poipulani Reviews

Savage Grace (2007)

Did I really just watch that?

[1/10 · 26 January 2008]

I saw the film last night, I was not appalled by the content like some others, but I felt that the film was delivered in such a way that it was impossible to be moved by its story. The single greatest contributor to this was the films out-of-place score. The two scenes that should have been the most powerful moments in the filmed were dubbed over by a score that sounded like something in a ballroom in the 1910's. The acting was something that I would expect in a teen slasher film not a character driven period piece that focuses on the actors in the film. The film also moved at a pace that was slightly slower than a baby snail, it was the kind of movie that really makes you wonder why it is that it made it past pre-production.

The bottom Line is some films should just not be made, Savage Grace was one of those films.

00/10

The Ten (2007)

Flat Out Fun

[10/10 · 6 June 2007]

This is no epic film, nor will it ever be considered a classic, but it is just fun. I loved it because it was a film that dared to be different, very different. No film would ever dare tread on the grounds that the ten did. For that the film is worth seeing. The film has its problems but it manages to make up for them with its off-beat humor and its unbelievably strange views on our lives and how the ten commandments fit into them. The funniest scenes were by far the cat scan scene, the Jesus scene and the goof scene, after august 3 you'll know what that means. The humor in this film was unequaled by any film that i saw at the sundance film festival this year. Watch and enjoy this hilarious romp about religion and the thing we'd like to do but can't.

On that note I give The Ten ten hilarious parables out of ten.