Just watched the movie Sphere for the second time in my life last night. The first time I watched it, I was a lot younger and didn’t really pay attention enough to get it. I remembered liking the visuals, though, and so I decided to watch it again.
It’s one of those movies that is just so frustrating because IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO GOOD! But it just wasn’t executed right. It was really sloppily executed, as if somebody came up with a brilliant idea and then handed it over to a 16 year old to write the screenplay. Jesus it could have been good, it could have been like an underwater 2001, there was SO MUCH POTENTIAL! Pisses me off when they ruin something that had that much potential. Could have been a classic, but it got made into trash.
Just saw The Man From Earth. Loved it. So many questions, so many answers and yet so few. A damn fine philosophical homage to well a lot of things. But if you like religion or indeed not then a 14,000 year old man is worth a listen.
I liked Moon, it was good even though they try to pass off very old themes as new ones. In any case, as FJ was hinting: good directing + good acting + good script = good movie, and that is the case in Moon.
I’m putting the man from earth on my list. The imdb page reminds me of that Kevin Spacey movie where he claims to be an alien that travels faster than light. One sec, let me look it up…
I would bet that was a typical Hollywood too many cooks spoiling situation. It needed on vision behind it, not hundreds of screenwriters tweaking, a dozen producers weighing in and likeliy some of the stars also infecting the story with their needs. Probably would have been great if it had a more no name cast and even a lower budget. Then the suits don’t give a shit and often a single guiding vision can carry the day.
I tried to watch it. Couldn’t make myself sit through all that forced dialogue. Not sure if it was bad acting, bad script or both. In any case, it was just torturous to watch. Impossible to suspend disbelief.
An explicitly philosophical movie with stupendous acting:
Sunset Limited.
Adapted from a play by Cormac McCarthy, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L Jackson.
It’s mostly about nihilism, atheism, religion and death.
Exam is awesome. And if you liked Exam then “El metodo” (imdb.com/title/tt0427582/) is an absolute must see.
I love films that take place in one room although, truth be told, they usually suck.
well there are stereotypes for a reason. i’d bet atheists in general take suicide in old age as a much more feasible option than most religious people. and american atheists probably are on average more depressed – not necessarily because of atheism in itself, but because of being different. because of being in the demographic that most americans distrust. i think a lot of american atheists have a sense of not belonging, and i think that that stereotype is perhaps pretty accurate (though perhaps a bit exaggerated in the movie). it’s something worth looking into, and I think this Sunset Ltd did a great job at that.
Holy shit balls. That Beyond the Black Rainbow trailer looks fucking amazing. The trailer is a piece of art in itself.
I don’t know if I mentioned this film before or not but Mr.Nobody is one of the best films I have ever seen and it doesn’t get much more philosophical then this.
Here’s the trailer which does not do any justice to the film.
And here is one of the most interesting trailers I have ever seen for a film which is yet to come out. You get goosebumps just from watching this shit.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBrd5AF8kos[/youtube]