solidsnake2510 Reviews

Feeling Minnesota (1996)

Tarantino-esque?

[8/10 · 20 September 2003]

Watching this movie on running trait in all the characters stood out, their quirkiness. The strange slightly surreal and offbeat tone of the film was quite reminiscent of Tarantino's work. I loved this film, and thought the little laughs hidden in the film made me like it. I watched this with a couple of friends, they too liked it, but we each noticed and laughed at different things.

I also loved the constant twists and turns and changes to the dynamic of the story. It starts out as Freddy paying back a debt but changes into an affair on the road, then finding some stashed money, hiding from the cops, then hiding a murder and so on. Oddly despite all of these twists and turns I never got lost but was glued to my screen figuring out who's with who and who's looking out for who.

The fights between the two brothers, Sam (Vince D'Onofrio) and Jjax(Keanu Reeves) are some of the funniest things i have ever seen on screen. Reeves put in a good performance as a bumbling crook and D'Onofrio carries himself well as his childish brother. The ever angelic Diaz puts in a good show too. Lindo and Akroyd raised a few smiles too.

Don't pay any attention to the bad reviews here. They were just people looking for a ho-hum romantic comedy when instead they got a witty dark comedy.(My kind of film) 3.75/5

Band of Brothers (2001)

Excellent series, SPOILERS

[10/10 · 29 April 2003]

The best part of Saving private Ryan was the D-Day landing scenes. they were so emotionally powerful, after seeing the young kid holding his major organs and screaming for his mother,a soldier casually pick up his right arm, a flamethrower burst and engulf three soldiers I felt a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye.

Band of Brothers takes these scenes and stretches them over a mini-series, but without feeling repetetive. The series is thankfully devoid of OTT Speilberg sentimentality.The scenes in Bastogne (where the company are really hit hard) really bring home the horror of war (I know it's a cliche but anyway). having the veterans speak also enhances this feeling.All in all a brilliant series.

10/10