USA, 170min
Drama, War
Director: Terrence Malick
Writers: James Jones (novel), Terrence Malick
Stars: Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte
One of the strongest anti-war movies ever. Concentration isn’t on battle at Guadalcanal itself but on the consequences that bloody conflicts like that leave on people involved.
Directing is phenomenal, Malick did a great job. This is one of best directed movies. An average shot length of 8 seconds speaks for itself. Visual impression and atmosphere are at the top of the genre, a little behind Apocalypse Now or Full Metal Jacket.
Cast is full of well known names like Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, John Cusack, Adrien Brody, Woody Harrelson, Jared Leto, John Travolta, George Clooney and Jim Caviezel who is the only one who underperformed i.e. he was bad as he usually is.
The Thin Red Line is tiring and sometimes hard to watch but that's the point and it's definitely must see of the war genre.
Police Academy (1984)
USA, 96min
Comedy, Crime
Director: Hugh Wilson
Writers: Neal Israel, Pat Proft
Stars: Steve Guttenberg, G.W. Bailey, Kim Cattrall
Police Academy is one of the guilty pleasures. We all know it's bad but we all have seen it, had a few laughs and when we see it on TV we watch at least a bit of it. Some of us even tried to watch the sequels but that’s complete different category of guilty pleasures.
The best part of movie is main music theme. It stays in your mind forever and always brings good feelings. Everything else is just bad. So bad that it became hilarious and at the end Police Academy became cult movie and a queen of trash comedies.
Police Academy is a bunch of stereotypes, exaggerations and caricature characters in situations and dialogs that have no sense at all. But that's the charm of it.
Welcome to the Sticks (2008)
Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (2008)
France, 106min
Comedy
Director: Dany Boon
Writers: Dany Boon, Alexandre Charlot
Stars: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoé Félix
We all have our prejudices, especially about other regions and its people. Turning that prejudices into comedy isn’t too hard but it has great potential. Welcome to the Sticks used that potential as much as it was possible and the result is great comedy.
After Philippe lost his transfer because he lied about being handicapped his bosses decided to punish him. Not by suspension or demission but with transfer to the north of France. Philippe was sure that he’s going into the hell on Earth and the point is that every man from the South thinks the same.
Great comedy, great drama, great story, great screenplay and great acting. There aren’t many things in this movie that aren’t great, except maybe, totally forced and unneeded love story but it didn't made too big problem. This type of humor based on regional prejudices maybe isn’t for everyone but the ones that have similar situation in their country or region will definitely love it.
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