Sunday, January 23, 2005

violence in films

We all know that films are not generally the best place to find realistic depictions of violence. But two of the funniest ones are the gunshot wounds inflicted to Steve Martin in "The Three Amigos" and to Ewan McGregor in "Big Fish". They are there for all of, what ten seconds (less than that in "Big Fish") and suddenly have blinked out of existence again.


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Friday, January 14, 2005

Spider Man 2

Why do so many people say this one's even better than the first one? The dialogue is less believable, the plot devices less subtle and the action more cartoonish. And somehow the first Spider-man movie filled the "swinging through the concrete jungle" scenes with much more vertigo and, uh,... realism? (Bad word when reviewing a superhero movie, I know.)

Of course it's still a pretty cool movie. But the first one was better.

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