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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Just Flawless
Many people know the back story and have commented on the issue in these reviews. The film was recorded as a two volume movie to rival GodFather 1 and GodFather 2. The studio cut two movies into one. They cut so much story out of it, that the film did not make any sense. When they released it on VHS they included some of the previous cut material and the VHS version of the movie was considered one of the greatest films of all time. Now the DVD version is out and it is even longer and better.
Finally thanks to Italian companies (I believe Gucci is one) and the family of the director coming together years later, the film has finally been released as it was originally intended. If you watch the restored version you will see a film that is realistically one of the greatest achievements in cinema. The film is just flawless.
The story is complex and you will watch the film 10 times and always catch new pieces you never noticed before.
It is just flawless
The Adonis Factor (2010)
"Like I'm hot so like why is that ugly guy like totally like totally talking to me! Uh i'm hot!"
This was just beyond bad execution. Yes it was TERRIBLE, but inasmuch as it was such a badly made movie. You can argue the content is horrible,but its not the content that ruins the film. The fact is that the subject was a very good subject made into a very bad documentary. The Filmmaker features for a few seconds a Psychotherapist of gay men who deals with body image and get 1 sentence out of him for the film. He talks to an MD plastic surgeon who just says what in general is "sexy." And the rest of the film is filled with the type of gay men who are so insecure they focus on what others thing of them, looking a certain way, and a false over-the-top confidence that comes off as arrogant baribie. The film was just god awful.
Why didn't the film look harder into the issue. The terrible interviews could have been five minutes of the interview while the rest was an exploration of real issues of how body image, appearance, etc really effect people's psyche. Also the the filmmaker could have looked at aging and how age effects persons.
This was just terrible. I don't usually give bad reviews. But god... This is just a stinker