http://ambival.net/movies/monster Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:50:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://ambival.net/movies/monster#comment-5313 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » 2003 Movies Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:36:42 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=95#comment-5313 [...] Monster Patty Jenkins [...] [...] Monster Patty Jenkins [...]

]]> http://ambival.net/movies/monster#comment-5279 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » Black Snake Moan Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:34:20 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=95#comment-5279 [...] Kevin Smith recently said on his Smodcast that this was, I think the words were, “a f*ckin’ genius flick,” and for the first 20 minutes of this movie at least, possibly more, I really couldn’t see it. Though Christina Ricci’s performance is fine (though nothing on her performance in Monster, which I personally think matches Charlize Theron’s) and certainly this movie belongs in her better slate of slightly more artsy film appearances (Buffalo ‘66 over Small Soldiers, The Man Who Cried over Bless the Child, Monster over Anything Else ... etc), the movie just never looked like it was going to take off the way it seemed to be preparing for. It’s incredibly trashy, deliberately so, but I kind of couldn’t see beyond this surface for way too long. And usually I’m really good at “getting” movies like this – but for the bulk of its runtime, for whatever reason, this one just made me go, “Why?” [...] [...] Kevin Smith recently said on his Smodcast that this was, I think the words were, “a f*ckin’ genius flick,” and for the first 20 minutes of this movie at least, possibly more, I really couldn’t see it. Though Christina Ricci’s performance is fine (though nothing on her performance in Monster, which I personally think matches Charlize Theron’s) and certainly this movie belongs in her better slate of slightly more artsy film appearances (Buffalo ‘66 over Small Soldiers, The Man Who Cried over Bless the Child, Monster over Anything Else … etc), the movie just never looked like it was going to take off the way it seemed to be preparing for. It’s incredibly trashy, deliberately so, but I kind of couldn’t see beyond this surface for way too long. And usually I’m really good at “getting” movies like this – but for the bulk of its runtime, for whatever reason, this one just made me go, “Why?” [...]

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