"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" has got to be the worst film I've seen in a decade. A mawkish, vomit-inducing, sentimental pile of horseshit, with a lead child actor you want to strangle half-way through. Not to mention, it's incredibly cynical in its intent.
To make this stupid, wrong-headed film seem interesting, they used the backdrop of 9/11 to give it some point. That cancelled any insight the film might have had. Instead, the makers' pile on the emotional manipulation throughout, until your forced to surrender, having had someone call an ambulance from the coma you've suffered, from the 10 pounds of proverbial sugar you've just swallowed.
Call it an urban "Hugo" without the enchantment, if "Hugo" did have any in the first place. AVOID!
Friday, 17 February 2012
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Snore Horse
Just sat through "War Horse"- quite a bit pony, unfortunately, and full of the kind of sugary sentimental horse shit Spielberg does so well. Much of it looks like a Hovis ad or a BBC1 Sunday night drama and the dialogue, save for one brief moment, is hokey... at best. Six degrees of separation from a horse throughout WW1 is basically what it's about. It's three episodes of war antics, surrounded by a horse, who gets sent to fight or have a soldier sit on his saddle; the horse gets captured by the Germans; falls in with a grandfather and his toothsome grandaughter; and then ends up towards the end of the war with the blinded young private who brought him up in the first place.
Nice scene between an English soldier and a Jerry- good dialogue and some pathos as the nag of the film's title has barbed wire carefully snipped away from his battered bod. There's a strident score by John Williams throughout and is about as manipulative as possible to tug on the heart strings. You could replace the horse with a teddy bear- it makes no difference- but we all love an animal that's managed to survive a war and looks great and displays human characteristics! Oh, and there's Benedict cucumber slice with his plummy accent rallying the troops with "Be Bwav", as they go off to certain death. 2/10 for 2.5 hours of emotional Tate and Lyle.
Nice scene between an English soldier and a Jerry- good dialogue and some pathos as the nag of the film's title has barbed wire carefully snipped away from his battered bod. There's a strident score by John Williams throughout and is about as manipulative as possible to tug on the heart strings. You could replace the horse with a teddy bear- it makes no difference- but we all love an animal that's managed to survive a war and looks great and displays human characteristics! Oh, and there's Benedict cucumber slice with his plummy accent rallying the troops with "Be Bwav", as they go off to certain death. 2/10 for 2.5 hours of emotional Tate and Lyle.
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