Not that impressed with the Director's cut of Donnie Darko. As others have said before me, it explains too much and leaves you with no doubt as to what happened. This takes rather a lot away from the mind-fuck movie, as you can imagine.
I also though some of the new songs were intrusive and not as good as the ones in the original cut. They put in a bunch more scenes as well which I felt made the movie slower and more self-indulgent. Not good.
We finally watched Equilibrium on Sunday. Giffy will be happy as now she can finally have it back! It was a very slick movie, and I liked Christian Bale a lot, but the movie didn't follow its own rules which was a pity. I was astounded by how much of it was ripped off 1984 as well.
Mostly my main problem with it is that for a society that arrests people for showing emotion, there was a whole lot of emotion. Some of the actors were better than others, eg Christian was fantastic, but his new partner was all smiling and emotive speech patterns and basically Lee and I were sitting there and yelling "Sense Offence! Arrest him!" Much more often that people actually got arrested.
I also fell asleep during the climax, so there you go.
Ladykillers I was also unimpressed by. The music was lovely and Tom Hanks was completely wonderful as the hammiest Southern Devil you ever did see, but I just didn't see the point of the movie. Maybe I was just disappointed that the Coen brothers didn't make a new movie? Also I couldn't work out when it was supposed to be set for the longest time.
Lee and I did both love seeing the old lady slap a Wayans brother repeatedly though. I think we could watch a whole movie of that.
Posted by jenni at June 14, 2005 02:19 PM