or, as it’s stupidly known in the US, Blue is the Warmest Color. The original French title not only more suitable, it’s an obvious reference to La Vie de Marianne. Obvious, because Adèle is reading it in class early in the movie, and then encourages her new boyfriend to read it as well. I mention this first because I think the stupid American title negatively impacted my experience of the movie as a whole. You might argue that a title is largely irrelevant to a movie as a whole, but you’d be wrong. Especially during the first few minutes, when…
Some months ago, I decided to add The Avengers to my Netflix queue, I believe solely on the fact that it was directed by Joss Whedon. That was a serious mistake. After ordering 3 copies of the movie, I determined that the DVDs were not scratched, they were merely encumbered with some sort of copy protection that prevented me from copying them to my hard drive. This was enough for me. Any movie copy-protected is not a movie worth watching. Jonah disagreed, and insisted that we load it into our inherited blu-ray player and watch it before I sent it…
A+. Easily in my top 5 movies of all time. I want to watch it again tomorrow. I don’t want to spoil it if, somehow, you haven’t seen it and don’t know anything about it.
Fantastic movie. From the description of it, I didn’t think I’d like it at all, but I loved it. Probably in my top 25. I couldn’t believe that anyone did anything like this in 1984. It made sense once I found out that it was a co-production between West Germany and France. It’s set in the U.S., so I didn’t realize it was European. It’s the movie that inspired Joshua Tree. I’ve also been playing with Criticker. Check it out. Probably a better recommendation engine than others I’ve seen.
You guys have probably all seen it already, but I just watched it tonight. Excellent movie, maybe Woody Allen’s best. I’m amazed that after so many years of making movies, he keeps getting better at it. I sincerely enjoyed it, and it had a spark of narrative truth over literal truth, or actualism over realism, something Nabokov and Pynchon both do that I love. Anyway, A+, rent it if you haven’t seen it. Also, the fact that I knew nothing about it probably made it even better, so don’t go reading reviews. Don’t even read this one.