Well all of 15 minutes earlier to start writing this time than last night. Horray for me. I moved more bins into my new place and helped my sister move her stuff to her new place. That about sums it up so this time I guess I’ll review two movies I have seen recently: The Informant and The Hurt Locker.
Review: The Informant
I have to say well I had certain expectations going in. I mean the trailers and the general tone of the ads around it kind of implied like some kind of comedy of errors around a happless man some how dragged into being an all-purpose informant for the FBI or whatever. Well that’s only paritially right. First it’s loosely based an actual events and the main character is only informing for the FBI.
The fonts and motifs some how imply the movie is taking place in the 60s or 70s but notifications come up periodically that by the way this is 1994 or whatever. Which is kind of strange if you ask me.
Slowly over the course of the movie the revelation about the informant is made more and more apparent. I’ll try not to spoil anything since it is such a relatively recently released movie as of this writing (on DVD anyway). But I will say Matt Damon makes a really good inadvertant genious. I mean it’s like he’s an idiot that should be a mental hosptial some where with the intelligence enough he could have been the CEO of a major corporation. You’d think those two things would be two side of the same coin but this guy managed to be both sides and do it while some how not even realizing it. Or something.
When it comes down to it this movie is an extremely well made, well acted and well written movie but really it’s just what I would call a highly stylized caper/bio movie kind of like Catchi me if you Can (I think that’s what it was called). I hate to make that comparison. I don’t know it’s like the same plot points or whatever I just mean it follows one guy for a story arc ultimately leading to a conclusion that was some what some how reminiscent of movies like Catch me if you Can and similar like that.
So is it a movie I actually want for my media library? No. Would I mention it to everyone as something they should see? No. But it’s certainly not a bad movie. In fact if you like caper movies like Catch Me I’d say you’ll love The Informant just as much or more. But they’re just not really my kind of movie.
Another Review: Hurt Locker
I just saw this one tonight on DVD. I don’t really think there’s a lot to spoil about this one. It simply (so to speak) follows a group of soldiers, and one in particular, in Iraq disarming bombs, living day-to-day. I could tell the director or whoever that lady is that made this film was trying to do some subtle symbolism reminiscent of one or more Vietnam movies. I’m too tired to remember tittles or director names at the moment but I could definitely see it. I will say I seem to be relatively sensitive to gross generalization anti-military type material and my detector didn’t really go off this time. And that main character definitely can act. Assuming he’s the one that got nominated for best actor he definitely deserved the nomination. I didn’t see all the nominees so I couldn’t sayif he deserves to win.
The movie mostly follows the bomb squad and having to disarm EIDs and other bombs of varying sizes. There are also some other sequences like like a sniper skirmish back and forth over a great distance some other things. There’s also some exploration of the depth of the main character and what makes him tick.
Perhaps I need to see it again but this movie is also not the sort of movie I would add to my media library. At least I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy it so I had it. But it was definitely not a bad movie. I have heard of Iraq War vets mocking it for whatever reasons. Inaccuracy I guess.
Well since I can barely see or think straight I think I am going to stop writing now. I hope this was useful. To the commenter or was probably spam asking about the format of my blog and linking to site advertising an offer for a free TV: this is the default WordPress theme. There’s not really anything to share. You just set up a WordPress blog and then don’t change anything. That’s it. Oh, and spam is annoying.