Ponderous Personal Projects – Page 81 – Resolutions, reviews, rants, raves.

Inherent Vice [2014]

Inherent Vice

Paul Thomas Anderson

5/6

Paul Thomas Anderson doesn’t always hit the mark, but he did this time around.

Oh dear… Such crappy narrative. Every time there’s an edit, you wonder if these people are the ones from the last scene or someone completely new. It’s like they never even went to film school. But I will award an extra point for erect nipples.

R100 [2013]

R100

Hitoshi Matsumoto

5/5

Top-shelf Japanese crazyness.

The band of Olsens: Olsenbandens siste bedrifter [1975]

Olsenbandens siste bedrifter

Knut Andersen

6/14

Art School Confidential [2006]

Art School Confidential

Terry Zwigoff

4/5

Another good one by Zwigoff. He should make more movies.

Time Lapse [2014]

Time Lapse

Bradley D. King

2/5

The problem with these time-scifis is that you really have to pay attention to keep up with what’s going down. And most of them simply aren’t good enough to keep you focused.

The Divergent Series: Insurgent [2015]

The Divergent Series: Insurgent

Robert Schwentke

1/2

Mad Max: Fury Road [2015]

Mad Max: Fury Road

George Miller

3/6

I went into this film with the most positive of prejudice, seeing as everyone, including people whose opinions I do give a fuck about allegedly thought Mad Max Fury Road was excellent.

Well, okay, I won’t say they were wrong. But I won’t say they were right either!

Nobody would build that!

Beyond the Black Rainbow [2010]

Beyond the Black Rainbow

Panos Cosmatos

5/6

Another great canadian film. Deliciously claustrophobic, in that Carpentery way. Is this the golden age of canuck cinema?

88 Minutes [2007]

88 Minutes

Jon Avnet

2/5

Completely unremarkable traditional totally OK hollywood-thriller.