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Last Days (2005)
This movie was awful
I do not understand why movies like this get made. Maybe it's interesting to watch the back of someone for five minutes. Or hold on a wide shot of a scene that makes no sense for 5 more minutes. This was the most boring, horribly written, horribly directed movie I have ever seen, aside from Feeling Minnesota. It is as though the director, Van Sant, is "trying" to be different making his directorial choices obvious. I have never been a fan of Gus Van Sant, with the exception of My Own Private Idaho, where you actually "cared" about the characters. How can you make a movie and not allow your audience into the life of your main character? It surely can't be watching him swim in a lake and take a leak in the water. Or pass out with a rifle and hold a shot on that for another 5 minutes. I just don't get how movies like this get made. Inspired by the last days of Kirk???? I don't think so. Inspired by trying to put your viewers to sleep.
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Quietly Pwerful
Brokeback has minor flaws which can be easily over looked once you are in the story. The beginning is slow and it is about 20 minutes to long. The chemistry between the cast is intense enough to jump off the screen and Michelle Williams is flawless in her performance. The setting of Wyoming is beautiful and the emotional complexities happening in everyones world pulls you in like an unstoppable magnet. I admire any actor who takes a risk to play a character that may be out of his/her comfort zone and both Jake and Heath are as real as Charlize Theron was in Monstor. Ang Lee always has a way of being quietly powerful in his direction. I don't think Brokeback Mountain is just a gay cowboy movie. I think it's a movie about two cowboys who fall in love.
Outtakes (2000)
Pretty Cool Film
I thought it was a pretty cool film. I like things having to do with filmmaking. I laughed a bit, never cried. I've seen it twice because it was a pretty cool film. That's all I really have to say about Outtakes except I did like the Outtakes at the end.