Posted by moviegeek916 on February 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Help (2011) – Film trailers are problematic. Sometimes they seriously undersell a movie. I thought Fight Club looked asinine but it was amazing. Sometimes the trailers are put together better than the movie itself. Look up the trailer for the bizarre clusterfuck Southland Tales and tell me it doesn’t look awesome? Sometimes the trailer tries … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 19, 2011 · 1 Comment
There Will Be Blood (2007) — The film opens with a sucker punch of great film-making with about 15 minutes of wordless exposition. It just gets better from there. While Paul Thomas Anderson’s earlier films like Boogie Nights and Magnolia were about large ensemble casts, There Will Be Blood focuses mainly on one man. One … Continue reading →
Filed under Film, Old Facebook Minireviews, The Best · Tagged with 2007, Boogie Nights, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dillon Freasier, Jonny Greenwood, Magnolia, Oil!, Paul Dano, Paul Thomas Anderson, Radiohead, There Will Be Blood, Upton Sinclair
Persistence of Vision 