elwartowski Reviews

Jones Plantation (2023)

Deep message while fun and captivating

[10/10 · 19 August 2023]

While it does not have the $500 million budget of a Marvel movie, it's message is much more important and told in a well articulated out way. The villain of the story is larger than life and plays his role very well.

There were some awkward silence moments that kinda took me out of the story a few times but I was watching with a critical eye as I wanted the movie to be flawless so as not to misrepresent the original story. It may add to the era piece of it though so who knows.

Some might say this should be required viewing in public schools but that would completely miss the whole point of the film.

Tusk (I) (2014)

First ever review: "Artists" trying to out "artist" each other

[1/10 · 7 January 2015]

By the time I reached the end I felt like I was a third person in a room with some actors and Hollywood people trying to impress each other with how artistic they could be. Johnny Depp makes sure to remind the viewers that he likes to be strange, the conversation between Depp's character and Parks seems like they are ad libbing and trying to one up each other with each line to see who could say the strangest thing.

The movie is basically a joke on the viewer. One of those, you had to be there, types of things that was probably funny for a few minutes. I see that the whole movie took only 15 days. I am not surprised because I think if they had taken any longer they would have realized that maybe it wasn't such a good idea.

I'm sure people who like the movie probably like it more because of reviews like this and how I just don't "get it". I get it, you took a funny ad, made fun of it, had some viewers say that it would be funny if it was a movie, then had fun making a horrible movie. Doesn't make it any more entertaining for someone watching.

Usually I can tell when a movie is about artists trying to prove how artistic they can be when the main character is a writer. The main character as a DJ threw me off.