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Friday, April 04, 2003
To hell with Chicago. I mean, don't get me wrong, I thought it was a pretty good movie...but..
Last night we saw Michael Moore's new Oscar-winning documentary, Bowling for Columbine. Holy Toledo. That was hands-down the best movie of the year. And beyond. Taken relative to Bowling for Columbine, Chicago seems like some sort of made-for-TV USA movie. I don't care if it isn't eligible, it should have won Best Picture, Achievment in Art Direction, Achievement in Cinematography, Directing, and certainly for Editing. A movie should make you feel something, and good art should make you question - both are soundly accomplished by this movie - to a degree that far surpasses any other movies this year, and any other movies I've seen in a long, long while. And it was all accomplished with no special effects, no glitz, no ritz, no movie stars (well, there was one, but I won't wreck the surprise by telling you who it was), no sex, no 120 db music shaking your innards - just a fat, middle-aged white guy with a camera. The place where we saw it was so packed that we ended up sitting on concrete stairs the entire 2 hours of the film. I never noticed. It was so utterly engaging. I (and the rest of the audience) was laughing deep belly laughs one minute, and near-crying (or actually crying) the next. It is absolutely amazing that Michael Moore could cover such a breadth of topic in such intimate detail, and do it in such an artistic way that he told such a tight story with that much power.
Highest recommendations...You have to see it..Easily the best documentary since "Nanook of the North," and the best movie, period, in a damned long time.
Hmm. I suck at writing reviews..My friend Bennet is much better at it..
-m
Last night we saw Michael Moore's new Oscar-winning documentary, Bowling for Columbine. Holy Toledo. That was hands-down the best movie of the year. And beyond. Taken relative to Bowling for Columbine, Chicago seems like some sort of made-for-TV USA movie. I don't care if it isn't eligible, it should have won Best Picture, Achievment in Art Direction, Achievement in Cinematography, Directing, and certainly for Editing. A movie should make you feel something, and good art should make you question - both are soundly accomplished by this movie - to a degree that far surpasses any other movies this year, and any other movies I've seen in a long, long while. And it was all accomplished with no special effects, no glitz, no ritz, no movie stars (well, there was one, but I won't wreck the surprise by telling you who it was), no sex, no 120 db music shaking your innards - just a fat, middle-aged white guy with a camera. The place where we saw it was so packed that we ended up sitting on concrete stairs the entire 2 hours of the film. I never noticed. It was so utterly engaging. I (and the rest of the audience) was laughing deep belly laughs one minute, and near-crying (or actually crying) the next. It is absolutely amazing that Michael Moore could cover such a breadth of topic in such intimate detail, and do it in such an artistic way that he told such a tight story with that much power.
Highest recommendations...You have to see it..Easily the best documentary since "Nanook of the North," and the best movie, period, in a damned long time.
Hmm. I suck at writing reviews..My friend Bennet is much better at it..
-m
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