Strange Days
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Movie Reviews of Strange Days
Movie Review: Dark and lovely. A+
Summary: 5 Stars
Now for those who still have yet to see this movie, it has lots of grown up material. So if you aren't old enough to see naked ladies and suggestive material, please skip this. To many, it would be a disturbing film. In ways, it even disturbed me. But some of the dialogue really struck home and made a lot of sense. Too much sense.
I usually don't get the character names down pact, and this movie was no different. I remember Lenny (the main character), Mace (Angela Bassett) and Faith. But basically in a nutshell this movie was about Lenny and his lust for his old flame, Faith, who is now with someone really not worth her time. You see Lenny made a pact with Faith that'd he'd always have her back and he falls and falls for her time and time again.
Mace has Angela playing your typically strong black women who doesn't take much (....). She is Lenny's friend and will pretty much see him through thick and thin. They make a really good team.
The main premise also involves this crazy virtual reality device that lets you experience "altered" realities that you can't quite experience in the real world. If you're not careful though, many bad things can happen with them.
I don't wanna give too many hints out but I think you should watch this movie if you are 17 or older. It's got a lot to offer although a bit strange sometimes.
It felt very indie to me and not very Hollywood. Maybe it's just me.
It also felt quite fresh although I had seen the movie beforehand years and years before tonight.
5 stars = A+
Movie Review: Ahead of it's time
Summary: 5 Stars
When i say this it's ahead of it's time, i mean that the movie's technology is ahead of it's time. What i like is that the technology doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility in the near future. It might have had the years off by a mile, but it's not a future that seems impossible in retrospect.
There are some tough scenes for viewers that are rather sensitive, but for the viewers that are willing to continue the journey, there is some very interesting movie time devoted to a future that isn't ridiculous to fathom.
The movie presents a futuristic "drug" that actually makes sense, and revolves a plot around a drug that makes you want to feel what it's like to be in someone elses shoes. The twists in the movie might not surprise those that are now used to expecting twists in films, but the movie still has a way of keeping you absorbed it the atmosphere that it has created.
In my opinion, what drives me with this movie is the world that it creates, and what the characters do with it. That makes it very interesting to me. The circumstances combined with the world that the movie created makes it even more interesting.
This movie has it's tough moments to watch, but i admire it's courage to depict what some people would do with the technology that the movie presented. In my opinion, this is just the kind of movie that could be used as an inspiration for a future filmmaker that would love to tackle that near-future distopia.
Movie Review: Compares Favorably with "Blade Runner"
Summary: 5 Stars
There are two essential film views of the future: life is 'good' and life is ugly. It is the extraordinary SF (Earth based) film that can handle the extremes of a future period and yet stay synched with human reality.
This film is a masterpiece because it connects with so many of the hopes and fears related to the future of society. It would be interesting to find out what films the 'one star' critics find worth watching.
The use of the "squid" technology to save and transfer experiences from one human to others is a tremendous 'invention' within the context of an SF film, but it is the way that Cameron and company used it to amplify the razor's edge of technological innovation vis a vis human society (and individuals.)
In 1968 I read "The Yngling" by John Dalmas which also had a device which could empathically broadcast experiences from one human to others, and Dalmas used this brilliantly within his novel. What Dalmas did in 1968 is what "Strange Days" did in the film medium. Could not have been a more robust exploration of one specific piece of new technology within a future society.
A standing ovation for all involved in the production of "Strange Days."
Movie Review: nothin' means nothin', lenny...
Summary: 5 Stars
i saw this movie in the theater in NYC and it was so powerful that when angela basset is getting the... kick out of her by the LAPD and i little black kid jumps on on of the riot police, thus inciting a riot, every black audiece member (which was about 90% os the people there) started sceaming and there was almost a real riot. i wasn't sure if i was getting out alive. and then, after all of that (and several other conspiratorial happenings which i won't reveal), the movie ends up being just a love story, i loved it! it seemed to be about so much, to be saying so many things, racial barriers, addiction, ect. But it comes down to the end and says all that really matters are the people you love and the people who love you and knowing who really cares or what's best for you. it was beautiful, and i have never seen an audiece react to a film like that (unless the film really...). the performances are fantastic and ralph finnes is wonderful in a role that isn't exactly what he's known for. and cameron's script is mearly flawless, makes you wonder how he fell from this to Titanic.Movie Review: Much more than I expected
Summary: 5 Stars
Some 12 years after its initial release I finally got around to watching this from start to finish, and it is really impressive. It's a rich, sometimes oppressive sensory experience, not unlike Moulin Rouge, but also hard-edged and violent and contemporary in so many ways. It's not the world we passed by or currently live in but it does express many fears of what we are becoming, which in America means increasingly polarized along any number of lines. Then again, I don't believe in the good old days. While the characters are colorful and exaggerated, I was totally sucked in and became fiercely attached to their outcome. Ralph Fiennes is complex and compelling (as usual), while Angela Bassett exhibits this fierce toughness and a vulnerability that makes her even more attractive than usual. There are multiple references and derivatives of Blade Runner that also run amok in this film. While I would never accuse 'Strange Days' of being perfect or entirely believable, it is an interesting voyage, a nightmarish vision and overall gripping experience.