Directed by: Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Elephant)
Rating 3.5/5 stars
Everytime there is a very gay movie, there will always come out an even gay-er movie. While you thought Brokeback Mountain was a breakthrough already for the 2 male leads kissing scenes, this movies see guy kissing every now and then. Where is the love man. I couldn't imagine how gays movies about gays will be in 20 yrs time.
This movie personally to me feels more like a art house flick. I personally not really into documentary style storytelling of movies thus even though I know this is a good mivie, i cannot find myself to love it. THe only thing I am amazed is Sean Penn acting. There is one thing between those so call acting and character actors, Sean Penn is not acting anymore, he is basically being the protaganist character himself. The way he can maintain the balance and consistency manner, you can see heart and soul of the real Harvey Milk in it. (even though i dun even know who the fark is Harvey Milk, i might know his brother Davidson)
Lastly I had to admit Gus Van Sant's direction was superb; he used the technique of blending real footage into the movie footage that we've seen before, but he managed to maintain a nice balance bewteen the 2 that dosen't make us feel like we are watching a documentary. He made everything lively and fresh while not getting in the way of the actors doing their jobs and that's pretty solid.
Directed By: David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac)
Rating: 3.75/5 Stars
THis movie is sorta of a flashback of Brad Pitt career history, you get to see his look Ah Beng blonde in Meet Joe Black, short blonde hair in Sevens Yrs in Tibet, his 40s suave look in the Ocean Trilogy. Brad get alot of applaud for his acting but I personally feel it is not he who is acting, its his makeup that is acting. If there is an award for Best Makeup (there really is), this film will sweeps all the makeup awards (this review is proudly sponsored by M.A.C)
Every other performer outperforms him in the movie especially his onscreen adopted mother Queenie who I think steals the show, every scene she appears make me almost tear, andhis partner on screen Cate Blanchett who played every age part of Daisy flawlessly, you could believe her when she still a innocent looking teenage girl (she's actually hitting the big 40 this yr), as the talented graceful dancer in her rebellious 20s, even the 60s when she is taking care of the already baby Benjamin, thats really some solid acting.
I like the way Benjamin Button was born as a old, and grow up living with the old, seeing old people die, having old people as his best friends, this slowly leads the most difficult part of his life, even when he looks like he is in his 20s or 30s, he is still a old man inside his heart, and that shows when he couldn't understand Daisy having so much fun at the party, he had never been to a party.
But the biggest thing that bugs me most about the film is the thing at the core: the relationship between Daisy and Benjamin. It misses something very, very, important: why they fell in love in the first place. It never really explains, you could understand why Brad fall in love with Tilda Swinton Elizabeth, having share their lives and stories waiting for each other every night at the lobby, but why Daisy, she is just another girl in his "childhood".
And i especially hate the montage part b4 Daisy is get knocked by a car, the what if the woman nv buy coffee, and the man nv tie shoelaces Daisy wouldn't have being knocked down. It spoils the whole mood of the movie for me, how the hell will Benjamin know a man in the street was tying a shoelaces.
Nevertheless this movie is good, the whole direction sets up the mood perfectly, the technically aspects really good too, but one thing for this movie, it will never be a great.
Rating 3.5/5 stars
Everytime there is a very gay movie, there will always come out an even gay-er movie. While you thought Brokeback Mountain was a breakthrough already for the 2 male leads kissing scenes, this movies see guy kissing every now and then. Where is the love man. I couldn't imagine how gays movies about gays will be in 20 yrs time.
This movie personally to me feels more like a art house flick. I personally not really into documentary style storytelling of movies thus even though I know this is a good mivie, i cannot find myself to love it. THe only thing I am amazed is Sean Penn acting. There is one thing between those so call acting and character actors, Sean Penn is not acting anymore, he is basically being the protaganist character himself. The way he can maintain the balance and consistency manner, you can see heart and soul of the real Harvey Milk in it. (even though i dun even know who the fark is Harvey Milk, i might know his brother Davidson)
Lastly I had to admit Gus Van Sant's direction was superb; he used the technique of blending real footage into the movie footage that we've seen before, but he managed to maintain a nice balance bewteen the 2 that dosen't make us feel like we are watching a documentary. He made everything lively and fresh while not getting in the way of the actors doing their jobs and that's pretty solid.
Directed By: David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac)
Rating: 3.75/5 Stars
THis movie is sorta of a flashback of Brad Pitt career history, you get to see his look Ah Beng blonde in Meet Joe Black, short blonde hair in Sevens Yrs in Tibet, his 40s suave look in the Ocean Trilogy. Brad get alot of applaud for his acting but I personally feel it is not he who is acting, its his makeup that is acting. If there is an award for Best Makeup (there really is), this film will sweeps all the makeup awards (this review is proudly sponsored by M.A.C)
Every other performer outperforms him in the movie especially his onscreen adopted mother Queenie who I think steals the show, every scene she appears make me almost tear, andhis partner on screen Cate Blanchett who played every age part of Daisy flawlessly, you could believe her when she still a innocent looking teenage girl (she's actually hitting the big 40 this yr), as the talented graceful dancer in her rebellious 20s, even the 60s when she is taking care of the already baby Benjamin, thats really some solid acting.
I like the way Benjamin Button was born as a old, and grow up living with the old, seeing old people die, having old people as his best friends, this slowly leads the most difficult part of his life, even when he looks like he is in his 20s or 30s, he is still a old man inside his heart, and that shows when he couldn't understand Daisy having so much fun at the party, he had never been to a party.
But the biggest thing that bugs me most about the film is the thing at the core: the relationship between Daisy and Benjamin. It misses something very, very, important: why they fell in love in the first place. It never really explains, you could understand why Brad fall in love with Tilda Swinton Elizabeth, having share their lives and stories waiting for each other every night at the lobby, but why Daisy, she is just another girl in his "childhood".
And i especially hate the montage part b4 Daisy is get knocked by a car, the what if the woman nv buy coffee, and the man nv tie shoelaces Daisy wouldn't have being knocked down. It spoils the whole mood of the movie for me, how the hell will Benjamin know a man in the street was tying a shoelaces.
Nevertheless this movie is good, the whole direction sets up the mood perfectly, the technically aspects really good too, but one thing for this movie, it will never be a great.
Directed By: John Patrick Stanley
Rating 3/5 stars
Review coming soon....
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