crosma
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Writing gives you the ability to create worlds and examine your own life more effectively. Could writing be the perfect ticket to self-understanding? That may sound contrived, but it may just not be.
Leopold Bloom is a young gifted writer, but his mother believes he is the product of an affair. For this she resents him. Stephen on the other hand, is an ex-convict. He's quiet and controlled, as is Leopold. In a class, Leopold is asked to write a letter for an exercise. He writes this letter to a convict, where it is received by Stephen. They exchange letters, and become each others only friends.
The ending is cliched, but with the rest of this highly original behind it, there was no other way.
You'll be surprised by how moving this becomes towards the end after remaining quite sterile for most of its runtime.
Leopold Bloom is a young gifted writer, but his mother believes he is the product of an affair. For this she resents him. Stephen on the other hand, is an ex-convict. He's quiet and controlled, as is Leopold. In a class, Leopold is asked to write a letter for an exercise. He writes this letter to a convict, where it is received by Stephen. They exchange letters, and become each others only friends.
The ending is cliched, but with the rest of this highly original behind it, there was no other way.
You'll be surprised by how moving this becomes towards the end after remaining quite sterile for most of its runtime.
This film is so clearly bad, I can't believe anything except that Simon West and co. were trying to make a weak film.
For the first 20 minutes there're about 10 lines of dialogue, each impossibly horrible. The density of lines increases as the film progresses, but their quality does not. The actors are made to speak in ridiculously unrealistic english accents, which grates (to say the least). Jolie pronouncing "Uranus" in the modern American way with her thick fake-english accent can only be described as *confusing*. Of course, this isn't a "dialogue film", it's an action film.
The action ranges from rudimentary to pathetic. Every shot is either poorly thrown together or a set-piece shot for the trailer. In the first action scene Lara runs around firing pointlessly at a robot, each bullet bounces off, but she continues to run around firing at it like an idiot, with a stupid smirk on her face. Instead of making the audience think Lara can handle herself (obvious intention), it makes her appear like an amature adventurer with no real skill.
While this film is quite short, it allows large segments of time to be thrown away with seemingly irrelevant, slow moving scenes, where nothing happens and no-one really says anything.
In total there's only about 15 minutes of content here. There aren't many action scenes, but they're all long and boring. There aren't any real dialogue driven scenes. The plot's not particularly interesting. This could easily be editted down to 15 minutes without missing anything.
When films are "stupid" bad they can be laughed at, and thus enjoyed on a different level. This film can't, because it drags too much. "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" is an awful, pitiful, pathetic, excuse for a movie. At the present time I cannot name a worse film.
For the first 20 minutes there're about 10 lines of dialogue, each impossibly horrible. The density of lines increases as the film progresses, but their quality does not. The actors are made to speak in ridiculously unrealistic english accents, which grates (to say the least). Jolie pronouncing "Uranus" in the modern American way with her thick fake-english accent can only be described as *confusing*. Of course, this isn't a "dialogue film", it's an action film.
The action ranges from rudimentary to pathetic. Every shot is either poorly thrown together or a set-piece shot for the trailer. In the first action scene Lara runs around firing pointlessly at a robot, each bullet bounces off, but she continues to run around firing at it like an idiot, with a stupid smirk on her face. Instead of making the audience think Lara can handle herself (obvious intention), it makes her appear like an amature adventurer with no real skill.
While this film is quite short, it allows large segments of time to be thrown away with seemingly irrelevant, slow moving scenes, where nothing happens and no-one really says anything.
In total there's only about 15 minutes of content here. There aren't many action scenes, but they're all long and boring. There aren't any real dialogue driven scenes. The plot's not particularly interesting. This could easily be editted down to 15 minutes without missing anything.
When films are "stupid" bad they can be laughed at, and thus enjoyed on a different level. This film can't, because it drags too much. "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" is an awful, pitiful, pathetic, excuse for a movie. At the present time I cannot name a worse film.
The summary pretty much sums this up. Groening takes a look at his life from his childhood up to the present, mostly at the TV programs he hated as a child (because they were so nice).
The most interesting part is Groening's `Life In Hell' which is a superb comic strip, and what helped him breakthrough to The Simpsons. The program leads up to just after Futurama started and Matt claiming he wants to do a TV series about Rock N' Roll.
An intriguing watch for fans of The Simpsons.
The most interesting part is Groening's `Life In Hell' which is a superb comic strip, and what helped him breakthrough to The Simpsons. The program leads up to just after Futurama started and Matt claiming he wants to do a TV series about Rock N' Roll.
An intriguing watch for fans of The Simpsons.