Day 7even - More Movies!

PRODIGAL SONS

Mood Before movie: Good.

Ass-o-meter: Fine.

Comments:
What do you do when your family has one adopted son with brain damage and mental illness, another son who's a transsexual, and another son that's gay? You make a documentary film about it, of course.

Prodigal Sons is a documentary about people struggling with identity in almost every way imaginable. It also helps to make you feel much more normal...

This film highlights some interesting incites into the roll and importance of identity in peoples lives. It'll probably make it to the TV at some point, so check it out.

Rating: 3/5


VARESE, THE ONE ALL ALONE

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Mood Before movie: Feeling normal.

Ass-o-meter: DUN DUUUUNNNNNNNNNN DDIIIIDDDDLLLLLYYY DDDUUNNNNN DUN DUN DDDUUUUNNNNN.

Comments:

Edgard Varese was a French composer that live most of his life in America. Varese's music is not exactly top 20 material. Consisting of a lot of percussion with complex and often strange rhythms, sounding not unlike something you might find in a 60's science fiction movie.

This doco consisted mostly of Varese's music played over the back of images. Having not really listened to Varese's music before I found this to be kind of annoying because the images were heavily influencing my interpretation of the music.

The most interesting part of this doco for me was right at the very end when they quickly covered Varese's move into using electronic sounds using tone generating equipment from the Phillips laboratories in Holland, long before the synthesizer was even invented.

I would have to say that this film is for massive music nerds only, and didn't really seem to offer much more than what you probably could have got from listening to Varese's music...

Rating: 1.5/5


CHOCOLATE

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Mood Before movie: Like i'd just been invaded by 60's aliens...

Ass-o-meter: Wicked.

Comments:
Chocolate is a film from Thailand, and is another kung fu spectacular from, Prachya Pinkaew, the director of Ong-bak. What differentiates this film from the usual kung fu fair is that all of the usual bravado has been removed, and replaced with an ass kicking autistic girl...

Having seen Ong-Bak 1 and 2 I can safely say that this film craps on both of them. It has a story line, and a loads of cool action scenes, and even a hilarious lady boy gang, what more could you ask for?

I could have watched the young girl in this movie kicking the crap out of fully grown men for at least another few hours after this movie ended. Most enjoyable.

Rating: 4/5

YES MEN FIX THE WORLD

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Mood Before movie: Good-o.

Ass-o-meter: Saving the world.

Comments:
It was all the way back in 2004 when I first saw the original Yes Men movie at the Melbourne International Film Festival, and since then I have been wondering what these guys have been up to. Turns out they were working on some pretty cool stunts for their next movie Yes Men Fix the World.

Having enjoyed the original Yes Men movie I had high hopes for this film, and I'm happy to report that I wasn't let down. This new film has been given a lot more spit and polish than the previous film, all of the gags in this film have been taken up a notch, and it even had a relatively cohesive narrative holding the film together.

I really like these guys, they don't have any of the pretentiousness that you will be used to from the Chaser boys, not to mention their stunts are much bigger and more intelligent. During one of the early pranks in this film I was actually so nervous for one of the Yes Men, that my heart felt like it was going to jump out of my chest. This movie was a lot of fun.

Rating: 4/5