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Movie Reviews of Dust
Movie Review: Well Made Film. Very Artistic
Summary: 4 Stars
This is not a film that will appeal to everyone. It is long and complicated with several plots going on at once centered around a central story. Nice imagery, beautiful settings and an interesting story all around. The dialogue is very well done, geniune, witty, and well thought out. The two plots (one which takes place in our present and one that takes place in the 1900's)relate well to each other. The main charaters in both plots are well aligned as the grow togther over the course of the movie. This is a complicated feat for any movie to pull off but the director did it flawlessly, even merging the two characters into the same plot at the end. Brilliant work of art and film making.Movie Review: Hodge Podge Higgledy Piggledy Here I Come
Summary: 4 Stars
I picked this up because I recognized the stars and because, according to the dust jacket, the director had done some worthy work in the past.
I didn't mind jumping from here to there with only a gossamer thread to cling to. I'm not generally opposed to body count. I thought the suckling sucking tobacco was gratuitous, but that's me. I guess the point there was: 'this ain't Kansas', morals and values were completely different.
One thing this movie taught me: watch the 'extras' first, a thing I have mostly avoided. The director's explanation of his intent made the movie make sense.
I will buy this movie, what's more I will buy another to give as a gift.
Movie Review: Fantastic premise that bites the dust....
Summary: 2 Stars
From what I see so far, my thumbs down for this movie is definitely a minority opinion, so do scroll up and down to read those who gave it 5 stars.
I said fantastic premise, and it is true, DUST has a premise that is fantastic. This is a beautifully photographed movie, melting from black-and-white into color then back into black-and-white, jumping back and forth between fetchingly photographed contemporary New York and back in time, somewhere in the Ottoman Empire ca. early 1900s -- well, I said "somewhere" but that's because the movie does not make it clear exactly, where, it could have been Bulgaria, Greece, or Albania, but from other reviews I read that it's supposed to be Macedonia, so it contains a touch of the fantastic (time travel, destiny, dizzying coincidences, iconic symbology, etc.), which would've made it my cup of tea, alas it's such a hodgepodge of a hard-to-follow plot that it left me frustrated in the end. I know that if I watch it a second time I'll pick up on the many nuances that I've missed, on the other hand, it's so terribly cruel and bloody that I can't put myself through such an agony again. The film is littered with shots of (a few among many nauseating takes)of sheep, that was halfway shorn, with its pelt dangling, being shot and tossed around, a child who pauses suckling on mom's breast to smoke a cigarette, a surrealistic mishmash of people shooting at each other, you really don't know who's the enemy, who's the good guy or the bad guy (though it's hinted that the Ottomanis are the baddies) and you simply get tired trying to understand the plot, and the mind of the director who strung this whole thing up.
That said, yes it's the story of two brothers who feud over a woman in the Wild West, then the loser takes off for the Ottoman lands in order to earn gold for killing people, his other brother follows him and lordy! FINDS him in the middle of a butcher-style battle, and while none of the twists/turns/motivations make sense, the last minute bond depicted between the 90-year old elderly woman (revealed to be the little girl born in the middle of a battle field while everyone around her was getting killed by everyone) and the black man who has entered her apartment to steal her money to pay off the corrupt NYPD cops who're threatening him with shooting off his kneecaps, is quite touching (even believable).
Pheeewwww! I am breathless just trying to tell this tale and keep up its pace.... Nevertheless, there is a sensitive twist to the story (the friendship between the old lady and her would-be mugger), as well as the above mentioned beautiful photography. So if you don't mind blood, gore, and a convoluted plot, go ahead and rent it.
Movie Review: Bust
Summary: 2 Stars
Dust is NOT your typical western. It is impractical that a dying, elderly woman would befriend her apartment trashing/thieving thug, especially after he coldcocks her. Equally as rediculous is that this same thug would have genuine feelings for her at her dying bedside, a day after placing a gun to her head making demands....just stupid!
This movie can be gorey also (ex: shooting and slitting the throats of sheep/goats, disembowelment, decapitation, etc.)
Not sure I understand the positive reviews but that's just me.
Not recommended.
Movie Review: Pretentious and arty mess.
Summary: 1 Stars
Not since the pretentious art house flicks of the 1960's have I seen such schlock parading itself as great art. Art is art. This is far from it. This film stretches credulity to the breaking point. A petty crook breaks into an elderly woman's apartment, she gets him at gunpoint, and (insanely) insists that he listen to her story about 2 brothers in Macedonia. Please. He keeps coming back for more of the story because he's trying to find out where she has hidden her money, but eventually he wants to hear more of the story. Why? The characterizations are extremely thin, and the director is so in love with jumpcuts and presenting a thickly textured background for the story that the story is lost. The ONLY reason I watched this through to the end was because I had paid for it, not because the story was at all involving. Even the Making Of documentary that comes on the DVD is skimpy. And if you want to understand the alrge amounts of dialogue that are not in English, you have to turn on the subtitles on the DVD menu. Heaven forbid that this movie make any effort to communicate with its audience.