Every time we sit down to watch a movie we voluntarily walk the line between reality and fantasy. The best films bring us into their world, allowing us to leave behind our reality and enter the characters lives for a while. Then we have movies like A ...
Pros: Phenomenal acting, perfectly directed, and daffy to the extreme Cons: Kaufman knows his own flaws, but that doesn't make them any less flawed.
[There is, of course, a wonderfully conceptual review to be written by somebody with the time, creativity, and will in which the reviewer writes himself and his mysterious, but successful twin brother into their review. In this case, Dan Fienberg feels...
Obscure by design and endlessly inventive, in a Soderbergh and Coen kind of way, Spike Jonze’s Adaptation is bottomless self-deprecating Charlie Kaufman acumen in pretentiously poetic form, relieving its wild frustrations with writers...
Pros: Cage, Cage, Streep and Cooper. Nice atmosphere. Weird camera work. Booya. Cons: ...But a little fantastic, fleeting, and out of reach.
It is not uncommon in the music industry to come across a song that is simply about music. "Music" by Madonna, "Old Time Rock N Roll" by Bob Seger, "Listen To The Music" by the Doobie Bros. Fabled as they may be, I'm not crazy ...
Pros: extremely original Cons: messes with your mind...
We writers are a strange breed. But hopefully most of us aren't quite as strange as Charlie Kaufman, the lauded screenwriter responsible for several mind-bending movies, among them Adaptation., in which he is also the main character, played by ...
Pros: Clever script with multiple layers of meaning; memorable characters and performances; direction Cons: Last act indefatigably tiresome
Adaptation. (note the period in the title) re-teams writer Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze of Being John Malkovich fame. As I see it, they do better this time out, but Adaptation. suffers the same sort of weakn ...
Pros: The excesses of the narrative, the performance, the direction, etc. Cons: A lackluster middle-third, not for the Teeming Millions
"Adaptation" is not for you. Okay, maybe it is for you, but that all depends on who "you" are. Are you one of the Teeming Millions who sat blankly through "Being John Malkovich", only coming to life when Malk gets hit on the head with a beer can? If...
Pros: strange and quirky. thought provoking. Cons: the pacing is uneven and there are points where story is predictable
I went to see Adaptation with my parents. What I did not realize before we went was that they hated Being John Malkovich. I loved it. It was the association with the makers of Being John Malkovich that made me want to see...
Pros: Chris Cooper, Meryl Streep, Brian Cox. Cons: Nicolas Cage. Huge third act problems.
The last few weeks have been a series of disasters so I hope all my fans out there in the dark will forgive me for not checking in with them sooner. I know how much all of you hang on to every word of my fabulous Hollywood life style and how much you...
Pros: Fact and fiction are blended here so it's really hard to decide which is which. Cons: Fact and fiction are so blended here it's really hard to decide which is which.
I was frankly surprised when it became apparent that Charlie and his brother, the late Donald Kaufman, might receive Oscar Nominations for their screenplay of Susan Orlich's The Orchid Thief. The book is a piece of reportage about a true-life ...
Pros: The journeys of sex, death and creative inspiration... Cons: that may not be for everyone.
This is going to sound as weird as Adaptation itself, but I want to seriously note that I have seen parts of this movie in my dreams. And no, I'm not making reference to the masturbatory fantasies of our central character Charlie Kaufman, rather I...
Pros: Performances by Cage, Cage, Streep, Cooper; direction by Jonze; screenplay by Kaufman & Kaufman Cons: None whatsoever
Four years ago, I was absolutely struck by a film called "One True Thing", which starred the magnificent Meryl Streep and Renee Zellweger, about an adult woman who is forced to move back into her childhood home to care for her cancer-stricken mother....
Pros: Cage's performance, brilliant script Cons: Might not be for everyone
I've never been a big fan of Nicolas Cage. I don't mean that I don't think he's a good actor, because I think that he's an incredible actor. I just think that most of the stuff that I've seen him in doesn't really stretch any sort of talent muscle. ...
A studio executive runs out of options and settles for a sexually frustrated screenwriter to adapt a best selling novel. The screenwriter has trouble ...More at HotMovieSale.com
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