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JACK: Hey Sean, those pants are sweet.
SEAN: Yeah, thank you! (flails leg around like MC Hammer on crystal meth)
BILLY: Did you get those here in Nashville?
SEAN: No, actually I got them back in New Zealand ten years ago, hence the knit patch in the knee!
Reviews
Vermilion (2007)
Six in one hand Half dozen in the other...
Aaron Sims directorial debut is a CGI driven story of an artist gone mad in his work. Gabe (Brian Kirkwood) portrays a less-than-believable self supported artist who lives with his estranged wife/girlfriend Liz. (Pauli Pettit) Throughout the piece Gabe fluctuates between moments of intensity and madness while Liz watches (mostly from a distance) at her man's slow painful descent into madness. While Pettits' performance was certainly wide-ranged and on target throughout the piece, one could not help but notice Kirkwoods' tendency to break away from the films pentameter, which left us asking who the actual lead of the film was. All in all the performance of Pettit out-shined that of Kirkwood though choppy cuts in dialogue left me hanging at some scene breaks. The CGI work was splendid throughout the piece and for Sims first directorial was a quality piece throughout. I look forward to seeing more of his work as well as more work featuring Pettit, who shows serious promise in years to come.
I give this movie a 5 out of 10 and would recommend it for an interesting concept piece if you want to see some nice CGI work and a predictable yet entertaining ending.
Cheers,
Jack
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Twice in my life....
On only two occasions have i purchased a film, watched it, and taken the actions i took just twenty minutes ago after watching THE TALENTED MISTER RIPLEY. I am an up and coming film maker and though i do not acredit myself as anything but a fan of art in film and a beleiver in the ideals of good cinema, I can say with conviction matched by even the most hardcore of Martyrs that this is positively one of the worst pieces of cinema i have ever had the terrible misfortune of viewing.
I look now at my left hand which has a bloody abrasion on it just above my wrist and ask myself how i could have done such a thing. No i am not talking about how i just removed the above mentioned film from my VCR and smashed it to bits over my knee Bruce Lee style, which is what i had to do after seeing this supposed "masterpiece". I am asking myself with a heavy heart how i had made the grave mistake of trotting over to my favorite wal-mart discount bin and pulling this cinematic still birth out and placing it in my cart. Maybe it was the 3.88 cent price that kept my attention as i rummaged through the assorted bin of b rate horror flicks, old bonanza episodic dvds, and copies of Captain Ron, I cant recall exactly why now. I would imagine that it had something to do with my dreams of making it to hollywood, or perhaps the fact that matt dameon doesnt traditionally lap on the testicles of an emotionally void screenplaywright. Either way i made a mistake.
I am sorry to all i have wronged in this life and the next for what i have done. If i had known that day in Wal Mart what the end of this terrible chapter of my life would have read, i would probably have went home and spent the night praying. In any event, "the talented Mis-" is on one side of this annhiliated VHS cassette tape, and "ter Ripley" is on the other, this means i will sleep easier tonight knowing that no one else can view at least ONE copy of what will forever be in my mind as one of the three worst films of all time. It ranks number two just below Independance Day and just a leg up on George of the Jungle with Brenden Frasier, a true hollywood windbag haning in the winds of a supersonic Disney Flattulation.
Do us all a favor and buy as many copies of this film as you can find. Let me know how many you purchase and send me photographic proof that these copies have been destroyed and i will send you a us dollar for every copy destroyed. This is my pledge to start the ball rolling on getting this thing out of the American Cinematic Eye. Thank You.
Jack P Chevanty
CEO Jack Chevanty Productions
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