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Reviews
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Not A Let Down
Before I even begin on the performances, this movie paid attention to the small details, helping to create a captivating story that almost brought my first movie tear. Things like transitioning from a still shot to stedi-cam so smoothly because it's motivated by a character movement. The way the story line takes you in and out of healthy and unhealthy, stable and unstable, and for someone experiencing this for the first time, until the Hollywood ending, you can't really tell what is going to happen next. Diving into the tender topics of bi-polar disease, gambling, domestic abuse and all of the things people try not to talk about at the dinner table. Then to compliment it all, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence each with a pair of grand slam home runs in the bottom of the ninth. Cooper honestly made me frustrated he played his role so well; At one moment he's good and "cured" then next he's still obsessing and believing things are going to happen that aren't and it is so beautifully photographed, it takes you in and doesn't let you turn your head away, brilliant film.
Red Hook Summer (2012)
Review for Red Hook Summer
I thought this was the worst project out of all of Spike Lee's body of work. It takes you into the New York, Red Hook project, and follows a young boy, Flik, who's sent to New York from Atlanta, by his mother, to spend the summer with his "Holy Roller" grandfather. With long scenes of dialogue, this movie lacks action and conflict. Lee who wrote and directed this film, finally created real conflict within the story, in about the last 20 minutes of the movie, so I sat around waiting for it to get good, and as soon as it did, the movie ended which is why I rated it so poorly. The character development, and back story worked really well, but I think there was too much emphasis on setting up the conflict instead of showing and resolving. This movie really let me down in comparison to some of his other films.
The Godfather (1972)
More Let Downs
This movie was the biggest let down of my life. From all of the hype and clout that comes with any conversation that involves "The Godfather", I was expecting some real action, from beginning to end, but instead Coppola uses only a few powerful scenes of violence to break up all of the dialogue used to explain what is going on, and the extremely exaggerated editing that adds about an hour and a half of unneeded movie time, which really took me away from the storyline. Not only was this movie to slow, but the writing I think could have been better. From viewing this movie once, I did not get that it was a story about Michael Corleone, it seemed more like a movie composed of typical situations in which gangsters of organized crime historically endured. Nonetheless, this movie was photographed beautifully and that is one thing I can't take away from this disappointment of a movie.