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This Revolution (2005)
A 'Docu-Drama'...? In the old days we just called it fiction.
I caught a screening of this at the True/False Documentary film festival in Columbia, Missouri, and I was pretty disappointed. I was expecting a cool documentary into the protest and activism surrounding the RNC, but what I got was a largely flawed, bad-acted, fictitious, conspiracy ridden badly woven tale. I'd heard of its neo-documentary technique, "blending both True and False" but I expected more along the lines of a fictitious storyline developed for a better personification and to create a sense of unity between real interviews, but it was more along the lines of a terrible made-for-conspiracy theory TV movie.
The acting overall is terrible except for Rossario, which is not surprising considering the Director at the screening said most of the lead characters had no acting training, his excuse being that he wanted them to be real. Heres a hint, real people can't act, but actors can usually act real.
It would of been not so cornily offensive if it wasn't blatantly obvious about how keen he was to push this extremely radical conspiracy theory onto us throughout the whole movie, its especially hysterical when we get a scene where the director cameos and starts ranting on about ridiculously stupid theories and secret agendas. The movie also does a good job of laughably stereotyping every single role, it tries so hard to romanticize these street activists and stamp a big 'Good' or 'Evil' on every character.
Skip it, maybe find yourself a nice real documentary/
Constantine (2005)
A Rather Pleasant Surprise
I didn't know what to expect, but came out quite satisfied.
I'd heard mixed reviews, some calling it a pointless special effects movie while others called it a very finely executed comic adaption with visual splendors. I'm also not familiar at all with the comic series or whatever that its based on, so I'm not going to be influenced at all in that aspect as it seems a lot have been. I actually rather don't care if it was a good adaption or not, on its on its a very entertaining movie.
At first it seems like there's a lot of different random occurrences that don't seem to connect and just feel like their out of place and totally irrelevant and some of these scenes end up being so. But I find that them as a whole work together to sort of give you the crash course of entering into this Occult world. A little ways into the movie I was slightly put off by not really fully understanding some concepts, but by the end I felt things came together very nicely.
Don't be put off by all those people saying this movie is terrible, its not perfect but it is still a worthwhile endeavor if you are in anyway fascinated by the concept/topic or 'fantasy movies', but if you're just looking for a pure non-committal action movie you might look else where.