Creamed corn.
Corn starch.
High fructose corn syrup.
Elote (mexican street corn)
Cornbread.
Corn on the cob.
All of these items are significantly less corny than this movie. At the end of the movie, people clapped. There was the same congratulatory feeling that Top Gun gave us last year. By any metric, a totally enjoyable movie. God help me if I just didn’t believe in my heart of hearts that it’s just plain bad. The dog got more personification than…
Rewatched this the other day. Five stars. Better the second time.
Granted, it was my fault for watching this movie right after watching Lynch’s ‘Inland Empire’. Like doing heroin for the first time, any movie after would be hard pressed to make me feel the same. Incendies, I thought, would take me by storm, ravage me emotionally with a STORY that could overpower form. Boy oh boy was I wrong.
No matter how self-serious and important the story was, the film lacked the taste god gave a lemon drop. It was…
Sitting here, reeling from the booster shot, I decided to return to one of my all time favorite movies. The trick, for me, lies in the simplicity.
Humans don’t revolve around planet-sized obstacles, they revolve around marbles. We are all princesses, the best movies have got a pea. By focusing narrow, we can see the tiny universe, the inescapable prison of the little things in life.
The acting is extraordinary, the cinematography is unflinchingly gorgeous. The whole film tastes unmistakably…
