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LOL (2012) Directed by Lisa Azuelos

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 1:11 PM / comment : 0 , , , , , , , , , ,



Now, I wouldn't call this movie necessarily a bad one but it in fact is lacking a purpose and doesn't make a point or has a clear message in it, in any way or form.

Quite frankly, I just can't understand how adults could be involved with this movie. It's a movie about teenagers, so its set in a teenage world, with teenage rules. It's about the sort the sort of the stuff that only seems to be important when you are still at a young age and far from adulthood. Well, I say teenagers but of course all of them are being played by some 20-year old's, which is something pretty obvious and annoying about this movie as well.

And really, this entire movie seems to about a bunch of non-issues. I just don't see what the big 'conflict' is supposed to be in this movie and there is just never any sense of true drama in the movie. This is mostly what makes this movie such a pointless watch. Crazy thing about the movie is that you can watch just and only the first 5 and last 5 minutes of this movie and you won't feel like you missed anything because of the simple reason that you also haven't done so. The characters and situations are still being mostly the same at the end of the movie. Perhaps they could had still made this movie somewhat interesting by making it a coming-of-age movie but all this movie seemed to be concerned about was appealing to young teens, who perhaps will be able to identify with some of the characters and situations in this movie but I just can't even imaging them being all that entertained by this movie. There is just far too little happening for that.

It's also a movie that confuses and does some stupid things. I swear at first I thought that some of the characters were 'bad guys' but as the movie progressed it suddenly became apparent to me that they were part of the friend-group of the movie and you were even supposed to like these characters. And that's also a problem of the movie. Most of the character aren't really being sympathetic enough to ever care for or be interested enough in.

Also an odd thing to see some big name actors in a movie like this. Demi Moore, Thomas Jane, Gina Gershon, Jay Hernandez, all play some quite big parts. Perhaps they were just eager to appear in a Miley Cyrus movie, who is still being a hot young star but isn't exactly known for doing great movies.

Pointless movie, that is pointless to watch.

4/10

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Bobby (2006) Directed by Emilio Estevez

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 8:36 AM / comment : 1 , , , , , , , , , , , ,



(Review originally written at 11 May 2007)

 Can someone please explain to Mr. Estevez that movie-making is more then just filming a couple of sequences and putting them in a row?

Its intentions were good but problem with "Bobby" is that the movie just never feels as one whole. Every storyline, with each different characters seem to be shot individually and they also feel that way. I'll bet that most of the actors never actually met, while shooting. It are all small pieces of movie put together, that never really feels as one big whole.

 The movie focuses on far too many character (22 and then some more) that just aren't interesting enough to follow throughout and they don't feel connected at all to each other. The only reason why the characters are still made interesting is because they are being played by some fine actors. This movie has one of the finest assembly cast since years. Apparently Emilio Estevez has a lot of friends in Hollywood. The movie shows that Sharon Stone and Demi Moore can still act and I even have to admit that I thought that Lindsay Lohan was great. Despite the small size of most of the roles, the actors are still given enough opportunity to shine, despite some horrible and overlong dialog at times. Please leave that to someone else to write next time Mr. Estevez, thank you very much!

 The many characters are one of the reasons why this movie feels like such a big soap-opera! The actual plot line are also a reason why it feels like that. It's just too shallow and quite formulaic all. In the movie basically everyone is unhappy with the situations they are in, until the end when they finally start to brighten up and appreciate life and each other again, until of course the ending comes and their lives are being shattered again, by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (that's not a spoiler is it?), of which they are all present. Yes, I of course known that this was done intentionally, to provide the movie with subjects such as hope, dreams, racism, forgiveness, which all parallels Robert F. Kennedy's ambitions as a future president. But in the movie it seems like such a cheap and also rather predictable way to influence and steer the viewer's emotions.

In fact this movie is not about Robert F. Kennedy at all but he just serves as a backdrop for the stories of all of the other characters in the movie. So the movie its title might be a bit deceiving for some. They mostly used real archive footage for his role in this movie, which also doesn't really ever blend in with the rest, since the real footage looks old and grainy and the picture itself looks perfect and clean. It just never makes you believe that Kennedy and the movie characters are ever in the same room.

 The movie just too much feels and looks like a 12 part made-for-TV mini-series. Perhaps I would had been milder about it if the movie in fact really was a 12 part mini-series.

 5/10

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