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Time Trap (2017)
Poor acting and script, very interesting concept
So the main characters spend much too much time talking to eachother surrounded by cave rocks. At about the 40 minute mark, you are thinking, when the heck is something interesting going to happen to these people?
If the dialog was interesting, philosophical or whatever, then that would be one thing. But its just idle banter to fill time. I think this should have been a half hour short film, but was instead teased out to a feature length. The end was very disappointing as well and its only purpose was to close out the characters.
The big reveal that happens part way through the film, I predicted as soon as they got into the caves, and it was very underwhelming and obvious. The characters were barely different from eachother, and had no real motivations. They often made decisions without any rhyme or reason.
I would still recommend watching it and I gave it a 5 star rating, because of the extremely interesting concept of a time dilation cave complex. I am just disappointed it was not executed better, and am kind of mad now as no one else can make the same concept film, which would probably be acted and directed and shot much better.
I cannot believe that this movie cost 3 million to make. It took place literally in one location that was probably a sound stage. This movie looks like it was made for less than 100k, so if you go into it with that expectation, its not too bad.
A torinói ló (2011)
This seems to be the most pretentious film i have _ever_ seen
I just don't get it. I love nietzsche but this movie, while bleak and throwing in some illusions such as that embers will light the shadows of god in caves for centuries to come, did not entertain. I fell asleep a whole bunch of times and I must admit did fast forward the last hour and a half. It was somewhat entrancing, yes, all the silence. However I think personally that this is just as useless as a modernist painting for understanding anything. You can daydream at this movie and layer your own perceptions onto it, but in the end its a long boring slog which, judging by the reviews, may cause you to hallucinate that it was the best movie ever.
I give it a few extra stars for the fact that it caused most IMDb reviewers to temporarily lose their minds. That has got to count for something but I wouldn't sit down with this movie to be entertained.
9 (2009)
Has plot but no STORY!
Well, i saw this movie last night at a screening. Not knowing anything about this movie, I was completely blind going in and found it easy to get lost. The movie moves -QUICK- from one plot point to the next. Normally these kids movies have lots of connecting scenes and dialogue between the characters that this movie just did not have. It was like one major plot point to the next and felt very rushed. That said, I think this was because of the awesome visual effects and rendering that they had to do. They simply couldn't waste time rendering non essential scenes. I would have given the movie another half year of development, to make it a more rounded piece. That said, I have never seen as good computer graphics in a movie before. They are truly state of the art. Its the only reason this movie is getting a 5 out of 10 instead of a 1 or a 2. Too bad there was no character development. They had a lot of opportunities to make you feel for the characters, but they were never explored. It felt like the whole movie was a time crunch - like rushing through rides at a theme park because your dad wants to beat the traffic on the way home. It was a hollow adventure movie. Definitely not living up to the normal character development that Tim Burton can create. I guess everyone can have a flop once and a while. It should be viewed in higher than DVD quality, but I wouldn't pay theater prices for the thing.
Ideal (2005)
Hilarious
This is probably one of the funniest shows I've started watching this year. I recently downloaded season one and being on the 4th episode, i can see the story really starting to take off. Being the kind of show this is however, "taking off" would be more akin to trying to maintain a blissful ignorance. Basically, its about a drug dealer in the UK living the good life (for a pothead anyways). Things happen, he sells weed and hash (just weed and hash) that he gets from his pal in the police department. Probably better when watched high, the situations and people he meets reflect a true community drug dealer. He brings people together while living a simple life, complicated only by his always returning cheating girlfriend and various shady customers and acquaintances. He is the anti-drama and really doesn't care what happens as long as hes got a joint in his hand. True to life of any and all potheads I've met (including myself). It is one of those shows, like weeds, that trys to normalize and therefor decriminalize weed dealing. Of course if that were to happen, the protagonists in these sorts of environments would no doubt disappear just as the mobile knife sharpeners of old.
This show is to weed dealing as Spun was to crystal meth dealing. Almost a documentary, the humor is crazy funny relying on well cropped camera angles, plenty of wonderful physical effects and most of all subtlety. That said i was rofl many many times(the guy in the mouse mask OWNS). If you smoke weed, or just want to see how harmless/hilarious dealing can be this is the show for you.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
boring BORING clichéd Boring (*SPOILER* don't worry you didn't miss much)
Well i don't know what went wrong with this film. When he started taking shots of milk, i knew it was going to be a pre teen type flick but this was ridiculous...
The story was easy to follow, with not one surprise that i did not see 3 steps ahead. The acting was amateurish and really made me sick, to see these fine actors acting on the direction of someone who obviously had NO IDEA how to direct. I really hope he was going for an audience of 14 or younger. anyone else would find it very very corny. take for example Polly waking up on a bed of ROSE PETALS in the morning light and exclaiming (with her covers pulled up to her neck) that she had no clothes. I thought she could have been easily played by a 10 year old. Next to her, sat law grinning like a complete moron.. It was like relationships you have when your 14. or when she is in a tiff (one of many) about jolie reminiscing with law and then she sees that his plane says polly on it. she then forgives him for "treating her mean". is this really what we want to teach our kids? be winey little annoying barbies? the girl is NUTS emotionally, irrationally jealous of jolie, hanging off Law's arm half the time and telling him how awful he is the other half!
the chase scenes in which both law and paltrow participated in were exactly like a family vacation with mom reading the directions wrong and dad telling her she doesn't know what shes doing; "i got us here didn't I?"
AS IF!! the premise was very good. robots, blimps, Germans, but then you realize its all just a prelude to a very very hollow wizard of OZ/ Max headroom/ Noah's ark bastardization of the bible.
With bad acting, horrid directing, a hollow; full of holes, magically convenient plot, it can be assured that this movie will be placed on the video store shelf right along side dungeons and dragons and battlefield earth.
Donnie Darko (2001)
a love story
this is an image of true love i have had in my mind for years. its nice to see it expressed this way. perfect movie, if your into love stories and sci fi you will definately love this movie. if your not, i doubt your commitment to sparkle magic.. (watch it anyways)