Battle Los Angeles (Liebesman, 2011)
The title credits of Battle Los Angeles, which I always thought were the ultimate authority in such matters, does not have the colon.
The title credits of Battle Los Angeles, which I always thought were the ultimate authority in such matters, does not have the colon.
The directors of The Desert of Forbidden Art, Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev, state that they are drawn to "stories about stubborn, unsung people with vision who challenge the boundaries of their times."
The biggest flaw of The Adjustment Bureau may be that its negatives are so easily articulable.
Do I think this was the best film of 2001? No. Neither though can I muster too much outrage at its victory. If the film were venerated today more than I think it is, my objections might be louder and more persistent. Absent inflated claims that I don't really hear coming from any quarter, I am content to let it stand as a well done commercially polished biopic with some top notch acting and an earnestness that while not winning me over does not really grate.
Klein came up for the idea of Jelly Belly, the gourmet jelly bean that comes in a myriad of different flavors, and, as related in the documentary Candyman, he ended up selling his stake in the company for a tidy profit that turned out to be a small percentage of its eventual worth.
I did not ultimately select Dominca Sena's film as my least favorite viewing experience of the year--more on the film that got that designation later in this series--but both in revisiting the film and my review of it, I wonder that I did not.
You know the biggest shock about revisiting Monsters, Inc. ten years later? It was the "Coming Soon" preview for Disney's Treasure Planet.
Were he still alive today, I can't help thinking that Black Swan would've been the late Japanese playwright, melodramatist and exhibitionist Yukio Mishima's all-time favorite movie...and I also recall how the costume designer Eiko Ishioka once mentioned Mishima's aesthetics were "in very poor taste."
I tried hard to view the film afresh, to convince myself that my negative (and, hence, admittedly minority) view of the franchise had more to do with a knee-jerk reaction against its spectacular popularity than it did to any great failure on the film's part.
The religion stuff is a red herring, though, I know. It wouldn't bother me if I was focused on the story or if I could see these characters as realistic people with actual human flaws.