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Monster

Monster

7,3
7
  • 19 jul 2025
  • Hard to distinguish the Monster from the rest.

    Monster (2003) -

    I must have seen something on the TV when Aileen (Charlize Theron) was being prosecuted in real life, but I didn't actually remember what had happened. As such I couldn't tell whether I was supposed to feel sorry for her or not. Certainly at the beginning the suggestion was that she was misunderstood and abused and had fallen in to bad ways because no one had ever really cared for her or shown her a better way. Later she became a bit of a caricature at times and seemed to be channeling 'Beetlejuice' (198?, some cartoon, 'The Joker' or something similar. Her performance was just a tad over the top and her wide maniacal eyes kind of made her look a bit surreal. Aileen's behaviour was harder to explain away too.

    Her journey from small time prostitute to serial killer accompanied by her runaway girlfriend Selby (Christina Ricci) was very angry and eclectic with random mood swings. She did seem to be trying to be a better person, but also seemed clueless as to how to go about it.

    Charlize definitely played the part suggesting that Aileen had some sort of mental health issue which I didn't know whether that was the actors or directors choice but if I'm honest I came away thinking that she should have been put away as insane rather than the other outcome depicted.

    I don't know what they did to Charlize' face but I did have to wonder why anyone would ever pick Aileen up for sex. I'm not saying that it was a waste to get the beautiful Ms Theron and make her ugly like so many other reviewers have, just that I don't understand why men would pay for sex with someone who looked like she needed a wash, a check up for STD/I's and would probably murder you while you were getting pleasured and picturing anyone else but her.

    The only other not that I made was that I had expected more courtroom scenes. Perhaps to start in the courtroom and show the events in flashback whilst going over the case or something like that. I felt that what I'd seen of the trailers had mostly suggested a court based story, but that's probably just me and I might have been remembering the news after all.

    Honestly though, it wasn't the worst film I've ever seen, it did appear to be well made and mostly acted out in a watchable way, but it was definitely not my sort of story. I've ticked it off a list of films to watch so that I can now have an opinion on it and I might use it to refer to in conversation or to make a comparison to at some time, but I won't be adding it to my DVD collection or tuning in again on TV any time soon. It wasn't exactly horrific in its depictions of the murders, but if crime and murder are your interest or perhaps just for curiosity then it's worth a go.

    708.11/1000.
    La máscara de la muerte roja

    La máscara de la muerte roja

    6,9
    5
  • 13 jul 2025
  • A Masquerade of Evil.

    The Masque Of The Red Death (1964) -

    I can't fully remember the book that this film was based on but I did feel that it represented it quite well from what I could recall. And I liked the inclusion of the Pendulum clock and the Raven among other nods to the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, the author of this story.

    This one was a slightly more convoluted story than the previous Roger Corman/Poe films, but it still seemed to work quite well if lacking as much peril and tension as those others.

    You could almost call it a precursor to 'Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom' (1984) with Francesca's (Jane Asher) trip to a sketchy place where she witnessed an archaic ritual going against everything that she held holy and with everything centering around the one castle.

    The story was mostly focused on Vincent Price's dealings with the occult and his cruelty to the villagers of the town that I assumed he was the ruler over as Prince Prospero. He left the townspeople to face the Red Plague and called his friends to him for protection from it, so that while they were celebrating with a masked ball the common folk were rapidly dying.

    At the time of production Prospero's views on traditional religion were probably meant to show how evil he was, but watching in 2025 they actually only showed the similarities between his form of worship and Francesca's and made me wonder whether we were supposed to have questioned any faith that we might have had.

    My only other note written whilst watching was that using a child to portray a dwarf/little person was very pervy, especially with all the men lusting after her as they did. Perhaps this was also to show how unethical those that Prospero deemed fit to reside in his castle were.

    The general production values were all very good for the time it was made, but even Vincent didn't always deliver an amazing acting performance at times. Some of the crowd direction and resulting delivery was really quite childish and over the top too.

    I personally think that it's time for Poe's works to be made again, but in the meantime these efforts by Roger will suffice as there is something about these older films that feels kind of gothic anyway, apart from the obvious fact that they were modelled that way. Not my favourite of the Corman/Poe productions but valid nonetheless.

    526.61/1000.
    Amelia

    Amelia

    5,8
    5
  • 9 jul 2025
  • It didn't follow the right flight path.

    Amelia (2009) -

    My interest in Amelia Earhart was first peaked watching an episode of 'Star Trek: Voyager' (1995-2001)* and that was probably the only reason that I tuned in to this film if I'm honest. I did of course see her represented in 'Night At The Museum 2: Battle Of The Smithsonian' (2009) as well and I have to say that both of these versions showed Amelia with hutzpah and drive without her having to be as twee as she was portrayed in this one. And I preferred to think of her like that.

    I couldn't actually connect with Hilary Swank's portrayal of the famous aviator in this effort showing how her career built to the point of her final Pacific crossing attempt. Hilary seemed a tad basic in the role, not delivering any real emotion or making me that interested in the character that she was playing. And her voice was off. It was obvious that she was putting something on which was distracting and almost cartoon-like. At times she was also really wooden.

    I'm not sure that the film showed the actual excitement that there should have been, because it came across as a basic, simple story of minor adventure and didn't really show what Amelia did actually achieve, which was no mere thing at the time. It seemed to make it trivial and a bit dull. By today's standards flying is relatively child's play, but not in 1937 for a woman and they didn't manage to get that across enough. The pioneer deserved a better biopic and actually I personally hadn't heard of her before watching that episode of 'Star Trek', so considering how much publicity she allegedly took part in and was forced in to by husband George Putnam (Richard Gere) I'm not sure that it did her much good. Maybe in the U. S. she gets better coverage, but here on the other side of the Atlantic we've had very little exposure to her achievements in our more recent media, although perhaps her flights were front page news at the time. In balance I don't really know much about the Wright Brothers or any other pilots either. In fact my history lessons were rather boring, concerning 14th century farming. Amelia's exploits would have peaked my interests a lot more.

    The first half an hour was hard to get excited about and if I'm honest it didn't ever really get that exciting even towards the very end which was always going to be a hard sell as a way to finish a film.

    I supposed that it was a tough story to deliver with the ending that I knew was coming, but I did think that in better hands it could have been made more enjoyable and interesting, because it really should have been.

    It also felt like it was made 20 years earlier than it was because it was certainly missing something that modern films have. What it did have however was the vibe of the sorts of films made around 1990, akin to 'The Rocketeer' (1991) and 'Memphis Belle' (1990). It was also a bit like a Made For TV Movie, seemingly low budget.

    The only other note that I made whilst watching was that it was hard not to see Richard Gere as his character Billy Flynn from 'Chicago' (2002) and I really didn't think that they properly utilised Ewan MacGregor as Gene Vidal or even Christopher Eccleston (I'm not his biggest fan, but actually he was fine here) playing Fred Noonan, Amelia's navigator on her last flight. Surely he should have been more integral to the story?

    Personally I like to believe that Star Trek storyline and imagine that the pair ended up in the Delta Quadrant, but I would actually like some closure on the story. I'm sure that I can't be the only one.

    467.64/1000.

    *Season 2/Episode 1 (The 37's)
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