my best fiend is a werner herzog documentary about his friendship with the late great klaus kinski. as a teenager, klaus shared an apartment with werner and in a matter of 2 days he tore up every piece of furniture. he was a self taught actor and a fucking mad man. i loved every minute of this film. klaus was an extraordinary human being. crazy how the two of them only made 5 films together. i highly recommend everyone to check out this documentary.
cape fear is about a convicted rapist, max cady (played by robert de niro) who is released from prison from a 14 year sentence. he stalks a lawyer (nick nolte) and his family who defended him in court. everything about this movie is fucking brilliant. the acting, the storyline, the music, the cinematography (if you're into that shit like me) is so good. i normally don't get scared by music but i jumped so many times in the intense scenes. one of the scenes that is so fucked up is when max hits on the lawyer's 15 year old daughter. if you love thrillers, like psychological thrills, you will definitely love this movie.
ghost world is based off a comic book by daniel crownes. the story is about two outsider girls, enid and rebecca, who just graduated from high school. one day, they find a personal ad from a guy named seymour, who is trying to find a woman he met recently. pretending to be the woman he met, enid calls up his number and has the idea to meet up with him. she finds out that he's incredibly lonely and a bit of a dork. the rest of the film shows enid developing a friendship with seymour. overall it was a great movie. the characters are easy to fall in love with. it reminded me of american beauty.
harmony korine is one of my all time favorite directors but this movie was trash. it was a lot of humping of inanimate objects objects and weird moaning. i mean i guess it's a great film to watch if i was stoned but at the moment i'm completely sober and i felt like i just lost 78 minutes out of my life. there were some parts that were very entertaining and funny but most of the time it was very repetitive and exhausting. i'm not a huge fan of films that try to be artistic and shit but this was too much for me. i'd rather watch gummo or julien donkey-boy.
so today i watched raging bull on hbo on demand. i thought this was going to be an EPIC boxing film but i wasn't that satisfied. robert de niro is fucking cool though without a doubt but i'd rather watch sly kicking apollo creed's ass in rocky 2. no disrepect towards martin scorsese.
greetings has no plot. none at all. it just shows 3 guys. one is shown investigating the kennedy assassination. another one is trying to get laid and the third one is a peep artist. basically he's like marty's dad from back to the future, a peeping tom. it was a really weird film. very arty. something andy warhol would make. it was one of the first films robert de niro was in. i wouldn't recommend anyone to watch this film if they're not into random as fuck plots. also the soundtrack was fucking awful. god you would think they would pick better 60s music since this was made in 1968.
