julian_richard2003 Reviews

Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)

Overrated

[1/10 · 3 June 2021]

Couldnt understand what the big fuss was about this movie. I just couldnt get into it, storyline was boring as much as the characters, there wasnt much supense or genuine terror, just a bunch of dead children piling up. Not really into horror movies about children being killed anyway. The best thing i liked was i thought the acftor who played the police officer Antonello Campodifiori. I thought he was very handsome especially in uniform. I prefer other Lucio Fulci movies. I may watch again at another time.

The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)

The Power of Accepting...

[4/10 · 29 May 2019]

Interesting film, mostly the second half of it. i think the movie is about accepting the truth of a situation and letting go, so you can live again and allow new things to come into your life. When the child is kidnapped, Pfeiffer goes into a kind of stagnate depression, almost like being at 'the deep end of the ocean', where everythings heavy and you cant move. She even describes the feeling as being at the edge of a snow hill and if she moves shes gonna get crushed. For years, she goes into a depression, not really communicating with the world, its only till after a friend, she takes up her passion in photography that she starts to relive again...and its during this stage that her long lost son reappears again. When it turns out the boy is hers and he comes back to live with them, after a while it turns out the boy cannot adjust into his new family and yearns to be back home with his adopted father, Pfeiffer has to yet again accept this truth and returns him home fopr another painful accepting of the circumstances. i didnt really enjoy this film, i found it not very believable nor did i think much of Michelle Pfeiffers performance, i just didnt believe she was genuinely grieving. However, I did kind of like the way articulates that feeling of stagnation, when something bad happens and the long process of accepting the situation and having the courage to let go. I like its message of that, no matter how bad something is, whether we lose someone, get ill or just lose our way in life, we have to keep on going no matter what, and its when we have the courage to do so, that new things appear in our life. However pain, loss and grief are very real things

Being Julia (2004)

Hell hath no fury, than...

[7/10 · 13 May 2019]

Excellent. Annette Bening was brilliant. You really feel her pain and desperation, in the first part of the movie, but you just love the way she gets her vengeance. Its the kind of movie where in the back of your head you're like 'go get em Julia'. And considering the situation of the main character, the movie never takes it self too seriously. Swift, easy watching, touching, funny intuitive and clever.

Serpico (1973)

Not my kind of movie!

[1/10 · 13 May 2019]

I really wanted to like this movie as I like most things Al Pacino is in, howevevr I just couldnt get into this one. The characters, the scenes and overall direction just didnt grip me enough to even care in any way. Though I can see the talent and effort that went into it, it just wasnt for me. I may retry it when I'm old, grey and have the patience to appreciate dull movies, but I'm alright for now. But on second thought, dont think im really into cop movies period. Was way too bored, so therefore didnt finish. Next....