“What Dreams May Come” (Directed by Vincent Ward, 1998)
A visual master piece for its time, heaven and hell never appeared so good. Robin Williams (Chris Nielsen), brings the heavens and depths of hell to the big screen, with such amazing visual effects. A painting, come to real life in only a way one could imagine what their afterlife would be. Though the story lacks a bit of interest to the viewer, what brings you in and captivates you, is the journey from heaven to hell, that shows you the beauty’s and repulsiveness of what life after death could be. This original movie also features the magnetism of Cuba Gooding Jr. (Albert) and the sensitivity of Annabella Sciorra (Annie Nielsen).
Throughout the movie, Robin Williams travels from heaven to hell to save his soul mate (Sciorra), from eternal damnation. During the journey, the movie flashes back before Williams died, and tells the story of how first his kids past away and then himself. Sciorra’s character has trouble dealing with the passing of both her kids and then ultimately her husband. She loses the life she once loved in the whole ordeal and then struggles to get a grip on reality. With the help of a tracker (Max Von Sydow), Williams begins his adventure which only he could hope would bring his love back to heaven. Vincent Ward creates a brilliant and vibrant movie with shots of gorgeous scenery and landscapes. It contains an everlasting love that propels the human heart to search hell for its missing piece.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Pick a Critic
It doesn't take a computer screen or a newspaper to be a critic but a simple discussion and a thought. Anne Hulub shows how much she cares for and is passionate of being a critic and wanting her thoughts heard. Throughout the online chat she voices her opinion or questions the other critics answers. She understands that criticing a play, a movie, or music or art, can be challenging, but one should roll with the punches and look at every angle and aspectic. Reviewing a piece of art is but a discussion amongst friends or foes, and each piece of thought deserves it's time in the spotlight. She believes that maybe you should be able to relate to the critic to maybe better understand what they mean at times or better understand your own thoughts and feelings. Maybe that seperates someones own opinions on whether this or that person is a good critic or not. She is very passionate about being a critic and maybe more then the other critics, especially sionce she doesn't even get paid for what she does, not saying the others don't wish to be critics. reminds me of the old saying, "Love what you do, do what you love".
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Good Review, Bad Review
Bad Review: http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/9
Good Review: http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2009/09/9-review.php
Both of these reviews are on the new released movie "9" directed by Shane Acker. The bad review in my opinion seemed to by quite picky and tedious in his approach. He gives you a bit of info about the movie(story) and the characters but doesn't give a sense of appeal to wanting the viewer to see it for themselves. He doesn't help you imagine what the movie might be like. The bad review pretty much tells you it's bad and doesn't back it up, giving you a bit of a peak as to what the movie is about but lacks imagination. Seems this critic was poking this film with a stick to wait for it to be appealing to him so he could utter something pleasing about it. Maybe to close minded and wasn’t satisfying personally for him since it’s more of an opinion from him then the opinion of how bad visually or story like it is.The good review gives you a bit of info on the film and lets help you imagine what it looks like. She gives you details and comparisons to other great films that seem to be like this one. She tells you briefly about the characters but yet doesn’t spoil the movie. She keeps you wondering what might be the outcome of it all and regardless of the faults the movie might have, she is still welcoming you in to see it for yourself. Her words help you imagine what type of catastrophe this new world could look like even if you had never seen the trailer. She backs up her opinions by comparing the film with other films that are great in visual work so you can only imagine how this film will entwine the character with this rubble of a world.
Good Review: http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2009/09/9-review.php
Both of these reviews are on the new released movie "9" directed by Shane Acker. The bad review in my opinion seemed to by quite picky and tedious in his approach. He gives you a bit of info about the movie(story) and the characters but doesn't give a sense of appeal to wanting the viewer to see it for themselves. He doesn't help you imagine what the movie might be like. The bad review pretty much tells you it's bad and doesn't back it up, giving you a bit of a peak as to what the movie is about but lacks imagination. Seems this critic was poking this film with a stick to wait for it to be appealing to him so he could utter something pleasing about it. Maybe to close minded and wasn’t satisfying personally for him since it’s more of an opinion from him then the opinion of how bad visually or story like it is.The good review gives you a bit of info on the film and lets help you imagine what it looks like. She gives you details and comparisons to other great films that seem to be like this one. She tells you briefly about the characters but yet doesn’t spoil the movie. She keeps you wondering what might be the outcome of it all and regardless of the faults the movie might have, she is still welcoming you in to see it for yourself. Her words help you imagine what type of catastrophe this new world could look like even if you had never seen the trailer. She backs up her opinions by comparing the film with other films that are great in visual work so you can only imagine how this film will entwine the character with this rubble of a world.
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