Published by drockwood October 28th, 2007
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There’s a war on the screen of The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (TAOJJBTCRF) and it’s contained within the performance of Brad Pitt as the titular victim of assassination. Pitt is as charming and larger than life as he’s ever been. But it’s a quiet ominous performance and whenever he walks in a room people go silent and catastrophe seems eminent. Like the greatest of movie characters he’s a paradox; gregarious and sullen. Dwarfed by his own legend. Other men both love and despise him and it’s fascinating to watch as they compete for his attention even while they scheme against him.
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Published by drockwood October 20th, 2007
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The Invisible was a little flick that came out early in the year (2007). It looked a little bit interesting to me but was completely ignored and panned by critics. Neither of which were enough to dissuade my curiosity. There’s a whole genre of forgettable teen-marketed sci-fi movies, movies like Butterfly Effect, that seem unappreciated by everyone but me.
The director is the unspectacular but not quite deserving of derision David S. Goyer. The plot involves a teenage boy Nick (played by Justin Chatwin, who I harbor found memories of from War of the Worlds) who gets himself killed by the wrong crowd at school. It’s partly a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time, and partly the fault of his wussy best friend Pete (played by the very deserving of derision Chris Marquette). Since he’s in a movie he doesn’t just die and rot in the ground but instead his “soul” wanders the earth non corporeally. He attempts to avenge his death but it’s not easy because he can’t communicate with any of the living. Since he doesn’t have the ability to actually affect any change it’s sort of a futile effort. Our protagonist Nick spends most of the running time of this movie a) watching his wussy friend Pete cry like a little bitch. b)falling in love with his troubled but attractive murderer and c) screaming a his loved ones who hilariously ignore him.
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Published by drockwood October 15th, 2007
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Right from the get go Darjeeling Limited gets off on the wrong foot. The first thing the audience sees is a message from the director telling us we were supposed to have already seen a short movie on the Internet called Hotel Chevalier, available for free download, so we’re already behind. Luckily, I’m one of those in the know types so I’d already seen Hotel Chevalier but I can sympathize with the average film goer. It’s like the following things:
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