http://ambival.net/movies/little-children Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:54:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://ambival.net/movies/little-children#comment-10784 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » Hard Candy Tue, 29 May 2007 18:53:18 +0000 http://ambival.net/movies/little-children#comment-10784 [...] Somehow, towards the end, it just clicked with me and I just began to seriously dig the extremes of the whole matter. Whether I like it or not, it got to me, and got me in more of a muddle over the reviewing process (as is probably horrifically evident) than expected (and frankly, I expected to be stumped). I’m not dumb enough to ignore a movie that affects me that much just ‘cos I didn’t want to like it and probably will take a while to watch again. Though I’d recommend Little Children, The Woodsman, Chris Morris’ “Brass Eye” special, a little reading about the badly fluffed UK police Operation Ore, more, I can’t deny, this is a pretty brassy, peculiarly cinematic considering the subject, piece of work that, no matter what end of the argument you reside on, needs as open an approach as you can muster. [...] [...] Somehow, towards the end, it just clicked with me and I just began to seriously dig the extremes of the whole matter. Whether I like it or not, it got to me, and got me in more of a muddle over the reviewing process (as is probably horrifically evident) than expected (and frankly, I expected to be stumped). I’m not dumb enough to ignore a movie that affects me that much just ‘cos I didn’t want to like it and probably will take a while to watch again. Though I’d recommend Little Children, The Woodsman, Chris Morris’ “Brass Eye” special, a little reading about the badly fluffed UK police Operation Ore, more, I can’t deny, this is a pretty brassy, peculiarly cinematic considering the subject, piece of work that, no matter what end of the argument you reside on, needs as open an approach as you can muster. [...]

]]> http://ambival.net/movies/little-children#comment-10697 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » My Top 100 Movies [current] Fri, 25 May 2007 23:02:42 +0000 http://ambival.net/movies/little-children#comment-10697 [...] Little Children Todd Field [...] [...] Little Children Todd Field [...]

]]> http://ambival.net/movies/little-children#comment-2459 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » Brief Encounter Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:17:43 +0000 http://ambival.net/movies/little-children#comment-2459 [...] I don’t like reviewing movies so long after a viewing but I’m in catch-up mode at the moment and I feel a little more relaxed than I normally would with this one ‘cos, the big positive of this review is, I will be watching this again in the future. In a nutshell, I really wanna say that this movie is like American Beauty and Little Children rolled into one. I hate how people recently have compared Little Children to American Beauty, it’s like they’ve totally missed the point that Little Children is the ANTI American Beauty. Like, where AB was all, “Live your life be free,” Little Children kinda said, 7 years on, “OH. WHOA. Let’s not all do it at once, hey.” And like half a century earlier, who but David Lean would expect to be doing the same exchange within one movie? Let’s dismiss the fact that I watched this on Valentine’s Day on my own in a hotel room, lol. The ending truly makes this movie. I spent the first 90% thinking, “how the heck did they get away with this back then?” and the last couple of minutes just kinda humbling myself before the TV screen. Yes, it has cheesy British accents and cheesy lines and cheesy moments and so much cheese it’s like a fondu party. But that ending is so out there, so honest, I really can’t wait to see it again, ‘cos I’m certain this is gonna grow on me. [...] [...] I don’t like reviewing movies so long after a viewing but I’m in catch-up mode at the moment and I feel a little more relaxed than I normally would with this one ‘cos, the big positive of this review is, I will be watching this again in the future. In a nutshell, I really wanna say that this movie is like American Beauty and Little Children rolled into one. I hate how people recently have compared Little Children to American Beauty, it’s like they’ve totally missed the point that Little Children is the ANTI American Beauty. Like, where AB was all, “Live your life be free,” Little Children kinda said, 7 years on, “OH. WHOA. Let’s not all do it at once, hey.” And like half a century earlier, who but David Lean would expect to be doing the same exchange within one movie? Let’s dismiss the fact that I watched this on Valentine’s Day on my own in a hotel room, lol. The ending truly makes this movie. I spent the first 90% thinking, “how the heck did they get away with this back then?” and the last couple of minutes just kinda humbling myself before the TV screen. Yes, it has cheesy British accents and cheesy lines and cheesy moments and so much cheese it’s like a fondu party. But that ending is so out there, so honest, I really can’t wait to see it again, ‘cos I’m certain this is gonna grow on me. [...]

]]> http://ambival.net/movies/little-children#comment-1509 Ambival.net » Movies » 2007 Oscar Predictions Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:48:09 +0000 http://ambival.net/movies/little-children#comment-1509 [...] Little Children Little Miss Sunshine [...] [...] Little Children Little Miss Sunshine [...]

]]> http://ambival.net/movies/little-children#comment-1424 Ambival.net » Movies » 2006 Movies Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:50:38 +0000 http://ambival.net/movies/little-children#comment-1424 [...] Little Children Todd Field [...] [...] Little Children Todd Field [...]

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