AngryFetus
04-20-2006, 11:00 AM
we will all die alone. (in a french accent ala Jimmy's favorite lil hand puppet. well second favorite huddula huddula!)
That was a lil filler really, to let you make sure you want this movie spoiled, although im not sure how bad I can spoil it. I will leave it to a movie projector and the director.
I watched this on Opie's suggestion and I'm glad I did. I didn't enjoy it, it seemed slow, but that could have been my mindset. I suggest anyone to see it, especially anyone who likes a 'thinker'.
K, The acting was FANTASTIC. The was Christian Bale used his face, he almost could have never spoken through the whole movie. I always like him, but during this borefest, I was amazed and able to enjoy his acting. His alter ego, the fat guy with the teeth was also an amazing facial actor. (enter your own joke here) If you watch the movie, watch the actors faces when they are NOT speaking. Maybe it was because of the Karen Carpenter face Bale had, that helped him to use his face so well, but I think he is probably just brilliant.
The plot was like a midget sighting. (her goes the surprise) Wow, a hangman game that says 'KILLER'. 'Wow, who saw this coming?' Well, any child that wears big kid pants would have figured it out. Well, maybe not that easily, but I knew he was feeling guilty about something. It was maybe interesting to see all the pieces come together, but to me it was like Fight Club, or The Ring, or any other modern thriller. To me it's not fun to have the whole gist of what is going to happen known, and then just have to wait for an ambiguous director to 'make me think, maaaaaaahhhhhnnnnn'. From the first five minutes of the movie I was just waiting to find out what went where. These 'shock' movies are not doing it anymore. Shocking is no longer shocking. That probably applies to radio today as well.
"No one has ever died from insomnia before." Uhm yes, yes they have. Well here from wikipedia:
'The disease has four stages, taking 7 to 18 months to run its course:
1. Increasing insomnia, resulting in panic attacks and phobias. This lasts about four months.
2. Hallucinations and panic attacks for about five months.
3. Total insomnia, rapid loss of weight. Lasts about three months.
4. Dementia, turning mute. Lasts about six months. Always results in death.*
*ALWAYS RESULT IN DEATH
Well I can allow (yes i will allow it) for Trevor Reznik to be wrong, but I think that is one of the "facts" that we are supposed to base the movie on. Besides dickhead, ever heard of starvation? You could die of that to.
The cinematography was amazing. Christian Bale was brutal to himself, but in return, the director made his body part of the set. He is almost the back drop to everything. We are of course seeing the world through his eyes though, so we get these normal and strange kind of characters to contrast to the protaganist. The lighting on Bale was almost always dim and blueish, while people around him or even right next to him were in bright light. He did step out into the sunlight once, and looked even more out of place than Anthony does.
I wanted to touch on Opie's recommendation, because that is why I posted this in this forum. Opie seemed to really love the movie, and I think I perhaps know why it connected to him. It's not my place to go into detail. If you heard him talking about 9/11 and 11/11, then you understand. If not skip this. I just noticed that the main character was noticing all sorts of signs and numbers and things explaining why his life was what it was, and this had happened after a tramatic car fatality. I noticed some similarity between that and what Opie spoke about. Bale also got extremely thin, and Opie has spoken clearly about his time off being a time of stress like that. Thank God for us and for Opie that his did not go near as far. It must have been an intense experience.
Finally, Fuck you Brad Anderson Sir. You are a fucktard. Don't make me sympathize with a child killer then 'shock' us at the end. That was bullshit, and tugging and simplistic heart strings. I couldn't connect to Bale at all emotionally in the movie, so perhaps that is why. I can see that that was maybe the mind fuck of the movie. If I had really connected with him, and felt bad about what was happening to him I would have been shocked at the end.
Instead I was just hoping Bale would end up naked on a ditch amongst similar looking corpses.
I love Christian Bale, and I will watch another 'Brad Anderson', but the Machinist, both the character and the movie, were as useful to me as a placenta is to a stem cell donator.
Cliffs:
1. heh...k ill put em for Gavin...cause he could beat my up while eatin a sammich
2. The acting was fantasic.
3. The plot was obviously to shock, so it became a waiting game to see where his hallucinations were going to be in the 'twist'
4. People do die of insomnia. Maybe the character was wrong, or maybe the director was.
5. The description of fatal insomnia follows the pattern of the Machinist's descent.
6. The cinemetography was amazing.
7. Opie liked it, and i think i know why.
I'll put more cliffs later....keep checking back tho!
That was a lil filler really, to let you make sure you want this movie spoiled, although im not sure how bad I can spoil it. I will leave it to a movie projector and the director.
I watched this on Opie's suggestion and I'm glad I did. I didn't enjoy it, it seemed slow, but that could have been my mindset. I suggest anyone to see it, especially anyone who likes a 'thinker'.
K, The acting was FANTASTIC. The was Christian Bale used his face, he almost could have never spoken through the whole movie. I always like him, but during this borefest, I was amazed and able to enjoy his acting. His alter ego, the fat guy with the teeth was also an amazing facial actor. (enter your own joke here) If you watch the movie, watch the actors faces when they are NOT speaking. Maybe it was because of the Karen Carpenter face Bale had, that helped him to use his face so well, but I think he is probably just brilliant.
The plot was like a midget sighting. (her goes the surprise) Wow, a hangman game that says 'KILLER'. 'Wow, who saw this coming?' Well, any child that wears big kid pants would have figured it out. Well, maybe not that easily, but I knew he was feeling guilty about something. It was maybe interesting to see all the pieces come together, but to me it was like Fight Club, or The Ring, or any other modern thriller. To me it's not fun to have the whole gist of what is going to happen known, and then just have to wait for an ambiguous director to 'make me think, maaaaaaahhhhhnnnnn'. From the first five minutes of the movie I was just waiting to find out what went where. These 'shock' movies are not doing it anymore. Shocking is no longer shocking. That probably applies to radio today as well.
"No one has ever died from insomnia before." Uhm yes, yes they have. Well here from wikipedia:
'The disease has four stages, taking 7 to 18 months to run its course:
1. Increasing insomnia, resulting in panic attacks and phobias. This lasts about four months.
2. Hallucinations and panic attacks for about five months.
3. Total insomnia, rapid loss of weight. Lasts about three months.
4. Dementia, turning mute. Lasts about six months. Always results in death.*
*ALWAYS RESULT IN DEATH
Well I can allow (yes i will allow it) for Trevor Reznik to be wrong, but I think that is one of the "facts" that we are supposed to base the movie on. Besides dickhead, ever heard of starvation? You could die of that to.
The cinematography was amazing. Christian Bale was brutal to himself, but in return, the director made his body part of the set. He is almost the back drop to everything. We are of course seeing the world through his eyes though, so we get these normal and strange kind of characters to contrast to the protaganist. The lighting on Bale was almost always dim and blueish, while people around him or even right next to him were in bright light. He did step out into the sunlight once, and looked even more out of place than Anthony does.
I wanted to touch on Opie's recommendation, because that is why I posted this in this forum. Opie seemed to really love the movie, and I think I perhaps know why it connected to him. It's not my place to go into detail. If you heard him talking about 9/11 and 11/11, then you understand. If not skip this. I just noticed that the main character was noticing all sorts of signs and numbers and things explaining why his life was what it was, and this had happened after a tramatic car fatality. I noticed some similarity between that and what Opie spoke about. Bale also got extremely thin, and Opie has spoken clearly about his time off being a time of stress like that. Thank God for us and for Opie that his did not go near as far. It must have been an intense experience.
Finally, Fuck you Brad Anderson Sir. You are a fucktard. Don't make me sympathize with a child killer then 'shock' us at the end. That was bullshit, and tugging and simplistic heart strings. I couldn't connect to Bale at all emotionally in the movie, so perhaps that is why. I can see that that was maybe the mind fuck of the movie. If I had really connected with him, and felt bad about what was happening to him I would have been shocked at the end.
Instead I was just hoping Bale would end up naked on a ditch amongst similar looking corpses.
I love Christian Bale, and I will watch another 'Brad Anderson', but the Machinist, both the character and the movie, were as useful to me as a placenta is to a stem cell donator.
Cliffs:
1. heh...k ill put em for Gavin...cause he could beat my up while eatin a sammich
2. The acting was fantasic.
3. The plot was obviously to shock, so it became a waiting game to see where his hallucinations were going to be in the 'twist'
4. People do die of insomnia. Maybe the character was wrong, or maybe the director was.
5. The description of fatal insomnia follows the pattern of the Machinist's descent.
6. The cinemetography was amazing.
7. Opie liked it, and i think i know why.
I'll put more cliffs later....keep checking back tho!