Great intense movie found this film utterly amazing. I'm a sucker for exploitation cinema and would love the film for it's intensity alone. But this one manages to add many layers and unique qualities. Basically the film allows a certain amount of chaos in it's structure, especially at the beginning, but out of that arises a film that is strangely enough very coherent in the final (very strong) impression it left on me. A few things that stand out are the way in which the film has the period charm that belongs to sixties movies, not only in the feel of the colors and lightening but especially in the way the actors display a certain amateurish (by lack of a better word) enthusiasm, which could easily become tacky, but it doesn't. All actors portray perfect acid-heads. Especially the female actors manage this very well. There's lots of violence and nudity. All is very well timed and it comes in brilliant doses and one final appropriate over-dose. The modern day punky Mansonites add a nice underground feel to movie as well and allow the structure of the film to be broken open. I've read this film would not be for everyone. Yeah, I guess you could say that, but what does it mean? It probably helps when you are a sixties/seventies exploitation enthusiast but if you're not I would still advise you to see it as a work of film art that is not easily compared to anything else. It's raw and violent but is positive in it's creativity.
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Serenity
(2005)
an average scifi film
23 November 2005
Serenity was a nice watch for as long as it lasted. I came to the theater without too much knowledge about the series so I didn't expect that much, although I love scifi. What I saw was an okay scifi flick with emphasis on action elements. Not too many bright ideas or "sense of wonder" here. The film doesn't seem to aim for much more than to entertain. I liked the freshness of some characters and there were two or three scenes that stood out because of nice FX. But there were way too many elements that undermine these assets, like a really terrible score, a lack of original ideas, a certain folksy hipness, there is no sense of the vastness of space at all and I could go on. I wouldn't regret waiting to see this one in a couple of years on TV. I do not really recommend.
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