Tonight was a movie night, because the rest of my family wanted to go see Harry Potter. Seeing as The Debt wasn’t in the theater (which in itself was confusing), I watched the movie again with the same result. Completely average. Mediocrity at its finest. There is nothing special about Deathly Hallows Part II other than the mind-boggling special effects… but as I’ve said countless times, if you want special effects then go see Transformers. And if you want to argue with me, you better have read the books first or you’re no better than the slobs that rushed out to see Shark Night 3D (though, to be fair, it did get marginally better reviews than Apollo 18).
Now that that rampage is done, remarkably shorter the second time around, I have some free space. So… let’s make this a movie post altogether with one of the several I watched in August. We’ll go with the first one, and easily one of the best movies I’ve ever seen (warning though, it’s almost sixteen years old), Se7en.
I’d never been a huge Brad Pitt fan before I saw Ocean’s Eleven, and even after that I was never truly on board until I saw this movie. His performance was one of the best I’ve seen in a while, so it’s really significant that both Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow were even better. And Kevin Spacey… let’s just say that this movie has some of the best acting I’ve ever seen. It’s also one of the most suspenseful, with an ending that has a massive buildup and an aftertaste that will last long after Freeman’s final bleak quote. Aesthetically, almost everything about Se7en is perfectly done, from the lighting to the pacing to the incredible attention to even the smallest detail. It makes the nameless city where it always rains feel like a real place, and definitely not somewhere you want to go. I’ve seen a couple of David Fincher’s movies (Zodiac and The Social Network), and neither of them compared to this.
SONG OF THE DAY: NO ROADS LEFT
More Linkin Park. I warned you didn’t I? So see you again tomorrow, where hopefully I’ll have something more interesting than that to share.
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