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Movie Discussion Thread - 1/8/12

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Rise of The Apes I enjoyed for the 1st hour, but then it began to unravel IMO. I am not an action fan so maybe I am not the one who should be commenting on the film. I appreciated the internal struggle of the apes more than the external battle the last 30 minutes of the movie gave us.
 
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Just googled Snowtown, I'm going to check it out.
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Snowtown is an extremely disturbing film. I would not recommend it to anyone. But I wouldn't say it's bad. This is a strange case in which I could agree with the reviewer who says that this is a totally pointless portrayal of the Snowtown killings (redneck realism). And I can also agree with this statement: "Cinema is supposed to affect us, and Snowtown certainly did". I think my tolerance is extremely high towards violent films. But this is exactly the kind of realism which you don't want to see. Believe me. It won't make you think, except that you can't wipe out some scenes from your brain no matter how hard you want them to go away. I don't think it's artistic either. There's no real climax. The only reason I sat this through, because I wanted to know, how the story ends for the boy. It was a clever move from the director to show Jamie as a sympathetic character. But I think, I wouldn't missed anything if I read about the subject on Wikipedia first. Martyrs is an easy watch compared to this. If you hated titles such as Irrversible or The killer inside me, don't watch this. Despite of the negative things I wrote before, I give it a 7. I have to admit, building the tension was masterful.

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