Movies that are garbage. I'm going to skip past the obvious, because there are entire genres that really don't lend themselves to greatness, and go straight to the ones that I know friends of mine enjoy.
Gangs of New York- Garbage. It was a musical without the music. rediculous sets. rediculous costumes. rediculous acting. everyone likes to pretend it was a good movie because Daniel Day-Lewis delivered a great performance. I admit that it was, but it was a great performance in a shitty movie. Cameron Diaz could never decide if she was supposed to have an accent. Neither could Leo for that matter. I left the theater thinking "Scorsese made this steaming pile?". But apparently I was the only one. One of my film school buddies tried to tell me how groundbreaking it was. My reply? "Wait five years. see if anyone is still talking about it." I think I made my point.
Across the Universe- Garbage. I'm not generally a fan of musicals, but I'm always willing to admit when they deliver and I just don't get it. This is not one of those movies. "oh, the characters names correspond with beatles songs so they can use them in the movie". Wow. so clever. I enjoy some beatles music, but hearing shitty versions sung by actors doesn't really do it for me. It tried way to hard to make the plot relevant, and failed miserably. It was a movie that had been made a million times, and better, without shitty music. It was a loose plot built around a bunch of songs covered by people nobody cares about. If you need a musical fix, rent The Producers instead.
Boondock Saints- Garbage. I get a lot of flack for this one. I remember one of my friends telling me that it was her favorite movie of all time when the Special Edition came out on dvd, and I was excited to see it. It was way oversold and definitely came nowhere near delivering. Where to start? Willem Defoe. I love the guy in the right role. But he was rediculous. I know you're supposed to suspend disbelief, but this was a movie about two guys murdering thugs, and Defoes character just pranced around being outlandishly flamboyantly gay. It wasn't funny, it was just uncomfortable, and I would think to some, insulting. Every time he was onscreen it just made me want to turn the movie off. Then theres the small role played by Ron Jeremy. All of my friends had boners over the fact that he was in the movie. So having a terrible actor who is a troll and former porn star is a good thing? The whole thing felt like a movie by someone with very little talent who had an idea without the ability to make it interesting. I love revenge flicks, and movies about people taking the law into their own hands, but they have to be written well. Boondock just doesn't do it. My friends love it and I'll never understand why.
Ok. I'm done complaining.....
Chopper (2000)
Starring Eric Bana
Directed by Andrew Dominik
What can I say about chopper read? Don't piss him off. At the begining of the movie Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read has spent most of his adult life in an Australian prison. He's the kind of guy who will stab you ten times in the face, back off and appologize, and then get pissed off when you won't forgive him. And according to the real Chopper, that's something he's done. He doesn't care who you are, friend or foe, if you have something he wants, he'll take it. He's a charming guy who plays all sides, and while a lot of his tales have been proven you can never tell where the reality ends and the fantasy begins. He's a murderer, a theif, and a thug. And if you're like me you'll be glued to the tv trying to figure out what crazy thing he'll do next. But he's unpredictable. He's by no means a hero but for some reason I ended up routing for him. He loves the spotlight, and while in prison Hams it up for TV interviews, becoming somewhat of a cult hero. After his release he uses his fame to write a series of crime novels. Eric Bana delivers a great performance, and I've read that the real Chopper actually requested him for the role when he was a relative unknown, because they actually look a lot alike. He had the character down, from the lumbering walk to the deceptively polite voice. This is one of the better movies I've seen in a while and it's one of those movies that flew beneath the american radar. Check it out. You won't be sorry.
On that note, I'm out. Happy New Years Everyone
~Quantum
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