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Far from Heaven (2002)
Amazing Filmmaking!
7?? This film is a 10! Please! This film is on-the-real. It kind of reminds me of 'Pleasantville', but in a different way.
If you need car crashes, monsters, transformers, violence, then forget about this film. You won't be entertained. This is a psychological, cultural and behavioral entertainment fest. This is an adult's film. Not a cartoon pretending to be a film, like most of them seem to be these days. I just watched it for the 2nd time and can't believe how good it is.
The film couldn't have been cast any better. Julianne Moore is amazing as a repressed, sheltered wife of a closeted bisexual husband, who feels the need to hold on to her perfect socialite reputation. This film removes all doubt of Julianne's talent.
Weathered and stressed handsome Dennis Quaid, a successful salesman, locked into a trite family lifestyle he's obviously grown tired of and which every white male was seemingly expected to live in the 1950s, gives an amazing performance also, by upsetting expectations and mores and giving into desires men supposedly aren't supposed to have. Things spiral out of control as Dennis decides to be who he really is.
Enjoy the ride :)'
Open Water 3: Cage Dive (2017)
Like watching someone's cheap home movie
I felt like I was watching some cheap home movie, with all the supposed selfie video footage from conceited jerks showing off for the camera . The film seems like it has almost no plot, terrible footage. The sharks didn't do what they wanted them to do, so let's cut to the gaping wound that talented makeup artist made. :/
I don't understand the way it was shot or what feel they wanted the viewer to have. Did they want people to think it was real or a documentary? That notion was not clear either.
It would have been better if we're an x rated film. The bodies are beautiful and so is some of the scenery, but that's about it.
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
Too trite, ridiculous and formulated
Movies aren't made for adults any more.
--What is with those giant locusts? They got far too much attention. And apparently giant locusts can survive fireballs, being burned.
--There's a chase and kidnap scene shot in Malta that is reminiscent of James Bond. It seemed very disconnected, felt like a cheap knock-off and just felt strange. I guess that's why I'm not a movie person. I don't understand them. I saw this movie at the insistence of a friend who treated me at the theatre.
--Laura Dern, with her bland, non-descript acting as usual. (Ya know, kind of like Kirsten Dunst) Their acting is just there, not really interesting. But that's what the producer wanted. I almost didn't recognize her or Sam Neil because they've aged so much.
--Stop In The Name of Ridiculous! If Chris doesn't put that damn hand down. Please! He isn't Diana Ross and the Supremes. How in the world is an upstanding hand supposed to stop dinosaurs he doesn't know from "Adam Ant", hasn't raised or done anything with, like those 2 in the forest behind the house?
--There's a scene where 2 of the actors jump in an ice cold lake and move around like it's nothing. Is this possible? Usually water that cold will immobilize you and throw you into shock.
--After surviving a parachute jump and ejection from a plane and getting caught on trees in a forest, Claire escapes a Tyrannasaurus Rex looking dinosaur by slowly walking into a swamp until her head is barely covered with water. Wow, really? 😂That type of dinosaur would not be that timid. I'm sorry. Even if he didn't see her, he probably would have picked up her scent trails and sensed she was in the water since
she was all sweaty and funky from that flight and shock
--Oh, and we're supposed to believe that Chris, while riding a horse is able to rope and lasso a huge dinosaur like a pig or bull, even though a dinosaur would weigh freaking astronomical tons more weight than him riding a horse, and could throw him around like a rabbit
--The trite, disappointing ending with the two dinosaurs fighting. Come on, how many Jurassic Park movies have they ended like that? Too many.
You'd probably think this movie was really good if you were drunk, or at a party. But I sure wouldn't spend my $25 on the admission price at the theatre to see this. I just don't "get" it.