tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360914.post1596088112157180893..comments2024-03-25T16:57:51.919+00:00Comments on Bina007 Movie Reviews: A GUIDE TO RECOGNISING YOUR SAINTS - six reasonably interesting characters in search of a plotBina007http://www.blogger.com/profile/01622085135305501711noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360914.post-8858973353775700592007-03-15T15:33:00.000+00:002007-03-15T15:33:00.000+00:00Flint,I stand by all of my comments in retrospect....Flint,<BR/><BR/>I stand by all of my comments in retrospect. This film was vacuous, poorly scripted, and boring.<BR/><BR/>Sorry!<BR/><BR/>NDaniel Plainviewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14968846401298741261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360914.post-28216273180793866712007-03-13T21:46:00.000+00:002007-03-13T21:46:00.000+00:00Sorry Flint, this movie was plain awful. What was...Sorry Flint, this movie was plain awful. What was the point? Young Dito has issues with his father because his father is over-protective and he want to quit Astoria. He comes back years later and he knows his dad is very ill. He's up in his dad's face shouting Did you ever love me? What a completely nonsensical thing to say. Just plain whiny and dunder-headed. As for the rest of it, it was just one obvious apparently momentous moment after another but entirely without originality. All these visual tics and brave juxtapositions of script with visuals - too many gimmicks not enough substance. This movie just reminded me how good early Scorsese, and more recently, KIDS, were....Nik was not in a bad mood when we went into the cinema. We were both looking forward to it big time. But I wanted to leave by around half way through. People actually left the screening we were in...Still, as ever, I love movies and I love for people to enjoy them, so at least we keep up our record of NEVER agreeing on anything! <BR/>Laters, Bina007.Bina007https://www.blogger.com/profile/01622085135305501711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360914.post-36046262227450816182007-03-13T20:44:00.000+00:002007-03-13T20:44:00.000+00:00I am Flint and I whole heartedly disagree with thi...I am Flint and I whole heartedly disagree with this review. I thought this was a great little movie with lots of very real characters dealing with very real human challenges. It hewed close to real life in its construction of those challenges, far more realistic and poignant battles of everyday life than most movies choose to deal with. I also found the central character hugely appealing as a young man (although the person he grew into is a bit harder to love) and I came out of the theatre feeling like I'd just gone for a very raw and emotional ride in someone else's adolescence. I quite the feel of the movies as well and suspect Nik might have woken up on the wrong side of the bed the day he saw this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com