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Epic!
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""Atonement" is an epic, wildly romantic period drama. It is a project with fantastic actors, a great screenplay, an innovative director and pitch-perfect photography. The story starts in an English country house one hot summer. Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), an imaginative 12 year-old is busy finishing her first play and trying desperately to get someone to act it out or even listen to her. Her older sister Cecilia is walking through the house not noticing anyone, especially not Briony, busy thinking about the housekeeper's son Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), who is obviously in love with her. A series of unfortunate events leads Briony to jealously tell a lie - a lie that will bring utter unhappiness to all three characters. Once separated, we follow these three through World War II, and watch as the story unfolds into unexpected directions. There is no real star of "Atonement" - everyone, absolutely everyone involved in the project is pitch-perfect. Be it young Briony, played with ... "
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A beautiful and heartbreaking Film
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"Joe Wright is the acclaimed director of the 2005 masterpiece Pride and Prejudice when I saw that I knew his next film would be just as vast and just as emotional. All I can say is that Atonement is all of those things and more, it is beautiful to look at and has a heart wrenching love story. James McAvoy and Keira Knightley are great as the two lovers and all of the other performances are very note worthy as well. One thing I feel I must comment on is the way this film was shot, every frame and every angle was perfectly crafted and executed I could watch it again just to see the beauty of the picture. I was pleasantly surprised by the story and how sweeping it turned out to be, the first time I saw the trailer I thought it looked simple and predictable I was wrong on both counts. Just see this wonderful film and you will be reminded of the power of love, and the power of film. "
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Atonement
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"Atonement (2007)Atonement (2007) is a strangely remote and unaffecting movie in spite of all the excellent acting. But, you may object, the film was hugely popular, with something like an 83% Fresh Tomato rating. Averages can be misleading. For example, if half the population is morbidly obese at 300 pounds and the other half of the population is starving to death at 100 pounds, it is not accurate to say that the citizens are hefty, healthy 200 pounders. Similarly, almost all reviews, no matter how favourable, have qualms about Atonement. The reviews have difficulty identifying why the film doesn’t quite work, so they resort to summaries such as “so boring, "
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Am sorry I bought this film on DVD
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"Even for the pre-viewed price of $5. Really should have rented it, but there it was in the supermarket and I'd been wanting to see it for awhile. Part of me knew better: Kiera Knightley is almost never worth watching and the movie had gotten a lot of gushy hype, which more often than not is a signal that the film will disappoint. It did, despite the engaging James McAvoy. The writing is cold and clipped; the characters cold and clipped; the story unsatisfying on any level. Made me think of The English Patient, another gushed-over, remote disappointment, apart from the delightful Juliette Binoche. Ah well. You pays yer money and you takes yer chance. "
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The Rarely Recognized Art of th ...
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"The idea for this analysis came to mind when I recently saw Bergman's The Seventh Seal. While I was not quite as blown away by the film as most accolades of the film would suggest, I still found it to be an excellent movie, and could see very clearly the influence it has had on so many films that have come after it. The one scene that I especially noticed a direct legacy in later films was a short, almost gimmicky little snippet during the medieval religious cult scene in the town--where the drums are beating loudly, people are screaming in agony as whips crack, and monks and other repenters are carrying enormous crosses on their backs. There is a short string of profile shots: Antonius, Jons, and "The Girl" (the only specific name I could find for her anywhere on the internet). The cuts between the faces are done with the beats of the drums; they are perfectly centered, with mist or smoke rising in the backgrounds, adding to each image's raw, black-and-white imagery; and each f ... "
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Assassin-ine fun
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"This is the “Dilbert” panel I've always wanted to see. A fed-up office drone, sick of the confines of his cubicle, unleashes holy hell on his condescending superiors and clocks a duplicitous colleague in the jaw with his keyboard and heads out for adventure with Angelina Jolie. While “Wanted's” lead Wesley (played by James McAvoy) does just that, his character is taken from a different comic altogether. It's comic origins (based on one by Mark Millar and J. G. Jones) are felt throughout the film's reality-relinquishing first hour, until it turns on itself in the final act and decides to play things with a straight face. If only Cat-bert could have sauntered in to slap some sense into him. Let's start with the good. Wesley's life is torn straight from the pages of “Office Space:” a patronizing supervisor takes special glee in the daily ass-chewing she gives the young man, a co-worker enjoys showing Wesley's girlfriend his “O” face (if ... "
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Classy stuff
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"Atonement is a classy piece of work. James McAvoy builds further on his excellent ,varied career ,with this .and Kiera Knightley is very effective and beautiful , not least in pure Wallace Simpson ensemble of white swimsuit and matching bathing cap. There is a terrible beauty in the Dunkirk evacuation scene,that just builds and builds . It might be a little too stylised for a mainstream audience to embrace wholeheartedly,but that's probably just the "film snob/geek" in me. There is a strong sense of the pages turning ,the chapter headings skipping backwards and forwards through the narrative,enhanced by the unique soundtrack,with it's typewriter percussion.. No spoilers here , the ending,jarres slightly,but remains faithful i would assume to the structure of the novel. It throws the whole story into relief , leaves you musing on the story structure and was satisfyingly melancholic for my tastes,.and surely a twist that involves Vanessa Redgrave can only be classy. "
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James Cameron to Make 3D Drama
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"James Cameron is the sort of director who can make a movie just to prove a point. And he’s going to do so by making a straight drama that will be shot and exhibited in 3D — or as he calls it, in stereo (short for stereoscopic) — just to let the industry know that 3D is not only for special effects and animated pictures. He discusses the project in an interview with Variety: I plan to shoot a small dramatic film in 3-D, just to prove this point, after “Avatar.” In “Avatar,” there are a number of scenes that are straight dramatic scenes, no action, no effects. They play very well, and in fact seem to be enhanced by the stereo viewing experience. So I think this can work for the full length of a dramatic feature. However, filmmakers and studios will have to weigh the added cost of shooting in 3-D against the increased marketing value for that type of film. Cameron even points out that he sees a number of films made these days that would have been really great if filmed in the format, ... "
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Oscar Picks (WOOOOOO!!!)
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"No lengthy explanations as to why, just short and sweet; here are my picks for tonight's 80th Annual Academy Awards.- Best Visual Effects: Diana Miao for 'Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'- Best Sound Mixing: Alan Meyerson for 'Transformers'- Best Sound Editing: Skip Lievsay and Joel Dougherty for 'No Country for Old Men'- Best Original Song: 'Falling Slowly' from 'Once' written and performed by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova- Best Original Score: Dario Marianelli for 'Atonement'- Best Makeup: Liz Dann for 'Pirates of the Carib "
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"Atonement": The Depth of Field
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"NOTEThis review will not be as long or as in depth as my other reviews but in this movies case that tells more about the film than almost anything else could.What to say about this movie? After seeing it I can tell you that I fully understand why it is nominated. "Atonement" is in every way the visually arresting epic period romance of the year that advertisements and critics proclaim it as. But after seeing it this critic has come to the conclusion that it is only skin deep."Atonement" is a B+ movie in a really shiny box, and in the categories of art direction and cinematography it is a very serious contender. "What's wrong with a shiny box?" you might ask. It's not so much the world of shiny boxes that is a problem, and it is not so much this shiny box as it is what it seems people have made of this shiny box. The shine of this box makes "Atonement" out to be the best movie of the year but for those who have voted it on tho the ball ... "
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