Saturday, December 28, 2013
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Pacific Rim * * * *
Saturday, December 7, 2013
The.Blue.Bird.1940
After this film, Shirley Temple began to lose some of her appeal as a child actress and gradually made the transition to teenage and young adult roles. Within a decade she decided to give up acting altogether.
http://youtu.be/6lxIDQUDYWk
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Pan's Labyrinth * * *
In post–Civil War Spain in 1944 (after Francisco Franco has come into power) Ofelia, a young girl who loves fairy tales, travels with her pregnant mother Carmen to meet the harsh Captain Vidal, her new stepfather.
Ofelia discovers a large insect resembling a stick insect which she believes to be a fairy. That night, the insect appears in Ofelia's bedroom, where it changes into a fairy and leads her through the labyrinth. There, she meets the faun, who believes her to be the reincarnation of Princess Moanna and gives her three tasks to complete before the full moon to prove that she is the princess.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
thor-best-marvel-movie
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1717002/thor-best-marvel-movie.jhtml
Friday, November 1, 2013
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Friday, October 11, 2013
John Carter * * *
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
A Sound of Thunder * * *
Friday, September 20, 2013
Chaplin * * * 1/2
Chaplin used the last 6 minutes of The Great Dictator to express his political views, calling for peace just before the United States got involved in World War II. Although the ending is now considered great, it wasn't well received at the time. Chaplin was being increasingly political and many people viewed him as extreme left wing. By the early 1950’s the Red Scare was causing some people in the government to think that Chaplin was a communist. Chaplin had further problems in the 1940’s because he was involved in sex scandals, which angered many Americans. Chaplin had never become an American citizen, and when he took a vacation to Europe in 1952, he was told that that he would not be readmitted to the United States. Chaplin could have fought this easily, but instead made a statement that he no longer wanted to live in such a hateful country. He moved to Switzerland where he lived for the rest of his life.
Chaplin continued to make movies. Charlton Heston worked with him in the 1960’s, and described Chaplin as unpleasant to work with.
In 1972 the aging and ailing Chaplin was invited back to the United States to receive a special Oscar at the Academy Awards. In 1975 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. He died in 1977 at the age of 89.
The 1991 movie called simply “Chaplin” received mixed reviews because many critics felt that it focused too much on Chaplin’s personal life and not enough on his creative genius. I feel that it does both rather well. Chaplin lead a long, complicated, colorful and controversial life and this movie tries to hit all the major points, which makes the film feel rushed. You almost need a road map to understand all the things that happened in Chaplin’s life. The man had multiple relationships, 4 marriages, a large number of children, and he lost a paternity suit over a child that was most likely not his.
It is hard for me to dislike this movie because I am such a big Charlie Chaplin fan.
A very young Robert Downy Jr does a splendid job of playing Chaplin. He does the physical comedy so well that it creates the illusion that you are seeing the real Charlie Chaplin. The movie also features the fine acting talents of Anthony Hopkins, Dan Aykroyd, Kevin Kline, and David Duchovney. Charlie Chaplin’s daughter, Geraldine Chaplin, does an extraordinary job playing her grandmother.
The movie does a good job of showing how Chaplin’s motivations derived from early unpleasant experiences in his life. It also does a good job of recreating early 20th century America.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Sunday, September 15, 2013
World War Z * * *
Certain characteristics of zombie movies:
1. Sooner or later in all zombie movies you will see a hoard of zombie-infected humans chasing normal humans. World War Z adds a new twist to this by having some very suspenseful scenes where the healthy humans try to quietly sneak past a hoard of zombies.
2. Most of the older zombie movies have zombies who shuffle slowly. The more modern zombies run very energetically after the humans.
3. All the George Romero zombie movies have the zombies resurrect from the dead. That isn't very believable, so I prefer the alternative idea explored in 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks later, I am Legend, The Last Man on Earth, Zombieland, The Crazies and The Omega Man, where the zombie condition is simply a insanity causing disease, possibly a human form of rabies or mad cow disease that is spread from person to person. World War Z seems to take both approaches.
4. The zombie condition can be spread to healthy humans, usually through a bite. This leads to the concept of a Zombie Apocalypse where the zombie disease spreads so rapidly that it quickly overtakes most of the human race. Most zombie movies are really just post apocalyptic movies.
In some movies, like 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks later, and World War Z, the infected person turns into a zombie in just a few seconds. Although that is completely unbelievable, it does allow World War Z to have a couple of interesting scenes where a very large crowd of people become completely infected in mere minutes.
5. All the George Romero zombie movies and 28 Days Later explore the idea that despite the Zombie Apocalypse, man's greatest enemy is still the other non-dead non-zombie humans. World War Z does not take this approach. Instead the movie is about the search for the cause of the epidemic.
6. All the George Romero zombie movies have some sort of deep social message, while many of the other movies just focus on action.
7. Almost all zombie movies have various degrees of gory special effects, some of which are extreme. World War Z is probably the least gory zombie movie I have seen.
I don't think that World War Z covers much new ground, but the special effects are terrific and movie does such an effective job of creating suspense that it is worth watching. Despite this, I can find a number of details that I can nit pick:
1. The opening scene shows a family preparing their kids for school. The next scene shows the family in a car when the zombie epidemic breaks out. The very next scene is already nighttime, which doesn't make much sense, so the best I can figure is that the family car scene must have taken place after the kids had returned from school.
2. Since there are a number of scenes where people are either running from zombies or trying to not get noticed by zombies, this was starting to feel repetitious.
3. The main character, played by Brad Pitt, does a lot of globetrotting, going from country to country looking for the cause of the epidemic, but he never makes any progress. Furthermore, the movie states that you would have to find the source of the epidemic in order to treat it, but that is like saying that you couldn't find a way to treat AIDS without first finding patient zero.
4. The characters come up with a way to camouflage humans from the zombies, which I didn't find very believable, but believability is not a word that I would associate with zombie movies.
5. Some of the early action scenes seem to be deliberately confusing.
As far as I am concerned, the best zombie movies are...
1. 28 Days Later
2. The Crazies
3. Dawn of the Dead (1978 version)
4. Zombieland (which is a comedy.)
5. I am Legend
However, the best zombie related drama might not be a movie, but The Walking Dead television series.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
The Place Beyond the Pines * * * 1/2
Thursday, August 22, 2013
RE: Iron Man III (* * *)
From: Robert
I used to like Robert Downey Jr. in movies and his characters he plays. But since he has taken on the Iron Man character, I can’t stand him anymore. I still like Robert, I just can’t stand Iron Man the character.
From: Larry
I disagree. I traditionally liked Robert Downey Jr in most of his roles. (My wife and I liked Heart and Souls, a lot).Then he had various problems outside of his acting career. I felt sad for such a talented person.
I read a lot of Iron man as a kid and loved the character.I was amazed how the rich, narcissistic, reckless,fun,talented, playboy character of Tony Stark meshed with Robert Downey Jr’s real life and acting abilities. To me, there is no better person in Hollywood, to play this role, and I am happy Iron man is having such great success, and that they keep making more.
From: Robert
I’m more NOT a fan of the entire comic book adventure movie genre as a whole, Iron Man, Super Man, Bat Man, Spider Man, X-Men, etc. They seem to be big on action but severely limited in depth and plot. I’m usually board when I get out and wondered why I even spent the time. I missed out on comic books when I was growing up so I don’t have the connection that most everyone else has with them. If I had read comic books as a kid I might be more interested.
It’s always fun to see latest incarnations of a story line that I’m familiar with. Fond memories from childhood. They could keep making Star Trek movies and no matter how bad they got I would probably go see them first run.
I don’t have this connection with comic books. I think this is the root cause of why I don’t care for Iron Man.
From: John
I didn’t read a lot of comic books as a kid, although I did watch a limited amount of super hero cartoons on TV. I don’t think that I had much interest in comic book characters until the first Superman movie came out. At this point I started to enjoy super hero movies like I would any action film.
Prior to Star Wars, science fiction movies in general had a bad reputation. One movie changed everything.
Iron Man III (* * *)
The main problem that I had with Iron Man III is that most of the entertainment value comes from all too frequent over the top action sequences. There is some character development that is interesting, but this feels more like a sideshow squeezed between one battle after another.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Friday, July 12, 2013
RE: Amazon Prime?
It seems to me that mostly what is free is TV shows, and not all of them are free. They want to charge for some of them. I have seen a limited selection of movies, but their service doesn’t make it easy to figure out which movies are free, most of which I have already seen, and the majority of movies they charge for.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
From: Trout, Larry R
I disagree, John.
I think you may just have trouble finding shows and movies for some reason.
I believe Amazon is slightly lower selection/quality than Netflix, but T.V. Shows are very good.
I am rewatching all seasons of the new Dr. who with my kids. I liked the Tudors, Justified, American horror story, Falling Skies, arrested developments, etc.
Even if you never use the streaming or kindle books, the free two day shipping is very good.
RE: Amazon Prime?
I have Amazon Prime because they discounted it down to $59 late last year.
The video selection is so bad that I don’t use it.
I just signed up for Netflix streaming.
The free 2 day shipping is nice. It makes buy from Amazon more often.
Sunday, July 7, 2013
The True Meaning of 'Avatar' - The Freedomain Radio movie review
Saturday, July 6, 2013
The Croods * * * 1/2
This is a relatively simple story that is just sentimental, funny, and different enough to make it a little more enjoyable than the average movie.
I am more impressed by the quality of the computer 3D animation by Dreamworks Animation, which is one of the most detailed I have seen. The Croods seem to live in the land that evolution forgot. They are surrounded by a large variety of weird creatures, most of which I am sure that never existed. Nevertheless, this makes for a visually interesting movie.
Friday, July 5, 2013
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant - Now a movie
I may have been on this Bart station, or at least some other Bart station in Oakland around 22 years ago.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Who is the actor?
say, I recognized the actor immediately. I am a big fan...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2SpckZ6uPs#at=78
Monday, July 1, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
FW: Cloud Atlas on DVD
Oz The Great and Powerful * * *
What made the biggest impression on me was the little girl made of "china".
Monday, June 24, 2013
Man of Steel * * * 1/2
Man of Steel reboots the franchise with a forgettable title, a new face and a few new twists on the Superman story. The story is already familiar to everyone, but this remake adds enough to the mythology to make it fresh and interesting. Unlike all the bad remakes I have seen recently at the movies, Man of Steel made me glad that I bought a ticket.
The multiple teaser trailers led me to believe that this going to be a brooding film. It is anything but. I thought that the regular trailers gave away too much of the story, but they don't. What surprises me about Man of Steel is how hard it tries to a science fiction film. Superman is, after all, an alien from another world, but previous films aren't as interested in this fact as this movie is. We see a lot of hardware in this movie and this film gives a greater sense that aliens have invaded this planet.
The last 30 minutes have been criticized by some as being all action, but I think that it works. I liked it much better than the mind numbing last 30 minutes of The Avengers. The last half of Star Wars was nothing but action and that worked pretty well. For me the key to any action sequence is what it reveals to us about the character(s). If the action sequences advance the story while giving us insight to the people involved, then you couldn't ask for anything more.
You can't make a good superhero movie without a good villain, and General Zod in this movie is a complex character who in his mind has honorable intentions.
I am surprised and disappointed by the 56% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. This is a better film than that. Like the previous Superman movie, it seems that it didn't click with everyone.
Given the intensity of the last 30 minutes, which had enough action for at least a couple of movies, it is hard for me to imagine how they would make a sequel without going over the top.
I have a theory that Superman is a modern day Hercules and perhaps inspired by this myth or other ancient mythology.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Wreck-It Ralph * * * 1/2
The main problem, and the only problem with this movie is the suspension of disbelief. We are talking about video game characters after all. How hard or how easy is it to root for a video game character? How likely are we to believe that a video game character could have a personality and feelings? On the other hand, how believable was Toy Story? In that movie we were expected to believe that toys could have personalities and emotions. The story of Wreck-It Ralph is really not much different than the story of Shrek in that an unlikely hero goes on a quest to do something good. It also shares qualities with Alice in Wonderland. What Toy Story and Shrek had going for them was a combination of great characters, interesting villains, great animation, good humor along with some interesting mythology. Wreck-It Ralph has all of these characteristics in spades although not quite at the same level.
Rather than depend upon a wise cracking donkey for humor, Wreck-It Ralph gets its humor from pop culture references, mostly from classic video games. This is one place I fear that movie might go over most people's heads, as not everyone is familiar with 30 year old video games. I wonder how many people under the age of 20 have heard of Q-Bert or Qix? There are a ton of 1980's video game characters is in this movie, but I happen to love classic video games. So humor is the one area where the movie could have been a little bit better. What Wreck-It Ralph lacks in humor it makes up for with good characters and story.
I am impressed that the Konomi Code is part of the story. (Talk about your pop culture references.) There is a point in the story where King Candy uses a cheat code to hack the computer program of the Sugar Rush video game. This is a pretty interesting scene because it is portrayed as going into a deep vault with thousands of connecting pieces of computer code. This serves to remind the audience that videogames are after all computer programs.
With the fast rate at which technology is advancing, maybe someday computer video game characters will actually be smart enough to have personalities. This I find easy to believe. The trend has started. Already I can have a primitive conversation with my iPhone.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness * * * 1/2
Ender's Game movie comes out in November.
'Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are two of the writer-producers behind "Star Trek Into Darkness," but the team known as "K/O" is also producing the coming films "Ender's Game," "Now You See Me" and the Fox television series "Sleepy Hollow." Not to mention the sequel to "The Amazing Spider-Man," which they co-wrote and which is currently filming around New York.
Speakeasy talked with Kurtzman and Orci, who have been friends and writing partners for more than 20 years, starting with the television series "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys."
"It's funny, it used to be a binary, like he's Spock and I'm Kirk, in terms of personality," Kurtzman says. "It's not quite that simple anymore. I think when we first started, Bob was more about logic and logic flow, and I was always about the emotion of what was going on. Now, having written together for almost 22 years, our voices are in each other's heads to such a large degree that it's very difficult sometimes to distinguish between the two."
What were some of the challenges you and director Gavin Hood faced in adapting Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" into a film?
Orci: "Ender's Game" was a book that we both loved from teenagehood. It was published in 1985 and I think we read it in high school, maybe even earlier. The challenge with the book is it's very internal in that a lot of the narrative that occurs is within the character's head and the trick is, how do you dramatize that? The answer is both through having some of those internal struggles be dramatically shown as scenes, and second, we have an advantage that the book does not have, and that is actors. We have great actors who can not only say things, but play things and play reactions on their faces and actually convey a lot of the emotion of the book. Thankfully now we have the technology to make it the grand adventure that it deserves to be. We have the technology to render a Zero-G environment in a totally believable and incredible way.'
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
RE: Hitchcock the movie
I haven’t seen the movie, but Hitchcock had a reputation for disrespecting women, maybe because of marital problems. There is a scene in Frenzy where a couple meet at a matchmaking service and the woman immediately starts telling the man that he has to change. According to one documentary, Hitchcock often portrayed women as controlling.
John Coffey
From: Witmer, Robert C.
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 3:52 PM
I watched Hitchcock last evening. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchcock_%28film%29
Not sure how much is factual but now I need to watch Psycho again. The story centers around Hitchcock getting Psycho filmed and produced. And I sure do feel old because I remember watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents on TV.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Silver Linings Playbook
From: Witmer
Great show.
There is a scene where the guy is reading Ernest Hemingway’s book “Farewell to Arms”. He gets so disgusted with the depressing ending of Hemingway’s book that he throws the book crashing through the glass window landing out in the street.
Unlike Hemingway this story ends pleasantly.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Saturday, April 27, 2013
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Movie Review (2009) | Roger Ebert
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-taking-of-pelham-1-2-3-2009
Thursday, April 25, 2013
FW: Jango Unchained
From: Witmer, Robert
As a Quentin Tarantino fan (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglorious Bastards), Jango Unchained to me is “one of the best” or “the best” western movie of all time. But I know this just drives all the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood fans crazy to hear such sacrilege. It’s a very hard R for vicious violence, not suitable for most “normal people”. It will definitely make most uncomfortable. But it’s that uneasy feeling about what is going to happen next that I like. It was very entertaining.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Zero Dark Thirty
a bloodbath. It is not for the feint of heart.
http://m.redbox.com/movies/zero-dark-thirty?cid=EM:tr_fnr
Monday, April 8, 2013
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
'Finding Dory' to set sail
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-quick-20130403,0,7857457.story
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
George Lucas says Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamil to appear in new 'Star Wars'
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/03/07/george-lucas-says-harrison-ford-carrie-fisher-and-mark-hamil-to-appear-in-new/
Monday, February 11, 2013
RE: Looper?
Some movies, especially ones involving time travel, come across to me as rather silly. Nevertheless, if the characters believe the story then so do we, at least for a couple of hours.
From: Witmer, Robert
Have you watched it yet? It’s one of those hard to follow stories because of all the alternate timelines involved.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120926/REVIEWS/120929993
http://screenrant.com/looper-ending-explanation-time-travel-spoilers/
Flight 2012 movie
From: Witmer, Robert
I saw this over the weekend. Nice movie and very hard to watch crash scene. It’s more about the pilot being an alcoholic than about flying. But the flight scenes are pretty interesting. I clipped the crash scene to YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nhxm5QEbYI I’m sure it will be taken down soon since it has 3rd party content.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121031/REVIEWS/121039998
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_%282012_film%29
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Skyfall * * *
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Looper * * *
Like many movies, the future is not very pleasant. Society has degraded. Human life seems to be cheap and the characters have few qualms about killing people. The main character realizes that things are only going to get worse as time goes on, so he decides to change the future. Could a film like this also be telling us that we need to change the future or else face similar misery?
The main character takes refuge on a farm where he meets a cute little boy who is likely some future evil mob boss. This gets into the kind of question of would you kill Hitler if you could go back in time? The movie teases us with the notion that the boy is evil without making it totally clear. The film left me with the impression that certain people were going to have to die who I did not want to see die. Fortunately, the film ends with a twist that turns everything on its head.
It is such an odd premise, but it works because the characters believe it. I find myself wondering, however, if you have a time machine and you want to get rid of someone, why not send them a million years into the future? Maybe there is a possibility that they would come back?
I thought that I understood the rules by which Time Travel movies work, but recently those rules seem to be changing. Movies and TV shows have gotten more inventive in how they portray time travel, and the notion of a Time Travel Paradox seems to not really matter anymore.
One problem with watching any movie is that you have to wonder if it is worth 2 hours of your time? A movie that is too grim leaves me feeling down and not very entertained. Fortunately, Looper ends on such a positive note that all its dystopian death and destruction becomes tolerable. The fact that the time travel plot so thoroughly messes with your mind is a good thing, although I suspect that some people might not like it. Throw in some great action sequences and you end up with a pretty decent movie that is still maybe not perfect.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Cloud Atlas * * * *
Cloud Atlas follows 6 very different stories, each taking place in a different time period, but with the same actors playing different roles, races and even genders in each time period. Most of the stories are in the past, but a couple are in the distant future. Watching this film is like watching 3 different episodes of LOST all at the same time. The movie switches between stories somewhat seamlessly with the idea that they are all connected, as are the characters who seem to have reincarnated from one time period to the next.
The movie's philosophical bent seems to be one of reincarnation and karma.
The themes of this movie include karma, love, oppression/slavery, violence/murder, rebellion and hope. The central idea is that we are all connected and events that happened long before we were born affect our lives and our lives will affect others long after we are gone.
The stories of Cloud Atlas are as follows:
Year 1849: Adam Ewing (Jim Sturgess) is a lawyer crossing the Pacific in a ship who is involved a a business deal involving slavery. He befriends an escaped slave (Keith David) while a greedy doctor (Tom Hanks) tries to poison him. He is saved by the escaped slave and is able to return to his wife (Bae Doona) and confront his father in law (Hugo Weaving) over the issue of slavery.
Year 1936: Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw) is a bisexual musician who goes to work for a famous but aging composer Vyvyan Ayrs (Jim Broadbent) and then develops an affair with the man's younger wife (Halle Berry). Vyvyan tries to blackmail Robert, so Robert shoots him and then is on the run from the law. He hides in a hotel where he is then blackmailed by the owner (Tom Hanks). After barely finishing his musical masterpiece, Cloud Atlas, Robert kills himself.
Year 1973: Luisa Rey (Halle Berry) is a journalist investigating an unsafe nuclear power plant run by a corrupt oil company. (No agenda there.) She is befriended by an engineer (Tom Hanks) and a security guard (Keith David). She is then pursued by a hit man named Bill Smoke (Hugo Weaving) hired by an oil executive (Hugh Grant). Along the way she hears the music Cloud Atlas for the first time but somehow recognizes it.
Year 2012: Timothy Cavendish (Jim Broadbent) is a publisher who has a windfall when his gangster author (Tom Hanks) commits murder at a party. Other gangsters come after him so he flees to his antagonistic brother (Hugh Grant) who tricks him into permanently checking into a retirement home where he is abused by a sadistic female nurse (Hugo Weaving). From there he plots his escape with other retirees. This is the only humorous sequence in the film.
Year 2144: In a dystopian future, Sonmi-451 (Bae Doona), is an artificially created slave clone who simply waits tables when one of her fellow clones fights against being abused, but as a consequence is executed. She is then recruited by a rebellion officer (Jim Sturgess), who she falls in love with, and a rebellion general (Keith David) who want to use her to broadcast a message of truth to the whole world. Once the rebellion is crushed, she is interrogated by a not so friendly Asian inquisitor (Hugo Weaving).
Year 2321: 106 years after the fall of Earth, Zachry (Tom Hanks) is a primitive tribesman living on the Hawaiian islands. His tribe is often attacked by cannibals, and Zachry often has visions of the Devil (Hugo Weaving) taunting him. His people believe that the Devil lives on top of a mountain. These people also have a myth about Sonmi-451 being a goddess. The island is visited by Meronym (Halle Berry) who belongs to a small group of people who still have technology. She tells Zachary that the Earth is dying and that they must travel to the top of the mountain, where there is a giant transmitter, so that they can send a request for help to humans on another world.
This last sequence uses a degraded form of English that is full of odd expressions like "true true." It makes the speech harder to follow but I was able to keep up. When the movie comes out on DVD on 2013-02-05, I suggest turning on subtitles so as to better follow the dialogue.
The end credits show pictures of all the different roles that each actor plays, many of which come as surprise. Sometimes the makeup is so heavy that you cannot easily recognize the actors. This would be a fun movie to watch repeatedly so as to pick up on the different actors.
I highly recommend watching the eye popping trailer. This is a film where the ideas are slightly better than the execution of the story. I give this movie a great deal of credit for being different, daring and innovative. In terms of acting and cinematography, the movie is a triumph. The fact that a movie of this scale was independently made is astonishing. This movie only has a 64% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but I think that the complexity of the movie lost some people. I wager that over time the movie will gain more acceptance and be considered a great film.
Roger Ebert said that this is one of the most ambitious films ever made
The movie is rated R for many brief moments of intense violence, along with some nudity, sexual situations and language.