NetFlix is so amazing. Really. I hope none of you have witnessed The Happening. It's a dreadful movie. Just stupid from the DVD menu screen to the end credits. BUT now I own it. Would you like to know why I own one of the top 5 worst movies of all time?
Because BLOCKBUSTER! Block Buster is a horrible place. Think of all the money they really make from their $5 dollar rentals. One DVD costs us about $20, and you can count on the fact that they get deals from whichever production company that puts out those DVDs. So maybe they pay $10-15...and that's paid for the first 2 to 3 times somebody rents that single DVD. Sounds like a sweet deal for you guys, way to gouge the customer.
So anyway, thank goodness we have NetFlix now or I probably never would have paid $5 to see this movie. I only heard from one or two people that they liked it and everybody else told me it was long and drug out and blahdiblahdiblahhh.
I don't want to call this movie wonderful...it's not really a wonderful story. I guess I'll just say the character's journey is more important than his destination.
This film, written and directed by Sean Penn and also based on a true story, is about a young, quite intelligent man who is unhappy with his life in modern "society". He's unhappy with his parents. He's unhappy with the education system and large institutions...unhappy with the way the world is I guess.
I'm not sure what is perfect fact about the true events the movie is based on and what is kind of stretched for Hollywood's benefit, but from the story it tells, if I could go back and give that kid some advice, you should have learned a thing or two from your experiences. He broke away from society to find that there were, in fact, people worth knowing out there. He changed each and every life just as they should have changed his but he didn't let them. In the end he forgave everybody. The whole time he spoke of honesty and living in the moment but he was the one not being truthful and he was the one that was living somewhere else in his mind.
Everything is executed beautifully in this film. The acting, the cinemetography, the screenplay...Kudos to you Sean Penn and Emile Hirsch, you guys are amazing.
Its a big long, but worth watching. You guys should see it. A- from me.
Also, if you are a fan, see Milk. It stars Sean Penn and Emile Hirsch with James Franco and Josh Brolin as well. Now THAT'S a great film.
Best song from the movie: Hard Sun - Eddie Vedder
Suggestions always welcome.
360 to go.
8.15.2009
Emile Hirsch goes Into the Wild
Labels:
a movie a day,
Emile Hirsch,
Into the Wild,
moldi peeches,
Sean Penn
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