by Jean » Mar 5th, '09, 10:37
I'm not going to bother to see wanted, when I herd the line 'You have to bend the path of the bullet', I thought 'I'm out'. Not my kind of film I didn't even enjoy the matrix.
Some films I recommend.
I've decided to go, not particularity with my favorite films, but rather films that never got that big, the films you may well pass by, but should take a look at.
True Romance
Plot
Two young people fall in love, get married and after accidentally coming into possession of a suitcase full of cocaine, embark on a mission to sell it in Hollywood, of course the gangsters they got it from aren't to pleased about that.
What I say.
This is one of Quentin Tarantino's earliest films, It has wonderfully hart warming scenes of love both between husband and wife and father and son, punctuated nicely with sex, drugs and violent shooting.
Everybody in this film had their moment, It may not have been long, but every part is fleshed out and given life, even if its one scene, the writers, actors and directors made sure it counted.
This is what a romantic comedy should be, It shouldn't be light or simple, It should have true romance (see what I did there?) and violent, swearing, drug fueled shootouts.
Also a small bonus, see Samuel L. Jackson get killed off like a punk, early on in the film. I saw it, it was all like 'Oh awesome! Samuel... oh, dead.'
Also try to spot the three appearances of Elvis.
Lars and the real girl
Plot
A man goes a bit funny in the head, falls in love with a life size sex doll and moves in with his brother while waiting to get married.
What I say
Honestly, if my dad hadn't recommended it so strongly I would have passed this movie up. It looks horrible, It looks like either 'Wacky, zany, comedy' or one of those comedy's where everything goes wrong. In fact everything goes right, this is hardly the best comedy in the world, but it does what so few are able to do, be funny without being horrible.
Now I love Southpark, I love Kevin Smith. I like comedy where someone suffers, or someones ridiculed, but movies like 'Lars and the real girl' just refresh me, it reminds me that being sweet isn't the same as being inane and that good writing can sell anything.
I'm sure I have more movies to recommend, but I've got work shortly and I haven't even got up, so I'm leaving it there.
Invoke not reason. In the end it is too small a deity.