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Great film, very sweet but also sad. (hulu)

I liked the style of this film, and thought it was a pretty good comic book based film, although it did seem to drag on and not actually get to the point for a large part of the film, I also felt like I must have seen the story before, or read it before because I pretty much knew what was going to happen. It was stylish though and interesting, though equally in feeling that I already seen the ending, I also felt like half the beginning had been lopped off as I didn’t understand how they were superheroes, whether they had superpowers etc.

I didn’t like this as much as I thought I would. I did like the bleak colouring but didn’t find the story very involving, the children’s connection is kind of disturbing, and the ‘gore’ scene seemed like something out of terrible 70’s movie. It just didn’t live up to they hype for me. I was pretty bored really :(

I’m afraid I wasn’t very impressed, it’s basically a standard rom-com with a pretty standard ending-really …

It just attempts non-standard story telling, and it just came across as bitty and that Gordon-Levitt wasn’t ‘feeling’ his character he seemed too knowing. It was funny in parts but the characters weren’t very in depth they didn’t feel like real people- just romcom cut-outs. And it was boringly cliche, and enters the whole muse territory, the woman in this film doesn’t care about her career and seems to have no aspirations whatsoever.

Basically it was playing at being ‘indie’.

I loved this! It’s the only other Lars von Trier film I’ve seen besides The Idiots. But it is brilliant, you have to like awkward comedies though, and perhaps be aware of the history between Iceland and Denmark. Very funny though with some completely absurd scenes. I loved it when they’re at the cinema with the ice-cream, ripping up paper. 5 stars.

I was quite dissapointed with this film, I was meant to a while back go see this film and hear a talk by Mary Harron the director, who also directed American Psycho, which unfortunately (or not) I missed. I was somehow led to believe the film had something to do with equality of the sexes, and would be somewhat intelligent, or even layered. However it seemed to be generic titilation really, Bettie Page’s life was glossed over and we really didn’t get into much detail about her thoughts or feelings, or reasonings, her life is far more interesting if you read her wiki entry. It was quite an empty piece. Nothing really distasteful just really underwhelming. Well shot, and Gretchen looks the spitting image of Bettie, the photographers are interesting characters but Bettie is pretty vapid.

Like Hard Candy, this turns tables on what you expect might happen, in a way it’s more interesting as you learn more about the girls and their dynamic and why they do what they do, whereas we learn little of Hayley, who although an ‘honours student’ as she declares, her ability and reasoning for why she did what she did, and how on earth she found them is left unanswered, and feels unlikely for a 14 year old. However this film isn’t as taunt or clear on what sort of genre territory we’re in, and the camera work is far more amateur. But an interesting film certainly better than a whole host of others I scrolled through on lovefilm. Loving this new feature! (Knowing me it’s probably not all that new!)

Another Hulu! A great documentary look at the ‘superheroes’ that pose around Hollywood -outside the Chinese theatre, for tips.

Another Hulu watch. I’ve seen this before just not all the way through. Loved it, it’s very sweet and takes a wry look at the afterlife.

Nice film that pretty much tells you exactly what will happend at the end in the beginning. Interestingly I’ve worked with one of the actors involved! Hehe. Also seen on Hulu.