it was pretty long, i agree.... but so worth it! especially watching it in a packed lecture hall with your best friend ever beside you =)
M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening"7/10MUCH better than i'de heard, not quite as good as i'de hoped.Would have give it an 8 but the last 15-20 minutes was kinda ho hum and seemed rather out of sinc with the rest of the film.
One of the most brutal films ever made, KISS ME DEADLY enjoys a huge cult following. There's not a single really likable character to be found; everyone wants something, and the neanderthal Hammer barely gives people a chance to say no before he starts beating them up. Aldrich's direction heightens the script's misanthropy, shooting with extreme close-ups and at disorienting angles. Christina's murder is achieved with a pair of pliers, and all we see are a pair of bare legs dangling in midair. The murder of the mechanic is similarly jarring, the camera swooping in on his screaming face as a set of hydraulic jacks do their work. Hammer himself is knocked out no less than six times, only to strut down those mean streets yet again. Aldrich was so concerned about possible reactions to all the violence that he wrote a defense of the film in the New York Herald Tribune.KISS ME DEADLY is shot in an unforgettably harsh fashion, visually underlining the paranoia and existential funk of the film noir world view as few other films have done. Aldrich's greatest directorial effort, this important film takes a number of noir elements to their most nihilistic extremes, leaving us in the violent, atomically threatened world we encounter upon leaving the theater.
Blah, I feel like an asshole in this thread!... but once again I disagree. That movie was awful. I did like the IDEA, just thought it could of been put together a little differently...but then again he's the aclaimed director and im just an idiot. Go figure.