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Maps to the Stars (2014)
What trash...
I watched this absolutely horrible movie called "Maps to the Stars" because some of the cast members were actors I enjoy seeing perform. Sadly, they were ALL wasted in this send-it-to-the-round file film about a totally dysfunctional family in Hollywood. The dad is a self-help charlatan on TV, the wife is a mental-wreck of a woman, the son is a teen-sensation brat who is haunted by visions of a dead fan he met briefly in a hospital, and the daughter has just been released from a mental institution for setting her home one fire. Added to the mix is a washed up actress who uses the dad's services as a "psychiatrist". All of the characters are ghastly people, and the language is over-the-top vulgar... when by the end of the film the majority of them end up on the wrong end of the stick, you really don't care. I suppose it might have been "amusing" to people in the TV and movie industries, but to the rest of us they're all a bunch of unsympathetic users and losers who don't deserve the fame and fortune they squander on a daily basis. What trash. Hideous. F-
Margin Call (2011)
This Is Better Than I Thought It Would Be
With stars like Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Simon Baker, and the wonderful Jeremy Irons how can this movie be bad? It's an incredibly quiet movie (I don't think anyone even raises their voices in it), but moves with a lot of speed and keeps your attention. You know what's happening -- we all lived through this crisis -- but to see it from this particular perspective is VERY interesting. This was Zachary Quinto's production company's film, and he was one of the stars in it, but Jeremy Irons as the head of the corporation stole the whole movie. He's so great at being heartless and evil -- while he maintains a smile on his face, and keeps his courtly British mannerism intact. No other actor can do that quite as well as he can...
La véritable histoire du Chat Botté (2009)
What a Boring Rip-Off
This film is dreadful. I had rented a copy of the movie "The True story of Puss 'n Boots" because I thought it was by the same people who did the Shrek movies; the Puss on the DVD cover looked just like the one in Shrek. Instead, it was a horrible, badly animated regurgitation of the fairytale that looks like it was done in Belgium and is over-dubbed in English. It supposedly contains voice-overs by William Shatner, but you can find him among the other noise in the dialog. And many of the characters are just plain ugly: the drunken queen, the obese king, and the Fright-Night-Evil-Clown of a chamberlain may play overseas, but here in the US they're just awful in what is supposed to be a film for children. It was such an ugly, boring mess I turned it off after about 10 minutes. The Shrek people should sue these folk for false advertising, and anyone who rents this should be aware that it's NOT what it pretends to be.