Reviews
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
You have not seen this movie? * heavy use of a fly swat*
I was somewhere around East Estonia when I got hold of the book. It was the summer of 96... I never returned it to my friend. There was not much to return. Then in 1999 There was a movie in our cinemas they had translated into estonian as something like "To Las Vegas on Wheels". I had no effin idea it was a movie based on that very same book! You can imagine my surprise when I went to see it....no, actually, you can't. There is no way of expressing the surprise I felt. I had just gotten 18.... I had no guts to tell ANYONE I had even seen such a movie. My parents had seen the book lying around, but they don't speak English. I had plans to mention it, but I was delayed when a local newspaper published a review with a picture of Dr. Gonzo as SPOILER!
a hairy - titted devil. Besides, I know what my parents would have said. "We are right in the middle of an economic crisis and someone is showing drug movies to our goddamn children!!!!" Yes, a very bad moment. Now it has been almost 8 years...It HAS been 8 years! What the F***? But, man, I tell you, you'd have to be crazy on electric bills to think this movie's advocating drugs to anyone. It is THE trip that no person can ever have again. So why bother trying? Besides, it is a scary trip, yes sir, morey eels, huge bats and polar bears and maniacs in the bathtub.
How about some ether? You can handle your parent screaming at you for watching men slicing Z-s on each others forehead, but no one should be asked to handle your mom saying "Oh, great-grandmother sipped ether every night in her rocking chair, falling asleep with her legs spread and mouth wide open. And we the girls had a bottle along on cold winter days going to school in PRESCHOOL. " This makes me wonder....Duke and Gonzo only got their high by sniffing? Softies.
The body language, both of them - brilliant! Maximum input....and out...put...It has caught every side of the story. The crazy, the absurd, the violent, the nostalgic, the outrageous.
And after you have finished watching it, watch the last Pirate movie again, and find 5 similarities.
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Porgandite öö (1998)
a giant bass is better than having your name written on your face.
Diego should have just taken that damn egg and thrown it away, says Mister Chewing Gum. The Carrot doesn't agree, but the Bottle opener has an open mind. When the elevator goes down, you you think Helmut learns to stand? and who will finally pull the plug on the receptionist. The world is full of mysteries, and if you have a bicycle with round wheels, take it to the repair shop immediately and have the square ones placed. If you want to find this place you must borrow a map from Michael Jackson. Never mind that it's drawn on a fat lady. Is this something a rabbi might type? when you look at this text closely, do you start seeing carrot rain? just wait, and never mind Steffi.
Les misérables (2000)
If I met that Javert I would die of fear.
seriously. Malcovitch's Javert is the creepiest, darkest, truest, most tantalizing Javerts ever on screen. and that's why it was so good. I agree on comments about Eponine's scarce appearance on screen and left-out death scene but.... does that really matter. Javert was the best character in the book, the rivalry and chase between him and Valjean is the key thing. I mean, if I ever dared to direct (a completely amateur version ) of Les Miserables, I would concentrate most effort on finding a perfect Javert. that's that. I sorta disliked some surroundings. even the war scenes and sets seemed just way too clean somehow. and especially Seine, oh come on, there should be bodies floating in it, garbage, dead rats and stuff, instead Javert seems to be walking into unused mud bath water. there was a lot more ugliness in the book's France. but I can still never forget this series.
Corpse Bride (2005)
! Dead walk the Eaa- aarth !"
" Rehearsal ruined by the Van Dort boy !" just when you think your life...or afterlife, for that matter - is heading for the better, everything, every tiny little microscopic things starts going NOT according to plan. and if it weren't bad enough, you find out your parents are conservative, ego-centrist morons ( you were in denial about that). well, wouldn't you just like to scream until your eye pops out? tick - tack, tick -tack, make the clocks. tick - tack, does the broom in the hands of the street-sweeper. the tick - tack follows almost through the whole movie. It grows and evolves every second - and that's a good thing, because the film is quite short. It doesn't matter one way or the other, how many tick - tacks the clock toes for us, we all end up in the Ball and Socket Pub eventually. I suggest to grab for ear - plugs to lessen the damage done by Mrs. Plum...but I guess it doesn't matter when you're already dead? unless you want to play Fascinating Rhythm on the piano. Can a heart that's stopped beating be warm and gentle? Corpse Bride shows it can be. How can a person, who's already brutal and coldblooded, even die? well, just wait till the Maggot gets to him. Oh, the Maggot - first guy with estonian blood to play a character in a Tim Burton movie. even if it is just a freaking'worm...ahem, maggot.
generally I liked this flick. some are disturbed by too many too powerful songs - well I thought there were a couple of spots that were missing a song. It is technologically, of course, a novelty, but I've seen dozens of stop - motions made in my own country that are visually just as compelling ... But it's definitely one of the best Burton movie in years.
Metsluiged (1987)
Metsluiged (wild swans)
if you have read the original story by H. C. Andersen, you already know a little. if you have ever held a nettle in your hand, you know it better. and if you would sacrifice anything for the sake of your loved ones, you know it best.
yet still you should watch this movie. with characters brought into life, in a way that their glance and voice will go through you like a thorn. with a girl whose strength and loyalty, love and yearning might bring death to her, and of ugly, worthless, envious souls who want to harm her, take away every bit of happiness she has in her terribly difficult mission. doubt, trust, defenselessness devotion, risk and despair follow hand by hand, and you get the most passionate, soul touching story you have heard. 11 swans in the mist of the sea. magic of the nature, a miserable cell of a workshop, where the girl weaves nettle shirts... a graveyard full of demons, whom you won't recognize by day. power and distrust. and a not completely, but still relatively happy end. this is no sweet melodrama. this is bitter, and sour, and changing as the wind.
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
A stranded creation of a lonely master.
I found this movie a milestone in my life already at a very young age. It didn't make me cry, because it wasn't an unfamiliar world for me. It felt I lived in it. Instead it made my hands shake that someone, on the other side of the world, a stranger ( a couple of them in fact) have seen the same side of the society we live in. I recognized all the characters from real life. I recognized Peg Boggs in my mother, who also is a naive type of folks, trying to desperately and undoubtedly do good, but doesn't often think before interfering ... I recognized someone on the verge of surrendering to the equalizing, blind rules of the society, then stepping back at the last moment and following her heart in Kim. I Recognized a child who doesn't much argue, hesitate, question or alienate at all, but just acts my the current mood in Kevin. I recognized a creator, who is abandoned by all non - believers, left alone, without any help or good advice, without being kept up - to date , because the society hasn't been patient enough to follow the process of his masterwork. a lot of creators in our world work by themselves. great many fail to be understood and recognized, as is their creation, which is also left stranded, floating in a mass of misconceptions and misinterpretations. what if the creator doesn't explain... what he meant? does the creation have a life in a world where it finds himself?
Lost in La Mancha (2002)
a cultural managers nightmare
when I saw this documentary, I was just starting my master studies in cultural management . I was hopeful, full of crazy ideas, brave fantasies of how my cultural projects would work out . all cultural events are very similar to films and theater, many elements combined and I always have like a film running in my mind of the organization and development of the event. and then I saw this... a crusade of force majore, a total disaster happening to a very experienced guy: financiers having doubts, no location to shoot, main character falling sick, equipment floating away with a flood... I was so stricken back by what i saw. I thought: I'm just in the beginning of my road as a cultural manager and have very little experience. what chance do I have ? How do I deal if something like this happens to me. well it didn't take a lot of time and I really had to work through a difficult situation, a project being on the edge of falling apart. what I had was people who wanted to be a part of this project, who wanted it to come to life and were ready to sacrifice their comfort and even their paycheck to make it happen. and so did Terry. thank heaven for those people, they never let a project manager down.
The Cat in the Hat (2003)
cat in the hat : facts i was unaware of
I did not realize until now, finally reading
Bob's filmography, that the reason why Cat
in the Hat looked familiar and reminded me of Beetlejuice was because the same guy's imagination has helped creating both.
the art is good. the film is not so good. yet he's kind of interesting in his touch and the more men with a vision
slightly similar to Tim Burtonś , the merrier. i wander if this guy could make Wiplala stories. could be interesting. why does this damn comment have to be so long i wander if you all like people who use too many words not to make their point clear i am completely exhausted of typing this text please be understanding and do not make people write such crap as i just and so on and so on and so on