![]() ![]() Continue Reading … Netflix pick for 12/9/13 – ‘Zoolander’ (well, financially that’s his money maker so I get it but still you know what I mean). Just watch how fun and sexy and cool this movie is and tell me he’s spending his time wisely with Spy Kids movies. It is almost a shame the Rodriguez is now making either kids movies or throwback films that are “trying to be bad,” so to speak, because when he got started in the 90s he was looking like the next John Woo, but with PASSION. ![]() This is a fun movie, mixing elements of revenge thrillers with spaghetti westerns and the low-budget Spanish exploitation filmmaking that Rodriguez started out in to get his beak wet all to much aplomb and great skill. And when you can upgrade to Antonio Banderas for your leading man, you jump all over that, it’s a win for everyone, right? (sorry, original mariachi/desperado Carlos Gallardo). Robert Rodriguez’ 1995 sequel to his 1992 break out super low-budget surprise movie “ El Mariachi” is a sequel in all the right ways, in that it hits a lot of the same beats as the first film, but adds some new stuff and also turns everything up to eleven (usually thanks to an enlarged budget), making for something even cooler, slicker and bigger than the original. If you have not seen “ Desperado” yet, then have we got a spicy treat for you. ![]() These are just two examples of amazing scenes in this movie, a film that is downright silly with greatness.”Ĭontinue Reading … Netflix pick for 12/17/13 – ‘Desperado’ The scene quickly becomes intense as Graysmith finds out that the person he is visiting might actually be the Zodiac killer himself. Another great example of Fincher’s skill comes in a scene towards the end of the film, when newspaper cartoonist turned true crime author Robert Graysmith (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) visits someone on his own accord to find out information on a possible Zodiac suspect. The viewer becomes all knowing and helpless at the same time. The clinical and calculating coldness of his unblinking camera puts the audience in a very uncomfortable position in relation to the crime, forcing us to stand off to the side just a few feet from the victims to be. But Fincher also shows us one of the Zodiac killings which took place in the broad daylight, and it might be one of the most chilling scenes in film (and no, not in this film, but in all films). Most of the scenes take place at night or in dimly lit locales. “Fincher is the king of working with darkness and shadows, and much like the rest of his films, Zodiac is blanketed in creepy blacks and the scariest of shadows. Are you kidding me? So good.įrom my original write up on : This is definitely a well made documentary, because they managed to tell the story of four wine nerds studying for a test to become certified wine snobs, and they focused on the right people and the right details and put it all together in a compelling way and made this into a great movie.”Ĭontinue Reading … Netflix pick for 12/23/13 – ‘Zodiac’ By the time the exam results were being revealed at the end, it was obvious that the film had everyone in attendance in the palm of its wine-stained hand, which resulted in much of the spontaneous aforementioned clapping and shit. This measuring of audience pleasure was quite easy at the Florida Film Fest screening this past weekend, as the packed theater burst into applause during several different moments of the movie, and often reacted quite audibly, and most importantly, in unison. “You know the term “crowd-pleasing?” That’s what “ SOMM” just happens to be, a crowd-pleasing film. Seriously.įrom my original review from the FFF 2013: ![]() The final Netflix Instant pick of 2013 is a great documentary that I saw earlier this year at the Florida Film Festival, and this documentary is called “ Somm,” and it is all about the insane, rigorous and cutthroat world of wine-tasting. ![]()
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