the tourist
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mayoraaseiThe perfect movie to see while being a tourist XDDD （冷）
Everything is cheap in Taiwan, except movies ==;;; Costs $9 a movie here in a small auditorium with reflux-inducing seats (sorry, am very sensitive to the angle of chair backs).
More people than I expected watched the movie, which had Chinese subtitles peppered with mistakes LOL
Basically, The Tourist is a movie about Depp and Jolie making mesmerising courtship to each other in the hopes you'd forget the gaping plot holes and lapses in logic.
It's more a suspense movie than an action movie, but then it's more a romance than suspense, but then it is more cerebral than sentimental, and very very sensuous.
I was kind of pleasantly surprised by how refrained the movie is. The action is a lot more realistic, at least in the sense of what is humanly possible, the courtship stops at a kiss, the humour is intelligent, and the violence is brief and censored.
The problem with movies like this these days is that it is unlikely to please a big crowd. That's not entirely the audience's fault (LOL) but simply because the movie isn't polished enough, in particularly in the plot, which is tied off in a way that defies belief.
What really carries this movie is Jolie and Depp. I think the only movie I've watched of Jolie is Tomb Raider (LOL) but I've always known she could act...and anyone who knows me knows I'm a huge fangirl of Depp XDDDD
But Depp and Jolie I never would have put next to each other as a couple...but the moment Elise sat down opposite Frank and smiled through her thick lashes and made him a stuttering awkward schoolboy...sparks flew like lightning rods on fire (???)
The roles were written for them, pretty much. Jolie doesn't even have to bring out her acting skills to sashay regally down the streets of Lyon and turn every head she passes. What I did like was that Elise was...also a refrained characterisation. She was vulnerable, she was human, she didn't have any ninja fighting skills...all she had was her brains and the determination to protect whatever was important to her, even as she wavered about what that was.
Depp is...well, let's just say his roles are starting to blur into each other ==;;; Once again he's playing the awkward and reluctant and hapless hero, who bumbles around overwhelmed by what the world suddenly threw at him. I wonder if Depp normally runs drunkenly with his hands in the air or if he's been taken over by Jack Sparrow for too long ==;;;;;;;
It was a fun movie to watch, mostly because of Depp and Jolie's awesome acting. They're both actors who can convey a world of emotions by just a twitch of a muscle. If only the plot was worthy of them...*sigh*
Everything is cheap in Taiwan, except movies ==;;; Costs $9 a movie here in a small auditorium with reflux-inducing seats (sorry, am very sensitive to the angle of chair backs).
More people than I expected watched the movie, which had Chinese subtitles peppered with mistakes LOL
Basically, The Tourist is a movie about Depp and Jolie making mesmerising courtship to each other in the hopes you'd forget the gaping plot holes and lapses in logic.
It's more a suspense movie than an action movie, but then it's more a romance than suspense, but then it is more cerebral than sentimental, and very very sensuous.
I was kind of pleasantly surprised by how refrained the movie is. The action is a lot more realistic, at least in the sense of what is humanly possible, the courtship stops at a kiss, the humour is intelligent, and the violence is brief and censored.
The problem with movies like this these days is that it is unlikely to please a big crowd. That's not entirely the audience's fault (LOL) but simply because the movie isn't polished enough, in particularly in the plot, which is tied off in a way that defies belief.
What really carries this movie is Jolie and Depp. I think the only movie I've watched of Jolie is Tomb Raider (LOL) but I've always known she could act...and anyone who knows me knows I'm a huge fangirl of Depp XDDDD
But Depp and Jolie I never would have put next to each other as a couple...but the moment Elise sat down opposite Frank and smiled through her thick lashes and made him a stuttering awkward schoolboy...sparks flew like lightning rods on fire (???)
The roles were written for them, pretty much. Jolie doesn't even have to bring out her acting skills to sashay regally down the streets of Lyon and turn every head she passes. What I did like was that Elise was...also a refrained characterisation. She was vulnerable, she was human, she didn't have any ninja fighting skills...all she had was her brains and the determination to protect whatever was important to her, even as she wavered about what that was.
Depp is...well, let's just say his roles are starting to blur into each other ==;;; Once again he's playing the awkward and reluctant and hapless hero, who bumbles around overwhelmed by what the world suddenly threw at him. I wonder if Depp normally runs drunkenly with his hands in the air or if he's been taken over by Jack Sparrow for too long ==;;;;;;;
It was a fun movie to watch, mostly because of Depp and Jolie's awesome acting. They're both actors who can convey a world of emotions by just a twitch of a muscle. If only the plot was worthy of them...*sigh*
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Date: 2010-12-23 04:15 pm (UTC)Still, this doesn't sound that bad. Even though I love both Jolie and Depp, I wasn't really planning on watching it, but if it's refrained and on the realistic side, maybe I'll give it a watch after all. :3