I'm pretty tired from fighting off a cold for the past week so here are a pair of my favourite movies of all time.
Fight Club (1999) - Edward Norton has never been better as a contemporary everyman suffering from insomnia brought about by modern malaise and the absence of emotional release. Norton finds salvation in increasingly ambitious levels of violence with soap salesman, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). The take home message for me was to find a good, all-consuming hobby. Still, blowing up some corporate art and a Starbucks sounded fun, too. One of my favourite lines in cinema is uttered by Helena Bonham Carter with Pitt postcoital, "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school." It was a line reluctantly chosen by Fox studio heads over the alternative, "I want to have your abortion."
Out of Sight (1998) - Directed by Steven Soderbergh near the end of the ten year drought that followed his breakout movie, Sex, Lies and Videotape, Out of Sight was overshadowed by the success of Erin Brockovich two years later. The fact that Jennifer Lopez stars in the movie has also been a deterrent for many potential viewers, but it is an unwarranted fear. Jennifer Lopez is actually likable and believable as a US Marshall with an undeniable attraction to Jack Foley, a career bank robber played by George Clooney. The chemistry between Lopez and Clooney is amazing and makes every risk the characters take to spend some time together understandable.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment