Speaking of Point Break. The director has a new movie out this weekend, The Hurt Locker, set in Iraq. From the NYT Review: [link]
There is more friction between James and Sanborn: competition, incomprehension, but also a brand of masculine love similar to the passion between Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in “Point Break.” In one scene Mr. Mackie and Mr. Renner trade stomach punches in a ritualistic display of affectionate aggression that looks as if it will end in either sex or murder, and Ms. Bigelow’s insight is that the tense comradeship of soldiers rests, often tenuously, on barely suppressed erotic and homicidal impulses.
something without any explosions
Where is the real Michael Bay, and what did he do with him?
I just watched
The Wrestler.
I'm not sure what I think of it.
I don't think I'll ever watch another Aronofsky.
Pi
was good and interesting, and I loved
Requiem for a Dream,
but
The Fountain
was just nonsense.
The Wrestler
was a very different kind of movie, and I couldn't even see what was so Aronofsky about it except for the occasional editing quirks. There wasn't a lot of narrative thrust, but it was still interesting to watch the guy's
life,
just as it was. I didn't like the end, though. I guess
I was expecting something more uplifting?
I loved Requiem too, as much as it was difficult to watch. Ellen Burstyn gave the most acutely egoless performance I've ever seen.
The director whose movies I'll never see again is Lars von Trier.
I remember really liking
Dancer in the Dark,
but I haven't seen anything else.
I have such mixed feelings about Von Trier. What he produces is so brilliant and so unlike anything else out that that I have tremendous admiration for him as a filmmaker.
On the other hand, if Nicole Kidman and Emily Watson got together and had him quietly murdered in his bed, I wouldn't shed any tears.
