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Fight Club (1999)
One of the Greatest movies of the century :)
Fight Club is one of my favorite movies. I've seen it couple of times... I also own the DVD. Don't miss the alternative (subliminal) FBI warning by Durden when the DVD starts ;) Anyways, I don't want to give too many details and ruin the appetite of those who haven't seen this master piece.
What makes this movie so amazing is the story ofcourse. It's based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel. and it's about... well... Our controlled way of life, searching satisfaction in materialistic things, Money, loneliness, NO SEX, NO SATISFACTION, ShXXty daily Jobs, getting stock in a small apartment filled with things from an Ikea catalogue, SEX but no happiness, No Money, No Home etc. etc. There are zillions of things that we are wasting our lives on, are these really important for us? Do we really need all the things that we buy? things... things... the things that make us angry... the things that we hate... the things that we want... the people that we envy... the people that we wanna be... the things that make us SICK to the stomache... the people that makes us angry, the people that we hate... But there's SOMEONE THAT WE ALL HATE MOST... Do you know who that is? Well, this movie not only answers that, but it also slaps you right in the face with that answer...
David Fincher did an excellent job directing it. Ed Norton became one of my favorite actors after I've seen his acting in this movie (I've probably seen all of his movies after this one). He's simply amazing... Brad Pitt also proves that he's a great actor, not just a baby face sex symbol.
Helena Bonham Carter... well, I can't imagine Fight Club without her, or any other actress playing her role...
BUF Compagnie (Paris, FR), Blue Sky Studios (New York, US) and Digital Domain (CA, US) created the CG and Special Effects Art work in Fight Club. Yes these 3 great, award winning companies worked together in this movie. And their amazing art work is what makes the Fight Club so visually pleasing and rich... The famous Ikea scene is fantastic, but there's even more... since the CG work is perfectly blended in, you need to pay more attention to realize that there's actually lot of CG work in this movie -perhaps you may have to watch the movie couple times ;)-.
Don't miss this movie...
Ararat (2002)
Highly Disappointing!
After all the buzz, I finally saw this movie on Starz... the best I can say is too much negative energy going on in this movie, and it's highly unrealistic...
It seems to me like, all the Turkish characters portrayed in this movie are either sadist,psychopath, or well... overly exaggerated as evil... And all the armenian characters are ... well all good...
The Turkish characters in this movie are so disappointingly ill faced, instead of hating them and feeling pity about the poor armenians I started wondering why this movie started to feel so disappointingly unrealistic -even surreal-... even the lead young character Raffi's father, who happens to be a terrorist killing diplomats, is good... because he has a good 'cause... a terrorist is a terrorist and no good cause can make him/her good in my book, or make me feel bad about terrorists and terror... as a new yorker, I hate terrorism and whoever supports it... did i type hate ? I mean, do not tolerate... guess all the negative energy in this movie is taking me over...
Also in this movie, there's a reference to a supposedly Adolf Hitler statement... "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" The director is willing to gain support of the jews against all "evil" turks, trying to link to the holocaust... and wants us to come to the conclusion that the holocaust is related to the actions of turks against armenians... Hitler was a student of history after all...
I never heard of this before, so I decided to do some research on the net.. and I found this book while searching google for Armenia and Hitler: "ARMENIA--SECRETS OF A "CHRISTIAN" TERRORIST STATE-- by Samuel A. Weems
"Mr. Weems, a US citizen of Scottish descent and a former district attorney (prosecutor) and judge, aims with his new book to draw attention to the fact that Armenia fabricates falsehoods and supports terrorist activity to secure US financial assistance. He believes that the Armenian state is a dictatorship and has established an international network to support Armenian terror. What's more, Weems believes that during World War II many Armenians gave active support to Hitler's forces and fought shoulder-to-shoulder with Nazis in the Northern Caucasus and the Netherlands. In addition, Weems uncovered evidence in Armenian newspapers proving that Nazi secret agents working in Turkey in 1941-1944 were aided by Armenians."
how about that?
Interesting, and I don't know whether all this's true or not... Maybe it's as true as the history told in this movie... but I must say this... one shouldn't base his/her opinions on so called historical facts shown in a movie... google is our friend, let's do some research and read...
And one more thing, hate does not bring peace and love...
peace :)
Al
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Superb!
Wachowskis did an excellent job! I was really wondering how they're going to end this amazing trilogy. I must admit that, as a Matrix fan i was a little worried that it's going to turn in to a Martial Arts - Sci-Fi fantasy... Meaning, more action, tons of CG work, and less philosophy... They combined the action, the philosophy, CG, everything amazingly well balanced, and ended it perfectly...
Don't miss it ;)
Al