's all on that.
I liked the very simple but effective editing and framing techniques. People were sometimes almost entirely cut out of the frame when you would have normally thought they would be in the center. Often we would get a simple picture-in-picture type effect that seemed really cheap and easy but actually turned out to be fresh because it was so straight forward.
The sort of cheap Matrix bullet time effect was great. And I'm just realizing that The Matrix actually came out after this movie. It's funny because so many cheap funny parodies of that effect have come out afterwards, but this movie just thought of that idea of moving around in frozen time (when in actuality we can tell that it's just people trying to act as still as possible) by itself apparently. I mean I can't think of too many movies that did much of that before.
Anyways this was a fantastic movie and it's too bad I let myself go this long without writing about it because there was probably more to say, but anyways that should be good enough for now.
rating: 9/10