The Ice Storm
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Movie Reviews of The Ice Storm
Movie Review: Lesser known actors in this.
Summary: 5 Stars
They mention Tobey Maguire, Spiderman, who is the narrater but there is also Christina Ricci who is very sexually active in this gets to at least second base a couple times and uses the line, "You show me yours and I'll show you mine" which back fires on her. She also does many things with Elijah Wood. He is caught by her father, who is having an affair with Elijah's movie mom. Elijah being on top of Christina, without nudity. Christina goes to bed with Elijah's brother, whom she wanted all along. During the Ice Storm someone I mentioned dies, very sad. Tobey was about 15 or 16, Christina I would guess about 13, and the same for Elijah. The boy that played Elijah's brother was someone I had never heard of before Adam Hahn (or Hann) Byrd who looks about 12 or 13 and the character is played with a mental age of about 9 or 10.Movie Review: crackling humor and sad ending makes a great film
Summary: 5 Stars
after seeing brokeback mountain, i decided to see more of ang lee's films and came upon this gem that perfectly shows the same type of sad melencholy used in brokeback. the film takes place in the 1970's and centers around two family's the hoods (consisting of kline, allen, ricci, and mcguire) and the carvers (consisting of weaver, wood, and that one kid) who go through many events that boil together one night during an ice storm. the husband of the hoods is having an affair with weavers character, the kids are exploring sex and drugs, and allens character goes from shop-lifting to cheating on her husband too. the film plays out in two parts, the first hour or so is mainly a comedy while the last hour plays like a drama that leads to a very sad ending. truly a great ang lee film, must check it out if you loved brokeback.Movie Review: Refutation of the Sexual Revolution
Summary: 5 Stars
Set in 1973 upper middle-class America, the Ice Storm profiles two families that are ensconced in the Sexual Revolution, evinced by "key parties," where couples bed whomever takes their key in a hat, have affairs in order to find self-fulfillment, and in general pursue the Cult of the Self, all the while ignoring their children whose neglect and neuroses fester in this movie to a climactic scene that you'll have to see in the movie. The Ice Storm is a sad film, full of cold, icy images and suggests that the Sexual Revolution was a fraud, a false storm that swept people away with its inane promises of self-fulfillment and happiness. Like so many great American films (Mulholland Dr. and Boogie Nights come to mind), the Ice Storm examines the Faustian Bargains we too often make and the perdition that must follow.Movie Review: Beautiful and Icy
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie captures the social, political and cultural currents of the seventies. For those who lived in this period the movie has the look of both an alien world and something more real than our memories.
Set in the affluent suburbs the parents indulge in such things as shop lifting, affairs and key parties while the kids, in the netherworld between childhood and their teen years, are left to try to figure out life.
It is beautifully shot and the sets show an incredible attention to detail.
The movie is brutally satirical yet somehow retains a sympathy for human frailty.
It is a movie that is wonderfully poetic especially in its juxtapositions.
A scary little time capsule.
Worth watching again and again.
Highly recommended.
Movie Review: Dark,compelling story set amid social changes in the 1970s
Summary: 5 Stars
This fim is moody and morose, just like the book which I read a few years ago. It now has a talented director (Ang Lee) and some well-known actors (Kevin Kline, Signorey Weaver). The Ice Storm is a metaphor, of course, and the scenes takes place over a Thanksgiving weekend in New Canaan, CT in the early seventies. The parents are experimenting with the sexual revolution. The teenage children and smoking pot and feeling the anti-war movement. The sudden social changes are confusing everybody.The story is dark and compelling and the children come across as more real than the parents. It is a hard film to watch, given its subject. Thought it was was excellent athough I wasn't smiling when the film ended. I was thinking.