lndc98
Joined May 2001
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This film is timely, given all the media coverage of hidden CIA "jails" in other countries, etc, but it was actually not too good.
The best part was the great Matt Damon performance --- similar to, but not as fine as, his performance in "The Incredible Mr. Ripley". In both films, he plays a man who hides 99 - 100% of who he really is. Very nice.
Also well-portrayed was the clubby male world as nasty and competitive. Talk about the joys of putting other people down! Talk about being powerful and privileged, overfed and in love with yourself.
BUT Angelina Jolie as the ultra-WASP? Puh-leez. She is just too different looking. As a woman who jumps the Matt Damon character and gets pregnant, and then wonders why her life is so unhappy? Puh-leez.
This parody of Yale? Puh-leez. A completely false note. We don't need any more scorn cast on good schools and the world of intellect in this day and age. It is not Yalies that the USA needs to fear.
The best part was the great Matt Damon performance --- similar to, but not as fine as, his performance in "The Incredible Mr. Ripley". In both films, he plays a man who hides 99 - 100% of who he really is. Very nice.
Also well-portrayed was the clubby male world as nasty and competitive. Talk about the joys of putting other people down! Talk about being powerful and privileged, overfed and in love with yourself.
BUT Angelina Jolie as the ultra-WASP? Puh-leez. She is just too different looking. As a woman who jumps the Matt Damon character and gets pregnant, and then wonders why her life is so unhappy? Puh-leez.
This parody of Yale? Puh-leez. A completely false note. We don't need any more scorn cast on good schools and the world of intellect in this day and age. It is not Yalies that the USA needs to fear.
I liked this movie because of the humanity of the main two characters --- Joseph and Mary. One has to imagine what they might have been like, and this film does a nice version of it. One sees Joseph's difficulties and anguish and his love for Mary. One sees her courage and the growth of her love for Joseph. One sees the two of them unite in their love for each other and in the task/blessing they've been given. The Herod is an extremely well-done evil guy. The Magi are good as a trio --- whether funny, affectionate with each other, or serious and transformed. I was not bothered by their appearance along with the shepherds at the same time because one of the message's is "for the high and the low".
What if you opened a time capsule and everything in it was just boring? For me, this Narnia story had a very dated atmosphere and affect. I have a sense that C.S. Lewis really strained to create the story because it is full of clichés (for example, children becoming kings and talking beavers), but ultimately conveys no emotion or awe and even contains no humor. In this sense, it is quite different from "The Lord of the Rings" which, in all its extravagance, arises out of a story tradition invested with emotionally realistic concerns and content. The Narnia film is really a children's' film. Probably, children will absolutely love it, and I think that some adults will love it because their children do. I give it a "3" because of the visuals.