Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Love Letter her pet project when she optioned the movie rights of the book. Expect it to have a pleasingly female perspective on what it means to fall in love. The Buzz Dreamworks is taking a gamble by releasing the film during the first Phantom Menace weekend, the idea being that women, their significant others and people who couldn't get tickets to see Yoda and Obi-wan will settle for this instead. The studio openly admits that the movie is directed at women; this should be a warning, and maybe encouragement...
What to Look For Apparently, the idea to use sharks originated from the fact that sharks are one of the oldest species on Earth, as well as the fact that they are resilient to diseases. Still, this medical justification does nothing to dispel the feeling that this movie sounds like a pumped-up, '90s version of Jaws crossed with Jurassic Park. I mean, come on! Killer sharks threaten the lives of scientists on a sinking laboratory? Don't expect anything profound. Still, the supporting appearances of Samuel L. Jackson and Stellan Skarsgard help enhance the film's credibility...
What to Look For Full to the brim with gratuitous violence, this bleak portrayal of the souls within the men of today seems grim and hopeless. Instead of being disturbed by the grotesque and twisted idea of fight clubs, society desperately grasps onto it with enthusiasm. As for the cast, Pitt and Norton both have strong experience with dark, disturbing films (Seven and American History X respectively), and Fincher has proven his original directing abilities in movies such as Seven and The Game...
What to Look For Outlook: not so good. Holly wood seems determined to make movie after movie about the nearly-impotent Mafia, and the idea has been predictably overused in such recent films as Analyze This and Mafia. Grant will probably bumble and stutter his way through yet another film, while Caan gets another turn at his Oscar-nominated Godfather role. Director Kelly Makin has only the flop Brain Candy: Kids in the Hall among her credits, and test screenings have been decidedly negative, citing a script devoid of laughs and a tired premise among its shortcomings...
...indie music. Laugh all you want, but I listen to the Little Shop of Horrors soundtrack and Barenaked Ladies. Yet the idea of Australian college indie music intrigues me. I expected Flugelhorn Music's new compilation New Noize #1 to stimulate me culturally, not aesthetically. The opposite happened. Aside from a passing reference to frying UV rays (the ozone is thinning Down Under) and an occasional Aussie accent, I could easily mistake these songs as American. The five bands represented here sound very similar--forceful, loud vocals offset by catchy drum and guitar. There's no refined philosophical system being...