LISTEN TO ME MARLON
Documentary on Marlon Brando whose narrative tool is mostly audio tapes Brando made where he discusses his life and feelings in full. This is intercut with iconic scenes from his films and interviews he did. I loved it but I am a Brandophile and that is who this film is largely aimed at. It is loosely chronological as Brando discusses his early years, his troubled relationships with his parents (especially his dad), his introduction to acting and first bushes with fame, his most famous roles, his political activism, Tahiti, his son killing his daughter's boyfriend etc. Brando is at his most eloquent when he philosophizes. At the point where he made these tapes he understood what an illusion his life is and it is amazing to hear him talk so negatively about acting which he revolutionized. The filmmaker does a very good job of keeping the flow interesting through good use of stock footage and Brando highlights. A must for Brandophiles and I would say also entertaining for anyone else.
DEEP DARK
Some interesting visuals and general weirdness keep this film slightly interesting. The human blood donating mobile for example. However, the main story of a failed artist who gets guidance from a creepy female voice in a hole in the wall of his apartment moves is too slow and uneventful to hold the attention for long. Not really much happens until the very end and then the gory violence feels forced.
EVEREST
For what I'm assuming is a big budget film with lots of name stars based on well known true story and a successful book about this incident, this is a surprisingly uninvolving, sloppily made film. For one thing, many of the action scenes which occur during heavy snowfall make it impossible to tell the identities of the characters. This ruins the set-up of each character's backstory earlier in the film and all the effort in getting the audience to care about them. Dull and confusing, a total waste of a large budget.
Some interesting visuals and general weirdness keep this film slightly interesting. The human blood donating mobile for example. However, the main story of a failed artist who gets guidance from a creepy female voice in a hole in the wall of his apartment moves is too slow and uneventful to hold the attention for long. Not really much happens until the very end and then the gory violence feels forced.
EVEREST
For what I'm assuming is a big budget film with lots of name stars based on well known true story and a successful book about this incident, this is a surprisingly uninvolving, sloppily made film. For one thing, many of the action scenes which occur during heavy snowfall make it impossible to tell the identities of the characters. This ruins the set-up of each character's backstory earlier in the film and all the effort in getting the audience to care about them. Dull and confusing, a total waste of a large budget.
CONDEMNED
One of the sub-genres that has proliferated in the last decade or so with REC, THE HORDE and others is that of people trapped in a building or other enclosed space with people infected with some kind of zombie or otherwise homicidal virus. This film is about squatters in a rundown building and adds nothing except truly grotesque scenes of BDSM, pee drinking, etc in the interests of establishing "character". A movie that should be avoided at all costs.
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