WOW. Devastating!! Can't help but feel like for at least 80% of people who get into making documentaries, this is the peak of what they hope to achieve. The filmmaker is so entwined in the relationships with her subjects that what otherwise might feel like a distraction (or worse, an authorial intrusion) when she is occasionally addressed or speaks to the subjects, actually enhances what's happening on screen. Most of all, so many of the vivid details of the people,…
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Go 1999
A movie made to appeal to 13-year-old boys! No wonder suggestions that it's a Tarantino clone abound. Having said that, it really makes the most of it - a desperate effort to grab and hold your attention for its running time largely succeeds on those terms, and delivers fun (if not memorable) moments along the way, I'd say largely thanks to Doug Liman and the cast, though the Chemical Brothers-esque tunes, I'll admit, do help. Seems like a caricature of…
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Ishtar 1987
More of a disaster even than its reputation would suggest. The opening scene has a lot of promise, but for a movie whose musical moments are comedically some of its brightest spots (co-written by the great Paul Williams of Rainbow Connection!), it conspicuously displays zero comic rhythm. Warren Beatty's presence stinks of some classic leading-man-who-thinks-he-can-do-comedy energy, and let's just say it most definitely earns the "out-of-date and potentially offensive" (their words, not mine) content warning it had on the the…
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Galaxy Quest 1999
I think I mostly came back to this movie because of the aliens - particularly Enrico Colantoni - whose weird, over-abundantly polite and thrilled deference made an impression on me the first time, and did not disappoint upon return! Weird to think back to a time when Tim Allen was a bankable and accepted movie star (outside of Toy Story sequels), though FWIW he's really right at home here. Also wild how stacked this cast - Sam Rockwell being the…
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