this was the most dramatic ozu film i have seen thus far. the usual subtleties are there, but we actually see the height of drama, instead of before and after the fact as in other films. certainly the saddest ive seen, but very good nonetheless. its amazing how much transgressed in two hours. i think my favorite scene is at the beginning, when the grandmother takes her grandson for a walk. absolutely touching.

okokok, so first off, i had no expectations for this movie. it had already been talked down so much i was expecting utter crap. and parts of it were, but there was some pretty good parts. all the battle sequences were good, and i did laugh at a couple things the robots did.
but overall, it felt like a big long cut scene in a video game. i didnt like the art style at all, but the worst was the dialogue. all of the banter between anakin and the padoin is absolutely horrible. in fact the padoin character herself is extremely irritating and irrelevant. everything she says is just groan-inducing. the baby hutt is just…ugh, stupid, the new adult hutt, zero i think, was totally off-putting, especially since they keep referring to it as a he when it is obviously voiced by a woman. i kept wondering when they would explain the hutt reproductive process.
and at the end of the movie, what is accomplished? very very little. this is by all definitions a side quest, completely unnecessary but its there if you want to get the full experience.
i just keep wondering what the rationale here is for a full theatrical release. why wasnt this just worked into the storyline for the tv show, or have a tv movie, it wouldve been fine. to see this in the theaters was just embarrassing.

Jacob Jones commented on an entry titled, A story about "Misery":

brilliant.

my impression of breakfast at tiffany’s is this: truman capote is not a great author. he was simply around great people with great stories, and thought enough to commit them. im not saying hes a bad author, just not the immortalized icon that he has become.

however, then i read the short stories. ive always had an affinity for short stories, and i absolutely loved all three of these. terse and clever and descriptive but not too wordy, these are great reads.

and after i finished with the short stories, it became evident to me the nature of the narrator in breakfast at tiffany’s. in the book, he is a struggling author, vain with a temper. this personality is reflected in the writing style, because the other stories are not written in the same style. so..maybe capote is as great an author as he’s supposed to be. i’ll read a couple more to find out at least.

it got better as it went along, but still maintained the same level of over the top silliness, although im not too sure how much of it was intended.
monsters were great overall, the first one is a tad cheezy, im glad this was rated r, the ending was..pretty good, i cant imagine how else it could have ended. the acting…meh. the main character, especially at the end was not very convincing, seemed like christopher lambert with a couple more acting lessons. they pushed marcia gay harden’s crazy christain thing pretty hard. i liked ollie.
i think the thing that made this a slightly above mediocre movie and not a great movie was just the acting. all these people are in a grocery store, everything’s relatively ok, then all of them turn into completely crazy assholes over the course of an afternoon. perhaps if there had been a bit more tension built it would have been more convincing, or indicated that more time had in fact passed.