|  | | | Customer Reviews: | | | Average Customer Review:
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
 Blu ray at it's finest! Mar 02, 2010
If you're looking for a movie to show off your blu ray player to others (or yourself) this is the one! The cinematography alone is worth the purchase. Visually stunning and simply put, it's candy for the eyes. The story may be too simple for some and bit much in the way of fantasy for others, but I really enjoyed it. Overall, it's a movie you'll find yourself watching again and again because of it's innocence and beauty.
I happened to stumble upon this movie a month ago, renting it from netflix on blu ray....I was blown away. I literally smiled with enjoyment through the majority of the film, feeling as though I was watching something very different and special, in the way of movies. I don't know how I missed hearing anything about this movie, it has flown under the radar for over 3 years.
If you haven't seen this movie yet, get your popcorn ready and be prepared to be totally satisfied with this visual treat.
Like the most memorable meal you've ever had. Mar 01, 2010
I'm alway on the run, always busy. In truth, it's difficult for me to last an entire movie when I have "down time." This movie is so beautiful, its color so saturates the screen and its acting and costuming is so breathtaking, I couldn't stop watching. I did,however, pause it now and again to savor the experience and to read up on it online. I'm 50+ years old; the child actress in this film is by far the best I've ever witnessed. The film is rich, satisfying, exhausting, emotional. For this film alone, you must buy a Blu-ray player if you can.
0 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Great Movie To Organize Files By Feb 12, 2010
Our parents read to us; my 5th grade teacher read us greek mythology, including the Iliad (or was it the Odyssey?); I still read, quite a bit. And I still think this movie would have made a lot of great music videos, or some stunning commercials, but it's a visually compelling yet pathetic movie, and the story telling part is largely what's wrong with it. A good parallel would be Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen", which was filmed almost entirely on a backlot but whose characters easily carry the movie into the realm of fantasy, and exotic places sometimes fairly cheaply rendered. This film blows you away with its scenery, yet its characters, aside from Mr. Pace, are mere caricature and cliche. For almost all of the movie almost none of them utter a complete sentence, but simply stand there as exotic elements in brilliantly colored costumes, contrasted against the scenery around them. Darwin, dressed something like a bird and talking to a monkey, does get a few lines as does one of the actresses, otherwise the fantasy sequences are mostly posing with voice over. And, sadly, given all the bare male chests that are quite a nice touch, none of the actors are very convincing as action figures, as when they run down the steps of an ancient tower they are obviously concerned about falling, something you don't see in Errol Flynn, or Johnny Depp as they sparred about in their swashbucklers.
Mr. Pace is an injured stuntman in 1920's Hollywood, and he's lost his girlfriend. So, as he convalesces in a victorian hospital that is our only scene set in Los Angeles (which of course, isn't L.A. at all, but isn't that a wicked turn of events?) he begins to tell these stories to a little girl who is recovering from having her broken arm set in plaster, and in the process he gets her to bring him morphine from the dispensary. As a character, the girl is meant to be "absolutely darling" and with her puffy cheeks and missing front teeth, she is. As an actress, her skills--combined with her age appropriate childishness, and her accent, make the very early Shirley Temple seem utterly brilliant even intellectual. Oh, and talented. This little girl has a nifty skill of waving off the lines she's fluffed or forgotten, as if we understand them anyway, and we pretty much do, given that she never really says anything terribly important, she certainly does not carry her weight in the film anywhere near the way the little girl in "Baron Von Munchausen" served to keep the Baron, and the plot, moving forward.
The problem with the stories, here, is that they never really seem to go anywhere, the more morphine he gets, the less able he is to continue the story line, and since he's a character both within and without, the actual stories don't really advance as much as they sort of progress in a series of incredibly colorful vignettes set either in the desert or in fantastic palaces and temples of the Indian variety. Baron Von Munchausen sort of wandered through his movie, but all along you were still progressing and had the confidence you would even arrive somewhere, even if, at the end, it wasn't, really... this film doesn't inspire that confidence, and when you finally get to the end, you realize that the film wanted to be, and was advertised as something far greater than it really was.
Still, as much as I want to trash this film for wasting such a great opportunity, it is, again, so utterly beguiling to look at that, that if you can figure a way to have it on without having to actually pay much attention to it as a movie, you really ought to try it out.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Captivating Art and Story Feb 10, 2010
This is a wonderful movie which I feel must not have received nearly enough publicity when it came out, as I didn't hear about it until two years later. It has stunning visuals, which alone makes the movie worth it for anyone who enjoys good photography or art. It also has an intriguing surrealist story which is fun to try and piece together. The emotions conveyed by the movie are very strong, and it is an experience to watch.
A caution, though: this movie is best when watched in the right mood. It is not extremely fast paced, and requires a measure of patience and willingness to sit back and enjoy the spectacle.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
A true masterpiece! Feb 07, 2010
I ran across this movie accidentally one day, am I'm so glad I did. It is one of the best little known movies I've ever seen. The cinematography is epic, the directing is brilliant, and the story is wonderful. This is definitely on my list of all time favorites. A truly a visionary work of art.
Thank you Tarsem!
|
| |
|
![The Fall (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5111UlUhq0L._SL160_.jpg "The Fall (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]")
![The Hurt Locker [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XT9SJVA0L._SL75_.jpg "The Hurt Locker [Blu-ray]")
![Die Hard Collection (Die Hard/ Die Hard 2: Die Harder/ Die Hard with a Vengeance/ Live Free or Die Hard) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mQj%2B9mR2L._SL75_.jpg "Die Hard Collection (Die Hard/ Die Hard 2: Die Harder/ Die Hard with a Vengeance/ Live Free or Die Hard) [Blu-ray]")
![Gattaca [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VfE5rU9OL._SL75_.jpg "Gattaca [Blu-ray]")
![Dogma [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jodUuWwRL._SL75_.jpg "Dogma [Blu-ray]")
![Run Lola Run [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gTXpHYF7L._SL75_.jpg "Run Lola Run [Blu-ray]")
