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Hollywoodland
By lipreader in lipreader Blog
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"Hollywoodland (2006) I don't like Ben Affleck. I think he is an average actor who made because he had the benefit of having a mediocre script that he wrote with good friend and fellow hack Matt Damon, noticed. The fact that he has a chin doesn't hurt him either (the combination of chin and actually being able to write even a mediocre script is a relative rarity in Hollywood). He reminds me a lot of Rock Hudson. All that being said, I liked Affleck in this one. He didn't strike me as particularly appealing, didn't knock my socks off with brilliant, insightful acting, he just made me forget that I was watching half of the Bennifers. I was able to empathize with the character, a suicidal George Reeves. I empathized a little less with Adrian Lyne's character, a seedy-ish private investigator named Louis Simo, hired by Reeves' mom to investigate his death (Reeves' suicide happens at the start of the story, his life is seen in flashback). The movie moves betwe ... " [More]

Lost in Translation

The Life Aquatic
By lipreader in lipreader Blog
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"This movie is as sardonic and dry as it is possible to be and still have a coherent screenplay. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea. Think Raising Arizona only more subtle. Think Dr Strangelove only even more dry. In short, if you think the Police Academy movies are the high-point of cinematic comedy, DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE. The Life Aquatic is about documentary film-maker (Bill Murray) on a quest to find the shark that killed his partner. Along with his crew he has a young man who may or may not be his son (Owen Wilson), and a pregnant journalist (Cate Blanchett) doing a story on him. Everything about this movie, from the sets to the locations, to the cast, says money, which is interesting since there is no way this movie could have succeeded. It truly is high comedy, there are no "jokes" per se, just a series of subtly absurd situations and events. For example every creature in the movie was made up by the screenwriters, not everybody will get that. It's satire as well, ... " [More]

Fight Club

Fight Club is about Gay Sex
By lipreader in lipreader Blog
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"I like Chuck Palahniuk's work. Personally, I think he is possibly the best popular American writer still working. I happen to be heterosexual, as are most of the fans of this movie based on his book. I don't like any less than I did when I had no idea what it was saying. All of Palahniuk's work has had the theme of homosexuality running through it and even before he came out of the closet in 2005, most of his fans already had an idea as to his sexual preference. Theme of homosexual sex is as strong in Fight Club as it is in the rest of his work. If you re-watch the film with this in mind you can see that fighting is used as a symbol for the act of gay sex for closeted gay men. The relationship between Tyler Durden and the Narrator is both one of gay male and his lover, and the repressed (closeted) gay male and his inner true self. " [More]

Waiting

Waiting
By lipreader in lipreader Blog
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"Ryan Reynolds again reprises his Van Wilder role, only this time his character is named "Monty". Waiting is a minor comedy in the style of Stripes, Caddyshack and pretty much any coming-of-age working man comedy. He is the "Generation X" Bill Murray meant to entertain Generation Y (or whatever they call the kids that came after us). The fact is that Reynolds is only very slightly funny, he might do moderately well in a sitcom where the fact that I didn't pay to see him wasn't weighing on my mind everytime he tried to be funny and failed. There are a handful of sequences that will appeal to food-service workers (and former food-service workers like myself), but not that many, example: the bitchy lady who gets her food seasoned with all manner of hazardous waste is so real she is more scary to me than funny. To keep this movie from appealing only to white young people they brought in Chi McBride and Luis Guzman, both of who work hard but not really make th ... " [More]