Submarine
I sometimes have a hard time with British accents and colloquialisms, and the fact that the sound in the Neptune Theater isn’t great didn’t help. I missed a lot of the dialogue, but what I did hear didn’t do much for me. It was almost a French movie with a lot of purposeful looks and implied experiences. I gave it a 2.
Beginners
This was a very sweet, slow, quiet movie, which is okay sometimes. It just didn’t work very well for me. I did like the interplay between Oliver and Anna, and of course Christopher Plummer was excellent as the father, but I think it jumped around too much for me to get lost in the love story. The dog, however, definitely had the best lines. I gave it a 3.
Pinoy Sunday
I guess the Taiwanese idea of a “comic journey” isn’t quite the same as mine, but there you go. It was a cute movie, and I get that the couch represented the new life that the main characters were trying to achieve, both dreams eventually failing by the end of the movie. It just wasn’t that funny, and they didn’t even find the couch until 1/3 of the way into the film. I did actually giggle at a few of the lines, so it stayed firmly at a ‘3’ on my ballot.
The Bengali Detective
If this was a comedy then I’m the Queen of England. It was more like a boring episode of CSI:Kolkata. I guess I missed the ‘documentary’ part of the description, but I just found it depressing. Plus the ‘first person’ filming made me dizzy. I couldn’t sit through the entire movie, and since Jim wasn’t enjoying it either we left about 30 minutes in. If he had been enjoying it I would have left anyway, and found some way to amuse myself until it was over.
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