Someday, I wish to see a movie about dinosaurs that can move people like the original Jurassic Park. For many of us 90s kids, we were all in awe of the idea that creatures this large once ruled the planet. Now, most of us are kind of jaded but that shouldn’t stop you from watching this upcoming film from Disney Pixar.
Have you ever met a person who is simultaneously hot and cold? Beloved and hated? How about celebrated and condemned?
I’ve been toiling over this review for about a week now. A large portion of mainstream film criticism has shifted towards tearing down films, blatantly nit-picking all aspects of a movie and continuously shouting nasty adjectives which seemingly constitutes as a review of a film. I get why it’s so big nowadays, being angry at or disappointed in something will always get a more humorous and memorable responses.
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Le Havre (2011) is a still, quiet and dryly hilarious film. It has many of the qualities of a Japanese master like Mizoguchi, but if he had emigrated to a small French port and had been forced to make working class comedies. It focuses on a shoe shiner called Marcel Marx whose wife contracts a seemingly terminal disease.
I am probably one of the least qualified to talk about The Hunger Games. I’ve never read the books and intermittently fell asleep (not because of the movie) as I was viewing part 1 on my 20 hour flight. Regardless, I present to you this trailer for The Hunger Games:
It’s 12:15AM. The once frantic New Year’s Eve party is well on the decline, most party-goers have ventured off, some have passed out or are making out and several lively people remain.