FeriZsolnai Reviews

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

Fake.

[3/10 · 26 March 2006]

Yet another professionally crafted, ultimately superficial experiment where Americans try to please everyone to get the visibly high budget back.

The three main actresses (very good actresses, by the way), Gong Li, Zhang ZiYi and Michelle Yeoh sound fake in English. Not noticing the fact that Chinese and Malaysian actresses get Japanese roles. Come on. Such authenticity. I have to laugh.

Steven Spielberg should stick to Indiana Jones. I understand that someone made the mistake to convince him that he was a filmmaker, but he's old enough to recognize that he's not.

If you want to see something really good, go and rent Farewell My Concubine and watch Gong Li when she's required to act.

Such a shame.

The Doom Generation (1995)

brilliant and entertaining

[21 September 2004]

I write this because I read a harsh critic from a fellow watcher here and I don't really understand his opinion.

this movie is highly surrealistic, and in its on way very truthful - regarding the fact that it shows the story through the eyes of these overcharacterized stereotypical teens. being an eastern European guy, I think I can say that this movie requires the watcher to step out of his usual westernized filters he's watching films through, and try to be as objective a listener as possible. I must disagree with the opinion that this movie has to be taken seriously - this is a weird kind of entertainment, weird in a positive way like those C-trash horrors that are so bad you start to collect them on your shelf. araki may not be the brightest star in independent film-making, but he's reasonably strong and original.

I recommend this to mature people who don't think that knowing high arts requires them to deny their childhood classics or spider-man. watch it with much self-irony and have a good time. :)