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Addicted to Love (1997)
I expect more from meg Ryan
I apologize if this is more about Meg Ryan than the movie but I just saw this flick for the first time tonight despite meaning to check it out for years frankly. I just expected more from Meg Ryan -- more from her career to be honest.
She plays her standard semi-bimbo, semi-slick and yet semi-alluring chick with little substance and not much thought it seems for how her dialogue progresses -- DOA and the Presidio some to mind. Her career is chock full of meaningful characters that defined themselves with any number of strong emotional traits. Even her small supporting role in Top Gun was incredibly well done, despite the arguably contrived and cheesy nature of the film (you have to admit -- cheese doesn't get better). She was electric in that movie -- Harry Met Sally of course is another. You felt her true emotion. I'm a hetero male so it takes a lot of soul-searching to write something bad about Meg. LOL. I just think she's a little one dimensional in a lot of her films and Addicted to Love is one of them. I have no idea what her character is truly thinking in most scenes and what her motivation is. I think that a lot of her troubles are poor script choices. But no one is forcing her.
I would skip it or wait for cable.
Saw (2004)
Nuts!!! (Warning Spoilers)
That was nuts. It kept me guessing the whole time and even when I thought it was an obvious ending, the awakening of the dead guy in the middle of the floor knocked me over -- I just didn't see that coming. Not to mention that I did not think the doctor would actually cut his foot off. I mean, that part actually made me sick to my stomach. They did an incredible job of making the doctor's face super pale after he cut off the foot and the blood left him. Well done. I didn't quite get that it was a doll, either. I thought the crazy face was a mask that the killer was wearing, not a doll. The face was utterly disturbing no matter whether you thought it was a doll or not, though. Overall, top-notch thriller with a solid plot, sick theme and generally scary crap going on the whole time. It was one of those movies where I try and put myself in any character's position and ask myself who I'd want to be if I had to be someone. This movie?? No one. Wife? No. Kid who will end up in sanitarium? No. Doctor "no foot"? Hell no. Adam? Uh yeah, please leave the light on. No. Killer with cancer? No. Cops who get killed? No. Woman who actually survived bout with head-locking contraption? Uh . . . not thanks. Won't sleep well thinking about this sick one. Great stuff.
My Little Eye (2002)
Solid Screamer!
Can't understand why people were not more intrigued by this film. The realism was tremendous, the camera work superior and the ending had a wonderful twist. Perhaps I fell for the hook too hard but this was a scary freakin' movie IMHO. The charracter development was, admittedly average, but the movie was not made to be a character study. It was supposed to make you scared -- much in the way of a Blair Witch or The Ring, to name a few recent ones that I thought this beat (although I think The Ring is quite good). I just thought the whole sell of the Internet reality site worked. It got me and I am usually the first one to guess an ending -- e.g., I knew Kevin Spacey (Verbel Kint) was Keyser Soze within 5 minutes of sitting down in Agent Kujan's office. What am I missing -- why doesn't anyone like this one?
My Little Eye (2002)
Solid Screamer!
Can't understand why people were not more intrigued by this film. The realism was tremendous, the camera work superior and the ending had a wonderful twist. Perhaps I fell for the hook too hard but this was a scary freakin' movie IMHO. The charracter development was, admittedly average, but the movie was not made to be a character study. It was supposed to make you scared -- much in the way of a Blair Witch or The Ring, to name a few recent ones that I thought this beat (although I think The Ring is quite good). I just thought the whole sell of the Internet reality site worked. It got me and I am usually the first one to guess an ending -- e.g., I knew Kevin Spacey (Verbel Kint) was Keyser Soze within 5 minutes of sitting down in Agent Kujan's office. What am I missing -- why doesn't anyone like this one?